New Site Low CPC

enough traffic and clicks

[ineedmoney]

I have a new themed site I started about 2 weeks ago, its getting about 150-200 uniques a day around 500-800 page loads a day and anywhere from 20 to 50 clicks which is great(for me). the problem is my CPC hangs around .01 -.10 I blocked a few "off topic" ads and that brought up my clicks, but what can I do about my low CPC? Without getting too specific, my keywords bring up ads like "free ring tones", "upload videos for free" "free flash hosting" Are these ads just low paying or am I the victim Smart pricing maybe? Any Help would be great! Thanks

[longen]

Since the word FREE appears so often i doubt that the visitors are planning to spend any money soon.
However the site is only two weeks old - so you don't at present know what the average CPC will be, you will have to wait at least a month for the stats to settle down.

[ineedmoney]

thank you, that has calmed me down a bit, look forward to my frantic post in 1 month :)

My site gives away "free" stuff, but I don't actually have the word free anywhere on my site (besides the ads)

[Ganceann]

With ads that promise free stuff, generally there is a low CPC associated with them - unless there is a high chance of some future return on a competitive term... unlikely though.

Overall, it may well me low earning CPC rather than being smartpriced... but as google learns which ads do get clicked then it will eventually cut out the non-clicked ads and replace with some that have been clicked by your visitors... just watch for MFAs as well as they will inevitably get onto your site when low CPC is the main type of ads showing.

[ineedmoney]

thanks... I guess I should just cross my fingers and keep an eye on what ads show up

Thanks again

[Freedom]

Give it time to develop. When i release new pages or a new category sub folder, it usually takes awhile before the smart pricing and ads work in my favor.