Whats considered high CPC for a specific keyword and domain?

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Whats considered high CPC for a specific keyword and domain?

dailypress

3:14 pm on Feb 7, 2015 (gmt 0)

Hello,

I noticed many high numbers when you Google high CPC. Ive seen $16 dollar clicks and even higher up to $50 CPC. However, I learned that in order to earn that amount for every click the traffic has to be organic, the location is also a factor, plus it's almost impossible to compete with the top 10 sites listed on Google for such terms.

So for a small business managed by one person; when purchasing a domain name whats considered a relatively decent CPC. Is $3-4 dollars considered good enough and reasonable?

Let's say we were going to park the domain and rely on type-in traffic or somehow indirectly send traffic to it.

buckworks

11:59 pm on Feb 7, 2015 (gmt 0)

Were those high-priced clicks you read about for search or content clicks? Search and content are very different worlds. Be sure you're not making projections for a content site expecting to get the CPC of search clicks.

"Relatively decent CPC" would vary a lot from one sector to the next.

In some sectors, $3-4 would be a bargain click if the traffic was well targeted for what the advertiser is promoting.

In others, $3-4 CPC would be way too high and an advertiser paying that much would go broke in a hurry.

So $3-4 dollars would be good and reasonable in some sectors and seriously unrealistic in others.