Smart pricing: more visitors is bad?

New to the game: is more site visitors bad?

[Westbroek]

I understand smart pricing adjust the payment per click based on the number of clicks from your site that actually converted. Still don't know if that is real-time or once every X weeks but still...

But how about number of site visitors? I've been linked to several times, getting wayyyy more traffic than usual - and after such linkage often see a drop in pricing (say 10 clicks on day 1 @ $5, 10 clicks on day 2 after linkage at @0.88).

Is a high number of visitors who *don't click* on ads basically bad?

[Dantol]

of course,

they use ad blockers, especially firefox users.

[Westbroek]

So you do say there is not only a correlation between clicked as <> conversion, but also between page views <> number of ads clicked?

[FromRocky]

More visitors are always good unless you have bad traffics.

[jetteroheller]

The earnings for the same quality of visitors will be the same

Let's assume visitors with relevant questions direct from search engines are the best ones.

Let's assume

1000 from search engines $10 cpm

Let's assume

1000 from links $5 cpm

So by having more visiotrs from less quality sources, cpm will go down.

If more visitors are from the same quality, cpm will remain equal

[Westbroek]

Ah I get it! The cpm goes down as a result of the quality of the traffic - not because AdSense lowers the price.

Thanks!

[Mikey85]

I'm noticing a high increase in clicks and ctr this week, but the EPC is WAY DOWN :(