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I know this has been the worst weekend for 3 months for me and that is all I can think that may be happening.
Even traffic tanked this weekend.
Well, with Katrina problems, A terrorist threat against Los Angeles received today, Mount St Helens spewing smoke and a new hurricaine lashing the Carolina coast I don't wonder that people are away from their computers.
Lord, won't the maddness ever stop?
Ann
Ann
I hope your stats will pick up, give it time and everything will return to normal. Yes, it's true, people are more away from computers (on weekends, now that we're near the end of summer).
As for "disaster" - yes, Katrina has caused a lot of damage but what can you do - go on. People will rebuild, restore they're lives, cnn will eventually stop their 24 hr coverage, etc.
I will go back to work now.
Ann
I think chances are higher that the current changes at the Google search engine (Brett called it even update Gilligan for a day) are part of the changes you see.
All the possible progress was stoped a long time by extrem low prices of gas.
Low energy prices create cheap creep.
Low energy prices stop more comfortable and environment friendly solutions.
I will make a big $100 / Barrel party!
If your sites are too US traffic centric, then you should use this situation as a wake-up call to diversify your audience.
Less than 30% of my traffic now comes from the USA - and if my adsence income has been affected by recent US events, then it doesn't show in my earnings.
I too had one of my slowest visitor weekends in a long time. I was reviewing my stats from last year and if history is repeated then the last 10 days of sep should be great.
This morning is oddly slow too... is there a European holiday today?
I would have thought that the higher gas prices would encourage people to buy more over the internet rather than travelling all over. I used to balk at some shipping charges but now the cost of picking it up myself has caught with those charges.
If you have a site in the US that only gets 30% of its' traffic from US visitors, you have something wrong.
Why?
I host in the USA as it is cheaper but there is no requirement then that the majority of my traffic then comes from the USA.
Indeed, one of the huge advantages of the internet is that it shouldn't matter where the hardware is based, the whole world can access your web site.
It just happens that I write for the global audience, and that is reflected in the readership profile.
The true irony is the US built the first large scale public transit train system in the world and it was destroyed by the automobile a long time ago - Now we can't figure out how to keep AmTrack from derailing every other day.
If your site is aimed just at the U.S. this might be a good time for a wake up call that there is such a thing as a global economy and being too dependent on one country is bad for a web site. Mine is a global site that's heavy on the U.S., but the topic gets a lot of visits at night from, of all places, The Netherlands which I find very odd but I'm not complaining.
I guess everyone gets into a blue funk now and then. :-)
Ann
Remember that half of the world is oil consuming, the other half is oil producing.
Your geography and consumption figures are very strange!
The US produces about 55% of its requirements whereas Japan, Germany, France, Italy, China & India, amongst the vast majority, are all nett importers as far as I remember...
About 40% of oil in the USA is used to produce gasoline.
As the classic TV faux pas went: Just remember to cut it in half ensuring one half is larger than the other:-))
I didn't say that however I know who did!
Your geography and consumption figures are very strange!
When you count the heads of people who are directly spending or earning the money you are right, but not when you count the dollars in and out. Every dollar spent by an oil-consumer is earned somewhere else as tax, distribution costs or production costs. It is just a flow of money, no money is lost in the path. When an oil producing country earns a lot of extra money because of the current oil prices, chances are high that part of this money is reinvested in some of the oil-consuming countries in industries not directly related with oil.
What I tried to say is that our economy is global and that a down in one part of the world will probably be compensated by an up in another part. Especially if an AdSense site is of global interest, local events should have minimal effect on the total earnings.
Every dollar spent by an oil-consumer is earned somewhere else as tax, distribution costs or production costs. It is just a flow of money, no money is lost in the path. When an oil producing country earns a lot of extra money because of the current oil prices, chances are high that part of this money is reinvested in some of the oil-consuming countries in industries not directly related with oil.
Oh veay, oh veay, oh veay...ye (plural) who have learnt nothing through history!
chances are high
One must assume that one is from the Franco/American view of economics and not reality-world?
Do you honestly believe that Dollar oil revenues are simply spent on purchasing USA/whomsoever's consumer branded goods or perceived "western" expected increased demands?
No point in arguing further until you have the experience! Buy a map, then an airline ticket and find out what the world is really about...
:-)
Ann
