I've gotten 8 dollars from a japanese real estate ad. I think. Also insurance companies pay decent rates.
Being that I work for DentalPlans.com I am looking at dental related keywords everyday. I can tell you that the craziest rates I have seen are on cosmetic dentists in New York and Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills Cosmetic Dentist has the top 6 spots all bidding more than $20 and that is on Overture.
I recon if I was doing an Adword campaign for Mesothilioma I would be using some miss spellings at cheaper rates as it took me 3 goes to get it right!!
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Stumbled across this site via google search hah. Pretty good thread. The one MAJOR thing its lacking is people following up with how their ads are actually doing. I'm sure we're all curious to how your endeavors with various keywords have gone. Let us know =)
Welcome to the forums. The reason people are not sharing how they are doing is because it is against the Adsense TOS and they could get their accounts banned for sharing this information. This certainly isn't worth it just to share a few facts and figures.
Your ads will do you ZERO good if you have no traffic, yes there are better keywords, but as more folks target those words they start paying a hell of a lot less in a hurry. Shawn has always said that if your site does not convert hits into sales then advertisers will drop your site also. So you need targeted traffic and qualified traffic to make money with ADSENSE and a hell of a lot of traffic. Put up good and relevant content and you may have a chance to make money and gain traffic.
Hehe thanks for the replies. Still, giving estimates are allowed. Do you think google would come to this thread and read this anyway? hehe. Still whether or not the targeted words are working is still to be determined clearly. Someone could just answer with a yes or no. C'mon
Just do a search on high priced ADWORDS/ADSENSE and let us know what YOU find, I am sure there will be many folks offering to sell you reports and there are hundreds of sites willing to sell you a membership to a service that covers this subject.
One thing that should be noted is that it is misleading to call these and other keywords "high paying" or "highest paying" keywords. They are not that at all. What they ARE is keywords that advertisers have set the highest "maximum bid" for. So when a site claims that "keyword" pays out $80/click, they are not explaining accurately what the keyword really pays out. THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT PAYS OUT PERIOD! NO ONE DOES!!! The payout is NOT fixed. The "$80" in the above example is "the maximum a given advertiser has bid for this keyword." PERIOD!!! That does NOT mean that if their ad shows up on your page you will get $80 if someone clicks on the ad. It means that the person with the highest bid for this keyword is likely to show up the most often and the most prevelant if the content on your site (as well as numerous other factors) meet certain criteria. You will likely see a higher click amount for a higher paying keyword, but certainly not the maximum amount shown on these "high paying keyword" sites. IMHO, in this SEO world you really ought to be concentrating on creating and maintaining quality content, quality sites, quality links, with a focus on the end user, not the SE. The end user is the one who clicks on your ads, not the SE. Tailor your site to the people you target with good content and they will likely see something on your site that interests them. What's more, it will keep them coming back! That is what you really want after all, repeat visitors. Keep them coming to your site, and they will continue to see things they like. And PLEASE do NOT ask me about my meso site. I must get a PM or email a day asking me what it pays out. It's none of your business.
I know you can find the highest bids by using the Overture bid tool, but the numbers fluctuate alot during the day.
A friend of mine worked for a large mortgage company and part of his duties was to manage the online campagains. He mentioned a range of $8 to $20 per click for Adwords for a top position but it's your guess as to how much went to the publisher and how much went to Google.
i found this site http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/ which you can use to find out what keywords net you the most per click.
all that does is tell you how much people are willing to pay per click, not what you will get paid per click. We don't know for sure what % google pays out.
Overture ad adsense are loosly linked. Overture has much fewer sited, where as Adsense is loaded with .05 cent chaff..