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As some of you may know, the southeastern portion of the U.S. is getting soaked with a tropical storm right now (they thought it would become a hurricane). It inludes several states and millions of households from Florida to New York (the storm is moving north over the next day or two). It has been raining non-stop since very late yesteray (12-06), and will probably continue until early 14-06.
With this much rain and wind, millions of people who would have otherwise been outside, are probably sitting at home in front of their computers.
As sort of a test, (I know Google Analytics will help pinpoint origin points), I wonder how much of your U.S. traffic is originating from the eastern portion of the U.S. over these past few days?
(No... this isn't a US-centric-based question) But I know a lot of European webmasters, and others around the world receive some amount of traffic from the U.S.
I just checked my Analytic stats and visits from this part of the U.S. has quadrupled. This is sort of similar to those in Germany whose sites are experiencing declines due to the matches.
However looking at the USA I see that most of those visitors are from the North to N.East. After that they seem to be taper out evenly across the mid US and concentrate a little more at the West Coast. I would say that the amount of traffic comming from Florida is minimal at the moment.
(No... this isn't a US-centric-based question) But I know a lot of European webmasters, and others around the world receive some amount of traffic from the U.S.
Wow - I'm impressed:) Somebody in the US actually knows the rest of the world exists, and appreciates us!
Approx 65% of my site visitors are from the US, but I think that most of the Adsense revenue is from there. My predictable slumps are when corporate America isn't at it's desk surfing instead of working. Therefore weekends and any public holiday in the US I will always see a dip in both traffic and earnings.
I can't say that the weather in the US has made any difference, nor has the World Cup in Germany either. Events that draw large crowds and seasonal dips and rises often don't have a correlation with Adsense earnings I've found.
My predictable slumps are when corporate America isn't at it's desk surfing instead of working. Therefore weekends and any public holiday in the US I will always see a dip in both traffic and earnings.
I see this too. I wonder if sites that are directed to countries that have shorter working hours than in the US, see slightly less in terms of AdSense (or other web) income. I live in 35 hour work week France and one could guess that if I created a French site at least in this regard the potential income could be less.
My predictable slumps are when corporate America isn't at it's desk surfing instead of working.
That's interesting. How on earth are you able to predict such variations? Is it based mostly on holidays?
I would think that things like large weather patterns (flooding, tropical storms, blizzards), huge sporting events, etc. would be easier to predict.
I guess many other factors come into play, but it is quite a distinct trend that probably surprised no-one.
