Comments on: Adsense Smart pricing

By: Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:17:38 +0000

Which is it?

There are two conflicting answers above.

Does smart pricing affect *every* web site you put your adsense code on, or is it just the web sites that do not convert that are affected?

The second one sounds more logical – but Google is not always logical!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:45:11 +0000

Actually this happens when Google finds out that the advertiser is not selling any products because of the clicks you generate.

Google tracks anything you do on the internet :) Creepy.

Google “protects” the advertiser in order to keep them bound to Google. 95% of the earnings Google makes is from AdWords, so they give great care to the advertisers.

If Google thinks at any time the advertiser is not selling, then you get smart priced on every website you put Adsense on.

So to make sure that doesn’t happen, don’t blend your ads to well, else you get a lot of missclicks which results in smart pricing.

Greets

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:28:17 +0000

Hi Hendrik, I think I may have been smartpriced on one of my sites in the last two days – earnings are less than 50% of usual :-( very disappointed ….
Couple of questions….

How long would you leave the site at this low earning before taking action (i.e. removing the ads for a time)?

Also, after removing the ads – then putting them back after 20 days, how long will this last for until we are smartpriced again? If it happened once it could keep happening – how many times could this happen in a year? I’m concerned that after putting the ads back on Google will just smartprice again a couple of weeks later.

Thanks.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:16:17 +0000

Sorry for the late reply.

Nope it doesn’t. CTR is absolutely no factor for smart pricing. In fact, sites with low CTR are usually better for ads as they have less missclicks. Each of the clicks is usually an high quality click, simply because the visitors only click if they are 100% interested.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:15:05 +0000

You are welcome.

By: teenwebguru

teenwebguru — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:37:03 +0000

Great in-depth post. I’ll make sure to check back when I need more info about Adsense.

By: NightFire

NightFire — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:01:14 +0000

Does removing sites with low CTR gradually help in any way? Instead of removing the codes on all your sites completely?

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:52:10 +0000

If you have a forum for example then you could exclude specific forums :). I made the experience that completely removing the ads for some time resets your smart pricing. In the meantime I was using other ad-networks for compensating the timeout with adsense.

By: Blogpreneur

Blogpreneur — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:26:38 +0000

” only on niche-relevant websites ” , How to make sure of it niche relevant website ?..

is worth to make a comment script ”

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:21:00 +0000

Of course, that would be the most logical and best way. But I made the experience that smart pricing only goes away if you completely remove all your ads for some time.