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I also think that advertisers don't necessarily pay .05 cents per click every time, even though that's the minimum bid...I think that's the maximum they will pay for that click (if they have .05 cents set as their bid amount for that keyword).
So, you can apparently get a lot lower payout than $0.02. I've seen comments here about $0.01 clicks.
Nothing strange on the ads displayed. Very, very odd.
This channel averages 15c per click to date
And how long have you been monitoring it? You may have just accumulated enough history for smart pricing to kick in. Or an advertiser just started reporting conversions to Google. Or the #2 bidder reduced their bid, which also lowers the amount the top advertiser has to pay per click (in this respect the #2 bid is more important than than the top bid).
That's three possibilities. There may be others.
This channel averages 15c per click to date
And how long have you been monitoring it? You may have just accumulated enough history for smart pricing to kick in. Or an advertiser just started reporting conversions to Google. Or the #2 bidder reduced their bid, which also lowers the amount the top advertiser has to pay per click (in this respect the #2 bid is more important than than the top bid).
That's three possibilities. There may be others.
I have been monitoring for nine months. Advertisers are mostly very local and would mostly lack sophistication implied in some of your suggestions.
I might give them a call tomorrow and ask if anything changed their end.
Losing a customer for 2c is not a good deal for me.
If it's a Canadian or Australian ad for $0.05 then the USD$ commission will be much less due to the exchange rate.
After that I started my own ADWORDS compaign to get my own ADS shown on the network for such bargain price.
And ....
The minimum price I've been charged during
one week test was 4 cents. That could mean
if publisher at that moment got 2 cents -
GG took another 2 cents (50%)
If it's a Canadian or Australian ad for $0.05 then the USD$ commission will be much less due to the exchange rate.
We are paying about US$0.065 for minimum bid price after converting from our local currency to US$ and absorbing the loss in exchange.
I've noticed lately that about 3/4 of our lowest paying ads recently, although they display a prestigious, high-end, recognizable, domain name, actually also are prefixed in the code by the domain names: how should I "paraphrase" in order to avoid the censors?... add-dot-dblclk-dot-net & ayteedee-m-tee. Are these companies simply a tracking service which the big companies use while bidding for themselves, or are they more of a bottom-feeding eebaay/amayawn type spam-all affiliate which many people are filtering along with the aforementioned types? I've set my filter this evening to filter out this domain name temporarily, to see if PPC goes up. Not sure if it will actually work.
