Earnings Dec. 23 -> Jan. 1

(glad it's over!..)

[Play_Bach]

Earnings starting Dec 23rd to Jan 1st were down about 40%.
Jan 2nd, and all is well (thanks Google!).

p.s. Just made my first buck for the Firefox download (guess some things really do take time after all...)

[hunderdown]

Google probably didn't have much to do with the recovery in your earnings--thank your visitors, back at work, from where they apparently do a good amount of serious surfing.

My site did poorly on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th, but other than that, the month ended with a bang. (I've noticed that I do well during school vacations--I think I get a lot of teachers, and it's hard for teachers to surf at work.)

Whatever the pattern, it's worth making notes for next year.

[Play_Bach]

> Google probably didn't have much to do with the recovery in your earnings

Yes you're right, the visitors are what split - not Google (sorry). Guess I'm just glad to see the old numbers again and since "visitors" are a faceless bunch, thanked the next thing I could, Google.

[gehrlekrona]

Yeah, you are right. People have other things to do than surf the Internet when there is a holiday. Holidays=no AdSense money :(
I hate holidays :)

[irock]

On the contrary, my PC site was doing quite well starting Dec 25 to 29th. I believe it was b/c people need troubleshooting on installations of their new new geek gifts.

[Ossifer]

I think this is similar for me. At Christmas, people get given XYZ gift. Because my site is #1 for helping people with XYZ, traffic has spiked and so has earnings. Dec 24th and 25th were pretty bad, but since then things improve.

I was expecting a rough time over the holiday period. I didn't think of what actually might happen, so am pretty happy with the situation in the end.