Yes I realize it is the weekend and I normally only do the podcasts during the week but this whole thing about AdSense click counts is really bugging me …. maybe they should you as well.
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You know, I don’t know if they are real… Also, the price they pay you for each clic, it varies. Who controls them?
Cheers mate!
Mybloglog is making a mistake.
There is no (0) way of detecting a click on an adsense. All that any software can do is try to approximate it. A common way of doing that is using mouseovers and ‘guessing’ to arrive at the difference. MBL is probably guessing too high.
The advertisers do. (Those people who are paying so that you have ads on your site)
If they say $0.05, google takes an unknown percentage (Probably close to 50%) and gives you 2-3 cents.
If they say $0.20 then google gives you somewhere from 8-12 cents
And so on. The percent is the same for everybody UNLESS you’ve been smartpriced. Smartpriced is when advertisers complain to google that traffic from your site sucks, which means that they don’t want to appear there anymore. If the highest bid ($0.20, for example) goes away, the next highest might only be $0.16, which means you only get $0.05-$0.09 per click, dropping you down to half of what you were making before.