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Google Adsense question for all you techies out there!
Okay, so I have a question for the tech gurus. Please bare in mind, I know very little about adsense, so my question may seem funny. I just thought I'd make use of all the community brains!
I have recently been receiving a lot of pages that make 1 cent a day. This is something new I have never experienced before on both new and old pages. Before, my minimum was 3 cents on a page and on a rare occasion, two cents. Is this one cent thing just a fluke, or is this something normal that happens with adsense? Is it specific to certain types of ads? Any help would be appreciated. I just like to know how things work, and I realize google does not like to spill :)
I have recently been receiving a lot of pages that make 1 cent a day. This is something new I have never experienced before on both new and old pages. Before, my minimum was 3 cents on a page and on a rare occasion, two cents. Is this one cent thing just a fluke, or is this something normal that happens with adsense? Is it specific to certain types of ads? Any help would be appreciated. I just like to know how things work, and I realize google does not like to spill :)
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1 or 2 cents is common unless you have hundreds of page views a day
then you may get $1 to $5 a day and you have your own domain or use googlepages.com than you do not split with a third party.
then you may get $1 to $5 a day and you have your own domain or use googlepages.com than you do not split with a third party.
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This could make sense for the pages I manage that are no longer generating much traffic. Certain pages have lost traffic due to the season, so maybe that is the reason I was not seeing 1 cent clicks before now.
The ads that Google serves on your website vary in value. Usually if you have a high click through rate then you tend to attract ads with more click value. Not always but this seems to be the trend
Also some advertisers jusst really do not pay well per click. If you identify what ads it is that are generating the low value clicks, you could block those ads
The other thing to cnsider is the position of the ads in your adsense blocks. If you have, say three adsense blocks on the page, the lower blocks on your page attract lower click value than the top block on your page
Hope this helps
PS yes it is possible to earn only 2 cents a click
Also some advertisers jusst really do not pay well per click. If you identify what ads it is that are generating the low value clicks, you could block those ads
The other thing to cnsider is the position of the ads in your adsense blocks. If you have, say three adsense blocks on the page, the lower blocks on your page attract lower click value than the top block on your page
Hope this helps
PS yes it is possible to earn only 2 cents a click
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Hi niche. I can understand that for a 20 cent click or something, but it really possible to only generate 2 cents a click?
you really can't block any ads when you are talking about your mahalo pages... we don't have the same control here, and in fact, mahalo is seen differently than other sites by Google and has different rules than normal.
Hi Allison!
The minimum an advertiser can pay for an ad is 1 cent. Most of the time that is not enough to get your ad seen... there are exceptions, but we won't go into those for the purposes of this question, because you would probably get nothing from a 1 cent click anyway.
5 cents is pretty much the standard minimum that is used. Most terms need more than that, but when you go to look at how much terms cost per click, you will not see any less than 5 cents.
Now, Google keeps their percentages to themselves, but under the Adsense program, they pay out a certain percentage of what they get for each click to the person who agreed to host the ad on their website. You can figure it is more than 50%, i think, but no one knows exactly how much.
So... if someone pays 5 cents for their ad to be shown, and they get 1 click, they pay 5 cents... then Google pays a percentage of that 5 cents to the person who hosted the ad... in this case, Mahalo. Let's say, Mahalo got 4 cents for that click. Then you would see 2 cents. If Mahalo got 3 cents, you would either see 1 cent or 2 cents, depending on how the script runs. I don't actually know the answer to that part. And some clicks do cost less than 5 cents, as I said before... so it would go down accordingly. If it cost 4 and Mahalo got 2, you would get 1.
I have seen 1 cent earnings before on my Mahalo pages. It is not something new... those ads just aren't as great.
You might try changing the placement of your ad blocks, or the keywords in the text sections that are next to your ad blocks to bring up the value per click... I actually discussed this in today's SEO question thread.
Hope that makes sense, and helps a little. =)
P.S. If you want me to look at any specific pages, let me know. =)
The minimum an advertiser can pay for an ad is 1 cent. Most of the time that is not enough to get your ad seen... there are exceptions, but we won't go into those for the purposes of this question, because you would probably get nothing from a 1 cent click anyway.
5 cents is pretty much the standard minimum that is used. Most terms need more than that, but when you go to look at how much terms cost per click, you will not see any less than 5 cents.
Now, Google keeps their percentages to themselves, but under the Adsense program, they pay out a certain percentage of what they get for each click to the person who agreed to host the ad on their website. You can figure it is more than 50%, i think, but no one knows exactly how much.
So... if someone pays 5 cents for their ad to be shown, and they get 1 click, they pay 5 cents... then Google pays a percentage of that 5 cents to the person who hosted the ad... in this case, Mahalo. Let's say, Mahalo got 4 cents for that click. Then you would see 2 cents. If Mahalo got 3 cents, you would either see 1 cent or 2 cents, depending on how the script runs. I don't actually know the answer to that part. And some clicks do cost less than 5 cents, as I said before... so it would go down accordingly. If it cost 4 and Mahalo got 2, you would get 1.
I have seen 1 cent earnings before on my Mahalo pages. It is not something new... those ads just aren't as great.
You might try changing the placement of your ad blocks, or the keywords in the text sections that are next to your ad blocks to bring up the value per click... I actually discussed this in today's SEO question thread.
Hope that makes sense, and helps a little. =)
P.S. If you want me to look at any specific pages, let me know. =)
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voted helpful: krystyne20
Thanks for this information smartweb. I should probably look at the ones making 1 cent more closely to see what variations have been made recently for the ads on those pages. Depending on settings, I know the ads do change periodically on their own, and in certain regions the ads are displayed differently. It will definitely be easier to make sense of with this info. to go on. Thanks!
I think Smartweb covered much of it, but I would also like to point out that Mahalo receives a certain amount of adsense money from your pages. I don't know what percent, if it's 50% then your page is really making 2 cents per click.
you get 50% of what Mahalo makes on the pages you manage... paid out in Mahalo dollars.
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