Sending Adwords traffic to Adsense

I tried adding Adwords SM to my lineup (MSN, Yahoo, Contextual, etc) and the first day, the profits were massive. I had a "great" score on adwords and drove about $50 worth of clicks to my site, resulting in $100 in revenue - very nice. But then the following day I was hit with a "poor" Adwords quality score, and, EVEN WORSE, my price per click on Adsense fell by 50% a click compared to what I had been getting for months and months using other SEM sources. I guess Google does not want people arbitraging Adwords to Adsense. Since I stopped running on Adwords, my price per click has recovered to the normal, high price I was getting before.

Does anyone here know much about how Google pays out according to what the source is?

For example, I notice that SEO clicks coming to my page directly from a Google search get me about DOUBLE the price per click that I get from SEM-driven traffic.

Any tips, thoughts, pointers?

 

Hey, thats againt TOS. You cannot send Adwords traffic to Adsense Sites.

 

As scubita points out, its against their TOS, im glad ive read about this too over the last few days, to prevent me from making this mistake.

 

We are not allowed to use adwords for adsense sites

Are you sure? Can you show us any source of this information?

 

They increased my adwords PPC to $10.00 after I put Adsense there. They keep dodging my questions about it though. Would it be better to put the campaign on Yahoo and arbitrage the adsense, or get rid of the Adsense? Any thoughts?

 

Better try any other PPC

 

I have a couple Adword campaigns set up that send traffic to sites that are also showing Adsense ads. They're not MFA sites, but they do have google ads showing. I couldn't find anywhere in the TOS that this was not allowed. It doesn't always work out so you make money, but I don't think it's against the rules.

 

Guys, although its not written anywhere in TOS that you cannot send Adwords traffic into ADsense pages, Google see it as "invalid clicks" on Adsense ads, if they occour.

That way, your account can be terminated. And you don't want that, do you?

Adwords arbitrage anyone?

 

You risk to have your account suspended, read the Adsense TOS!!!

 

Adwords works better on product selling sites

 

I think the drop of earing per click is regardless of the source of traffic. Maybe there are some reasons else to have such negative impact.

 

its arbitrage and i don't think its in the TOS yet, but google has been banning publisher accounts lately for this kind of business model. no solid proof anyone can provide, but i would suggest you not to do it. better be safe than sorry

 

it's not against TOS. just do not lie on your adwords keywords.

 

It seems to me that adsense will draw people away from your site and pays relatively little compared to selling a product.