Smart Pricing and change

does making changes keep one smart priced longer?

[maxgoldie]

I know that the topic of smart pricing (what it is, what causes it, etc) has been flogged to death in many threads -- but I wonder what the consensus is on how making changes to one's site affects smart pricing?

If you are being "smart priced", would making changes to your site's layout, adblock quantity and placement affect it? Could it speed up a correction of smart pricing?

[MikeNoLastName]

I've noticed a brief improvement in EPC when changing the number of ads/type of ad units on a page but it usually drops back within a week.
I've also noticed apparent temporary improvements in both smartpricing and G SE rank just from making daily/weekly changes in a page's content. Which goes along with my theory that smartpricing is partially based upon G PR or SERPs.

[maxgoldie]

Thats interesting, Mike -- I felt for a long time that G's PR algo is, structurally at least, the same as the one used for smart pricing. Some sort of floating/sliding logarithmic scale which determines how much worth a site (and its content) is to an average advertiser with a given niche, or a search user.

(...they built/implemented the SP algo based on the PR algo.)