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This has continued through to last night with every record of mine being broken not just once but several times with an average of 25% increase in impressions, earnings and even the CTR average up by 8%. That one really surprised me.
Does anyone have any figures which may suggest this is a general World/European/USA business trend?
Have you seen similar figures? This one is for the non-Xmas traders!
My historical Adsense also shows a strong and steady growth through to June time.
As a matter of commercial interest my historical business records, going back nearly 200 years but much more evident over the past 30 years, show a very similar trait.
21_blue, you have loads of data...tell all:-))
One thing I am beginning to notice for my niche is that the retail suppliers are at long last realising that Joe Public does a lot of surf/research (surfearch/resurf?) on a weekend and they're gearing up for special weekend offers.
I've often noticed that weekend earnings from affiliate bookings can be far out of proportion to weekend traffic. In fact, I've sometimes had my highest affiliate earnings of the week on Saturday, which has the weakest traffic.
My hypothesis: On Saturdays, the people who visit travel sites are more likely to be actively planning trips, since schoolchildren and other casual lookers are busy with leisure activities. Also, people may be looking at places to stay, things to do, etc. during the week at work, then discussing things with a spouse or S.O. and making decisions on the weekend.
The same phenomenon may occur with widget commerce, too: Hubby spends his weekdays looking up widgets at work, then shows the winnowed-down possibilities to his wife on Saturday and convinces her to say "yes" to a purchase.
I'd like to thank them, but I can't think of any way to find out who they are...
Overall, earnings are finally making all my work nearly worth the trouble.
This thread inspired me to look back and it seems that whatever changed (in the adsense algo or advertiser availability) began around December 23rd.
My wife is starting to get used to the idea that sitting around in my underwear and drinking coffee IS my job.
My wife is starting to get used to the idea that sitting around in my underwear and drinking coffee IS my job.
Is that why you call yourself "creepychris"? :-))
Because my month also started slow and at about half month my earnings have boomed and are being consistant.
I have blocked about 5 such sites (all are almost identical), but new MFA sites pop up. Any way to end this?
It takes time but just keep blocking them. Once blocked it then takes 4 or 5 hours for them to disappear.
They must have found a way around the new AdWords algo of landing page content or you just happen to be in a non competitive area and they are getting in by default.
However, I did a lot of work on adding new site features and, SEO, getting back links, and optimizing ad placement over the past 2 weeks. So, I would be rather upset if my earnings didn't increase.
The next few weeks should be especially interesting as I expect a lot more traffic due to my site's seasonal nature.
They must have found a way around the new AdWords algo of landing page content...
TI, have I missed something, here. I thought the 'landing page content' element of the Adwords quality (however it is calculated) simply influenced the minimum bid. It doesn't exclude pages that are of "poor quality", does it?
As I understand it if the quality is poor AW raises the minimum bid.
For MFA sites this is a problem because they survive on low paying clicks. This effectively eliminates them from the AdSense mix.
Where I see a loophole is in an area of low competition where, if they can get a high CTR, it would drive the actual per click cost down and make it profitable for them again.
I must admit that due to a very busy workload I really haven't followed it that closely so if I'm wrong someone please correct me.
I have noticed that on my sites MFA's are far fewer than before the change which has resulted in higher EPC and eCPM.
