I have a blog.. i made with this blog $4000 in 3 months! Click rate averge: $0.15 - $0.5.. After 3 months i started to get 3-5 cent per click! My earnings dropped from $100/day to $15!!! I asked here for help and all said that my niche isnt good.. So i remove the ads from my blog and put my friends ads.. And guess what? 0.5 per click! My account is dead? i cant get more that 0.1 per click.. today 11 clicks and $0.46!!
Things Get Worse When you have a Lot of Visitors, CTR will Drop, And Hence Low Prices!! Its Common!! ~ExP~
this is because of something they call, adsense account trust, they found that the clickers don't stay much on the advertisers sites, so they reduced the Click rate just stop your ads for a while, reoptimize your site and review your ad placement, then resume using adsense again
extremephp my ctr is good!! 4%! besho2222 I already tried that.. i remove my ads for a month and its didnt help ..
^ the only person with the right answer. For new sites with Adsense, it takes the system a while to evaluate the quality of clicks/impressions that the account is producing (may take months like in your case b/c some conversions may be within that timescale). The degree your account gets smartpriced (ie. cost per click is discounted) is dependent on how your traffic has converted for your advertisers.
That's right it can take a while for Google to 'assess' the quality of visitors that pass through a particular site. Unfortunately they have deemed your visitors to be of a low 'quality'. Smart pricing is one of the more questionable practices that Google have implemented in recent years. It seems like it's just an easy way for them to punish sites without question, even if they've done nothing wrong. I've been lucky to avoid the dark shadow of smart pricing but I know of a friend that had a perfectly legitimate site that got unfairly targeted. Hope you solve the problem soon. Good luck.