zett - 8:16 am on Jan 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Looking at sad figures here.

2006: January traffic peak was +80% compared to December
2007: January traffic peak was +60% compared to December
2008: January traffic peak was +40% compared to December
2009: so far a very weak peak, barely visible in the numbers

Doesn't look good at all (for us).

My traffic, AdSense eCPM, and daily AdSense earnings are all up this month.

It's good to see that some seem to stem against the trend almost effortlessly. Very good. That may give some hope to those who still believe in Adsense. (I don't.) In general I am 100% with OnlyToday when he writes:

I have seen such wide, irrational and erratic swings of eCPM that cannot possibly be caused by the calendar or market conditions that I've stopped trying to analyze them and now just write it off to Google-diddle. I have better things to do than to stare into a crazy-making black box. I'm just working on improving my site, someday a better solution than Google will rise to meet it.