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Adsense 1 Cent Per Click?

by simplybeastz
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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.
#adsense #cent #click
  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author simplybeastz
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author LaunchBrain.com
        Originally Posted by simplybeastz View Post

        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.
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        • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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      • Profile picture of the author simplybeastz
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vlad Romanov
    yeah thanks for sharing i never knew that...
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Paul, next time you should probably pack that thing in a PDF, sell one WSO and make a killing.

    Just sayin...

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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author kiwiviktor81
      Originally Posted by LaunchBrain.com View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author LaunchBrain.com
        Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81 View Post

        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.
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  • Profile picture of the author srinu
    just check your adsense account once ... because google gives price depends on the add.. if any clicks on forex,insurance,banking etc
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  • Profile picture of the author 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!
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  • Profile picture of the author 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. =)
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  • Profile picture of the author Dalyinx
    I got 0 cents for a click a couple times. Normally I get a little over a dollar, which is nice.
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