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Anyone else been hit this hard?
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The good part about this horrible six months is now I know I can survive without G free visitors and I have learned alot about adwords and will continue to use it to a lesser degree - maybe that's G's design with all these serp rotations.
Haven't you been watching Jagger on Google news? We are going into phase 3 of the Jagger update.
Can anyone tell me if that nice Mrs. Thatcher is still Prime minister or not?
Note to self - I must get out more.
Seriously, I didn't know there was one. I will do some googling later to get more info. I just typed in my prime keyword and my site is now #1 in google.com and google.co.uk - that might account for the very recent improvement in visitor numbers and earnings.
Yes, Mrs Thatcher is still Prime Minister. However, these days she dresses as a man and goes under the name of Tony Blair. And Arthur Scargill now has a job as Union Leader for YPN workers, and this morning they've sabotaged Adsense. It's Thatcher and Thatcherism as normal :-)
I know Dayo has been reading the Jagger update threads...I read them too.:)
That must be why you were posting at 3:30 in the morning. I've given up reading about Jagger - there's just not enough time in the day. If it hits us, it hits us, but at the moment the impact seems to amount to zippo either way.
Even though only half my visitors come to my sites through search engines my earnings dropped by much more than half on that site. It appears that search engine visitors do most of the clicking on ads. I think it's because they are just surfing about and are more likely to notice ads and move on through them.
People who come using their bookmarks, links from related sites, word of mouse, etc are more likely to stay but not click. All the more reason to be sure our ad units show in the first window.
It does come up as #2 on a 2 word key phrase and is propped up by my larger site and bookmarks plus some traffic from MSN and Yahoo. Interesting though, it has a high ecpm and earns well on adsense.
The bigger site has gained 1 slot to come in at # 7. Medium ecpm and good earner.
Newest site is getting some traffic and also clicks at a high ecpm.
AdSense earnings keep rising for all 3 sites so I won't complain and I worked too hard to shut any of them down even if Google can't tell a rich content site from a scraped, MFA....oh well.
It's Thatcher and Thatcherism as normal :-)
Now try saying this on a tube of wine gums...Cameronism...without sounding if one has been out for a night with 21_blue:-)
Who needs TV when the entertainment on WW is this good?
Kudos to Google for making the browsing experience more pleasurable (if that's the intention).
BUT - the new updates so far seem to do nothing about the MFA sites problem. They KNOW that Google will attempt to bury them at the bottom of the pile. They will of course adapt accordingly given time, but right now they use adwords to get traffic, so are unaffected by the update to some degree.
On the search for my keyword, there are 7 ads on the right of the page - 5 of them I have blocked from my site as they are MFA's and do not conform to the TOS in major respects. If part of Google's intention is to hit MFA's, then they are simply going at it from the wrong angle. The only way of dealing with MFA's is for Google to kick the buggers out.
Can't we talk about this first :(
Can't we talk about this first
Well, this thread is really about the new Google updates, so I'm not going to hijack it with my views on MFA's. I don't know if Google's intention with this update is to deal with MFA's or not. My point it that if it was aimed at clearing out the crap, then it seems bizzarre to clear them out from the serps, but still allow them to dominate the right hand column!
