My Adsense account has been smartpriced for over eight months. I only run 1 high quality site with it and still getting only .50/click compared to 1.50+ before it was. Is there a proven way to make it go away? If I just leave my account will that help?
You get $0.50/ click and you say you are smart priced. lol, i get 3 cent/ click only. Is this very-very-very smart priced?
Eight months is a long time to be "smart priced" Are you sure that the quality of the ads on your site has not just dropped, thus they are not paying as well?
50 cents is way above the average , i know people that are getting 15 cents a click and are happy with it.
lol exactly the guy is complaining about 50 cents a click? I guess he never heard of beggars cant be chooser maybet he 1.50 per click spoiled him? I have it just as bad as you 1 to 5 cents a click. I wish I could get 50 cents or 1.50 a click I would be rich.
ok so the moment you recieve a 1 penny click that means you are smart priced? what if you recieve a click that was 40 cents or 25 cents as well? I have no clue how to figure this out but I am just depress that my site gets 50 clicks and only makes 80 cents sometimes. I had 3000 clicks and only made 150 bucks.
Smart pricing doesn't exist - these are words from Google. There are a lot of factors that can cause your CPC to decrease, here are some of them: * country & internet provider * individually CTR from that visitor * how related your sites is compared to the ads - more keywords, higher CPC (keyword density) * how good the competition is currently * and of course how much the advertiser is bidding there are more..
So its basically just a Myth? So taking my adsense down for 10 or more days to reset it is just holding me back from a 5 to 10 dollars I could be making? I love doing my blog but sometimes it seems I am putting to much work in writing articles and recieving only a couple of cents for hundred clicks is not worth it. reading how people just make gimmick blogs to get paid and they get paid 100 to 300 bucks a day while I love my topic and niche but yet don't get paid squat makes me depressed, it would be nice to make some decent money. Oh well I guess I just got the short stick.
If some people are making pennies, it doesn't mean other people should be happy getting more than the average. Put it this way, you chose the wrong niche, so deal with it. The OP started this thread because he's been smartpriced and i couldn't see one piece of advice from anyone. Smartpricing exists and google has confirmed it. Why should you send traffic to some advertiser when he's paying you a fraction of what they're supposed to? It just doesn't make sense. Now onto how to combat smartpricing - smart pricing occurs when a large proportion of your site's visitors goes to the advertiser's site but does not perform the required action (a sale, completes a survey, register on the site etc). To eliminate smart pricing, you need to analyse the webpage which is referring traffic to the advertiser but is not converting. Maybe you've got a page on cheap mortgage for people with bad credit and they are clicking an ad on your site and when it goes to the advertiser, they don't qualify for the mortgage because of some other eligibility criteria. This means they won't convert and you will be smartpriced eventually. If you cannot align your visitors' expectations with the advertisers', you will have to replace adsense on pages which are not converting with something else. You can remove the adsense ads for a week and put it back after that period but you will get smartpriced again. So your choices are below: 1. replace adsense with something else 2. remove adsense for a week and put it back again (remove again when you're smartpriced and put back again) 3. or simply be happy with the smartpriced value you're getting for the clicks
good info right now I have vibrant ads and they pay better than adsense but with fewer clicks. Chitika is also good but only allows us and canada traffic. I agree its good to have some other options along with adsense just saw you can get some little side money.