Less than 1cent per click!

Google's doing fractions now?

[flobaby]

Without divulging too much (don't want the TOS cheerleaders hissing at me), I checked my stats and noted the amount of clicks and $.

Checked again 4 clicks later (don't laugh, it's a new site) and the total has only been raised 3 cents. 4 clicks = 3cents?

Do they give half-pennys per click?

[JohnKelly]

The report columns don't always update together. In other words, your revenue may not increase (or only very little), while the clicks column increase quite a bit. This would give the impression of very low EPC or sub-$.01 clicks.

[flobaby]

Whew! Thanks for the quick reply.

Got a bit nervous there for a sec.

[Jenstar]

If there are invalid clicks for any reason, your stats will show the clicks but no earnings, so that can also skew what it appears you earn per click.

[Seige]

I've seen cases where 5 clicks = 0cents. And please take note that I didnot click on those ads.

I don't know why, but this has happened many times in the past.

Maybe it's because of invalid clicks but certainly it wasn't myself.

[GerBot]

Remember that what you earn per click is based on:
1) what the advertiser pays
2) what you % share is (Google does not disclose this)
3) the relevance of the advertisers keyword to your page

[phantombookman]

Lowest I get is 3c per click , net to me
Sadly also the most prolific as well!

[pardo]

2) what you % share is (Google does not disclose this)...

I'm just a newbie with AdSense...have two questions:

1. does the share vary for each website...?
2. what is the 'average' share on a certain click fee...?

[kwongwo]

i have 2 sites,
the old site $0.5 /click
the new site 0.04 /click.

showing the same ads

[gamiziuk]

Maybe if someone clicks on a PSA you still get a click in your stats, although no ca$h.

[TampaLou]

It can be quite curious to have 50 clicks and X amount of earnings, and then check back an hour or two later and have 53 clicks and 2X earnings (when X is an amount not likely to be attained by just one or two clicks). Wow, this is the first time I've needed to use this kind of math in years. Anyway, I reiterate earlier points that click and earnings columns don't update at the same pace, and AdSense has been known to have earnings carryover to the next day, due to necessities (apparently) of the verification process.

[JohnKelly]

Maybe if someone clicks on a PSA you still get a click in your stats, although no ca$h.

I don't believe clicks on PSA are counted.

[Sunflux]

I've got some small channels configured that sometimes register just 1 click in an entire day, and more than once the earnings from that single click have been $0.02. I have not seen any $0.01, so I'd say 2 cents is the current minimum. Which is a long way from 5 cents which would have been a REASONABLE minimum.

[larryhatch]

" Do they give half-pennys per click? "

This is probably pedantic on my part, but:
For 4 clicks to convert to 3 cents, you need
something smaller than half cents. Maybe
'farthings' (1/4 penny) as in old Britain,
or 1/3 cents (trithings?)

I brought back a 'thruppence' coin back from England
once. A very handsome coin, 3 British pence. It was worth
12 farthings then, but the smallest coin in
general use was the 'haypenny' (half penny)
back in 1965 when I first went there.

A pint of ale was maybe 11 pence then, not quite two shillings.
One could get seriously drunken with less than a pound, then $2.80 American.

I have wonderful (partly blurred) memories of Britain. - Larry

[larryhatch]

Correction!

"A pint of ale was maybe 11 pence then, not quite two shillings. "

Not _two_ shillings, I meant a single shilling.
1 s was 12 pence. Maybe I was thinking of two sixpence coins.
All the slot machines accepted 6-pence coins. -Larry

[flobaby]

This is probably pedantic on my part, but:
For 4 clicks to convert to 3 cents, you need
something smaller than half cents.

Nu-uh. 2 at .5 cents and 2 at 1 cent = 3 cents

(don't you try and be pedantic with me!)

[bbkid]

the lowest i ever see is $.03 per click, i think i average closer to $.14