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dcanswere... dcanswere...
 
M$1 June 11, 2009 06:02 PM

Is the Adsense engine working/up to date?

I have noticed a couple of quirks around here.

First, the page views/revenue earned doesn't seem to match up. For example, I have a page that has been viewed 224 times, with 0 revenue. And at the same time, I have two pages that have been viewed 37 and 15 times, with 16 cents and 5 cents of revenue, respectively. Are these numbers right? And do people actually need to click on Google ads to get revenue, not just page views? (if so, that's troublesome, given the crazy off-topic ads on some of these pages)

In addition, when looking at the leaderboard of most page views/revenue earned, it is different than what shows up in personal profiles. As @jasoncalacanis said in a previous question (http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo2/top-10-mahalo-members-set-to-make-over-m-100-year-managing-pages-already) the leaderboard is two days old. But the amount shown in the profile is LESS than what's on the leaderboard. For example, in @jeffhoard's profile, it shows that he has one page with 3 cents of revenue and one page with 22 cents of revenue. But in the leaderboard, it shows he has $1.22 in revenue.

Is there some way to figure out which number is accurate?
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ayla_zed ayla_zed
 
 June 11, 2009 06:45 PM
Adsense pays per click. The click value can be as little as a couple pennies, it can be more than a couple dollars, depends on the AdWords advertiser's bid to show a particular ad. The ads are served according to page content. If the content is not focused, the ads will not be relevant. The ads relevancy, then, is the responsibility of the person running the page. With AdSense there are two main issues to focus on to increase revenue: page content and traffic.

(I make money everyday with AdSense on my own domains.)

You have included a second question, but I cannot address that one.
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nyssa nyssa
 
June 11, 2009 08:41 PM
So a purely informational/academic page with no or limited sale potential, makes limited or nothing even though viewed? (Adsense doesn't even come through on the page in Safari)Doesn't this make those type of pages not be created or managed? because for some there is no incentive to do so (the greater good not being enough for people)? And what of those people who view the net with AdBlock type programs running on their browsers?

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philipy philipy
 
June 11, 2009 11:07 PM
That's life @nyssa.

People write on Wikipedia for the love of the subject, and no financial reward. They can do the same here if they want to. If they care about making some money as well, they'll need to think about the topic they select.

However there are all kind of pages that have advertising potential. If you are genuinely helping people with something that's important to them, there are usually products and services that go with that.

Even if you picked a topic like Trigonometry - which is still available - there are ads on the page. Ads for people to become maths tutors, sites that help with homework, maths courses, tuition services etc.

As for people using ad blockers, that affects all pages, whether the topic is astrophysics or Paris Hilton. :)

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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
June 11, 2009 07:15 PM
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For example, in @jeffhoard's profile, it shows that he has one page with 3 cents of revenue and one page with 22 cents of revenue. But in the leaderboard, it shows he has $1.22 in revenue.
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In this case I at one point had pages that earned money but have since abandoned them. Since I already earned revenue off them that stays in my account.

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dcanswerer dcanswerer
 
June 11, 2009 07:40 PM
Got it. That makes sense.

As for the other question, is @ayla_zed correct, in that the page only earns revenue from ad clicks rather than page views?

Thanks

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jasoncalac... jasoncalac...
 
June 11, 2009 09:58 PM
99% of the time pages are only going to make money when there is a click. We are signed up for display (non-clicked based) ads with Google, but they don't come up that often.

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