I have a new site I am building up in a new niche. Site gets hardly any traffic but as always I like to test out adsense on a site first to see how miserably it will perform before I move on to a better network. Needless to say, adsense didn't let me down. They sucked worse than ever! 181 11 6.08% $0.41 $0.07 Yes you read that right. That's 11 clicks for 7 cents.... Less than a penny per click!! NOTE: Before some moron who failed elementary grade math comes and tries to say "it must be CPM" please note that even if some were CPM ads the amount would still be more than 11 cents because I got 11 clicks. I still make enough adsense money to cover bills and hire people to outsource stuff so I won't drop them. I've gotta have somewhere to send all my non-US traffic so I don't get banned from YPN right? But as soon as I can test out some new networks that pay more Adsense is out of my life for good. I mean seriously... less than 1 penny per click????? Adsense is robbing publishers blind. No wonder Google profits are one of the few in the tech sector that gains every quarter consistently...
or you could think this way. one click paid 41 cents and all others were invalid clicks and adsense automatically counted them out... that could be a possibility
I get your frustration with AdSense but, honestly, considering the smaller number of pageviews and clicks, it is hard to draw any conclusions about the quality of AdSense. I would not bother with AdSense for a site that receives less than 1,000 pageviews a day. But that is just my opinion.
Your earning = 181/11*100*0.07= $0.41 Total Impersssion / Clicks * 100 (Percent) * Click Rate = Your Earning $$$$$$$ PM me if you want tips for your adsense.
Sounds to me as if you already knew this was going to happen. So whats the big shock? It's easy to put the blame on google, but as you should know it has more to do with the demand for the information provided in your links then anything that google has done. It has everything to do with what kind of audience you are trying to target. Dry your tears and make every attempt possible to make your revenue larger. A few people I can think of off the top of my head make a living off adsense.
Your content probably sucks ass....or your account has been smart priced because of suck ass content.... I have no problem with good clicks money wise...But then again I have really valuable content..... Or - I could just be wrong.......Who knows ......
that doesn't make sense. what are you calculating there? his earning is 0.41. we want to find the earning. why did you multiply his earning in the first equation
CPM is cost per 1000 impressions so you take the actual # of impressions and divide by 1000 then multiple that by your eCPM to get your earnings. GeorgeB had 181 impression at $.41 per 1000 impressions thus 181/1000*.41 = his earnings which is just over $.07 His earnings are $.07, not $.41
Because he's doing the correct method of finding earnings (although 0.07 was already mentioned in the original post so it doesn't need to be calculated)
You mean it has nothing to do with Google beyond how much they charge advertisers for clicks and how much of a cut they take don't you? Spin it for them all you want but here's a few facts for you. No one pays Google less than 1 cent per click... In fact the min bid is 3 cents is it not? So no matter what factors you want to try and bring into it the minimum I should have gotten even if google's cut is 2/3 of the revenue is 1 cent.. Again I simply said I am looking for an alternative now to send my traffic to. I know people make a living off of adsense still... Fatc is my adsense revenue is low $x,xxx monthly so I'm doing ok with them. My POINT is that it takes far too many clicks to get that amount. Before I discovered how to geo-target I had a site generating over 100 adsense clicks a day that made less than $5 per day. No BS. All I'm saying is there's no way I should be sending over 100 visitors to my advertisers every day for less than 5 frickin dollars.
i dont think its related to contents ... my crap contents sometime get me 2$/Click ... while my good contents get me 3cents / click ... very sad
Not trying to defend Google but it could be one of two things: 1) Smartpricing, if that's the case they should refund the advertiser, if they do or don't I cant' say. 2) A bunch of invalid clicks. I have to agree with trafficnotice, 181 impressions is nowhere near enough to draw any conclusions. Your next click could be worth $2.00 and suddenly your eCPM is $10.00 or so.
Screw Google all you want man... I dont work for them. If you dont like how your domain names perform with them, then walk on by and find another network. Google is as big as they are because of how they do business. They charge fees as any other business will. Dont like Google? Try Yahoo, they will give you the same deal... perhaps throw in an extra shiny penny.
accourding to your equation earning = CPM x eCPM? aren't they the same value? if they are different how do you calculate eCPM?
It would probably help if they had more transparency with their reporting. I had a site early this morning with 1 click for $0.86. An hour later it was 4 clicks and $1.11. It would be helpful for me to know what links were paying better or worse.
All the CPMs should be eCPM which is earnings per 1000 impressions (effective cost per thousand impressions). CPM is for buying impressions. ex: $2.00 CPM means that you'd pay $2.00 for every 1000 impressions someone provided you. CPM has nothing to do with AdSense earnings. eCPM is earnings/impressions*1000 http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/02/ecpm-what-exactly-is-that.html