Do you notice advertisers running out of budget?

[jema]

I set upo a page yesterday to deliberatly target a sector, to see how quickly google got on the ball, this was on a part of my site where google could not previously see and I wanted to test new code to allow the mediabot in.

Initially no dice, as the code was a bit wrong. When fixed, google was in like a shot with the adverts, which kept appearing for 12 hours or so and then quickly stopped completely.

This morning they are back again. I assume I am seeing advertisers with small budgets that run out?

[david_uk]

I don't think you can assume anything to be honest. Although my gut feeling would be that it's not related to expiring budgets - more likely the targeting algorithm or spidering at work here.

[tbarr60]

Would your topic be of interest to individuals in certain countries during certain times of day? I have some pages that see great results during normal US business hours and have decent results during Indian business hours.

[jema]

Not talking about actual results here, as the topic was simply selected to see how quickly the adverts appeared, the place they appeared was pretty much private to myself and a few others and hence not intended for clicking on!

I just found it interesting that google got it right very quickly, but the adverts dried up after a time and started again this morning.

[toldan]

yeah, some of my advertisers run out of cash and then they were paying me chimp money, but I changed the topic and now I get pay top dollars.

[G_Smitty]

Must be nice to be able to change the topic of your site at the drop of a penny.

I think tomorrow I will change my topic to Final Four NBA Basketball.:)

My earnings start dropping heavily in the evenings, probably due to budgets.

[toldan]

Must be nice to be able to change the topic of your site at the drop of a penny.

I work for money, not for audience. If audience responds poorly to my content - I will change it so I can monetize my site better.

[Nitrous]

Then you must have a poor site. Only good sites are ones that would survive without or before adsense on their merits.

So you are just filling the web with content built around a keyword. Do you have to buy traffic for this "site" too? You are one of the ones already in my filter most probably!

[m0thman]

Well said Nitrous!

Personally I get a buzz out of the cash, but I get an equal if not greater buzz from the emails I receive from people telling me how much they like the site.