Between my husband and I we have about half a dozen sites with adsense on all of them. One of my busiest sites is a recipe site which seems to bring most of my adsense clicks. However, these clicks usually pay just pennies each. This may sound confusing but it seems that I read somewhere that if you have one site with low paying google ads it can affect how much google pays you for the clicks you get on your other sites. Has anyone ever heard that? If this is the case am I better off removing all my adsense off my recipe site (which will take forever because there are hundreds of pages). Any suggestions? thanks, Judy
Hi Judy , to be honest I havent heard anything like that but of course the gurus here might say better.. I didnt think Google tied sites together based on their Google Adsense ID... Best of luck
Whats most likely happening is that the keywords that people are bidding on to get on your recipe site have a lower value, therefore the click through rate will be lower.
If you have a site which converts poorly for advertisers it will normally be smart priced and you'll receive a low cpc. It affects your whole account rather than just the one site, so yes removing adsense from certain sites can improve your epc.
yes u can go reamving way... also try to use competetive filter to get high paying stuff and weed out crap
I'd suggest you should work around the placement of the Google Ads. That can help in improving the earnings from your recipe site.
Like Jabb says, a poorly converting site can apparently affect the amount you receive per click across all your sites - this is smartpricing. Note that 'poorly converting' isn't the same as 'poorly paying' - your low price clicks in your recipe site could be converting very well for the advertisers. It is not usually obvious to a website publisher which of their sites has poor-performing / poorly converting clicks. So probably there is no reason to remove the ads just because they pay poorly. For future sites you might want to look into a Content Management System (CMS) or 'PHP includes' - then to change or remove ads you will only need to change them in one file rather than in hundreds of files. This makes it easier to test out different colours, affiliate banners etc very quickly as well.
Maybe recipes ain't a very competitive topic so you don't get high paying ads. Why not try some affiliate links instead?
yes it does effect i have a high paying site and a myspace site and guess what i was getting less money. now when i removed the ads from my myspace site i started getting more money
the adsense/adwords guys are not stupid to let a poor channel affect other channels that might bring them money. Try using a separate channel for each site, that will help track the earnings for each site and make sure that a low converting channel won't affect other channels. I have channels that bring 0.01 a click and others average $1, so NO, you are not smartpriced for the whole account.