Is smartpricing across the board

[mistwist]

I have a mainstream site that produces alot of impressions but not allot of click thrus, but the few I do get usually pay pretty well. This morning I woke up to it getting just a few cents a click, I am assuming i am getting smartpriced. So my question is will this smartpricing effect all my adsense click thrus even from pages on other domains that are getting high CTR?

 

[aeroguy]

yes its for your entire account, and believe it lasts for a week

 

[Jdog]

I've heard it lasts a week and resets on thursdays, but I have seen some people say it lasts a month. Who knows.

 

[v1nce]

is this one of the reasons the big G gets so pissed if you have multiple accounts?

 

[gdubs12345]

its been over a week for me, more than 2 at least

 

[mistwist]

So do you pull everything offline and give the system time to drop you from smartpricing, or just dump the site with the low ctr?

 

[didadel]

Im pretty I was smartpriced and it hasnt been reset. Of course, I never stopped my campaign. Do I need to stop it for some time before I restart?

 

[v1nce]

i believe you've got to pull everything off and go with another network to have adsense reset

 

[v1nce]

I've heard it lasts a week and resets on thursdays, but I have seen some people say it lasts a month. Who knows.

google:rasta:

 

[TheCableMonkey]

If you get smart priced. I find that the perfect oppertunity to switch to yahoo or other ideas. Perfect time for testing since you're getting screwed anyways.

 

[gdubs12345]

i want to try yahoo but i cant get into their program, ive applied a couple times

 

[Jon]

yes its for your entire account, and believe it lasts for a week

More like 30 days or less.

 

[PreZ]

Im going on two weeks of smart pricing now. Fuckin bs, oh well

 

[mistwist]

If you get smart priced. I find that the perfect oppertunity to switch to yahoo or other ideas. Perfect time for testing since you're getting screwed anyways.

I would do that if I wan't waiting for approval from yahoo...still

 

[didadel]

Is there a way to avoid it? Im thinking if you only run it for parts of the day or something like that? Any thoughts?

 

[arz]

Is there a way to avoid it?

I'd like to know that, too.

I wasn't using AdWords and I still got smartpriced yesterday. It happened right after the google bot visited a non-arbi section of my website that had some content from GetMyArticles.com (and no adsense on those pages, even!). But it was pretty annoying to see my clicks go from around $1 to $0.10.

 

[Reefer420]

what about adding that no bot code that was posted up here a little while back- so the bots won't visit your site?

 

[Jdog]

what about adding that no bot code that was posted up here a little while back- so the bots won't visit your site?

that is for the search engine bots, not the contextual ones. I think the quality of your traffic is the biggest factor of being smartpriced or not.

 

[mistwist]

Found this last night, its put out by Google from the looks of it so i don't give it alot of weight but they make a couple interesting points. http://adsense.blogspot.com/2005/10/facts-about-smart-pricing.html