annej - 5:07 am on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0)

I've used AdSense since shortly after it started.

My pay per click dropped gradually since late spring. It is now about half what is was a year ago. But my visitors kept clicking at the same rate.

After the economy tanked in Sept even my click rate is down.

It's as if at first businesses were not willing to bid as high on ads or perhaps not using AdWords at all. I think our economy problems have been coming for a while.

Now people aren't clicking much but I don't know if it's because people aren't interested in buying or because the ads aren't targeted as well. Maybe both.

I can't see there is much that can be done about it.