Google AdSense Earnings - 6-15-11

I'll be honest, the past couple weeks have seen much better AdSense earnings for me on my collection of sites. Today, however, I review the stats from yesterday and they are again puzzling and lame.

Again, my major complaint is about how clicks don't translate to earnings. Page views are decent, but 7 clicks should be $0.07 at a minimum - but even then I would still question the validity of the earnings. That would mean the advertiser was paying only $0.02 per click.

So far today again, I seem to be headed down the same bogus path of "receiving AdSense clicks", but not getting paid for them.

Four clicks and only $0.01 earned... Thanks so much Google for your generosity.

Google AdSense Earnings - 5-18-11

Today I give you a wonderful example of how Google's AdSense clicks don't equate to earnings.

• 1 click on my YouTube video generated $0.79 - That's great actually, I can deal with that all day, every day of the week. 
• 14 clicks (2%+ CTR overall) and only $0.03 in earnings. 3 effing cents in earnings, are you kidding me? 14 clicks is worth less than a nickel?

Paying people based on a CPM model is all fine & dandy... really, I like getting paid for Impressions on my pages. But to not pay when actual clicks are occurring is ridiculous and dare I say mis-leading (cough "fraudulent" cough).

Google AdSense Earnings - 5-14-11

Another oddity here... 16 actual AdSense clicks on my content (blogs) and only $0.04 of earnings.

I can understand a CPM paying out for just the page views & accumulating to $0.04, but for 16 actual clicks this is ridiculous.

Google AdSense Earnings - 5-12-11

Don't you love you how you can make money on a YouTube video even when no one clicks (Hosted AdSense), but when you actually get a click on a 468x60 banner there are no earnings? Puzzling...

And if you're wondering, I have custom channels setup on each of my sites so I know the location & site of the 468x60 banner that was clicked.

Google AdSense Earnings - 5/10/11

Summary & analysis of Google's crappy AdSense math:

• 1 click from Youtube ad = $0.74
• 8 clicks from (websites) = $0.01

How the fu*k is this possible? Each click should be at least worth $0.01, right?

This is a snapshot at mid-day so there may be additional earnings that come in later.