google adsense - $0.03 per click

Van Hellseek · 24 Sep 2006 at 23:33

wtf.

are they taking the ****?

joeyjojo · 24 Sep 2006 at 23:36

I dont think so.

Why do you ask?

Van Hellseek · 24 Sep 2006 at 23:40

joeyjojo said:
I dont think so.

Why do you ask?

I ask because I was earning a hell of a lot more from my clicks, yet the last few have been for 3 cents. At that price it's not even worth having ads on my site at all.

Beansprout · 24 Sep 2006 at 23:47

Click amount always varies....my main site will go from $0.02 to $x.xx

blighter · 24 Sep 2006 at 23:49

its not google...
basically the companies that pay google will pay them X amount for X amount of ads on pages, which means that googe pays u less for certain companies.

i'm with them to and it is quite annoying but hey

Beansprout · 24 Sep 2006 at 23:56

blighter said:
its not google...
basically the companies that pay google will pay them X amount for X amount of ads on pages, which means that googe pays u less for certain companies.

i'm with them to and it is quite annoying but hey

^^ It is Google - algorithms determine what ads to show where, based on many many factors and yes, of course, the available ads - so it's *not just Google* would be correct

Van Hellseek · 24 Sep 2006 at 23:58

But the point is an advertisement was displayed on my website. Someone clicked it, and as a result I got $0.03. That is completely out of order IMO.

I'm really going to have to look into some serious (non-google) targeted advertising.

Beansprout · 25 Sep 2006 at 00:03

seek said:
But the point is an advertisement was displayed on my website. Someone clicked it, and as a result I got $0.03. That is completely out of order IMO.

Why? Obviously you just got a lower-paying advert...if you get high-paying ads most of the time then count yourself lucky as there's inevitably a lot less of them than the low-paying ones

Google make *less* money on the lower-value clicks (obviously...) so it's not like they're being Big And Evil because They Can.

But yes, if you want a more stable/guaranteed form of advertising, then try the other routes

Van Hellseek · 25 Sep 2006 at 00:06

Beansprout said:
But yes, if you want a more stable/guaranteed form of advertising, then try the other routes

Yeah, I'm in the process of looking into this.

robmiller · 25 Sep 2006 at 00:27

Google don't give me enough free money either

Van Hellseek · 25 Sep 2006 at 00:29

well judging by your sig... using them might be a good start.

And it's hardly free money.

Beansprout · 25 Sep 2006 at 00:50

It's only not free if alternatives will pay higher, in which case you're losing money for the convenience (or for whatever reason you decide to keep them.)

Until that point it is, essentially, free money, assuming you've designed the site to accommodate ads in an unobtrusive manner which doesn't affect or neglect your content

Van Hellseek · 25 Sep 2006 at 01:02

Beansprout said:
It's only not free if alternatives will pay higher

You could say that about revenue generated by any form of advertisements in all types of media. Which makes it kind of a void point. I.e. you wouldn't consider newspapers/magazines making profit from their ads to be "free money". I don't see why it should be any different for a website.

growse · 25 Sep 2006 at 01:42

seek said:
You could say that about revenue generated by any form of advertisements in all types of media. Which makes it kind of a void point. I.e. you wouldn't consider newspapers/magazines making profit from their ads to be "free money". I don't see why it should be any different for a website.

People pay to buy newspapers/magazines most of the time. Web advertising is essentially free money, as your overheads are usually quite low compared to a newspaper distributor. Compare how much money you get from one ad click, to how much money it costs for you to serve up the number of pages usually required to get one click. Probably vastly different.

You're complaining becuase you weren't paid "enough" by someone going to your webpage and clicking on an advert there. Does that sound weird to anyone else?

Van Hellseek · 25 Sep 2006 at 01:50

growse said:
You're complaining becuase you weren't paid "enough" by someone going to your webpage and clicking on an advert there. Does that sound weird to anyone else?

Edit: Having just looked at your own site (http://www.growse.com), I can understand your attitude towards advertising. The difference here is that I have a site which has got obvious targeted advertising potential, whereas with a site like yours, at best you're going to earn a few dollars towards costs if you're lucky.

And yes, I'm sure you're not even trying to make money from your site. In which case how about not bothering to offer your unhelpful critisisms in threads by those who are?

Sic · 25 Sep 2006 at 13:16

what the hell is with your attitude? have you checked the ads that adsense is generating? are they lower-paid ads? adsense generates adverts based on the content of your site (which, i'm sure you already know), if your content reflects lower-paid ad types then you're going to get paid less! common sense?

and don't even bother going to my website and pointing out how i don't have a right to comment because i don't use adsense. i've used it; i didn't make anything; now i don't use it. i'm fully aware of what it does

Mickey · 25 Sep 2006 at 14:42

Sic said:
common sense?

Apparently not

growse · 25 Sep 2006 at 14:45

seek said:
Edit: Having just looked at your own site (http://www.growse.com), I can understand your attitude towards advertising. The difference here is that I have a site which has got obvious targeted advertising potential, whereas with a site like yours, at best you're going to earn a few dollars towards costs if you're lucky.

And yes, I'm sure you're not even trying to make money from your site. In which case how about not bothering to offer your unhelpful critisisms in threads by those who are?

You make the mistake of thinking that's my only site. Like the poster ^^ I have experience in both adwords and adsense, and kinda know what they're about.

It seems to me that you're coming from a pov that is expecting a guaranteed income from an website, which you say has "obvious targeted advertising potential". The thing is, if you want a guaranteed income, you don't use adsense. In my experience, using adsense is a bit like gambling - you only do it if you're perfectly happy with a 0 rate of return. Because that's exactly what you could get if no-one clicks on the ads.

If you want a guaranteed rate of return, strike a deal with some companies, sell your space through an advertising media sales company, but don't use adsense.

Van Hellseek · 25 Sep 2006 at 15:29

growse said:
You make the mistake of thinking that's my only site. Like the poster ^^ I have experience in both adwords and adsense, and kinda know what they're about.

It seems to me that you're coming from a pov that is expecting a guaranteed income from an website, which you say has "obvious targeted advertising potential". The thing is, if you want a guaranteed income, you don't use adsense. In my experience, using adsense is a bit like gambling - you only do it if you're perfectly happy with a 0 rate of return. Because that's exactly what you could get if no-one clicks on the ads.

If you want a guaranteed rate of return, strike a deal with some companies, sell your space through an advertising media sales company, but don't use adsense.

yeah, i agree. i'm looking into this.

toString · 25 Sep 2006 at 15:36

I got a company to pay me $XX a month for 1 line consisting of 5 text links at the footer of my forum. Been going for about a year now and it pays for domain registration and hosting bills so that's fine by me.

It doesn't seem to matter if people even click on them. I guess it's some kind of SEO trickery, but I don't really care