Could pagerank be a factor in setting smartpricing rates?

[ownerrim]

It would make sense. If you have a page on widgets, and very high page rank, it would mean (unless you've bought your pagerank) that others found your page valuable and, therefore, more relevant. It would, in effect, pass the sniff test and also be more likely to come up higher in a search. It might be logical for adsense to allocate payout in accordance with pagerank. I'm sure there are many other criteria, but this one seems to make sense.

[gmac17]

i think it is more like the way the user got to your site rather than page rank, which can more easily be manipulated.

[europeforvisitors]

It would make sense. If you have a page on widgets, and very high page rank, it would mean (unless you've bought your pagerank) that others found your page valuable and, therefore, more relevant.

PageRank has been devalued in Google's search algorithm, so it's hard to believe that Google would use it to influence smart pricing. (PageRank is too easily manipulated by SEOs who buy inbound links and create their own link farms.)

[loanuniverse]

I think that PR is still used for the SERPS, but that its weight has been decreased.

To answer the original question..... Perhaps

I think that the "the way the user got to your site..." statement is another possibility. Knowing how Google likes to use math for everything the "smartpricing formula" probably has a dozen variables. If I had to guess, we are talking about 17 factors involved.

[Shyam]

Any guesses what factors they could be?

[ChrisKud5]

PageRank has been devalued in Google's search algorithm, so it's hard to believe that Google would use it to influence smart pricing. (PageRank is too easily manipulated by SEOs who buy inbound links and create their own link farms.)

WOOH WOOH WOOH. Last I checked you did not work for Google. 99% of Google employees most likely are not allowed to know exactly how the algo works in a given month. Any claim you make as to Pagerank meaning less has been from your experiance and is certainly not confirmed by anyone who would know (google employees).

The Google algo is about as secret as the nuclear launch codes, and my bet is that they have not handed the keys over to you to broadcast about it on the adsense forum.

You may think that Page rank means less but you have no way of knowing for sure, no one does. Google has said that its algo is made up of hundreds of variables. It is very very possible that another change was made to make you think that page rank was devalued. No armchair expert that does not work for google has any idea how much value pagerank takes into account, too many other variables exist to attribute a change in rank to google devaluing pagerank.

[dertyfern]

Cammman! Everyone knows that revenue per click is influenced by the value of the content and the link followed to find the page in question. I've found differing ads displayed depending on how I get to my sites.

[loanuniverse]

Chris: I think we are all aware that at best all one can provide are "educated guesses".

[Lord Majestic]

It might be logical for adsense to allocate payout in accordance with pagerank

It might be more logical for Google Plc to drop pagerank for those sites who attempt to use AdWords thus maximising Google's revenues as desperate webmasters start throwing more money to solve problem...

Perhaps I am just too cynical.