Smart pricing analysis

Okay, Here goes...

I came up with a theory that smart pricing was not really all that smart and tried to figure out what the bot does to determine your "smart pricing"

I think that there is an algo that ties in your poor performing pages and uses them to weight your site for worthiness.

The more pages you track the lower your quality (to the bot).

On the 2nd I deleted all custom channels and saw a 400% jump in income. Went through the 4th of July weekend with better than average earnings. Daily income going up by 2 to 8 dollars a day.

Ctr and ecpm are doing better but slowly, with ecpm rocking down and up.

Payout per click went up from 3 to 9 cents and had 5 .19 cent clicks on search...unheard of in the past. (my average payout per click was 8 cents for my niche)

Noticed better ads began showing up that had not been there before and no crap ads that I could find.

Things slowed down and started rocking so I thought, "hummm, mr bot has found another way". So I started going though my site page by page and changing out the channel ads for regular ones and adding them to pages that did not have them...more page views..., and have seen the ctr and epcm renew their upward creep.

This weekend was higher than the weekends I've been having for several months now.

For me it is working, I still have over 800 pages left to examine and check for adsense channel ads, (doing this in alphabetical order.)

I am not saying anyone else should do this, that is your choice. All I am saying is it is working for me and judging by the payout and the better ads I can tell the worth of my sites have gone up.

 

thanks for the tip

 

My mind must be toast..do mind clarifying what you mean here?
Thanks,

 

I too am stumped as to what this means.

 

One word: Ridiculous. Smartpricing as a result of having too many channels?

 

You copied the entire post from another forum:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3011824.htm

 

Nice catch.

 

Nothing wrong with copying, just make sure the next time you do not associate it to yourself by not giving a backlink

Peace,

 

Interesting concept, but makes utterly no sense whatsoever. What would channels have to do with it.....

 

Of course there's something wrong with copying, especially when your very first post on a new forum is someone else's (albeit very screwy) thoughts that the guy probably took a while to compile.

 

I read it in WMW when I did a search on smart pricing.

Personally I would try to get more targeted readers rather than decreasing the number of channels.

more targeted readers = higher quality clicks for advertisers = more money for publishers

 

That is very interesting if that is the case, it's worth a try.

 

well he only has 2 posts,maybe he is trying to get his posts going up

 

You mean people do that on DP??

 

No man,i was only joking (yeah right)

 

I posted about this a while ago but no-one seemed to notice it (or thought it too bonkers to comment on).

Yes it sounds completely screwy, but the original thread on webmasterworld makes pretty interesting reading (although I haven't checked back there for a couple of weeks to see how it developed).

I always suspect that G are less technically advanced than they might lead us to believe (can they really do iterative PR calculations on billions of links I wonder?) and this could be a case in point.

 

i think that this is nonsense

 

hmmm...well it would explain why my earnings all went down after I added channels for everything I had run for a year without channels prior to adding channels

 

This post was taken from another webmaster board.
It's nothing new.

 

Interesting.

My earnings also went down after I added channels. I must give this a try.