Is AdSense Smart Pricing Stopping You From Making Money Online?
If you are trying to earn money by using Google AdSense, you may have already heard about smart pricing. If you are a fearful kind of person, you’ll think twice, or even ten times before putting the code on your sites. The slightest possibility of getting your AdSense account smart priced would make you wait a week more, a month more, a year more… some will wait for a life more before having the guts to display those ads on their website.
While it is true that you could use some AdSense tips and rules, in order to get started, too much fear at the wrong moment would lead you nowhere.
Am I Right To Fear AdSense Smart Pricing?
I believe life is an ongoing balance of risks vs. benefits. Before taking any decision, we estimate the good and the bad that may happen as a consequence. If the wish to have the good is stronger than the fear of the bad, we are taking that action. If the fear is stronger, we are paralyzed. I don’t say either variant is better, because this is a personal option for each of us and for each decision we have to take.
Being right to fear smart pricing depends very much on the moment you choose to listen to that fear of yours. Have you managed to bring so much traffic to your website? Go fear! Are you still struggling with 10-50 unique visitors per day? Forget smart pricing, your concern should be bringing in the traffic first.
Why am I writing this posts that teaches you nothing on AdSense smart pricing, as you may have hoped when landing in here? Because it has been proven that it’s possible to make money niche blogging with hot topics. The author of this demonstration shows how he’s gotten 1.5 million visitors to a bunch of brand new sites in 8 days, and how that translated into money earned. Reading through the comments on that post, I noticed that some readers expressed their concern of publishing AdSense on hot trends blogs, which most probably leads to smart pricing.
So what?!
First of all, if you get enough traffic, money would follow. Is your AdSense account so precious to you that you wouldn’t bear a two weeks smart pricing? OK, then use affiliate links to monetize that traffic. Griz, the author of the mentioned experiment could have been using any other type of monetisation program. It happened to be AdSense. It could have been Kontera, or some Clickbank product. The idea was that he managed to bring all that traffic writing about hot topics of the past week.
Besides, if we do a rough calculation, $9000 earned out of 1.5 million visitors, means about $6 per thousand visitors. It’s probably much lower than in many other niches, but it’s still $9000 more in his pocket, isn’t it? What if Griz would have feared smart pricing?
How Much Money Are You Making With AdSense?
If you are making a lot, whatever a lot means to you, then if you get smart priced, you’ll still make something. Smart pricing is reversible. If you see a drop in earnings for several days, you take the ads off the last blog and you’ll be fine in a week or so.
If you are making very little, what would be the difference if you noticed a drop in your earnings?
What’s the use of preserving a clean, not smart priced, AdSense account that brings you almost nothing? What’s the use of being the early bird, if you are afraid of worms?
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I wanted to suggest you check out Adroll, which is a niche vertical ad network that works great in conjunction with Adsense. Full disclosure: I work there, but regardless it’s a great product that users interested in Adsense alternatives should take a look at. We solve a number of problems that small to medium sized publishers face in an intuitive and highly transparent system. I hope you’ll check us out, and let me know if you have any questions about the service.
OK John, I’ll check it out.
Simonne,
I am one of those that worry about the smart pricing issue with Adsense.
You must have been looking at my stats when you were talking about the 10-50 unique visitors a day. I just figured if I build enough sites it would add up. Dumb Huh!
The problem I have with Griz’s method is I work 12 hrs a day at a JOB. I do not have the time to run the trends like Griz or others who do do trends.
I personally think trends sounds like a complete rush to do. Almost like playing the slots. When you hit it big, its almost orgasmic.
I envy those that do trends. It sounds like fun!
djnuttall
P.S. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Much appreciated!
How to Make Money Online Free´s last blog post..Free Ways to Make Money Online at Home
When I do something, I always think “what’s the worst that may happen”. Getting smart priced is reversible, so I don’t worry so much about it. Nevertheless, what Griz showed in his last post is a kind of take the money and run. It’s fun, but we don’t know about how many hot topics he wrote until he got those ones right.
I admire you for doing so many things while having a 12 hour job. Thanks for stopping by, as well.
Good post Simonne.
I’ve been risking my adsense on a certain niche that brings in good organic traffic, but its keywords are ambiguous. The right ads trigger, but the traffic is not looking for what the ads are showing. I have chalked it up to a success with dominating the SERPs but a failure to convert.
After Griz’s post, I’m tempted to look once again at trends (I tried about a year ago after Vic popularised it, but failed to make it work). The idea of creating brand new blogs that are forced to the top of the SERPs means crossing the line to black hat tactics. This would be a seriously risk to an adsense account.
But there are always options. Who is to say it is any harder to rank an established site for a trend? We have blogs and posts can rank No1 if they hit the right story at the right time.
I’ve been slowly grooming a news themed site and maybe now is the time to put on adsense and try for something interesting.
I think a lot of what we as Internet Marketers do is contained in a box that says:
“If you go outside this box, something might happen.”
Most people stay inside the box because its safe, but nothing much happens in there. A few venture outside and take a chance on what might happen.
These are true business people because they know that in order to succeed in business you have to be prepared to take risks.
No one ever got rich by playing it safe.
Terry Didcott´s last blog post..Words of Wisdom
Thanks, Terry.
Funny, I’m having now exactly the same issue as you do with a site – it started to get traffic, but the ads are not what those people are looking for. Luckily it’s a new site, so I suppose I’ll be able to tweak it to rank for other keywords in that niche.
As you say, there are always options – if people don’t want to risk the AdSense account, they could go for other programs, which may not be that good, but they’d still earn some money. I remember using AdBrite for a short period of time and the CPC was decent – it’s true they don’t have such a huge advertisers pool as Google does, but you never know until you try.
The point is that many people don’t do anything because they put the carriage in front of the horses – instead of first focusing on learning how to get the bloody traffic to their sites, they fear losing an AdSense account that brings very little, exactly because they don’t see they need to start with the beginning. Which is getting traffic. After that, it’s statistics – a certain percentage will either buy or click on something, so you still end up with money in the pocket. But traffic should come first.
I am glad you found Grizzly’s new blog. I believe he’s one of the most reliable Adsense tip giver today, and not selling anything.
Incidentally, he just announced on his blogspost blog that he made almost $10,000 from Google Adsense just within 2 weeks and a few days with $1,000 each. Although some may question his testimony, as I am sure it is easy to produce a fake Adsense report these days, he admits he have used 3 blogs to achieve that.
If one will patiently read his previous posts (average of 6 posts/month), he will realize that Grizzly is very particular in getting high search engine traffic and niche blogging.
Speaking of smart pricing, some publishers are being affected by this because most of their ad clickers are coming from social traffic. Apparently, they are not really interested in buying the product.
The visitors from search engines do.
Regards.
Rich´s last blog post..Is Making $1,000 a day from Google Adsense Possible?
Almost everything can be faked these days, except SERPs positions. It is possible to make $1000 per day, but one has to work for that a lot, and work smart. Besides, if I make $1000 today, I’ve actually made that in one day plus three years of learning, building, experimenting and failing. This is what many dreamers still have to understand.
The fear of failing is holding 99.99% of the population back. Now even though that is a bad thing it can also be viewed as a positive thing for the 0.01% that do take action, fail and try again. It means that there is a lot less competition
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Jorge,
This same sort of crap is peddled by scam artists all over the net and is a pile of absolute bullshit my friend.
No one will refer 10 people to earn 10c a day let alone 50.
Any intelligent person’s time is much better spent building PPC sites that grow over time and will earn you much more money in your sleep without having to view more scam sales pages.
Terry is right, that’s a big bullshit. Too bad so many people fall for it! Then they start spamming blog comments (pretty much like you did), hoping to get those 50 references you also dream about! I’m not deleting your affiliate link, as my readers are smart, so you won’t get any referral anyway, Jorge.
I found your post informative , helpful and easy to digest.
You have got my best recommendation on this. Keep this coming!
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