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FroDaddy · 11-27-2007, 12:23 PM

Actually those .00 penny clicks were on text ads! My text ads aren't doing too bad lately overall, so I was shocked to see FOUR .00 penny clicks. It just wasn't logical to me how an ad click would result in NO revenue. I'd like to have some Adwords where I don't have to pay anything! SuperNova's reply cleared things up some; Google is actually paying out a thousandth of a cent instead of nothing.

I'm going to try a CPA ad in place of the Adsense image ads and see how that goes. Overall I know it's hard to sell anything to our target audience, so I didn't expect much from Adsense on an Arcade site. I had to post up when I got what looked like .00 penny clicks though!

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Originally Posted by brendgard

Well, one thing that can definately hurt your bottum line with Adsense is show picture ads. I've been trying an experiment the last week or so to see if what used to be true still was. It used to be known that you got a better CTR by telling Google to use pictures ads instead of text, but a much much lower price on each ad. Seems it is still true today.

Another thing you can do is to tell Google to NOT use public service anouncements on your site if there are no relevant ads to display. This can be a real problem if you have Adsense configured to show only picture ads like some site do. If you go into your Adsense control panel in Google's website, you can tell it to use another ad if there are no relevant ads for your site.

You do have to keep in mind though that you are running an arcade. very little will get shown on your site by Adsense except game related sites and they all pay very very low to begin with