Doesnt smart pricing make adsense more of CPA than CPC...? I have a site that used to pay $1 per click and it slowly went down to .3 cents a click... It cant be my fault that after the user clicks he is not interested can it? x.x
I honesty prefer Smart Pricing even when I get paid less. AdWords advertisers buy CPC to sell items and buy CPM to promote branding. If a CPC click doesn't translate to a customer, it's a wasted ad. I don't want any income without my advertisers getting their value out of my sites. Smart Pricing will force the MFA sites to leave the program. I'd like to see Smart Pricing factor in how long a user stays on an advertiser's site.
Unfortunately this might not be the case. MFA sites might well have a good conversion rate for the advertisers.
i wonder how google smart pricing really works. Cos i have seen my own cpc go up in one week and then cents in another week. Wonder if smart pricing is the way google filter off fraud clicks. Sometimes i felt disgusted to see 24 clicks with only 30 cents in total....
Indeed... the customer might return straight to their site in a week, who knows? Besides I dont think google charges them less... do they? In my adwords account ive never seen smart pricing in effect in my favor.... I really dont know what to do with these 3 cent clicks... down from one dollar thats really really bad. Ill try adding more content pages and removing the ads from the home page. See if that helps.
I don't look at individual click income. You really can't, as it isn't a realistic way of looking at your income. Does your boss in your real job look at how much work you perform in a given hour, say after lunch? I look at my trends -- does my eCPM go up, does my CPC average go up, do my page impressions go up, does my 7-day, 30-day and 90-day running average go up? All are going up, so I can't complain about 1 or 10 batches of clicks. I had a terrible day the other day in income, just horrible. Today I wake up and I'm 500% ahead of where I usually am. It is all relative, you have to look at the trends. Don't try to rework your site if you have a few bad days, if the trend is moving up, you're good.
Went down form $100-$120 eCPM to $20-$30 eCPM. Thats bad. I'll give it more time, especially seeing as the site isnt even indexed in google...