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Calculation of the content CPC

Written by Maximilian Hoppe

To calculate the CPC at the content level, the measured number of visitors is divided by the costs. Visitors are "All Unique Page Views" found under Content Reach:

As a rule, content causes one-off costs and with each additional visitor, the value eventually goes towards zero.

In the example, the content CPC is already below the Adwords CPC, which is the desired goal:

A different picture can now appear at the project level, because in this case the content CPC is output as the average of the individual contents:

Adwords CPC Content 1 + Adwords CPC Content 2 + Adwords CPC Content 3 + ...

-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- --------------------Number of Contents

If you select the table view at project level, you can see the individual Content CPC values that result in the average:

In the example, the average content CPC is €27.40. This value is also displayed in the dashboard view:

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