Google Smart-Pricing Made for AdSense sites

[slaughterbeck]

I’ve heard that google is now cracking down on “made for adsense” sites not by banning them but rather smart pricing them into little to no profit.

If this is the case it may mean death for little to no content sites but possibly a tremendous growth for high content producing sites.

 

[Gene]

Very interesting. Where can I read more?

 

[slaughterbeck]

Very interesting. Where can I read more?

WebmasterWorld in the Adsense forum.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

I've been reading those threads as well, and I'm just not convinced in all honesty.

I could show a clear correlation between the age of the creator of the page and the average RPC, but that would not be a causal link between the two.

I do believe that pages made specifically for Adsense are less likely to get highly targetted traffic likely to click-through, and have a harder time offering any value to a browser. As well, no adwords publisher will choose to site-target a page made specifically for Adsense, as opposed to sites with real sustainable content. I'm having a few of my sites targetted by Adwords publishers and by RPC on those sites is through the 'roof'

So yes, I don't doubt that sites that are made specifically for Google have lower RPC, but I don't necessarily think that the latter is because of the former.

Just my .02

-Allan :gl: