January 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 am

Court the real crazy thing is even though their are a few post on the official adsense blog about smart pricing, Google really does not to talk about it kind of like sandbox. Even then on the post that talk about smart pricing the last thing they usually say is:

Keep in mind that like most Google technology, our system for calculating advertiser pricing gets updated regularly. We’re constantly improving our ad products to benefit both the publisher and advertiser communities; what benefits one side ultimately benefits the other.

Reminds me of the FBI’s

We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an ongoing investigation

LMAO

January 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 am

I have noticed this fluctation, where one day clicks are converting well and the next - nothing. Thanks for spelling it out.

January 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 am

How ironic that the word I needed to type in to make this comment was “gold”…because it’s what I’m lacking

This post really hit home. I run a site: arizonasportsfans.com and I basically have adsense all over it and it gets like .04% CTR because it’s a forum and all.

I just compared that site to my main blog, AMikeLIfe.com and they are basically making the same amount of money each,but AML has a 2% CTR, and the other .04%…

I’m probably not making as much as I can on AML, and considering my traffic is just growing and growing on that one, I may need to look into take it down on the sports site.

Man, this stuff drives me crazy…thanks for the post.

January 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 am

hmmm.
Triggers trains of thought in me, as always with a Court’s post.

January 2nd, 2008 at 11:58 am

so Court, what it be a good conclusion then that the less web and technology-savvy your average site visitor is, the more likely you’ll get higher click-thru ratios?

January 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Thanks again for a wonderful tip. I did, indeed, think that Adsense was worthless, but I have it on a blog that’s dead, and a blog that does pretty well with social networking, and it’s my first blog (so it is a newbie blog).

I’m getting rid of adsense immediately, and I’ll set it up on my new keyword sniped site (I finally chose a keyword and bought a domain…I’ll report my findings if they’re worth reporting in a few months).

Theda K.

January 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Like I mentioned earlier, I managed to create this problem by putting Adsense on OpTempo. As you stated, I saw my Adsense income for December drop to about 15% of what it was in October/November.

What was weird was that I didn’t get “smart priced” until somewhere just after Thanksgiving although the ads had been on the site since day 1 (Oct 6). Of course this lines up with when I started using EntreCard so I have to wonder if the junk traffic from the widget dropped my CTR and led to the smart pricing.

January 2nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm

Once again congratulations on writing such a great post, the old adage “less is more” sure rings true here. You have actually prompted me to go through my old “seo based” posts and do a serious AdSense cull! I expect i a have been smart priced as my average CTR is under 3% for the past 10 months! Just a couple of questions. Over what period of time do Google take your average CTR to calculate their smart pricing strategy? Days weeks or months? Also how doest this work for impression costed adverts do these also dilute your ctr?

Thanks again

Andy

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Court–thanks for more insider info! I have some “Dead” blogs from free sites that I have since moved to my own hosted domains and I have left the Adsense on those dead blogs because they get some traffic…but never any clicks. THanks again for the superior content… I am very glad I subscribed to your email feed.
AL

January 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm

Ok, I really suck. My CTR on every one of my sites is under 2%. Will I make more with Adsense if I take it off of every one of my sites? LOL

January 2nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm

thanks for the heads up on this - i’m going to have to check the channels now and remove it from those sites that it doesn’t belong on.

January 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm

This is a revelation to me. I will experiment and see whether what you’ve advised works. It sounds convincing

January 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm

Well, I guess I have to remove all the adsense in my blogspot blogs. I put many code in my blogspot blogs. Thanks for the info

January 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm

Court, you may not get adsense clicks from us, but if you truly showed us the tools you use to “make money” consistenty, I’ll bet many of your readers would buy (affiliate commissions to you ).

I know Vic strongly talks about BMD and other tools, and goes in detail on how to use them. This makes it a ‘no-brainer’ to buy it when your reader sees exactly how to benefit from it in real money making applications.

January 2nd, 2008 at 10:54 pm

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January 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 pm

And I have also seen that Adsense on IM sites - $4.54 in six months??? - just doesn’t work! LOL

But this smart-pricing stuff… That explains a lot of what I just couldn’t work out with wildly fluctuating results over the past 12 months!

On further investigation, it seems it has been happening for quite some time (late 2004 in fact) and like many, I haven’t been aware of the implications as a publisher!

So how to decide which sites to kill?

Well, thankfully I’ve been using channels to record data for different sites - even PARTS of sites - so it’s pretty easy to see which channels are not performing.

I’ve just looked at my channel stats for the past year, and then sorted by Page CTR. Now my job is to spend a few days removing those ads/channels that have:
1. earned less than $20 in the whole year, AND / OR
2. had a CTR under 3%

There are some exceptions to this rule. There’s one channel that has a CTR of 1.97% but it has earned $1700 for the year… and a couple of others like that - so they have to stay.

There are also a couple with high CTR’s but they’ve earned less than $20 so they will go.

BTW - the $20 is purely arbitrary… but if it ain’t earning 2 bucks a month… well…

If I change my report criteria, and remove the above channels (44 removed - 38 left in play), the end result is quite amazing when I run the report again for 2007 year.

Those 44 channels I killed resulted in a total loss of only 78k impressions (out of a total of 4.8m), meaning 650 less clicks (out of 171k), for a reduction of just $176 (out of $30k) for the whole year.

If this smart-pricing theory is correct, that’s a small price to pay for the potential increase in earnings I can get from killing those unproductive ad channels.

Fingers crossed

Stephen Spry

January 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 pm

I forgot to say that I’ve been meaning to monetize these low performing channels/sites with something else for some time.

It seems I now have the incentive to get cracking on it TODAY! LOL

Stephen

January 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Court - I would also like to know if it is possible to figure out what span of time the CTR is calculated on when determining smart pricing - a week, a month, a quarter?

My non-techie sites definitely do the best with Adsense. Time, traffic and the right topic seem to be the formula for success.

January 3rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Very helpful one Court. I heard about that smart pricing but never know about that percentage and google restoring back the commission automatically. It is good to know that now.

In IM your have problem will have problem with your affiliate link
and adsense click. For adsense either you get get click fraud or no click at all. But just like you said if the traffic is coming from SE you will get the click.

January 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Thank you Court for this valuable information.

You are definitely a man of your word as each blog post written on this site provides enormous value.

It really is to the point whereby when I receive one of your blog post announcements, I make sure my environment is distraction free in order to take in what you have to say:)

Your integrity and strategic business advice is truly worth emulating.

To Your Continued Success.

January 4th, 2008 at 12:38 am

you can´t earn enough money with adsense. not really. maybe on of 1000 persons - but not more.

January 4th, 2008 at 4:52 am

Thank you very much for your information. i have to follw your points

January 4th, 2008 at 9:00 am

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January 4th, 2008 at 9:40 am

Combined with key word sniping about which you have given great advise, this should be cinch. Thanks.

January 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

I wasn’t even aware of smart pricing, until I read Vic and Griz talking about it in comments. As soon as I found out smart pricing existed, I suspected it had happened to me. Vic confirmed this for me. Thank-you for all of the well written useful information. I’m sure a lot of people aren’t aware that they have been smart priced.

January 4th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

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January 4th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

Excellent post. I’d heard about smart pricing, but was never able to make sense of it. You laid it out beautifully. I’ll give it a try (sadly, for me, this means replacing AdSense on about a dozen sites…) and I’ll let ya know if it indeed makes a difference. Thanks!

January 4th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

Well, I took Court’s advice yesterday and removed all the Google ads that were getting roughly a .04% CTR on my two websites.

I just kept a big 300×250 in my blog posts on A Mike Life and left it alone.

This morning I had 2 clicks worth about .25 cents. Ugly, but I suspected it would take awhile.

Well, this later afternoon, I got one more click worth $1.25…

Could it work this fast? Or was I just lucky? Cause my CTR is only .80%

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January 5th, 2008 at 4:46 am

Since I changed the ad position in my blog (Planet Apex) to inside the post my CTR is now averaging around 5-6 for the last month or so. But my previous CTR track was horrible. I had under 2 or even 1 for a long time.

Now my overall CTR avg. is incrising and today I saw my account and it has just passed 3% mark.

However my earning are still not good. Yesterday I got
22 clicks from 300+ pageviews and only 2.10$ for a CTR of 7 or so. Do you think I’m still smart prices Court? Or am I doing something else wrong?

January 5th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Court, thanks for writing this article. I’ve been following you, Vic (Blogger Unleased) and GrizzlyBear of late and I’m getting a lot of what you are saying.

I have personally experienced “smart pricing” as you and Vic have both described it, so I’ve yanked Adsense off of my blogs. Time will tell if/when I’ll try it again.

Keep up the good work! Also getting a lot of good insights out of your keyword sniping articles!

January 6th, 2008 at 6:36 am

I see that a lot of people subscribe to the ‘adsense=nonsense’ idea

January 6th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

I’m still messing with mine, a bit discouraging to start with, because even though I only got .04% with my forums, I still could make $2-3 a day…while now with them only on my lower traffic blog, I’m making $1 or less.

But…I think the more it grows, the better it will be, plus I’m going to repositioned my 300×250 block to be in the top left of all blog posts, so hopefully that helps.

January 6th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

I found exactly this on one of my sites and was puzzled as to why. Now you have explained it i know what to do. More great advice, thanks. I find this site invaluable for seo tips etc.

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January 8th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

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January 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

Court,

Great post, but I don’t think it’s CTR which is the problem - I think it’s advertiser conversion rate. That’s based on an ancient post by Google:

The percentage of clicks that convert for an advertiser is the most important factor in an advertiser’s ROI, so it’s not only possible, but common, to have a low CTR and a high advertiser conversion rate. It’s also possible to have a high CTR and a low conversion rate. Don’t remove the AdSense code from your site just because it has a lower CTR - it may be one of your best converting sites.

That’s more than two years old, so what they say might have changed, but I think it’s more likely that Smart Pricing would be based on advertiser conversion rate than CTR (as it’s really about value for the advertiser).

Anyway, it probably doesn’t make a big difference, because there’d be a high correlation between high CTR and high advertiser conversion rate, because both are a product of targeted traffic.

The point is, for those people with a low CTR: don’t just pull Adsense off your blog - do some testing to see if you are smart priced, or you may be leaving money on the table. I’m fairly confident I’m not smart priced even though my CTR is below 0.2%.

Court - you have a lot more experience with this than me, so please put me in my place if I’m wrong!

January 16th, 2008 at 8:19 am

Adsense Is Bad For Marketing

Be careful With Adsense! It appears to me that AdSense seems to be one of the first choices for monetizing any Web site, including Blogs. People seem to get very enthusiastic about it — having the big, fat checks of Joel Comm (&uarr) and Shoem

January 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Great article Court.
I’m having this problem as well currently, never realised it was google smartpricing.

So all you have to do is get rid of the GA on your low income sites … curious

February 12th, 2008 at 8:08 am

Hello Court

Thank you for this very imformative post!
Do only sites with low CTR affect my google account or is it also single pages on sites that are doing well otherwise? For example, should I remove the adsense ads from my guestbook page, as it has a very low CTR?

Mike

February 12th, 2008 at 9:56 am

advertiser conversion rate
OR
CTR

Which is it ?

February 12th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

This has been very interesting reading for me, and today I’ve decided to test it out.

The problem is, my empire is vast, and I’m not even in full control of all my code!

Here’s a question:
If I have one channel out of 500 that is still earning 1.5% CTR while the other 499 are 4-6% CTR, will Google really still penalize me to the point of saying that all 500 channels can earn only 10% of what they would?

My scenario isn’t so severe, but I do have one of those sites out there that I can’t reach the code to only earning a 1.5% CTR.

I’m now in the process of changing about 100 of my websites from AdSense to Yahoo Pub Network that fall below 3% right now.

They actualy account for the majority of my traffic in AdSense, so this is a major test for me that will effect my income in a big way. (One way or the other.)

But either way it goes, Thank you Court for pointing this out and I’ll try to let everyone here know if the 1 rouge channel makes a difference or not. -If it comes to it I can always tell Google that its’ simply not mine (Of course I don’t want to give the $200 back it’s already earned me!)

Cheers,
Luke Parker

February 15th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

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February 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

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February 19th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

This has lit a nuclear bomb in my skull! I’ve removed all the adsense from all of my sites. Luckily, I’m a noob so I don’t have that much VRE to change.

I’ll look into your keyword sniping deal sometime too.

Thanks for the advice! It may mean the difference between zero cents to a hefty buck or to day for me.

February 26th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

Great tip!!
What first entered my mind was to use different accounts for each site. Would this be practical?

March 8th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

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March 10th, 2008 at 7:05 am

You are absolutely right there, Courtney. My site, http://www.BestManagementArticles.com has 77 different business articles categories.

The one with the lowest CTR among those categories is “Internet Marketing”. Surprisingly to me, the highest CTR is “business ethics” .

April 1st, 2008 at 2:35 am

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June 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 am

Thats a really great tip. We do a lot with Google Adsense but its not the best way all the time to earn money with the sites…

June 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 am

Will try to remove ads from one of my site. I have around 1% of CTR, may be this is the cause of smart pricing for me

June 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

That is very interesting. Thanks for the great post. I’m going to have to play with this.

June 20th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

Hi,

I guess that I’m a bit lazy to pay attention to statistics, namely using Google Analytics and alikes.
I would say that about 1 to 3 % of people visiting my blog, click ads.
That can give me either 10 cents or 1 dollar, it depends on certain factors that you know better than me.
Anyway, I’ve come to the conclusion that to live from my blog I’ll only have to raise my visits 500 times. Pretty simple, hein ?
This is a good article that you wrote.

Kind regards,

José

July 10th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

Good writeup. Just started with adsense and placed ads on top of another and someone warned me about lower CTR. I thought, so what… as long as I get more clicks, right? Oh was I so wrong. After researching Smart Pricing which led me to this fine article, I’ve gotten smarter… or at least a little.

July 14th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Wow, the first I’ve heard of this…and I’m glad I found out

July 23rd, 2008 at 6:55 am

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post ur comments 2 http://www.mobizoneworld.blogspot.com and we can work as a family!!!!

July 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm

I have never heard of this either. But I have a feeling I may be on the edge on getting smart priced. It seems like some days, my clicks are fine, even worth more than 2 dollars. But at other times, they may only get 10 or 15 cents max. I am going to keep an eye on it and see if this may be why.

August 30th, 2008 at 6:41 am

i will check it out too. it sounds interessting, like all the staff around it.

October 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 pm

Good comments on Adsense/Adwords and how to work with it (or better how not to) Thanks!

October 4th, 2008 at 1:24 am

hiii alll brothers…
look.. the thing is.. its not just about getting clicks…
i got many clicks to mu site.. but my ctr rating is 50%
adsense wont pay me.. they will detect it as a click fraud…
to know more to reduce ur ctr and to make sure u get ur adsense cheque without getting banned the last minute (thats how they normally do..to get profit..and squeeze u to the last min.)
just cme 2 my site.. and ask questios on my shout widget in my page.. ill answer u on that..
have a nice time in adsense…

October 14th, 2008 at 6:37 am

You can earn much more money using white hat search engine optimization. This is the right way to generate unlimited traffic for your website.

October 14th, 2008 at 6:40 am

We stopped using Adwords because of the high costs. We think, that it’s more profitable to be found in the top of the organic search engines results…

October 15th, 2008 at 9:02 am

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October 16th, 2008 at 3:59 am

Thanks for your interesting article. It helps us optimizing our adwords costs in the future.

October 20th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

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October 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 am

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November 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

We found out that the best way is a mixture between black and white hat links!!!

November 12th, 2008 at 5:48 am

@ Schmuck: what are you telling for a bullshit? Black Hat is negative!

November 12th, 2008 at 6:08 am

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November 19th, 2008 at 7:20 am

White hat or black hat, what is that??? I would like to learn how to better my adsense revenues.

November 20th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Adsense is not interesting anymore. You will really have to own a website with nische keywords to earn money.

November 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

A mixture of white and black hat??? What a fool.

December 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 am

I dont understand.

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January 10th, 2009 at 5:07 am

White hat and black is also called grey hat. Well no serious seo would do that I guess. Nice idea in your article!

January 12th, 2009 at 4:50 am

I heard that adsence users are prefered by google and those site are better ranked.

January 27th, 2009 at 7:45 am

I never heard of smart pricing until a few weeks ago. I looked around the web to find if there was any solutions. Court, your post hit the nail on the head. I already started to ascertain information from my adsence account regarding sites that do not perform at least 3% CTR. I will remove adsense from those sites and replace them with Chitika. I might just use half Chitika and half Adsense. I started using Chitika yesterday with Adsense on one of my site that was getting only 8 cents a click. This moring I saw the same site move up to 21 cents a click. Thanks for the post Court.

March 15th, 2009 at 9:53 am

Very nice information. Thanks for this.

April 25th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

The infos are not actual anymore.(??)

May 12th, 2009 at 8:36 am

Does this apply to CTR for the page or Channels?

I have 4 channels per page. But obviously, if someone clicks channel 1’s ads, then then they’re not going to click 2,3,4 because they can’t. Does this mean smart pricing will effect just the channels with low CTR or are the page views and clicks for all the channels combined, and then if the total CTR is around 2/3% you get smart priced?

Thanks, Dan

May 17th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

One year later and your right on still….

May 17th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

Hi Courtney,

You’ve always been great. May I ask you a question? Does this Smart-Pricing apply to Adlinks unit?

One of my site is performing very poorly with AdLinks, should I remove those units then?

Thanks,
Binh

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July 8th, 2009 at 12:19 am

Thank you for the good tips. But I think only with adsense clicks you won’t be rich.

August 10th, 2009 at 5:03 pm

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August 14th, 2009 at 10:10 pm

hmm, it is strange.maybe this is why my earning of adsense do not increase so far.but for 2 days ago, my earnings was increase about $1,43 :((.maybe i need to follow your suggestion.thank you very much.

August 15th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

I am trying this as I am getting $1.90 for 7 $24.39 clicks

I will report back what I find

September 18th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

Believe it or not, my CTR is higher from visitors NOT coming from search engines. However, the CPC is way way lower. I am a little skeptical about low CTR putting you in smartpricing land as I’ve run sites for years with a CTR that was below 1%. Never have been smart priced as the clicked paid very well. The only thing I know for certain is that the new people to the internet domain business will still not listen to advice at all or won’t do any work on “non flagship’ sites they own. So that 99% will fail mentality is just one of the laws of the universe. Nice post Court.

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January 12th, 2010 at 7:32 pm

Thank you very much for this information. God bless.
Sat Nam, **(-_-)**
Piper

January 12th, 2010 at 7:32 pm

Thank you very much for this information. God bless.
Sat Nam, **(-_-)**
Piper