Helping avoid smart-pricing by limiting Adsense display only to Google traffic??
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I have been doing some reading today on ways to help protect my Adsense sites against smart pricing and would appreciate any input on the following...
Smart pricing as best I can tell is based on the conversion rate of advertisers from our Adsense sites. If the conversion rate from our traffic is too low we get smart priced until such a time is that improves.
It is not based solely if at all on a low CTR percentage though such is commonly thought to be what it is based on.
Given that this is the case....
It makes sense to prevent Adsense from showing up for social networking traffic and other traffic who are not ultra-targetted site visitors coming from Google directly.
In other words in order to give the Adwords advertisers the best chance of converting my site traffic through Adsense it behooves both me and them to make sure whatever traffic clicks out to them through my Adsense ads is coming from the search engine and is interested in the keyword phrase I am targeting.
Easy enough to detect Google through the HTTP Referrer header.
Possible problem....
Google's Adsense bot (don't know the name of it just now) may come along, not see any Adsense, and then report that there is something weird going on in that Adsense earnings are happening anyway.
Perhaps I can just deny Adsense to selected social networking traffic and other sites and present Adsense to all others instead of just presenting Adsense to Google only.
Or I can add the Adsense Google bot to the list of referrers that I will show Adsense to.
Not sure.
I do not believe that this is against Google's TOS at all since I can, at will, turn on Adsense and turn it off whenever I want regardless.
I figure that by doing this the Adwords advertisers on my Adsense sites will have the best chance of converting whatever traffic I send them through Adsense. Allowing me to help them make more money through my site and helping protect myself from smart pricing.
Any thoughts or suggestions on any of the above?
Carlos
Smart pricing as best I can tell is based on the conversion rate of advertisers from our Adsense sites. If the conversion rate from our traffic is too low we get smart priced until such a time is that improves.
It is not based solely if at all on a low CTR percentage though such is commonly thought to be what it is based on.
Given that this is the case....
It makes sense to prevent Adsense from showing up for social networking traffic and other traffic who are not ultra-targetted site visitors coming from Google directly.
In other words in order to give the Adwords advertisers the best chance of converting my site traffic through Adsense it behooves both me and them to make sure whatever traffic clicks out to them through my Adsense ads is coming from the search engine and is interested in the keyword phrase I am targeting.
Easy enough to detect Google through the HTTP Referrer header.
Possible problem....
Google's Adsense bot (don't know the name of it just now) may come along, not see any Adsense, and then report that there is something weird going on in that Adsense earnings are happening anyway.
Perhaps I can just deny Adsense to selected social networking traffic and other sites and present Adsense to all others instead of just presenting Adsense to Google only.
Or I can add the Adsense Google bot to the list of referrers that I will show Adsense to.
Not sure.
I do not believe that this is against Google's TOS at all since I can, at will, turn on Adsense and turn it off whenever I want regardless.
I figure that by doing this the Adwords advertisers on my Adsense sites will have the best chance of converting whatever traffic I send them through Adsense. Allowing me to help them make more money through my site and helping protect myself from smart pricing.
Any thoughts or suggestions on any of the above?
Carlos