We've all heard how one badly performing site can get you hit with a bad smart pricing. What I'm wondering is if a good site can give you a "positive" smart pricing. Explanation: I understand that smart pricing is calculated on a weekly basis, now I purchased a PR5 site a shortwhile back, and now all of a sudden (started several days ago) my earnings per click/eCPM have shot up. Normally at this time of the month my epc/eCPM is starting to drop as budgets runs out for the month. (side note: I have always wondered why some adwords people don't start their month half way through, they would get to number 1 with less $$ - if I understand how adwords works properly) Anyway for a number of days now I have been seeing an increase in epc/eCPM for my sites overall, and the only change (other than a new site I put up 3 days ago - which shouldnt be affecting Smart Pricing as yet) is the site I bought which is a PR5 Proxy site. This has got me wondering if Smart Pricing can be affected by a "known" good site as well as a "bad" site (terms used to described the view of Google as sites that convert or not) Comments? Thoughts?
i would imagine so... but i really can't see how google knows whats converting and what isn't unless advertisers are using google conversion codes, which quite a lot of people don't... but with a proxy site i can#t see anything converting well for the advertisers, so i can't really see smart pricing affecting you postively