Am I being smart priced?

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Hi,

I need advice as I think i am being smart priced by adsense. Without going into too many specifics half my traffic comes from keywords that are worth $2.00 a click.

my expectation was that I would get $1.00 a click, i have been told google pays out at least half if not more.

my average CPC is less that 20 cents though. What is going on? am i being smart priced? this is way lower than I expected. Granted the other half of my traffic is cheap, 5 cents a click. So i was expecting at least 50 cents on average

if i am suffer from smart pricing how do i fix it? i looked everywhere and have done all the optimizations. the only thing i can think of is my site is small, less than 20 pages, is that a factor?

also it is new, less than 1 year old, 10 months old. Is there a checklist of things i should check?

All of my content is relavant and original. My ads are a very good match i get very contextual matchs. I just am not getting any where near the max potential value of the click.
#search engine optimization #priced #smart
  • Who says the CPC is 2.00? The google adwords tool?
    go enter the kw in Spyfu, see what that says

    also go enter it in Contextual kw tool on adwords tool
    those are way more accurate than the adwords CPC numbers
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    • yes just checked on spyfu. 1.50 - 1.85 which sounds right

      13 advertisers

      around 100 clicks a day

      I assume spyfu.com's data set is same from adwords no?
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