Comments on: Can You Have Too Many Adsense Clicks?

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By: iGuide

iGuide — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:44:30 +0000

To answer the title of this article: no! I’ve found more clicks is always more money, though obviously regular ad clicks are worth more than link unit clicks. And, supposedly clicks on a first ad unit are more highly monetized than for subsequent ones, so you may want to reduce you number of units to drive up earnings per click (and user experience).

By: injoon

injoon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:12:52 +0000

that’s weird. i get a lot of clicks somehow, maybe i got a niche going LOL

By: Piggy

Piggy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:44:31 +0000

why not a pig polishing kit? Great post by the way.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:04:23 +0000

>Personally I think RSS is bad for bloggers but most of them are too concerned with bragging right to realize that they’re just giving people a way to read their stuff without ever visiting their website.

Maybe bad for money making but not for bloggers. I’d prefer person to read my RSS feed and without visiting my blog than visit once and never come back.

By: Ventibate

Ventibate — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:34:51 +0000

Andy, my point was that he wasn’t, as far as I can tell, advocating clicking on links simply so the blog owner makes money. I believe his point was to encourage people to actually take the time to look at the links and click on anything that did interest them because all too often, blog readers either read our blogs by using RSS and don’t even visit our sites or they only visit long enough to see if there’s anything they want to read and then leave. However, those same people will use Google to look for something to buy or buy things they see advertised on television.

Personally I think RSS is bad for bloggers but most of them are too concerned with bragging right to realize that they’re just giving people a way to read their stuff without ever visiting their website.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:45:44 +0000

If I were an advertiser using a contextual service such as AdSense, I’d be pretty peeved if people were merely clicking to raise revenue for the publishers of the sites my ad had displayed on, rather than out of genuine interest, though having said that, the ad would still (hopefully) be in context and may convert a very small percentage of those who clicked, even for the “wrong” motives.

I imagine it’s the motivation of advertisers who pay to have their products/services displayed on competition / free prize draw / “get a free iPod” sites. Particularly where the visitor only has to click on an ad and visit a web site for 5 seconds or so, the conversion rate is probably negligible — however, presumably it must work to some degree or they wouldn’t do it. And these ads are usually generally targeted rather than being driven by keywords.

I’m primarily a publisher, so of course I’d love to maximise revenue on my sites, but if, long-term, it leads to a decrease in the advertising pot, it’s surely a bad thing. I’m sure Google et al would take a pretty dim view on anyone advocating such tactics, even if not explicitly asking people to click on the ads on their website.

By: dinu

dinu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:33:59 +0000

clicking on ads = tipping the blogger .. voww :P sounds cool

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:42:33 +0000

The ads will dry up though if the advertisers don’t get a return on their investment. If you are paying several dollars a click for “trip or fall lawyer” clicks and people only click because they like the blogger, first Google will lower the amount of money they are willing to pay bloggers and then if it continues you are soon going to move your advertising budget elsewhere.

By: Ventibate

Ventibate — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:34:01 +0000

He wasn’t advocating fraud. He’s simply suggesting that people click on ads that interest them on blogs because it helps the blog owner. I’m constantly getting into debates with people that think that the Internet should be free and we have no right to put ads on our blogs. Look at how many Firefox users are using the plugin that removes ads from pages. If that mentality continues, a lot of blogs are going to fold up eventually.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:16:43 +0000

There was follow-up post there with more thoughts.

That’s kinda choice between:

1. Five readers who might be interested in product but won’t click ad because they don’t click ads.

2. Five readers who are probably not very interested in product but willing to click ad and take a [very] short look.

I am not advertiser… But I’d prefer five visitors that I may impress and convert inro readers instead of five visitors who had never made to my blog.

It is said that bloggers need traffic… But somehow advertisers don’t need traffic but need only people running to them with stupid grin and money to spend?

Blogger’s monetizing is building traffic and sending to advertisers. Sorting traffic so advertiser gets only very best and interested is not blogger’s problem. Traffic sent, convincing that traffic to part with money is advertiser’s problem.

By: Eve Dmochowska

Eve Dmochowska — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:22:31 +0000

No, I disagree.

The onus is on the advertiser/publisher to figure out what ad is relevant to a reader of that blog or that blog post, and then sit back and *pray* that someone clicks on it, so they can be taken to a landing page that is mesmerizing and hypnotic. Or just very good :-)