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I hadn't changed anything in my website, but my I see my clickthrough rate increase 7 times, and my earnings per day by 6 times.
I can't determine what caused the increase. I'm afraid that someone may be clicking my ads rather crazily.
What gives? Think I should contact Google?
My biggest question is whether I should inform Google.
my 2 cents
hope it keeps up :-)
FWIW, my site has NOT seen a big increase, but has had a generally up month. My traffic, I think, is not as seasonal as that of some sites....
Also I found , while doing a search of my own for info I need, that Google was giving me all Australian SERPS. I am searching from a computer in Deep South USA. I added -australia to search string, and Google gave me UK SERPs. Weird.
Should be a good reason to increase advertising budgets.
more business related stuff, so maybe people dropped their bids for the holiday week.
As an advertiser for our company, I increased the CPCs by 20-30% across the board for the holiday season last week. So the adsense publishers in our industry may see a little bit of boost in EPCs, since I belive other companies might have done the same in mid-November.
As a publisher in the same industry (for my hobby sites), I also saw increase in Clicks/CTR/EPC/Earnings for the last couple of weeks.
If for example I wanted some feedback about how I'm implementing the banner ads on my site I would obviously have to post the URL - but I haven't yet because that doesn't appear to be the done thing here...
This is a great forum.
Thanks everyone.
We don't disclose our URLs for good reason. Hang around you will learn a lot :). And, if you're targeting high paying keywords, be particularly cautious about disclosing your URL in the open forum, everyone wants to know what the new "M" word is so they can jump into your market ;)
Also, it is not allowed by the WW Terms of Service
Do not give away your URL. Just read, participate when you can, but never give away your url. You'll also find a number of people with too much time on their hands. They will look at all your previous posts to glean any information they can to get your address.
Everyone seems to be after that hot keyword, like Hyperhidrosis or Excessive Sweating. Once they have the site, they will figure out the keywords in short time.
Always be cautious.
[edited by: my2cents at 3:07 pm (utc) on Nov. 25, 2004]
... if I wanted some feedback about how I'm implementing the banner ads on my site I would obviously have to post the URL
No you wouldn't - you would just need to describe what you're doing...
TJ
Paranoid enough that I've hidden and changed my email address on my profile.
Confused because I don't understand how someone can surf my site and take advantage of it. How, by looking at a site, can you determine how effective the hit rate is? How could one use that information?
Thanks
Thread 1: "Hi, I'm new here, I run a forum for webmasters"
Thread 340 in Alexa forum: "We have a sub 600 Alexa rank"
Thread 586 in the domain name forum: "I should have bought the bt.com domain as those are my initials"
Thread 1231: "....."
Foo [webmasterworld.com] is a good place to raise issues/questions like these. Start a thread if you wish.
Can someone now get this one back on topic? ;)
[edited by: Macro at 6:15 pm (utc) on Nov. 25, 2004]
There are many negative consequences that could arise from the wrong person visiting your site: stealing sucessfull keywords, content copying or duplication, frodulent adsense activity, hacking, spamming, etc...
When you have a money generating idea, you don't necesserally want the world to copy it, do you?
Can someone now get this one back on topic? ;)
