Does lowering the amount of ad units help?

[hwang]

Well it seems like I had a suggestion from a friend saying that it's best to use the minimum amount of ad units in adsense even though we can have 3 maximum. Some prefer the skyscraper because it presents the most ads of all.

However, one argument is that the more ad units you have, the chance for you getting more low paying ads to appear are higher. You see in order for advertiser's ads to appear, they have to outbid each other. So if there's more ad units, they get better chance to get a spot. Makes sense??? Hmmm....

[life31]

Seems to be true, even I have heard people saying that.

But then more ads would'nt be something like more chances of getting clicks???

Lately what I observed was when you have huge traffic from the social networking sites your CTR and Pay per click decreases rapidly. I actually tried it with one of my site where I used all social bookmarking tools to bookmark my site and I had around 500 to 1000 uniques every day from that. But my adsense earning drastically decreased. Every click only paid me around $0.01 or maximum $0.03.

Again this month I did not bookmark any of my post to any bookmark site and left it over the organic traffic what it gets and was surprised to see that after a week I again started getting 3% CTR and around $0.10 per click.

May be someone else should try it out to confirm it too.

[hwang]

Geee...but more chances of getting clicks doesn't mean more revenue. It could be 10 clicks that give you $1 or it could be 4 clicks that give your $5. Definitely I would go for the second option.

Yeah, the saying is true also on crappie traffic from social bookmarks. Ever heard of the term "smart pricing"?. I think that's most likely the scenario.

[life31]

Hmm you got a point there Hwang.

BTW what is this smart prising??? Anything related to adwords advertisers options??

[hwang]

Nope it what the term google give to you if your site has high amount of clicks but none of it turns into conversion for the publisher. So google will actually smart priced on you and all your clicks are worth lesser although the CPC is actually higher.

[life31]

Oh its google who will do the smart pricing to avoid unnecessary waster of its advertisers resources. I thought that it might be something related to adwords.

Thanks Hwang, got to learn something new from here

[hwang]

That's why I think as what you've said it's best to avoid heavy traffic coming from social bookmark sites whereby most of the users are webmasters which know how to differentiate ads and real content. Leave it for the organic traffic.

[life31]

Hmm true! BTW do the social bookmarking sites atleast help with the links??

I mean if not the traffic are the backlinks from such sites considered valid and acceped by google???

[hwang]

Yeah, only for generate backlinks. But is it possible if we can also block incoming traffic from the site? I may sound funny but I've heard people raised this question before.

[life31]

Most probably there should be an option. I think i saw it somewhere either in my cPaner or somewhere else in my Wordpress blog.. Dont remember exect.

There was something like block traffic coming from the following domain.............

But blocking traffic isant a better option as per me atleast. Cos may be we can have some genuine visitors or sign ups from that traffic too

[hwang]

Yeah, you are right...genuine visitors. But other than the blocking method, there's no other way I can think of. We still need the backlinks from social bookmarks, that's for sure.