What to do when you're being smart priced?

Discussion in 'Reporting & Stats' started by justsomepoordude, Aug 14, 2006.

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    Do you wait it out, change content, reduce ad unit, what do you do?
     
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    qwestcommunications Notable Member

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    I don't think you can change coontent of the page just because you have been smart priced. Can you imagine doing the to a big site. Its a waaste of time. Perhaps the bet solution is to create other pages that will lead to more conversion and, of course, wait it out as well.
     
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    Freddy81 Well-Known Member

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    If you have one Adsense account, you can not do anything.
    There was a discussion about opening several AdSense accounts to newly registered LTDs/LLCs. Thus you can decrease the effect of smart pricing.
    It works perfectly for me.
     
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    sakuragi Well-Known Member

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    The main reason is the clicks aren't converting for the advertisers. If your site has relevent ads, you need targetted traffic as well to convert.
     
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  5. justsomepoordude

    justsomepoordude Peon

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    My sites have high PR, don't know if it helps but for the past 30 days, I have been smart priced for 25 days straight, next 3 days goes away and now started again, probably another 25 days. :(
     
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    Freddy81 Well-Known Member

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    Conversion is the reason, but surely not the main. Simply because not all AdWords advertisers use conversion tracking.
     
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    sakuragi Well-Known Member

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    I agree that not all advertisers uses conversion tracking. However, the thread starter is referring to smart pricing and the main cause is low conversion.

    Some info about smart pricing
     
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    LucasMS Peon

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    i was smart priced since feb/march . then I removed the ads from one site, and wait for about 4 months. in july I put the ads again (just one ads per page), and seems now i'm not smart priced :)
     
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    iqra_psh Active Member

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    Thats best way i think, maybe remove ads which are not performing well.

    Regards
     
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    justsomepoordude Peon

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    You used channels, saw that site was performing poorly and removed? But all my sites are smart priced??
     
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    You dont have a site smart priced. all your adsense account will be smart priced, not just one site.
     
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    I was hit by smart pricing yesterday, I knew it was inevitable, therefore have been watching like a hawk it reflected exactly peoples descriptions all of a sudden I started earning low but with more clicks on 2 of my sites.
    I suddenly realised my 2 big earners clicks went from around 1.52 to 12. I removed all ads from both the other sites, it now seems to have gone back up in 24 hours... so it appears mutiple accounts would solve it registered correctly.
     
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