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This is ridiculous!
And someone was earlier "debunking" myth that there was a cap on earnings etc... Well, let me tell you one thing: there might be cap on earnings, especially once you cross $8,000 in a month!
Anyone seen this ridiculous drop in average pay per click on their website?
How many ways will you permit me to say no?
Helps to have more then one site though. Some go up, others go down. It never ends :P
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Perhaps it's the end of the month, advertisers run out of money. I see this a lot, but normally around 25th.Helps to have more the one site though. Some go up, others go down. It never ends :P
Thank you Vlad for your kind words. Yeah, you might be right - maybe advertisers run out of money, it's possible. I am building another website - it will revolve around my other hobby.
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Has the quality of your traffic changed at all? (Sometimes when I get sudden traffic spikes from bad sources, I notice drops in CPC too.)
And someone was earlier "debunking" myth that there was a cap on earnings etc... Well, let me tell you one thing: there might be cap on earnings, especially once you cross $8,000 in a month!
OK, one week is a blip, not a trend.
Did your traffic take a dump?
Many things can happen but there is no cap on what AdSense pays.
Perhaps one of your best advertiser(s) pulled out of the content network, their credit card didn't clear, monthly ad budget was exceeded.
Let us know if it's back to normal tomorrow ;)
Looking at my stats, there is nothing significant about February 22nd.
I'll echo that. There's nothing significant about any day this month, as far as I can tell.
Speculating about the reason is normal but useless.
If it stays that level, all I can tell you is that my eCPM dropped 60% after christmas. It's called smart pricing.
Just live with it.
My CTR & eCPM both went up on the 22nd. Substantially. It ranges from 4 to 10 times higher.
Unfortunately, I've been suffering traffic problems all this year. It might or might not be due to Big Daddy, but I used to get twice as much traffic from Google as I got from Yahoo. Now Yahoo is walking all over Google and sending 4 times as much traffic as Google is currently sending. Something's wrong with this picture.
rubbish. nothing has happened.
moTi, if you don't qualify that to say "nothing has happened from your perspective," you risk sounding as though your own thinking apparatus is rubbish.
I don't think we are here to call each other liars, just to compare notes. I'd appreciate it if you'd temper these reckless comments.
I'm pleased to report that my numbers are back to normal this morning.
I think threads such as these serve a good purpose and underline the reality that AdSense (and all large networks for that matter) are composed of many moving parts and do not operate monolithically. Fluctuations are normal in any imperfect system, but since these things affect our incomes it is only normal to want to find out if there is a widespread problem or something with our individual accounts.
Did Something Happen on February 22nd?
Apparently not. If a system wide change had taken place this thread would have started on 22nd and would probably be 20 pages long by now.
MSN is unchanged
Is that code for useless and irrelevant?
They could go offline tomorrow and I'm not sure I'd even notice but my wife would cry as she gets the bulk of her traffic from MSN which also explains why her site makes peanuts.
...it is only normal to want to find out if there is a widespread problem or something with our individual accounts.
I think these threads are a good way to get a reality check on whether what is happening to you is local or system wide.
So far for the month of February, these happenings appear to have been the normal flux that affects some people due to myriad normal/mundane reasons and not a system wide adjustment on Google's side.
Besides that, you checked for things like a website that only works for certain browsers, a server that's occasionally slowing to a turtle pace because someone else is tying up MySQL, maybe a router that's not finding your site, or a connection somewhere that's being slowed down by excess traffic or is being taken offline at odd times for maintenence.
The latter two -- landline issues and router issues -- aren't quite as common a problem as they used to be years ago. But I suppose they could still happen depending on where you're physically located. My site was hurting for two weeks once in the late 90's because some university's router decided it didn't exist and it was the last router in the chain coming from the west coast. East coast people, and folks overseas for the most part, could see it just fine.
At any rate, it may well be a problem entirely unrelated to Google.
Leva
It might be that advertisers decided to pay more for US traffic, and my website is composed from visitors coming form 60 countries! Around 40% of them come from the USA, 20% from Canada and the rest from Germany, Britain, France, even Russia and other countries!
It might be that advertisers said: "Ok, to hell with this publishers, we will pay more for websites who have at least 80% US traffic". Could be that, could be bunch of reasons.
I don't know. All I know is that I am getting 33% less per click than for the last 4 months average. 33% less per click is 33% dump in my average earnings. It's not catastrophy, but certainly it's a disaster.
We are not allowed to discuss how much we get paid per click. But, let me use hypothetical figures, just to get the point. How would you feel if your average (hypothetical) pay per click was steady 70 cents per click and the suddenly you find yourself with 48 cents per click? How would you feel friends? It hurts, doesn't it?
Maybe I should advertise more to drive US traffic to my site? I don't know... Maybe it's not traffic, maybe it's repeat visitors that come to my site every day, who knows.
February was my best month so far, and I expected to reach $10,000 by the end of the month. Then my average earnings got slashed 33% and now I will be happy if I reach $9,000.
It's devastating.
