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Thought the monthly ad budgets were just running out but revenue has not returned to normal into the second day of a new month.
Or do you think this just the summer levels?
Nothing changed, same content (actually more), same number of visitors, more page views... just a lot less earnings.
Who knows, just wanted to know I wasn't just me!
I am 50/50 AS/YPN and Y was out performing G somedays now it has reversed.
My average click fell from 50 cents to 35 on everything, that's pretty much the average on AdSense for my site so no big deal.
Maybe it is just a giant correction, I wish they would tell us that. I can live with it, I thought the clicks were rather pricey myself.
My Adsense ran neck to neck with them until last week.
Both ran over 2.5 K for the month with only $16 difference right up to the holiday last week, now G is double Y.
Weird
I am thinking about calling them if it continues into next week.
None of my category choices are controlling the ads on the pages, I might get one now and then. They seem to be rotating now with a more general mix to them, which would be ok if I was making the same money.
Thought the monthly ad budgets were just running out but revenue has not returned to normal into the second day of a new month.
Strange, I have exactly the same problem.
Very low eCPM since May 29th, but I am running AdSense.
If you're using YPN and adsense in combination, a tactic I've found profitable is to leave a small amount of inventory with each. This way you can monitor the relative health of either at a glance and when one appears more robust, shift the bulk of real estate toward it and begin watching closely for the next change. YPN seems to be fluctuating on 2 week cycles for me. This is not hard and fast nor near consistent enough for me to really think there's something to it but the ups and downs I'm seeing "seem" to correspond with 2 week blocks of time... or 10 days maybe.
End of month - Start of month correlations don't seem to apply to my particular niche. Advertisers don't neatly run out of budget at the end of each month's time and suddenly find new funding at the start of the next. I've never seen those precisely timed highs and lows with either adsense or YPN, but more of a sort or random scattering that defies logical explanation.
I'll have to watch for that cycle. I can flip pages but I have it tuned really well per the subject matter and don't want to mess it up.
Things are creaping back up, only off 15% now and adsense is up 25% so I am ok.
It just was a surprise. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Can someone confirm such rumor?
Who said this?
My earnings chart looks like Enron.
Have to keep the index YPN it has too much volume and leads to smart pricing and MFAs. The present targeting is great on it(phone call to support)and advertisers solid and locked in pretty much. In the end I might wind up with an Adsense site and YPN index.
We'll see if the money comes back otherwise the exodus marches on.
Lets just call this tactic overwhelming force.
Took my download pages with very little copy and just 4 links and did this. (if you have copy you can try and throw the words on the page also)
Chose 2 complimentary categories that I know pay and then targeted the page. Went to the page and put in the keywords and meta tags the keywords from the two categories.
b2b > commercial - industrial products
b2b > commercial - industrial services
<b2b, commercial, industrial products, industrial services>
I am still getting some random ads but I can control 3 out of 4 per page in this fashion.
$100> $50 > $85 now
Not as good as before but much better. I have moved one of the pages back to AS so that my account for part of the difference. 6/8 now 7/7
