No clicks, but 1-Cent

[RobertRogers]

I have been with adsense for over 3 years now and consider myself a seasoned veteran. I make many hundreds of dollars a month from a half dozen sites. However on one of my new sites something odd is happening.

For the last several days I have been getting this:
500 page views per day
0 clicks
1-cent in earnings.

How can that happen? I even checked my code, made entirely new channels for that site. Still the same thing.

Anyone have a similar experience?

[cabowabo]

Let the system refresh, it is just not showing things correctly. It happens from time to time. The server could be overloaded, or half a dozen other reasons. Check it again on Monday, I am sure it will be back to normal.

[netmeg]

Site targeting.

[RobertRogers]

Thank you cabowabo,

Never seen this happen before. With all those visits of course there are going to be at least some clicks (for this kind of site).

And then the daily no clicks but one cent income.

Hope it corrects itself!

[Thez]

Did it occur to you that you might be getting CPM ads? Or have you opted out of the system?

[RobertRogers]

Would CPM ads pay so poorly?

Google makes it sound as though they pay higher than the regular text ads.

[Scurramunga]

Would CPM ads pay so poorly?

I don't know why they pay so poorly, but I have had them disabled

[europeforvisitors]

Would CPM ads pay so poorly?

As with most things, it depends. Sometimes they pay very well, and sometimes they don't.

[RonS]

Gaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

He's getting 495 (or whatever) contextual adds and 5 (or whatever) CPM and/or site targeted ads leading to the 1 cent in earnings.

To see if you're getting site targeted ads, look in "Advanced reports" (Google's term, NOT mine) select "Show data by => Individual Ad" and check the box that says "Show data by targeting type - contextual or site"

See if that sheds any light on the issue for you.

Good luck.

[edited by: RonS at 1:28 am (utc) on Dec. 23, 2006]

[peterdaly]

You don't always get site targeted ads. In my case they pay better than contextual ads.

Today for example, Site Targeted ads accounted for only 12% of my ads units, but 35% of my earnings. They also are getting about half the clicks...not bad for only being shown 12% of the time. However, as I understand it, I don't get paid for clicks, so looking at stats the "old way" may make things look not quite right. You can have clicks without hard revenue, and vis-versa.

Don't feel bad about missing the boat. They were launched about a month ago. I only found out about them myself a couple days ago.

It's led me to ad a third ad block to try and maximize their display, although I'm not sure if it helps any.

[RobertRogers]

Usually I get something like a 5% to 10% click-thru rate.
Maybe 20 to 30 cents a click average

So on 500 page views I might expect something like $9.00 or so

But one cent three days running?! hehe, not so good.
$27 vs 3-cents.

Is it easy to "opt out"?

[norbiu]

I make like $2/day with CPM. I have an ad just sitting there at the bottom of the page, almost no clicks. It gets like 6000-8000 impressions / day