How to identify low paying clicks

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OK boys and girls, you've asked this question many times before:
Q: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHICH ADS PAY POORLY?
A: TRACKING, CHANNELS, STAY UP LATE, PATIENCE, AND NO SOCIAL LIFE

OK, here's the basics of how I figure out SOME of who's paying what per click.

1) Channels per URL, everything on the site more or less has to have a channel. I have too many pages so I had to cheat and combined some low traffic pages that have low CTR but that's cool, it still works

2) Use an AdSense tracker script that can indentify which ad was clicked per channel

3) Sit and wait, watch for clicks on slow channels or just after midnight PST when AdSense stats rollover. When you see any channel in AdSense that has a single click for $0.03 just look it up in the AdSense tracker, see where they went, and VOILA! you have one nailed. However, don't take this as 100% gospel as we're not even sure AdSense updates sequentially.

Will this improve your earnings?

Danged if I know, I'm just telling you how to do it as I can spot them easily on my site.

Don't shoot yourself in the foot with this, be careful as $0.03 is better then $0.00

Why do I say that?

Apply some logic here - I have a skyscraper and a leaderboard on the same page that shows 7-8 ads and they only picked ONE which paid a paltry $0.03. OK, so you low paying ad hunters chase down the low paying ads and get rid of them and now the visitor sees NOTHING they want, ZERO ads out of 8 ads is $0.00 so the $0.03 is looking better, eh?

Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be done.

FWIW, midnight just rolled over, new AdSense tracking day, 1 click, US$0.16, shoot me, I need a life.

Proceed at your own risk.