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March is not a good month for me
1. Ads are off target
2. I am a target of way too many site targeting ads
Traffic rate, traffic source and demographics are all the same, we ONLY get natural traffic. but
both CTR and eCPM are dropping. When i look ant my site i am not surprised. Ads are way off topic and many are pointing to sites like all-you-wanted-to-know-about-free-widget.info
who would click on such junk ads?
if google will keep allowing these low quality ads we will suffer loss of earnings and users will eventually become blind to google ads.
so, is it only me?
250$ day in feb march.... 120$ left
eCPM dropped from 18$ to 9$
CTR dropped from 5.4% to 3%
I've been making some changes to the site that favor affiliate sales over AdSense, so I can't complain.
Seems like advertisers also cut back on their budgets in my niche during this time period too, with ePC dropping to their lowest point during the spring-to-summer month (I'm sure other niches experience an increase during this same period).
August is the PITS for my site... with things beginning to pick-up the first couple weeks of September. And steadily increases until the winter Holiday Season.
ALWAYS has been the same basic traffic pattern that I have witnessed since 1997... Although Google's recent Big Daddy experimentation is causing a somewhat sporadic fluxuation with traffic flow to my site the past couple of weeks, as it seems every few hours there is a different number of pages from my site indexed in their SERPs...
Just have to wait it out until Google decides which algo permutation is most satisfactory for Google management. (imho)
I'm down 35% from Feb so far for the month.
I had 7 months of increases every month. Then Feb was not a drop, but not an increase. Now, March is a drop will probably be below $600 for the first time since November.
But then February was bad, but I think a good deal of that was poor choices on my part, something I was inclined to blame google for at the time, as it seemed unlikely my changes would have a big impact.
I don't much regret the mistakes, so long as I do manage to learn from them!
For me, March has always been my second best month, April has always been the best for 6+ years.
I sell a product that appeals to people in the Spring. There is nothing abnormal about this year, a few more looking on the Internet, but largely growth totally inline with expectations for the season & Internet growth.
For me business is a tad better than last year, but that was totally predictable without any additional effort!
By August I will see rapid decline, by December I will be on vacation as it isn't worth going to work. It has been this way as long as I can remember....the pleasures and downfalls of running a seasonal business!
To say march has been #*$! so far would be an understatement.
