Its weird, but I am looking at my google adsense stats and noticed the other day I received 41 clicks, and was only paid $2.69. This isnt the first time I have seen this, this has been going on everyday for a few months now. So I have contacted their support and asked them how I can only earn $0.06 cents for each click. When you first signup with them they pay you a ton of money, I noticed a lot of people say this when they get get adsense. However later on they begin paying you $0.01 just like I am earning at the moment.

I have google adwords as well, and I get a ton of clicks, however I never notice anyone new signup to my site, unless they were invited to my site personally. I dont think I have seen anyone join my site from google adwords, yet I am getting charged for hundreds of clicks per month. Could we just be getting scammed?

Google Adwords allows you to set different costs for each ads and as such it is possible that the adsense would only pay based on that cost in Adwords. At the same time, Google is a for-profit business and would use a portion of the earning from the click through to pay for expenses and at the same time earn an income from it. The balance would be made to you.

In https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=common.html

it reads


The Google ads you are able to display on your content pages and WebSearch results pages are cost-per-click (CPC) ads. This means that advertisers pay only when users click on ads. You'll receive a portion of the amount paid for clicks on Google ads on your website. Although we don't disclose the exact revenue share, our goal is to enable publishers to make as much or more than they could with other advertising networks.


It is free to join so they have the rights to determine which portion is your earning. Remember that they have to bare the cost of bandwidth and others even when there is no click through.

Originally posted by lexington
Its weird, but I am looking at my google adsense stats and noticed the other day I received <<censored>> clicks, and was only paid <<censored>>.

You're not allowed to list those numbers.

But to answer your question: The rate per click will vary considerably based on which adverts get shown -- if a $0.02-per-click advert gets ten times the click-through ratio of a $0.10-per-click advert, then adsense will show the $0.02-per-click advert, since that will earn you more money in the end.

A better value to watch is the "effective CPM", since this is what adsense attempts to maximize; in my experience this varies far less wildly than the CPC.

Originally posted by lexington
Its weird, but I am looking at my google adsense stats and noticed the other day I received 41 clicks, and was only paid $2.69. This isnt the first time I have seen this, this has been going on everyday for a few months now. So I have contacted their support and asked them how I can only earn $0.06 cents for each click. When you first signup with them they pay you a ton of money, I noticed a lot of people say this when they get get adsense. However later on they begin paying you $0.01 just like I am earning at the moment.

I have google adwords as well, and I get a ton of clicks, however I never notice anyone new signup to my site, unless they were invited to my site personally. I dont think I have seen anyone join my site from google adwords, yet I am getting charged for hundreds of clicks per month. Could we just be getting scammed?

$2.69 / 41 clicks = 6.5 cents/click (not 0.06 cent nor 1 cent)
That's perfectly reasonable, consider minimum bet is only 5 cents. If you think that's low then blame the contents and keywords of your site.

Well it is amazing how ads from huge sites are appearing all of the time with only $0.05 cpc, perhaps I should change my adwords to those numbers then. By the way 0.06 or 6 cents are the same thing.

Another thing that may be wrong (not saying that you're doing this) is that if the same IP (or group of IP's) click the ads... and they're the only ones clicking the ads, you may not be getting paid for them. :)

My friend, (sounds like im trying to cover myself up but im not lol) had a group of people click on his ads once a day for a week and after the second day he didnt recieve money from people from those ip's clicking on the ads. Oh and BTW, he got banned from the adsense :) lol.

Ad sense has gone down in general, I used to be able to live of it monthly few grand, but on the first of march it dropped and only making a few hundred.

Since then im focusing on making hosting sales so i can get by.

But i have seen this in other sites to.

Its really sad but i think im gona be droping google from my site.

I am just waiting for Yahoo! Publishers to open up :)

Google Adsense was to be expected to be paying less and less as time went on. I'm not suprised to see ever lower average pay per click. When it's no longer profitable, switch to something else. Some affiliate programs perhaps?

I had this same problem with adsense... I've been running the ads since November 2003 and will likely drop it in the coming weeks.

Problem being that I only received one check for $x.xx for November - December (end of 2003). However, I have not received a check for the whole of 2004 which should be $xx.xx (if you dont quite make a $100, they send you a check at the end of the year supposedly, like they did for me end of 2003). Here it is April, still havent received my check, and there isnt even a record of them sending it (by viewing payments. Nothing prior to 2005).

And now and since Feb, my ads have absolutely *nothing* do to with my site, so now I'm lucky to get even a click a month on my ads. According to google, I've made x¢ since Janurary with x clicks.

Same problems here, Adsense seems to be slipping...

Ive had the same problem. At first everything was going great ($100 a day) for a few days. Then everything went downhill. I was lucky to get $1 a day, with even more clicks! I just gave up on Google Adsense, its the only thing google put out that I hate.

Yeah so far almost everyone has the same thing happen to them as with me. When I first used adsense I received a $350 check and I was so happy since I thought I would be able to purchase new servers and add more hosting and storage space for free.

Same problem here. I think its caused by lots of scammers in adwords. For example, today I blocked some "search engine" ad that was advertizing on every keyword like this: mqsearch.co.uk/mysql_hosting. Also lots of ads for websites that have no content but only one page with links to affiliate programs. Because of that scam everyone gets payed less and users click less.

I hope there will be good alternatives to adsense or google will start filtering advertizers to remove all junk.

probably depends on alot of factors such as what industry your website is in, what ads are getting displayed on your site, positioning of your ads, colors, is your site ranking well in search engines? has their been a major algorithm change in the search engine result pages? stopped a form of advertising for your site?etc. etc.

I dropped about 4k, but still am happily receiving $x,xxx a month until I have time to rectify the drops that occured in the search engine result pages for one of my sites.

but the site had an incredibly good CTR and was focused on a range of industries.

so for some, adsense isnt doing so well.. but for others it's still generating nice income. just have to play with it a bit more :)

my adsense has actually picked up recently. I know that my site is receiving a little more traffic, but the CPC has actually increased. It has alot to do with content and the ads that are displayed on your site as a result. I run a community news site and some days I will have say 40 clicks, this could yield twice as much some days as it does others. Basically it depends on what news content I am publishing on that given day.

Hmm, all this talk about how Google Adsense is going downhill kind of scares me a bit.
-I hadn't tried them out yet, and am getting ready to... but... maybe I shouldn't. ~_~

Guys, I don't think that you should discuss your Adsense earnings publicly. And with Google, they will rebound. Don't assume that Google will go down.

your allowed to discuss your adsense earnings now days, they had a change of heart recently and you are now allowed to disclose them if you wish, without facing being kicked out.

this move was likely caused to garnish more attention on their program and how people have derived a new income stream in face of the competition which is going to come when yahoo releases their adsense-type program.

Originally posted by nuthin
probably depends on alot of factors such as what industry your website is in, what ads are getting displayed on your site, positioning of your ads, colors, is your site ranking well in search engines? has their been a major algorithm change in the search engine result pages? stopped a form of advertising for your site?etc. etc.

I dropped about 4k, but still am happily receiving $x,xxx a month until I have time to rectify the drops that occured in the search engine result pages for one of my sites.

but the site had an incredibly good CTR and was focused on a range of industries.

so for some, adsense isnt doing so well.. but for others it's still generating nice income. just have to play with it a bit more :) What is your website? Let me have a look.

Originally posted by nuthin
your allowed to discuss your adsense earnings now days, they had a change of heart recently and you are now allowed to disclose them if you wish, without facing being kicked out.

Thanks for the info. I didn't know we can disclose our earnings publicly.