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Their absence of representation is quite appalling... if not outright what I would consider the anti-thesis of good customer relations values. No wonder it's not a strange thing that mnay... I mean many webmasters are now actually blocking Googlebot from crawling their sites, and allwoing Yahoo to crawl! I think the frustration is EVER GROWING in the webmaster's community.
But based on my past experience, nearly everytime a thread similar to this comes up, I am experiencing the exact opposite. That makes me think it is normal fluctuations in bidding values, campaigns that may or may not be active, your clicks, etc.
I never take part in these threads and chalk it up to many factors of which we cannot possibly track accurately.
However...
there do seem to be obvious trends that do not follow any kind of apparant logic.
EPC and effective CPM do not typically vary this much (spikes in graphs point it out very clearly). Couple that with the fact that many people complain usually around the same time - I don't think it's coincidence or "many factors" or just some chiming in.
Maybe if you're large enough you don't feel it, but it will sure be nice to see some detailed stats because I'm tired of flying blind.
The result is some of my sites go up, while others go down during the upheaval du jour .. it's an awful lot of work to maintain but it's a strategy I recommend to others who wish to sleep more soundly while sustaining (and growing) revenue.
Not that I don't have my daily Google grumbles like everyone else .. most pointedly the STATS DELAYS that I'm now measuring in days not hours.
My guess is G is having issues regarding keeping up with all that data, both in serps and ad/sense/words
I have exactly the opposite experience. My revenues have increased by 25% for the last 4 days but the updating of stats is slower indeed.
Mine had been down since around the first but have been up the last 4 days as well. I was hoping it was because of some changes I made in positioning my ads but perhaps it is just part of the normal ups and downs.
For me, I find it's content, content, content. If traffic goes up for a particle article, earnings go up. Traffic goes down, earnings go down. It averages out in the end.
It all is very relative to your site design (does it encourage visitors to stay and browse around?), content quality (do they like what you publish?), search engine placement (but this is more a general traffic thing), and .. err.. so many other factors. My general experience, though, is that AdSense revenue itself isn't typically "down" - it's just having a rest :-)
Plus my stats are generally 24 hours behind and I've seen updating of impressions totals 10-14 days after the fact.
I mean many webmasters are now actually blocking Googlebot from crawling their sites, and allwoing Yahoo to crawl!
Cyberprofit,
What does blocking the Googlebot buy you? Does it improve your rankings in Yahoo? I can't fathom that.
To others, mid-February marked the beginning of a steep decline in earnings that still continues. We are actually replacing AdSense on some sites, the really poor performers, with other feeds.
Thx.
Had my best ever earnings today with AdSense - and the whole week so far has been great. Like always, AdSense stats go up and down depending on what advertisers are willing to pay and who is advertising
That may be true with you, but thats definately not true with bigger publishers or markets with lots of advertisers. Your rate depends more on what keywords adsense decides your page should be targetted for during that day.
