Making Money Blogging – Blog Stew

Let me break down exactly just what this ’smart pricing’ really is.  There is a lot of confusion as to the exact definition of the system adsence uses.

What is Smart Pricing?

Google’s smart pricing feature automatically reduces maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bids for certain pages in the Google Network.

Essentially if Google decides the click on any given ad is less likely to result in a sale for their advertisers they reduce the price of that click, so in theory the advertiser saves money which makes them happy, Google makes less money a long with the publisher.

Lets break this down and look at just how Google come to these conclusions on smart pricing.

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Everyone who uses Adsence is looking for the next ‘holy grail’ in profitable niche’s.  Selecting a high paying niche when building your next site can dramatically increase the amount of revenue generated by Adsence.

The ‘key’ is to target keywords which have the highest cost per day estimations.  This means that businesses and companies are actively competing for these advertising spaces and therefore more money is being pushed into specific niches.  The advertising budgets of these companies is a good indicator of the profitability to be found in certain niches.

After the break I’ll include a table which outlines the cost per click, clicks per day and cost per day of some keywords.

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