Are Adlinks weakening?

I am "feeling" it slow down

[howiejs]

Anyone else "feeling" Adlinks slowing down

in terms of:

EPC?

CTR?

[david_uk]

I didn't implement adlinks in any major way, but I did keep them on one of the pages they seemed to work on. The bottom line cash figure dwindled to virtually nothing, so I removed them last week. I don't think the cpc went down dramatically, but the number of visitors clicking on them certainly did.

The problem I think is that you need to click twice to see the ads, and I don't think that many people are prepared to do that. Secondly, they would irritatingly have a different line up of links each time you load the page, so you couldn't go back and look at the other links that looked interesting as they had gone!

Nice idea though, and I'm sure it works for some.

[amenthop]

yes, it noticed it too for a few week. It's been dropped.

[htaccess]

Hi to all, I'm from Germany and this is my first posting

I placed adsense and adlink on 60% of my total pages (> 180k).

To control the success of both ads, I'm using channels and a reporting system on my server simultaneously.

I can report this to you:

1. On sites, where i have a both, adlinks and adsense, the ctr doubled on good performing pages.

2. The click through rate (adlink
to clicks on shown ads) is between 40% and 50%.

3. On some pages, where both ads are shown, I found out that G reports more clicks related to an adsense channels, than my own reporting system is showing for the same channel. (Problem in G's stats)

4. Pay per click on follow up adlink clicks are sometimes higher than clicks on adsense ads on the same page.

5. Reported page impressions in G Reports are total wrong. It seems they are counting pages showing both ad types twice.

Greetings from GER