Thanks
Zuri

I experimented a little bit with channels. It looks like (I have no proof though) that if majority of impressions from a channel comes from high quality pages (which are T2 with higher pagerank), then smart pricing (Google lowering your pay per click) doesn’t affect you.

The business and personal account are almost the same, except in the business account you must enter the company name. It may have something to do also with how seriously Google considers you. Just my guess…

“Because the only quality factor that Google shows me about my pages is pagerank, I changed the channels for ads on the homepage (I now have no Adsense ads on my homepage), which has the highest pagerank, for ads on my Tier 2 pages (one level lower pagerank), and ads on Tier 3 pages (the lowest pagerank).

I also need to mention that all my Tier 2 pages got 5.33 times more impressions (more traffic) than all my Tier 3 pages in March 2008.

So what I was saying to Google Adsense was that the majority of clicks were coming from pages with a high value.

I saw the result the next day, with a much higher PPC than before. I was no longer smart priced.”

And what’s the difference between an Adsense personal and business account?

Zuri

No need. The channel names have nothing to do with your income. You only use them to see which ads perform better or worse.

“I used to set up channels based on the ad’s position; something like “top left”, “left160×600″ and similar notations.”

I name my Adsense channels just like that, you mean I have to change the names of the Adsense channels to improve my Adsense income?

Zuri

Smart pricing is not the same as having low paying advertisers. For finding those, ask a friend from US to give you screenshots of your ads and then check the sites manually to see whether they buy cheap traffic from content Adsense and try to convert into clicks again.

If you are being smart priced there is not much you can do. You can try putting ads only on quality pages where you expect good conversion. Also; don’t put Adsense on some small website that’s just starting out. Do a Google search on Adsense smart pricing and you’ll find some good ideas…

Even if i try to check the advertisers its going to show me UK advertisers as i am in Uk, what if its some US ads that are resulting in me being smart priced…is there are way to find out?