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Ad targeting is spot on and personally I am finding everything extremely stable so far...in fact, the past few weeks have been THE most stable I have experienced in the past couple of years with Adsense!
Anyone else experiencing similar?
Recently when asked about how the Adsense program pays out I explained it to someone like this:
Adsense is like the sun, we can all see it however we are all looking at it from different angles therefore no two views will be precisely the same.
There will be those who have found a good place to be and may not need to do anything else again since they just happened to be lucky. They were in the right place at the right time with the right knowledge.
Then there will be those who feel no matter what they do they cannot succeed since everything and everyone is conspiring against them. They think of themselves to be unlucky...
Fortunately these days we have the Internet and forums such as this whereby the unlucky ones can come and ask questions, get answers and learn for absolutely free a way forward.
What I feel a lot of people miss is the fact that displaying ads is one thing however are those ads of any relevance to anyone? Having a site with unique content is useless if no one actually wants to know about what has been written etc.
At the end of the day no matter how much advice any of us give there will still be failures, there will still be those who try a short cut and get caught out, there will always be those who think that self-clicking is the simple answer.
I think most of the publishers who are doing well, and there are many, tend to be those who have been around for a few years and have learned to ride the waves...
Now just where should I place that BBQ?
I am expecting a rally in week 3, an all out bidding war in the retail sector, to grab the shoppers ahead of brick and mortar sales on Black Friday, in the usa. We have seen that the last few years. That might push us over $5000 this month.
Traffic from the usa is going to be weak on the 23rd through the 27th, but should rebound with a jolt on the 28th, and may pull it all out of the fire.
We will see.
Which 'holiday season' are we currently in? I don't think we have one here in the UK at the moment, unless I've been drinking a lot more wine than I realise.
Ohhhh...21_blue...! You out-and-out Brit...
1. The most important holiday in the US calendar is Thanks Giving Day...the nation stops for that...24th November if I am correct this year?...many take it off using the weekend to bridge it into 4 days through to Monday 28th.
Mark that in your diary and watch web sites die through lack of inactivity...! Great weekend for using VOIP though!
2. Whilst the US sort of acknowledges Xmas as a religious-type of holiday it does use it as a present-buying frenzy!
One of the funniest things I have ever seen are the queues at the big stores on December 26th with all the people and their unwanted gifts or incorrect sizing, cashing-back or replacing.
Oh fun and joy...not a great day to be a sales-return assistant!
I guess Beaujolais Nouveau day next Thursday 17th may be more up your street?
DavidDeprice
Hey, I'm a Brit and I know when it's Thanksgiving Day! :-) It's only your version of our harvest festival but city folk in the U.K. probably wouldn't know what that is...watch them thar hackles rise...
It's the basis of US economy.
And for quite some time too!
I sshheem to (hic) be getting a reppu.. reput.. reputasshun.. Totally undeserved, in my view... (hic)..
Hey, I'm a Brit and I know when it's Thanksgiving Day! :-) It's only your version of our harvest festival but city folk in the U.K. probably wouldn't know what that is...watch them thar hackles rise...
