The first results showed up in my mesothelioma tracking this morning. I got 2 click throughs from this page on Wednesday and they paid a total of $1.48, or an average of 74 cents each. So much for the AdWord value of $60 for this search term.
No one in their right mind would pay that much for a click, a conversion into a sale is a different story. Even if Google got $60.00 a click, do you think they are going to give you $30.00, they do not tell you how much they collect from a click, I have heard webmasters complain about Google reporting before. .74 cents is not bad, if you get a million clicks you could give me a job, you would give me a job, RIGHT BOB?
It's not that Google won't pay that much, it's the advertiser not willing to pay that much. I've received $15+ per click from AdSense from what I can only guess were keywords (I couldn't think of any other keywords it could be keying off of) that were bidding around $20. But advertisers aren't stupid... none of them paying high amounts would ever pay for content based ads because guess what? Lots of people are making pages/sites just to attract the high paying keywords. If that weren't the case, and the only sites were legitimate info sites, I'm sure they would probably allow it because the users would convert just as much as search users.
Even if the AdWord value is high this does not mean the AdSense value is high. AdSense is just one way that AdWords ads are shown.
I turned off the option to display my client's ads on content sites a long time ago. For the short time I allowed them, my client's daily budget was gone within 2 - 3 hours each day and no leads were coming. I shut off content sites, and while the # of clicks went down (substantially) the people that clicked on the ads actually started making contact with my client. I allow my low cost ads (like 10 cents per click) on content sites but none of my expensive ads will ever come anywhere near a content site.
Is it within the terms to discuss how much you get per click? I thought you could only discuss the total amount you are making from adsense?
Technically, I don't think you are able to talk about ANY of it per the TOS - does seem a bit tight/restrictive on Google's part IMHO ...
It might be OK if you don't say what channel, date, or keyword/page, and just the per click. To be safe you can always leave it as an "estimate."
Basically you're not supposed to talk about anything that you are only able to see via the reporting. Monthly total is okay because you get a check with the amount. Per click is not okay. CTR you could talk about as long as you are getting the stats from a 3rd party CTR monitoring tool.
Bob your scrapings have been plagiarised at least once already http://www.toptentshirts.com/mesothelioma/article_Mesothelioma-What-Is-It.php - Michael
Your right. A dead copy. Didn't even bother changing a word. And no author credits either. How did you find it? Anybody got any idea about what I should do about it if anything?
1. Obviously, I don't know how he found it, but there is a site--I don't have the details handy, but it oughtn't to be hard to find--specifically created to find page duplications; I used it once as a test, and it is, if anything, over-zealous, finding even a few paragrpahs (I had quoted something that many sites quote) of similarity. 2. Make contact with the site host and tell them their client is grossly breaching copyright; that usually gets the plug pulled instantly.
These guys work quick, I was at a site the other day and thought I was at DP, dammed place looked just like DP Must have copied Shawn's design....... Compar, if you were not such a good writer, this would have never happened, must be the Russian Mafia at work again. I guess Google will let anyone put ads up. Funny Stuff......
I was looking to see how much of your article you had copied from other sites and it came up on the radar. http://www.copyscape.com/?q=http://www.compar.com/infopool/articles/mesothelioma.html - Michael
If they are using Google Alert [as they are] then the duplicate content mechanism of Google is that which is being used to determine the copied material. Useful