Why Is Your Google Adsense Money Decreasing?
It might be what they call Smart Pricing. Smart Pricing was started by the Google Adwords/Adsense teams to protect Adwords advertisors from being fleeced. There is a good piece over at Allman’s Money Traffic blog with some of his theories on Smart Pricing. Although I agree with the basic theory he lays out, I believe there are many more variables at work when Adsense puts ads on your web site.
Of course you want good traffic and high click through rates, but there is more to it then that in my opinion. I think that publisher history and track record come into play as well. This is not a popular theory, and for good reason. Say we dabbled in what I call “crap sites” that hold very little value, and were made simply for gathering clicker traffic. Say we did that on a string of sites. It’s possible the web site reputation can come into play here as well. Tell you the truth, I hope I’m dead wrong on that guess, or stab in the dark, because I too have dabbled in crap sites when I started out.
All I know, is that creating a good site or blog, with rich and original content, is the key to almost everything. Once again I’ll say it - don’t bother trying to game Google Adsense, Google Adwords, or the search engines at large. Just post content that is 100% original, and can be of use to your readers and visitors. Eventually that approach will help you get big traffic and big paying Adsense ads on your site.
One last note on Smart Pricing. I’ve always believed that creating one site, and focusing hard on it is the way to go. Stay with that one site for months before you even think about moving on to another one. If you put in a solid effort on one of your domains, the search engines will notice, your visitors will notice, and other webmasters will notice. This way you can compete in some of the most competitive keyword markets online.
11. September 2006 at 7:57 pm :
Good advice about focusing on one domain first. Thanks!
http://adsenseblogs.videolane.net/
26. September 2006 at 10:07 am :
Mike,
Please don’t put up links that don’t directly relate to the comment you are making. Also, my blog does not use the the nofollow tag, so you WILL get credit for the link from your name to you site. Furthermore, having a link in your name may not be as good as having your link in a keyword, but it’s still on a page -Â that is on a site -Â that has videos and has content on Adsense…………….so it helps you.Â
We’ll see ya next visit.
TZ
P.S. - your blog is gonna be a killer if you keep up what you’re doing.
30. November 2006 at 11:23 pm :
I have focused only one site at the begining and it is performing very well still. In this days I try to manage many sites at the same time not efficient.
2. December 2006 at 3:05 pm :
It’s paying off just to focus on a few main projects and focus on monetizing them thoroughly.
10. October 2008 at 11:31 pm :
Newbie here, please excuse my lack of knowledge. This sounds proper and it goes against everything I just did. I purchased a “junk site” software package and was convinced I’d make thousands of adsense dollars. Didn’t happen, more like $.08. I just want to erase everything and start over.
Now my question.
If I take down the junk and use the harvested information as research for my own writings, will Google look at my site in a bad way? In other words, is the penalty for removing a mass amount of borrowed (ripped-off imo) article content greater than having a lot of pages not found?