Adsense NONSENSE 0 penny clicks!

FroDaddy · 11-27-2007, 08:56 AM

This is Ad-NONsense! I get .01 and .02 penny clicks, but four .00 penny clicks? Huh?

Can someone explain this

EDIT: On the bright side, I had a .74 cent click from Adsense today

SuperNovaArcade · 11-27-2007, 10:06 AM

Yea. -.-

Yesterday I got around 3,500 impressions, with about 25 clicks, and only made .15 cents.

And today I have already gotten 1000 impressions and 50 clicks, but only have gotten 0.09 cents.

It makes me want to go back to using popunders, where I could be making a few dollars a day.

brendgard · 11-27-2007, 10:26 AM

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

FroDaddy · 11-27-2007, 11:23 AM

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

brendgard · 11-27-2007, 11:49 AM

Hmmmmm.... a thousandth of a cent eh? Things have slipped even more with Adsense. I was thinking they were the public service ads they usually run, like the Katrina relief fund I keep seeing. Than makes sense though. This is why so many arcade(as well as others) owners have been searching for a better alternative to Adsense for a long time now. Makes one wonder if Googles is starting to show CPM ads on the Adsense network.

2GrandArcade · 11-27-2007, 02:34 PM

welcome to adcents or in your case no adcents.

a lot of people have this happen.
it's either PSA,CPM,or invalids (most likely the same person clicking).
you can see cpm clicks in advance reports.

btw,fix the address of your first link in sig.
also fix the site so it doesn't have the scroll bar in firefox.

diex · 11-27-2007, 03:27 PM

This begs the quesion..

Has anyone who has experienced crappy adsense found anything better for arcades?

My sense of adsense.. I have to pull thousands of uniques in one day to to approach $10 a day. I suppose this is fair. It further highlights the fact that acrcade ads pay ZERO.

Here is an idea, you can now target adsense to read content from a specific part of your site. SO.. VERY BAD EXAMPLE HERE.. If you put in a paragraph on STOP SMOKING.. and target the adsense code to that paragraph, technically you should pull stop smoking ads. Now apply this to a topic slighly more relevant to arcades and maybe it will work.

RickyG · 11-27-2007, 03:57 PM

You can buy CPM on adsense.....I do. I also been seeing a lot of GMAIL ads..

LearnNewbie · 11-27-2007, 04:04 PM

games site doesnt have a high pay keywords....If you are lucky you got one click for 5 cents....most of click are .1 and 2 or 3 cents those are common.

2GrandArcade · 11-27-2007, 04:12 PM

i make more on VCM.
referral link---> ValueClick Media - The Pure Performance Advertising Network

not that i get a low ppc,but there is a low ctr on text ads.
i avg. 10 cents a click on adsense.sometimes i'll get 20-50+ cents a click.

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11-27-2007, 10:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
SuperNovaArcade Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: United States Posts: 681	Yea. -.- Yesterday I got around 3,500 impressions, with about 25 clicks, and only made .15 cents. And today I have already gotten 1000 impressions and 50 clicks, but only have gotten 0.09 cents. It makes me want to go back to using popunders, where I could be making a few dollars a day. __________________ Free Online Games \| Free Fantasy RPG

11-27-2007, 10:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
brendgard Gamer FX Staff Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 659	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 __________________ http://gamersgo.com A list of arcade related sites, add yours. http://auntiefondy.com Lists, add your site. http://kbsplace.com

11-27-2007, 11:49 AM	#5 (permalink)
brendgard Gamer FX Staff Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 659	Hmmmmm.... a thousandth of a cent eh? Things have slipped even more with Adsense. I was thinking they were the public service ads they usually run, like the Katrina relief fund I keep seeing. Than makes sense though. This is why so many arcade(as well as others) owners have been searching for a better alternative to Adsense for a long time now. Makes one wonder if Googles is starting to show CPM ads on the Adsense network. __________________ http://gamersgo.com A list of arcade related sites, add yours. http://auntiefondy.com Lists, add your site. http://kbsplace.com

11-27-2007, 02:34 PM	#6 (permalink)
2GrandArcade Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 434	welcome to adcents or in your case no adcents. a lot of people have this happen. it's either PSA,CPM,or invalids (most likely the same person clicking). you can see cpm clicks in advance reports. btw,fix the address of your first link in sig. also fix the site so it doesn't have the scroll bar in firefox. __________________ ------------------ Arcade Directory - submit your site. Free online games Flash games

11-27-2007, 03:27 PM	#7 (permalink)
diex Full Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 98	So,, This begs the quesion.. Has anyone who has experienced crappy adsense found anything better for arcades? My sense of adsense.. I have to pull thousands of uniques in one day to to approach $10 a day. I suppose this is fair. It further highlights the fact that acrcade ads pay ZERO. Here is an idea, you can now target adsense to read content from a specific part of your site. SO.. VERY BAD EXAMPLE HERE.. If you put in a paragraph on STOP SMOKING.. and target the adsense code to that paragraph, technically you should pull stop smoking ads. Now apply this to a topic slighly more relevant to arcades and maybe it will work.

11-27-2007, 03:57 PM	#8 (permalink)
RickyG Moderator Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Under Your Mouse! Posts: 1,063	You can buy CPM on adsense.....I do. I also been seeing a lot of GMAIL ads.. __________________ Arcade Banner Exchange, game packs, top site, arcade script and forum for all of your arcade needs http://www.mibbi.com

11-27-2007, 04:04 PM	#9 (permalink)
LearnNewbie Preferred Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 127	games site doesnt have a high pay keywords....If you are lucky you got one click for 5 cents....most of click are .1 and 2 or 3 cents those are common.

11-27-2007, 04:12 PM	#10 (permalink)
2GrandArcade Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 434	i make more on VCM. referral link---> ValueClick Media - The Pure Performance Advertising Network not that i get a low ppc,but there is a low ctr on text ads. i avg. 10 cents a click on adsense.sometimes i'll get 20-50+ cents a click. __________________ ------------------ Arcade Directory - submit your site. Free online games Flash games

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