changing earnings

[pendragon]

I understand that ND pays a nominal amount of 5p per click until confirmed earnings amounts come through. What I dont understand is why on day 1, it's 5p, the next day the amount shown for that click can raise to 16p for example, and then on the 3rd day it drops back down to 11p. Very confusing.

 

[retired_member6]

Because the person/company placing the ads is competing with others for sales and is increasing and decreasing their budgets according to quality of the click throughs and resulting traffic.

*And reading it again, yes very strange and my answer not quite relating to the question.

 

[aquanuke]

If you simplify it as 1 click per day, then likely someone clicked on the top listing earning you 16p then next day someone clicked on listing 3 down the page earning you 11p. Just my guess.

 

[NameDriver]

Hi Pendragon,

Are you referring to the same click or clicks on subsequent day on the same domain?
Once a click has been updated with the Google revenue (say for February 4th, then that particular click is never affected again). However, as we show the earnings which Google show us, we cannot predict how much each subsequent click is going to be. Google bid prices change by the minute, so it is likely that, while clicks will stay in the same range, they may fluctuate day to day.

Hope this clears it up.

Ed

 

[pendragon]

i was referring to the same click. (yes i have some domains with very low traffic so monitoring individual clicks is very easy )

the same click can go 5 - 16 - 11 over 3 days.....

 

[olebean]

i was referring to the same click. (yes i have some domains with very low traffic so monitoring individual clicks is very easy )

the same click can go 5 - 16 - 11 over 3 days.....

how do u know its the same click?

 

[aquanuke]

how do u know its the same click?

Theres only one way to know that and that will lead to a ban

 

[pendragon]

Because it's only received one click in 3 days...d'uh!

 

[NameDriver]

Hi Pendragon,

If you let me know the domain by PM, I will look into it.
There is no way that the same click can be changed once it is updated. This has never happened before, so if it is happening to you, I need to get to the bottom of it, though, knowing our system, I don't see how it is at all possible.

Ed

 

[olebean]

Theres only one way to know that and that will lead to a ban

I agree... Figures day on day doesn't a the same user or different user clicked the exact link on a page unless you have just one link?

 

[NameDriver]

I'm not questioning PD here or accusing him. He is asking about the integrity of our system and I'd like to get to the bottom of what is causing these questions. Even if anyone does click the same link on the same page, which is obviously against our T&C, there is absolutely no guarantee that the PPC would be the same. As I said earlier, Google PPC depends on several different factors and I'd actually be surprised if the same click did yield the same PPC. However, the discussion here, as I understand it, is about one specific click on one day which, after the update was again 'updated' to a different amount - something which, in our system is impossible, so I'd like to look at it in detail.

Ed