a "minimum EPC" setting would be nice

[danny]

Some of my pages are consistently getting what I consider to be "junk" ads, targeted at "book reviews" in general, or questia or ebay generics, or otherwise clearly low value scattershot advertising.

I've decided to remove AdSense from these pages and replace it with Amazon links. But doing this by hand is a lot of work, and if better ads become available for those pages I'll never know. So what I'd really like is a "minimum EPC" setting, where if there are no ads above a certain threshhold AdSense "falls through" to the alternate ads.

[dhaliwal]

danny, you have got a nice website, but it would be nice if you shift to dynamic web pages, choose some nice content management system,
thats will give you power to just change one page and all your website pages will be changed.

What more i feel is that you have put ad at the bottom of page, it is not able to extract right kind of adverts and also you would be having very less click through, if you embed the adverts in the content they will get hihgly targetted ads and also you will get higher clicks

and one thing i must say, if one has to do all this stuff on html pages, its very much difficult, but to earn money one has to do lot of difficult work.

well you have got good pr of 7

keep up and keep going
dhaliwal

[danny]

choose some nice content management system,
thats will give you power to just change one page and all your website pages will be changed

Don't worry! My site is static HTML, but it's generated from a database, so I can easily change any number of pages. The problem is that I have to manually inspect pages to find out what kind of ads they're running. And once I turn AdSense on a page off, I will never know if better ads become available for that page.

if you embed the adverts in the content they will get highly targetted ads and also you will get higher clicks

I suspect that moving the ads to the top of the page would double my CTR, while embedding them in the text might triple it. But I'm not prepared to compromise on the page usability - that's just the way the aesthetics/income balance swings for me.

[JinxBoy]

I'm with you danny.

I believe embedding ads in text areas, or placing them too obstructives hurts your site, and in the end hurts your income too....

[loanuniverse]

Danny:

That is a great idea, but I don't think they would implement it because they are selling the product to the advertiser as a $0.05 minimum per click in order to run in the network.

[danny]

they are selling the product to the advertiser as a $0.05 minimum per click in order to run in the network

Sure, but 5c is never going to get an ad onto some competitive pages anyway - and advertisers don't have any guarantees about how much traffic a 5c bid will get them.

[loanuniverse]

They are also selling position as a combination of CPC and CTR so that means that theoretically $0.05 can get you into a competitive position in the SERPS and probably in content. {We are like the red haired stepchild of Adwords anyway}