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For example, a click on an ad for digital cameras on a web page about photography tips may be worth less than a click on the same ad appearing next to a review of digital cameras.
[edited by: markus007 at 8:08 pm (utc) on April 1, 2004]
I have a small site with a sum total of less than 1400 words. Online for about 8 years. PR6, about 400 or 500 backlinks. Saw a jump around April 1, but looks pretty normal today. Between 1 to 2K impressions/day.
Also, I'm surprised that there hasn't been a bigger noise made over the variable payout scheme. I can't think of any other pay-per-text or per-impression company that does this. Tiered Percentage of revenue, based on a known published quantifiable table, sure. But not "whatever we decide today to pay you today".
Unless I've misunderstood Google's e-mails, this isn't a variable payout scheme, it's a variable pricing scheme.
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Smaller, niche sites may benefit.
Does that seem about right based on what's been reported in this thread?
Looks to me like large sites with lots of pages and traffic are the ones hit hard here.
Smaller, niche sites may benefit.Does that seem about right based on what's been reported in this thread?
That's what I'm seeing. Quite a few of the reported large drops have been from people with tens of thousands of backlinks and impressions per day. I think one poster mentioned something like 150,000 daily impressions. It seems like sites with those kinds of numbers are seeing the biggest hits.
I don't think its as easy as big traffic=big CTR drop, there are probably other factors. My guess is that there are some heavy trafficed sites that are better weathering the storm. (And some that are getting caught in the middle)
There appear to be some patterns starting to emerge, for what it's worth at the early stage in the game. (which is not a lot I guess... need to look at the data over months to really get an idea)
