My Biggest Adsense Click So Far
Posted on October 24, 2007
Filed Under Earn money online
It’s quite hard to see how much you earn per click in [tag]Google Adsense[/tag] unless you have many channels or not much traffic or you login to your account very soon after is starts collecting data for a new day.
I have a channel set up for a page which I actually DON’T know where it is!
That page received only a few visitors yesterday and one of them clicked on an Adsense ad.
Here’s how much the click was worth:
A whopping $8,64!
I’ve seen some clicks on my vacuum cleaner site range up to $2 but those are very rare. Most clicks are worth less than $0,15.
So I think an advertiser made a mistake and bid the amount he planned to use on the search network on the content network. 
That’s how you learn – by making mistakes and adjusting.
And if you read my rant about Google Adsense average CPC dropping, then you may want to know, that I also sent an email to Adsense support explaining my situation and got an answer from them.
Here’s a part of my email:
One of the reasons for such low earnings are advertisers such as www All-Vacuumcleaners com, www suaveseeker com and naturaldealings com/search.aspx?pit=vacuum and others which are ALLOWED to bid minimum amounts on a content network to drive unsuspecting visitors to their sites full of Overture ads.
(I have found these advertisers using you Adsense preview tool.)
My questions to you is simple:
How can you allow this?
I as a publisher am losing trust in your program because you allow such sites advertise on a successful vacuum cleaner site. You, the Google, send me around 1500 visitors per day so people obviously trust your search engine but then you send them from my website to crappy arbitrage sites through your OWN Ads by Google on my site.
Here’s a part of the reply Google Adsense support sent me (a week later):
Hi Tomaz,
Thank you for your email regarding the Google AdWords ad you saw.
I’ve asked our AdWords team to look at the information you’ve sent us. They’ll review the ad in question and remove it if it’s in violation of any AdWords policies. I appreciate you taking the time to let us know about your concerns. This helps us maintain the quality of the AdWords network.
I understand that you’re concerned about a decline in your earnings, and I know that this can be frustrating.
It’s not uncommon for earnings to fluctuate significantly over time. Since a number of factors influence earnings, it’s difficult for me to pinpoint exactly why your earnings might have declined.
These factors include for instance; changes in ad inventory, fluctuations in the cost-per-click or cost-per-thousand-impressions of the ads appearing on your site, and your users’ clickthrough selections.
We’re always working to improve monetization for our publishers. To help our engineering team achieve this goal, I’ll be happy to pass along any suggestions or feedback you have.
So, it’s actually nice to hear back from the Adsense support even-though they didn’t give me any specific reasons why my average pay per click is so low.
So the Adsense adventure continues. I’m testing some ideas on how to escape smart-pricing and I’ll let you know in the future what worked and what didn’t.
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Oy…
Google AdSense is so tempermental and is difficult to make a lot of money from unless you are able to get a mass amount of clicks.
Because of that, it is difficult for new bloggers to make money through ads. We can’t get much from AdSense, we can’t use the ‘premium’ ad services, nor can we sell add spots.
There are some other services out there, but not all of them are good.
*sigh*
Oh well…