Do you have any experience with blocking certain advertisers? And if so, do you find that it increases your average CPC?

The reason I ask is because my traffic is steadily increasing, but my adsense earnings are steadily DEcreasing.

-Adam

Thanks for elaborating on that point about 50%. No, you didn’t confused me, and its much more clear by now after you’ve explained it.

I actually wondered if you can determine the maximum Content Adsense CPC when you put the ad the first time on your new site?.

In my observation, every time I integrated adsense on my new sites, the CPC is about twice or roughly 1.5 x time more than the CPC two or three weeks later (or after the site gets around 10,000 first Adsense impressions).

Perhaps smart pricing kicks in when Google collects enough data about your site and determine its CPC value – just my own speculation.

I also noticed, that once a site gets over 2000 impressions per days consistently, the overall eCPM tend to increase anywhere from 50% to 100%.

I’m very excited to see the new CPC, because I will be soon registering a company and will be changing over business account.

Did you lose all of the channel tracking and earnings info from your personal account when you moved over to business one?

You’re missing a few key points…

Google takes 33% of the amount which we don’t know. It doesn’t take 33% of the CPC value you see in Adwords. That’s for Search Adsense.

We cannot see the values of the Content Adsense. Google takes 33% of the unknown value and we’re in reality left with 15% of the amount we see in Adwords (which is for search).

Also, the 50% of the value I mention in my previous post is NOT 50% of the value you see in Adwords, but 50% of the maximum value of Content Adsense – which in reality you don’t know.

I just happened to open a new Adsense account and I believe that when you start you get the maximum amount per click and based on that number (which is probably 20-30% of the amount you see in Adwords) I assumed that that’s my maximum CPC for Content clicks.

Hope I didn’t confuse you more.

(And I don’t think my sites are heavily smart priced – perhaps just slightly)

This is quite an interesting post. Do you still earn around 14% and 9% for your two sites that have adsense?

My guess is that your calculation does not take into account that Google takes the 33% cut of total adsense payout on your sites, is that correct?

One of my sites is on 17% based on you formula.

I’ve also read on your other post: http://www.freedomideas.com/two-google-adsense-tips-to-boost-your-earnings/ and you mentioned that if its 50% or less then the site is probably smart priced.

Then does this mean both of your sites which use adsense are still heavily smart-priced? (becuase you mentioned here http://www.freedomideas.com/google-adsense-rant-from-a-pissed-publisher/ that you managed to get out of smart-pricing for your vacuum site.

As I would imagine it will be almost impossible to have anything near 50% based on your calculation.

Good CTR (for my sites) for Adsense is over 7% and for Chitika over 4%. That’s for top ads.

I was just wondering what CTR you think is a good amount on content sites? I have a few sites and often wonder whether the adsense and chitika CTR is underperforming.

Thanks for any advice.

Here’s are the numbers from the people who emailed me: 32,5%, 14,4 %, 13,1%, yours?