Comments on: Off The Cuff: Are Google AdSense click counts real? http://www.winextra.com/2007/10/13/off-the-cuff-are-google-adsense-click-counts-real/ aka Steve Hodson - a cranky old fart wandering the internet causing mayhem as he goes Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:58:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Peter http://www.winextra.com/2007/10/13/off-the-cuff-are-google-adsense-click-counts-real/#comment-27463 Peter Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:20:59 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/2007/10/13/off-the-cuff-are-google-adsense-click-counts-real/#comment-27463 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. 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.

]]> By: Peter http://www.winextra.com/2007/10/13/off-the-cuff-are-google-adsense-click-counts-real/#comment-27461 Peter Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:16:00 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/2007/10/13/off-the-cuff-are-google-adsense-click-counts-real/#comment-27461 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. 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.

]]> By: Tuxero http://www.winextra.com/2007/10/13/off-the-cuff-are-google-adsense-click-counts-real/#comment-26250 Tuxero Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:43:13 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/2007/10/13/off-the-cuff-are-google-adsense-click-counts-real/#comment-26250 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! 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!

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