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Originally Posted by JohnScott
44 Adsense clicks for a total of $1.38, on an Adsense account we manage.
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First I base the payout of my clicks at x10 so 44 clicks should have pulled $4.40 or near to it.
For a crap payout like this, I would suspect a number of things.
Some moron is clicking your ads as if it was a pop-up that wouldn’t go away and is probably trying to get you banned. If this is the case then Google is doing a good job in seeing what ones are the invalid clicks. You could setup code to track which IP is clicking on which ads and that should give you an idea if you have a moron on your hands. I think Shawn (DP) posted on his Blog some code that can track it through Google Analytics or there is various other scripts out there that can help.
You could have too many ads being served on the page and the low paying ones are the majority being served and clicked on. If you do have all three Ad blocks and txt links then disable one or two ad blocks.....I had to do this for one of my topics.
Your topic (I am guessing SEO here) may not be a great performer - I don’t as do not have any SEO or webmaster sites so I couldn’t say if this is the actually case. One way to find this out is compare your payouts from other days, weeks etc and if you have an Adwords account then use it to figure out how much bids are for specific terms matching your ads. In addition, ask people in the same market as you that you can trust to give you an honest answer….probably a good few members on here.
Google is not telling you the truth and is pocketing the cash and I really don’t think that would be the case.
I would also suggest checking out each site that is being served on your adsense (without clicking the ad of course). What you can determine is if the site would bring value to your visitor that just clicked your ad and decide if you should block them through your account settings - downfall about this though you could end up blocking a high paying site. You can only test and learn with this suggestion.
Do you have 'Advertise on this site' on your ads? If so test without it.
I am not an Adwords user but maybe that now we are coming up to the end of the month there is a slow down on specific campaigns by the larger companies which means we get lower payouts. The smaller companies who make smaller bids have a better chance of being served onto our pages. I haven’t tested or proved this idea but it’s just a thought on passing.
Or to make a long story short, just sit on it and see if it improves over the next few days.
Sorry this was a rushed post as I am in the middle of making pizza.