garyr_h - 10:44 am on Feb 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

I'm not too sure if my ads are any worse than usual. My website is somehow related to Valentine's Day, so I can see a huge earnings increase for Feb. However, the huge drop off doesn't really compute.

Even on other days I normally make around twice as much.. it's crazy. Also, Valentine's Day was horrible considering that I got about 'normal' earnings on the day when I got twice as much traffic than usual.

So, twice as much traffic = 0 increase in earnings for me. And the traffic was definately legit... well, the only difference was that more traffic came from Yahoo than Google. Which is somewhat unnormal, but looking at the keyword phrases, it is quite usual for this site considering the holiday.

I just don't get it really. Perhaps advertisers dropped off quickly after Valentine's and the other advertisers have yet went back to restore their positions from earlier this year? That's really the only explaination I can come up with.

But then again, YPN is beta and crazy things like this have happened before where earnings would go way down for 2-3 days, maybe longer, then magically go up again.

I'm hoping it's the same as before.