After a couple of methods you have done, are you still wondering why you kept seeing a very low Adsense CPC? Have you tried every single methods out there on increasing your Adsense CPC but still, you get the same results? Are you mad? Pisses off? Looking for answers? Then we got the solution for you! It's free and all you need to do is read this article.
Many bloggers will definitely wonder why on their first few months, their Adsense CPC is great and right after that, it drops significantly. When that happens, they will then try to find out how to increase it again and, they will find solutions like blocking some ad serving, posting topics which could make relevant ads appear, applying SEO and many other solutions. However, based from my experience blogging for a decade, all this solution were not meant to increase you CPC but instead, it will increase your CTR.
Just think of this: When you do the ad relevancy, then your ad will be relevant to your post. In this case, it depends on what are you blogging. When you blog about games, then you get gaming ads which converts very low in terms of CPC thus only increasing the CTR because viewers may click it more often. Also, when you go blocking ad serving on your Adsense, are you 100% sure that the ad you have blocked has low CPC? Of course you're not. Adsense don't want us to find out how much our ads cost. I have tried several times blocking ads but, it only end up increasing my CTR and not my CPC. And lastly, doing some SEO work. When we hear SEO, this means we optimize our content for search engine. But just like the ad serving method, how do we know that search engine will give us the right ads which has good CPC for our blog all the time? We still have no idea don't you think?
The abovementioned method in my opinion is purely based on luck. Sometimes you get to increase your CPC, but most of the time NOT. I always here and see these methods in the internet but within a couple of tries, I can say that it's not really effective.
So, what's the best method to increase Adsense CPC?
Before we go there, let's us first find out what's the real cause why your Adsense CPC decreases. If we look at the blogging history, most successful bloggers running Adsense on their blog came from USA. They are successful because of two main reasons- they are darn good bloggers and they got high CPC. What I am pointing out here is that US trafficked blog gets the most CPC as USA is more exposed to internet advertising. There are lots of bidders there who are willing to take the risk on online adverstising to market their product. Obviously, the more willing advertisers, the more the higher paying ads for us publishers.
So meaning, USA got good CPC because their online advertising market is huge?
Exactly! In other foreign countries like in South East Asia, we average $0.05 CPC I think for 1 click which is pretty low. In fact, my opinion was proven to have basis when I saw a post in the Adsense Help Forum that some countries really suck in terms of CPC. You can check out the list of countries which got good CPC and bad ones below.
01 - $0.48 - Australia
02 - $0.44 - Netherlands Antilles
03 - $0.43 - Denmark
04 - $0.41 - Switzerland
05 - $0.36 - South Africa
06 - $0.32 - New Zealand
07 - $0.32 - Finland
08 - $0.30 - Singapore
09 - $0.28 - Norway
10 - $0.27 - United Kingdom
11 - $0.26 - Netherlands
12 - $0.26 - Germany
13 - $0.25 - United States
14 - $0.24 - Canada
15 - $0.23 - Austria
16 - $0.22 - Barbados
17 - $0.21 - Ireland
18 - $0.21 - Belgium
19 - $0.20 - France
20 - $0.19 - Sweden
21 - $0.18 - Taiwan
22 - $0.18 - Kenya
23 - $0.17 - Trinidad and Tobago
24 - $0.17 - Greece
25 - $0.17 - Chile
26 - $0.15 - Qatar
27 - $0.14 - Croatia
28 - $0.13 - Italy
29 - $0.12 - Puerto Rico
30 - $0.11 - Spain
31 - $0.11 - Poland
32 - $0.11 - Nigeria
33 - $0.11 - Malta
34 - $0.10 - Portugal
35 - $0.10 - Kuwait
36 - $0.10 - Czech Republic
37 - $0.10 - Brazil
38 - $0.09 - Mexico
39 - $0.09 - Japan
40 - $0.09 - Hong Kong
41 - $0.08 - Peru
42 - $0.08 - Malaysia
43 - $0.08 - Lithuania
44 - $0.08 - Hungary
45 - $0.08 - Bangladesh
46 - $0.07 - Saudi Arabia
47 - $0.07 - Oman
48 - $0.07 - Israel
49 - $0.07 - Egypt
50 - $0.06 - United Arab Emirates
51 - $0.06 - Turkey
52 - $0.06 - Slovenia
53 - $0.06 - Georgia
54 - $0.06 - Argentina
55 - $0.05 - Thailand
56 - $0.05 - Sri Lanka
57 - $0.05 - South Korea
58 - $0.05 - Russia
59 - $0.05 - Romania
60 - $0.05 - Philippines
61 - $0.05 - Mauritius
62 - $0.05 - India
63 - $0.05 - Colombia
64 - $0.05 - China
65 - $0.04 - Ukraine
66 - $0.04 - Tunisia
67 - $0.04 - Mozambique
68 - $0.04 - Jordan
69 - $0.04 - Indonesia
70 - $0.04 - Fiji
71 - $0.04 - Albania
72 - $0.03 - Vietnam
73 - $0.03 - Uruguay
74 - $0.03 - Uganda
75 - $0.03 - Serbia and Montenegro
76 - $0.03 - Nepal
77 - $0.03 - Moldova
78 - $0.03 - Macedonia [FYROM]
79 - $0.03 - Cyprus
80 - $0.03 - Cambodia
You can tell from the above list that most countries that offers high CPC are countries you can say that are economically stable which led me on believing that the problem is not on my Adsense account nor on my blog, but on the country I was blogging for in the past. You can see below my google analytics last 2011.
As you can see, I have lots of traffic coming from countries which CPC's are worst. I did not bother doing anything at that time and look below my average CPC for that year.
I know. I suck eggs! $.10 CPC is really low and I know I could do better than that.
After having a very low CPC for a year, I have decided that this has to stop! I need to find out a way on increasing my CPC and based from what I have research and experience, I came into a realization that the only way of increasing my Adsense CPC is to blog for countries which offers high Adsense CPC. I disregarded every methods that the internet has to offer in increasing Adsense CPC and decided to just create quality content for countries which pays high for PPC advertising.
Try it yourself and you will see a big difference on your Adsense CPC I promise. I really can post my current CPC in Adsense now because I want to keep it private but I guaranteed that this method is 200% working. It's free and all you need to do is put some extra effort and time posting quality contents and building traffic to those high CPC countries. As a start, learn how to use geotargeting to increase adsense cpc.
Goodluck and Happy blogging Web Junkies!