Firefox Referrals smatpriced?

[Hobbs]

2 observations:

a) There are countries whose conversion pays in increments of 5 or 15 or 25 ... cents, not all are in 10 cent increments as believed.

b) Interesting find is that if you divide yesterday's or today's earnings by the number of conversions you will see neither 5 or 10 cent increments in your average pay per conversion, the figure could look like 0.x5377358 per conversion. While I have only seen increments in multiples of 5 and 10 cents in the total earnings report for FireFox.

Weird ha?

[AdSenseAdvisor]

Hi there --

I just want to confirm that smartpricing does not affect referrals.

You will receive up to US$1 per successfully referred Firefox installation, based upon the country or region of the installing user. This value is determined in advance by specific Mozilla goals per market. Unfortunately, we are not able to disclose specific per-country earnings values for Firefox referrals.

Hope that clarifies,

ASA

[Hobbs]

It does ASA, but where do the fraction cents come from if the total earnings always end with a 5 or a zero while the average per conversion is never as such?

[Play_Bach]

> I just want to confirm that smartpricing does not affect referrals.

Does this mean there IS indeed smartpricing of some sort going on at AdSense? I thought that smartpricing was not officially acknowledged by AdSense as existing one way or the other - yes? no?

[Rodney]

Does this mean there IS indeed smartpricing of some sort going on at AdSense? I thought that smartpricing was not officially acknowledged by AdSense as existing one way or the other - yes? no?

The term smartpricing came from google.
[google.com...]

[Play_Bach]

Thanks Rodney. The link is for an AdWords page - is it the same thing for AdSense?

[Rodney]

If you read the text on the page that's linked, you'll see that it is describing the content network (Adsense) and how smartpricing effects the content network (Adsense) bid pricing.

[Play_Bach]

> If you read the text on the page that's linked

Thanks Rodney, I did read the text. I guess I'm wondering what it is I know I've read about here regarding smartpricing that as I recall, was neither confirmed nor denied by Google but that a number of publishers were raising objection to.

[Rodney]

I guess I'm wondering what it is I know I've read about here regarding smartpricing that as I recall, was neither confirmed nor denied by Google but that a number of publishers were raising objection to.

I've never seen a post here that said the existense smartpricing was denied by Google.

They are the ones that announced it back in March of 2004.

They may not give out the exact calculation details, but they are definitely the ones that created it and named it.

[Play_Bach]

OK - I've obviously got things turned around somehow, sorry. I'll re-read incrediBILL's posts [google.com] and see if I can figure out what it is.

[Hobbs]

where do the fraction cents come from if the total earnings always end with a 5 or a zero while the average per conversion is never as such?

I can answer my own silly question:

The fractions in the average is due to the 5 cent factor, God, I can be thick sometimes!
Thank you AdSenseAdvisor