Adsense 1 Cent Per Click?

[simplybeastz]

Hey , For the last couple of Days I've been getting 1 Cent Per click. I Get around 5-7 Clicks a Day and a Ctr of 2-3%. Is their a way to filter out these low paying Ads. I saw a list of another forum , but I can't find it.

This is really bugging me as I should be earning at least $3-$5 a Day. Anyone ideas , and do you know where I could get a List of the Low paying ads and filter them out in My Adsense account Filter window.

Thanks.

[paulgl]

How do you know how much you should be earning?

Google rates your site just like adwords users landing pages.
What kills your CPC is traffic that clicks but does not buy
or complete an action. Google then drops the price of an
ad on your site to pump up adwords users ROI.

And big adwords users avoid your page. You are then left
with very low QS sites, or global advertisers that sweep up
the crumbs for pennies.

You need to improve the quality of your traffic.

You can't filter out low paying ads, as you don't know
which ads pay less.

Google puts the best performing ads on top, not always
the highest paid. Low QS users bid more to be in lower
slots.

But that's if your site has a reason for people to target it.
That reason, again, is buy-minded traffic.

You can filter out ads you don't like with the competitive
ad filter. I would also suggest you ad 3 ad blocks and make
them all text & image.

Paul

[simplybeastz]

Originally Posted by paulgl

How do you know how much you should be earning?

Google rates your site just like adwords users landing pages.
What kills your CPC is traffic that clicks but does not buy
or complete an action. Google then drops the price of an
ad on your site to pump up adwords users ROI.

And big adwords users avoid your page. You are then left
with very low QS sites, or global advertisers that sweep up
the crumbs for pennies.

You need to improve the quality of your traffic.

You can't filter out low paying ads, as you don't know
which ads pay less.

Google puts the best performing ads on top, not always
the highest paid. Low QS users bid more to be in lower
slots.

But that's if your site has a reason for people to target it.
That reason, again, is buy-minded traffic.

You can filter out ads you don't like with the competitive
ad filter. I would also suggest you ad 3 ad blocks and make
them all text & image.

Paul

70-80% of My Traffic comes from Google & Other SE engines. I Don't see how I can force them to click on My ads. No of them pulling away is my Fault?

I don't think it's that through.

[Lucid]

Paul is correct.

Let's look at it from Google's perspective, ignoring any site quality issues for the moment. Google wants to maximize their revenues. The way they do it is by serving the best quality ads. They make more revenues by serving ads that get clicked more often, even if the advertiser bids a higher amount in most cases. As an example, Ad-A with a click rate of 3% at $0.10 earns more revenue per impression than Ad-B at 1% and $0.25.

The system is made that way, to maximize revenues for Google and thus yourself. So why would you want to filter low paying ads? You are likely making more by leaving things as is.

I'm also curious to know why you think you should be earning more.

As for your site, I don't know how Google rates sites exactly. I suspect Paul is right and that there are similarities with how they rate certain aspects of an Adwords advertiser's site. It may be wise to read their Adwords guidelines just to build a better site.

What I do know is that a theme is determined for each page, likely more than one theme for most pages. The advertiser's keywords are also themed and a match is made. There are some who will also say "show my ads only on sites I choose" but these appear to be the minority.

Now, as an advertiser, if I see that my ads are not producing the desired results on your site, I'll just stop advertising there. If my ads were showing more often and paying better, pulling them would definitely affect your revenues if the lesser advertisers are left. So if your CPC earnings were higher before, that could be a reason. In other words, the advertiser believes your site of not good quality traffic for their bottom line.

[paulgl]

I also forgot to mention tweaking your keywords. Not a complete
do-over, but a tweak. Log out of google and load your page.
See what kinds of ads there are. Start using the competitive
ad filter to start blocking the crappy ones. I use it daily and
block multiple sites each day. Since you are logged out, just
copy the link to notepad or something. The skim the domain
and block domain.com

Tweaking the keywords goes something like this.

Change your title to exactly what you are shooting for.
Change your <h1> to exactly what you are shooting for.
Ignore what the article is about on the whole. If you
have a side bar of links, you make the heading of that
<h2> zeroing in on your keywords.

Finally, you make a one sentence lead in, plain text, high up
just above the content. Just above the <h1> is nice.

De-emphasize words that may be getting you lousy ads.
Don't bold any words in the content.

Let's say you are doing student loan consolidation.

Your title is: free information on student loan consolidation.

Your <h2> heading on your links is: Student loan consolidation resources.

Your one sentence snippet: Domain.com has information on student loan consolidation.

Your <h1> headings start with: Repaying student loans: Your real title here, short and sweet.

Now this may move you all over the map as far as SERPs go. That's the danger
here. But like I always say, don't rely on google for traffic for ad clickers.

I go to forums, squidoo, blogs, etc. to drive targeted traffic to the site.
I even do emails in a way to never get in trouble. There's facebook and
twitter as well.

If your goal is to pump up your adsense, then you have to concentrate
on that and let the SERPs fall where they may. I mean it's not like they
are doing anything for you now, right?

My latest trick is to ad 3 ad blocks, make them text/image.

Paul

[Vlad Romanov]

yeah thanks for sharing i never knew that...

[Fernando Veloso]

Paul, next time you should probably pack that thing in a PDF, sell one WSO and make a killing.

Just sayin...

[simplybeastz]

Originally Posted by paulgl

I also forgot to mention tweaking your keywords. Not a complete
do-over, but a tweak. Log out of google and load your page.
See what kinds of ads there are. Start using the competitive
ad filter to start blocking the crappy ones. I use it daily and
block multiple sites each day. Since you are logged out, just
copy the link to notepad or something. The skim the domain
and block domain.com

Tweaking the keywords goes something like this.

Change your title to exactly what you are shooting for.
Change your <h1> to exactly what you are shooting for.
Ignore what the article is about on the whole. If you
have a side bar of links, you make the heading of that
<h2> zeroing in on your keywords.

Finally, you make a one sentence lead in, plain text, high up
just above the content. Just above the <h1> is nice.

De-emphasize words that may be getting you lousy ads.
Don't bold any words in the content.

Let's say you are doing student loan consolidation.

Your title is: free information on student loan consolidation.

Your <h2> heading on your links is: Student loan consolidation resources.

Your one sentence snippet: Domain.com has information on student loan consolidation.

Your <h1> headings start with: Repaying student loans: Your real title here, short and sweet.

Now this may move you all over the map as far as SERPs go. That's the danger
here. But like I always say, don't rely on google for traffic for ad clickers.

I go to forums, squidoo, blogs, etc. to drive targeted traffic to the site.
I even do emails in a way to never get in trouble. There's facebook and
twitter as well.

If your goal is to pump up your adsense, then you have to concentrate
on that and let the SERPs fall where they may. I mean it's not like they
are doing anything for you now, right?

My latest trick is to ad 3 ad blocks, make them text/image.

Paul

What sites do I need to block out , do you have a List?

That's what I've been looking for.

[LaunchBrain.com]

Originally Posted by simplybeastz

70-80% of My Traffic comes from Google & Other SE engines. I Don't see how I can force them to click on My ads. No of them pulling away is my Fault?

I don't think it's that through.

You can't force them, doing so breaks Google ToS and will get your Adsense account closed.

Don't include messages like CLICK HERE, otherwise you'll be in trouble.

[kiwiviktor81]

I wouldn't worry about it unless it's been going on for a long time.

One of my sites this month posted 1c/click for about 40 clicks, then jumped up to 20c for 40 or so clicks, then back down to 1c. Now it's at 14c.

[LaunchBrain.com]

kiwiviktor81

All my friends that make anywhere between 2,000 - 5,000 $ per month all say one thing, Adsense is about how many pages you can get up and ranked, it's a numbers game, where's is seo for list building and affiliate marketing etc is more of a science.

[kiwiviktor81]

Originally Posted by LaunchBrain.com

it's a numbers game

Wham, you got it. Some days one site pays 1c a click and another 20c, the next day it's in reverse. I think the secret is, as you say, just to get the NUMBERS (i.e. traffic). Let the market sort out the rest.

[LaunchBrain.com]

Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81

Wham, you got it. Some days one site pays 1c a click and another 20c, the next day it's in reverse. I think the secret is, as you say, just to get the NUMBERS (i.e. traffic). Let the market sort out the rest.

I think so too, best of luck with it buddy.

[srinu]

just check your adsense account once ... because google gives price depends on the add.. if any clicks on forex,insurance,banking etc

[jflexvegas]

I had a 1 cent click and then 5 clicks totaling $4.44 within two weeks of each other. Same site and everything. I can't help ya bro but understand your CPC can drastically change fast!

[xylement]

Hmm... everytime when I have low adsense payout, what i did was filter off those non related ads by adding their url into your adsenses competitive ads filter area. Surprisingly the payout will increase. =)

[Dalyinx]

I got 0 cents for a click a couple times. Normally I get a little over a dollar, which is nice.