One cent per click?

Is there no per-click minimum?

[Ducain]

I noticed today that on a couple of my channels (both of which have 1 click today at present), I seem to be getting one cent per click.

I don't use AdWords, so I'm a bit ignorant here, but I didn't know people could buy ads for 1 cent per click. Am I missing something?

If I'm NOT missing something, then this is fairly discouraging. A few of my channels had 35 - 50 clicks per day the past few days, and made VERY little money.

I need some clarification from those in the know.

JH

[ken_b]

Remember that what you get paid is not the same as what the advertiser bids. That's because of the auction system in general and smart pricing in particular.

So yes, you could be getting one cent per click for some clicks.

[wyweb]

I had one channel get 9 clicks for a total of 4 cents one day. That's .4444444 cents a click.

I got smartpriced pretty much on the same day they rolled it out though. I expect stuff like that...

[sailorjwd]

On the adwords side I get lots of clicks for 1cent. If you look closer you may find that your clicks are only worth .6 to .7 cents :)

I would block me if I were you!

[wyweb]

ayyeeee.. but here's the funny thing.. I started running running referrals the same day I was able to, put them on some back pages that don't get lot of traffic. The same day I started running CPA ads I had a conversion. 10 clicks for a 60.00 commission. Three days later another referral conversion.. another 60.00 commission...

My traffic converts.. I've known that all along. Yet I've been smartpriced into oblivion....

Oh well....

[Genuine1]

>>>On the adwords side I get lots of clicks for 1cent. If you look closer you may find that your clicks are only worth .6 to .7 cents :)
I would block me if I were you!

Trust me if you do arb and are on my pages you are blocked!

[incrediBILL]

You people seem to forget that AdSense also displays CPM ads.

For instance, if someone is running a $10 CPM campaign you would only get $0.01 per impression BEFORE Google took a cut.

[wyweb]

I don't do CPM... opted out the first day I was able to..

[europeforvisitors]

Clicks and impressions = apples and oranges.

[Ducain]

Hm,

This thread certainly hasn't encouraged me. :)

Now, just talking to the wind here, but somehow I don't see how it's fair (ya, ya, life's not...) to allow AdWords users to bid basically nothing to run their ads on my site (and all those like it). CPC model and all that goes with it - fine. No minimum price on ads - not fine.

[edited by: Ducain at 1:48 am (utc) on Aug. 6, 2007]

[sailorjwd]

Perhaps you have too many ad blocks on your pages. Try decreasing the number of individual ads that display and also make sure you have enough good content above/next to the ad.

ps. I don't send adwords visitors to pages with ads. They have to travel the site to find any ads.