Comments on: Adsense Smartpricing Experiment

By: Paolo

Paolo — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:07:00 +0000

I don’t think it works that way.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:52:00 +0000

If you want to remove smart pricing remove ad blocks with ctr of 3% or less and wait 2 weeks.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Yes, it is unfair that smartpricing is account-wide. But I guess that is their way of making us do good. And yes it is good and wise to use other forms of monetization models as well. But once you understand the game of Adsense you stand to earn a lot. So don’t quit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:39:00 +0000

I like the way you analyzed this and this is a very interesting post.

One thing you didn’t mention, and that’s the thing that truly sucks with AdSense is that if your account gets smartpriced, it affects *the whole account* – meaning, all sites. This is unbelievably unfair, since if you – say – have a blog that is smartpriced, why should it affect other sites? I see no reason.

Second is that AdSense is not the only game. I never bothered to use AdSense on my blog for exactly those reasons and prefer Kontera. There are numerous other alternatives. The main – and possibly only – reason I don’t use AdSense on many of my sites is SmartPricing which is unfair (as mentioned), as well as the fact you can’t optimize the site – you can’t “learn” from your mistakes since Google doesn’t give you this information, nor do you know for a fact you’ve been smartpriced – it’s always a guess.

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