Thread: Low traffic site on your AdSense account

I've heard somewhere that showing ads on a low performing account can affect the performance of your more high powered sites within the same adsense account.

How much truth is there on this? I can understand how a low paying ad slot on one site could affect a high paying ad slot on the same site, but an effect accross another site? I'd love to hear some feedback on this

I can only speculate on this topic.

However like ezman said:

Originally Posted by ezman ((login for URL))

[...]Adsense, on the other hand, most likely smart-prices by the most granular level with statistically significant data available. So, I imagine they have a base rate for an entire Adsense account, then by domain, then by individual ad placement or page / size. All this would be split by geographical regions as well. So, if you change your ad placements and you see increased clicks and earnings for a few days (or longer / shorter depending on volume) and then see click remain consistent but earnings drop (a PPC drop), you are most likely being smart priced.[...]

with this said I think that a low traffic site will not hurt your high traffic site
unless it is of very poor quality or the clicks are poor quality.

I for one don't see any impact, however I never tried to remove ADs on my
low traffic sites. All ADs there are targeted as well and I think return high
quality clicks.

But if someone is willing to start an experiment that would be very interesting.

Maybe I'll do one, I have to think about it.