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What I’ve been thinking about

I like the way Josh presents the content of his blog posts by first outlining the topics. This is very organized and easy to read, so I’ll try it out too! ;)

Topics

  • AdSense Smart Pricing
  • Accepted to ReviewMe
  • April Google PageRank Update

AdSense Smart Pricing

My earnings per click on the AdSense network has steadily been decreasing, now at an average of 4 cents per click. I think this has to do with smartpricing. Smart pricing occurs when the clicks do not convert well for the advertiser. This is understandable to me because most of the visitors on my sites are young, without much money to spend. To counter this, I’ve found a list of sites to paste in the Competitive Ad Filter in AdSense, and this will hopefully take me out of being smartpriced in a few weeks. If I get a higher pay per click in two weeks, I’ll share the list here.

Despite smart pricing, I hit a new high on AdSense several days ago at $29.1, but in recent days, the earnings are cooling off.

Accepted to ReviewMe

The Digg frontpage attracted a lot of backlinks and gave a boost to my Technorati and Alexa rankings, making me eligible for ReviewMe. I tried submitting this site to ReviewMe, but it said that it was already in the database. It was not. After an email to their staff, they fixed this manually.

ReviewMe recommended that a review on this site should cost $60, but I have manually set it to a low $40 for the first reviewees. Feel free to get a review, as I will raise the prices soon.

April Google Page Rank Update

There has been a lot of discussion over when the next Google PR update is coming. While some say that Google is changing their algorithm so much there will not be time for a PR update this month, others mean that they’ve already seen changes to their sites. I, for one, hope to see the Page Rank changes ASAP. :)

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2 Responses to “What I’ve been thinking about”

  1. Josh Buckley Says:
    April 23rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    Hey carl,

    I’m also waiting for the pagerank update to come. Good luck getting some people buying reviews.

    And, thanks for the linkback :)

  2. How to Avoid AdSense Smart Pricing | Who the hell is Carl Pei? Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    […] while back, I reported to be suffering from smart pricing, where I would get around 4 cents a click. After adding a list of sites to my Competitive Ad […]