Adsense rates

[CerIs]

Hi im new :) Anyway i was wondering how similar adsense rates are to overtures? Eg web hosting is curretly $8.00 a click on overture ( i think ) does this mean its something similar or ever better on google? The reason i ask is i have no idea what sort of rates to expect.

Thanks

[korkus2000]

Part of the AdSense TOS is that AdSense publishers cannot talk about their information. It doesn't matter anyway. The info you seek is not available to AdSense publishers. I would look at Adwords for that info.

[CerIs]

Well i was really just wanting to know if that was realistic on google at all, i dont need to know specifics. So would you recommend i sign up for an adwords account? is it complicated?

[Jenstar]

Hmmmm... Are you wanting an AdSense account (showing Google's Adwords on your own content site, and earning $$ for each click)

Or are you wanting an AdWords account (using keywords so your ads appear as sponsored links in Google and possibly on sites using AdSense).

Two very different things - you posted in the AdSense forum.

[Chndru]

If you want to get a guestimate of Adword pricing of specific keywords, just signup for an adword account (it just requires an email id) and when you put in your keywords, it has an estimator, which will tell you CPC and position depending on your budget

[adwords.google.com...]

[Sharky]

Adwords rates vary widely. If you read this forum, I think you'll find that most of the people using Adsense have had very good luck with it.

It's easy to sign up, and easy to use. Give it a try, and you'll know within a couple of days if it's going to work for you.

[CerIs]

Thanks, ive been resarching different ad revenues for a while now and adsense looks quite promising. I will signup for an adwords account tomarrow and hopefully get a better idea of rates.

Thanks for the help.

[Chndru]

adsense looks quite promising. I will signup for an adwords account

They both are different :)

for starters,
[adwords.google.com...]
[google.com...]

[CerIs]

Well i tryed the keyword estimator and i think i have a better idea of rates now. One thing i was wondering though was this. Say i have a site about web hosting, will google give me the higher paying ads first like you get for "web hosting" or the lower ones like on "web host"?

[ronin]

Google itself makes more from the higher paying ads, so it's reasonable to assume you'll get more of those until the respective companies' advertising budgets run low.

This hypothesis is broadly borne out by what I've observed on my own AdSense trials.

[killroy]

I once run 200 keywords through traffic numbers, competition numbers and click values on both overture and adwords. Then I hooked them up in a ranking index figure, weight the trafiic VS competition VS earnings potential just right. The order I got for overture was quite different to AdWords. I'd recommend run both and use an average.

SN