What are the top paying keywords?

[Aetos777]

What kind of sites do advertisers pay the most money for? I heard that "Mesothelioma" is one of them. What others are there?

thanks
Aetos

[blairsp]

P.S. There are NOT any $50 clicks out there and I doubt anyone in the history of AdSense has ever earned that much from a single click.

Actually there is and I could take the screen dump to prove it. It would be easy to find, the rest are for less than 15cents each and it wasn't anything to do with slow updates etc(before anyone come sup with that theory), the site had one click that week.

[MichaelCrawford]

People shouldn't asking what are the top paying keywords. Instead they should be asking, which keywords yield ads that generate a high clickthru. Getting paid fifty bucks a click isn't going to do you any good if you only get clicked once a month. On the other hand, a dime a click will earn you a comfortable income if you can build a high traffic site with high clickthru.

[chiboy]

that's true Michael but what if you can get a high paying keyword, with a high click through rate and you can attract tons of traffic with this keyword?

Wouldn't it be much better?

[alika]

We can always dream :o)

[chiboy]

And one can only be successful if he/she follows his/her dream

[ownerrim]

"bird poop" and "queen mum" are the two single-highest-paying key phrases"

this is what I got on google for the first term (all urls deleted):

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[beren]

What surprises me is that AdSense people look at Overture prices and then assume that AdWords advertisers are paying comparable prices on content sites. You'd be better looking at prices at Kanoodle and Enhance to estimate AdSense prices to advertisers.

[hyperkik]

blairsp - can you share a timeframe for that? As in, was that a week ago, a month ago, a year ago? High value terms still exist, but are increasingly rare.

[diamondgrl]

See, ownerrim, looks quite lucrative, doesn't it?

I'm banking most of my Adsense fortunes on the keyword "snortwaffle". It seems nobody else has created a site on the subject, giving me the perfect opportunity to swoop in.

[jomaxx]

Good idea. After all, as we all know there is a "wide selection of new and used snortwaffles on eBay".

[hyperkik]

diamondgrl, you are actually on to something. Some of the highest value keywords are for keywords and phrases that are rarely the subject of searches.

When people decide that a search term is a goldmine, in a reverse alchemy of scrapers and made-for-AdSense sites, it tends to get transformed to lead through overexposure.

[ogletree]

I posted a thread [webmasterworld.com] about this a while back.