Reducing smartpricing

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So ive been doing some arbitrage for a week now.
Started off really great, Ive been using a niche that I know well, and know that it can pay $2.50 per click.

I started off making profit, with clicks getting me around $1.

Since then, every day, the same ads are being displayed, and my earnings have dropped to about $0.20 per click.

Does anyone know if it is possible to reverse this? Maybe adding links to the page to make it look like a legit website?

So...my main question is, is it possible to reduce the effects of smartpricing with on page changes? What layouts don't get smartpriced?
 


how do you know you were even smartpriced? maybe you just got shitty clicks.
 
Same problem.

Same amount of impression, same amount of clicks, but the earnings drop from $20 to $2. Scary :D
 
Did you add more text boxes? If the people aren't clicking on the top add in the list there's no way you will make that $1 or so per click. More ads= lower payout.
 
I have a top banner displaying 4 ads. Thats the only ad unit.
God damn annoying.
 
I assume you brought some shitty traffic (0.01/click) from China and other low traffic quality countries.


Now put arbitraging on hold and go make some more sites and relay on SEO (work on getting your PR higher). With high PR, you should have high CPC again.

good luck
 
PiLe said:
I assume you brought some shitty traffic (0.01/click) from China and other low traffic quality countries.


Now put arbitraging on hold and go make some more sites and relay on SEO (work on getting your PR higher). With high PR, you should have high CPC again.

good luck
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Your saying that PR affects your cost per click? That is just stupid.
 
PiLe said:
I assume you brought some shitty traffic (0.01/click) from China and other low traffic quality countries.


Now put arbitraging on hold and go make some more sites and relay on SEO (work on getting your PR higher). With high PR, you should have high CPC again.

good luck
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1. Traffic is only from Google Adwords, UK traffic

2. My account also has high PR quality websites bringing in over $200/day

So really, it is quality traffic, my account should not be smartpriced, because all other sites are of quality.

It really seems that it is only that arbitrage site in my entire account that got smartpriced.
 
Well in that case you should just stop with arbitrage and wait for few weeks to get your old CPC back.

Did you consider opening another AdSense account for arbitrage purposes?

Good luck
Emir
 
Yeah ive actually just opened a limited company, so I'll be using two seperate accounts.

But I still think Google is actually smartpricing individual pages, so page layouts will majorly affect how much you earn per click. I'll do some experiments, see what layouts work.
 
dsm56 said:
1. Traffic is only from Google Adwords, UK traffic

2. My account also has high PR quality websites bringing in over $200/day

So really, it is quality traffic, my account should not be smartpriced, because all other sites are of quality.

It really seems that it is only that arbitrage site in my entire account that got smartpriced.
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dsm, it has been talked about on here not to use adwords for arbitrage, it is too easy for google to see that. Use other engines to send traffic to your adsense sites.
 
I dont get the whole good traffic/bad traffic thing. If his arbi site is using adsense and people are clicking the ads, how does it matter where the traffic came from? They click, he gets a cut.

How would buying cheap or "bad" traffic make a difference in terms of payout? I understand if traffic doesn't convert, but he said it was converting, jsut at a shitty payout. Or maybe the post about bad traffic was misleading or wrong? I dunno.:confused:
 
bad traffic is traffic that doesn't convert. So if you send a bunch of traffic that is looking for hotties to a mortgage site they are probably not going to convert for the advertiser, heeeelllooo smart pricing.
 
Oh I see. I misunderstood "convert". I thought it jsut meant someone clicking the ads was a conversion. I assume you mean, for example, my arbi site has ads about ringtones. Person clicks the ad(I get paid). But in order to be considered a conversion, they must complete the ringtone offer or whatever it is right? If they don't complete that form/zip code/whatever, I still get paid for his click but next time it might be less?
 
technomad said:
Oh I see. I misunderstood "convert". I thought it jsut meant someone clicking the ads was a conversion. I assume you mean, for example, my arbi site has ads about ringtones. Person clicks the ad(I get paid). But in order to be considered a conversion, they must complete the ringtone offer or whatever it is right? If they don't complete that form/zip code/whatever, I still get paid for his click but next time it might be less?
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Yes sir.
 
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