Adsense income after BigDaddy

%40 down since first week of April

[blue_eagle]

I checked out the other threads but couldn't find any threads like this. If this is already discussed please forward me there.

Just before Bigdaddy update i was making very good amount of money compared to December and January. Because all my pages that have been created during August, September and October was indexed and I was making almost %80 more compared to these months. After seeing the results on February and March I was very confident that I will continue to receive same traffic and same adsense income for a long time. That's why I reduced my hours for my day job and increased my hours for my web business.

While everything was going fine and making plans about creating different web sites, BigDaddy (i learnt this before) came into the place very badly.

Not only, my traffic went down but also my income is now down about %40 after this huge update. Is it Google's fault not at all. They are doing what they want to do and there is nobody to blame except myself. I was even going to save money if everything remained same but now i can barely make a living with my current income (thank god i did not completly quit my day job. just reduced my hours)

As I mentioned there is nobody to blame but myself. If we leave our fate to someoneelse's hand that would happen. The lesson is if you do business dont be dependable to somebody. Now I am thinking about creating web sites without expecting any traffic from Google, Yahoo or etc. Stayable and respectable web sites always earn without Bigdaddies, bigmammas bigborther.

Sincerely,

S.Palali

[annej]

I've had a dip during the same period bit it doesn't seem to be related to a Google update as my traffic is the same as usual.

I did have a dip in traffic around Easter but after it came back up my earnings stayed down.

My dip isn't as great as yours is but I am wondering if part of the problem is not loss of traffic but something about how adsense is paying out or how much advertisers are bidding.

[Paris]

Updates cut both ways, of course. For the traffic that you are losing, some other webmaster is raking it in. It's a cruel lesson that AdSense won't always be a stable income source.

That said, if you did trim away your hours at your day job to give you more time for your website business, just make sure that you are allocating that extra time accordingly. Grow your site, seek out links, promote in the appropriate areas, etc.

One should never be content with how things are. There have been way too many people that have put all of their eggs in the AdSense basket only to take it for granted by spending the extra time either slacking off or distracting themselves by checking their AdSense stats every hour. Commit the right way and BigDaddy or not, you will be able to keep growing your reach.

[phantombookman]

Traffic and income down on main adsense site.
30% pages no longer in the index (all unique and handwritten)

New pages very slow to go in, frankly, it's all a mess

[RS_200_gto]

We keep adding new pages and products to our sites for the last 2-month, our traffic and income is still down by 50% while Google's income grew by xx%, now who controls our traffic and business on the web? (search engines)!

[FrostyMug]

There are threads like this in the google search forum.

I'm experiencing the same issue. Since beginning of April, a 30% drop in earnings and about 25% of my pages dropped from the google index. (search for site:www.widget.com).

the google search forum confirms that there's an indexing issue with bigdaddy. you'll see lots of threads and posts about people losing indexed pages in google. My site is unique and I can't imagine there's a penalty against it.

I will make about 30% less this April, and this after the site has been gaining steadily 5-20% in revenue every month and never went backwards until now.

I'm hoping for the index issue to be fixed soon and to gain the lost traffic. On a good side, my yahoo rankings and indexing has increased 5-fold, but still lags behind MSN and google.

[wheelie34]

For sure we dont all have the same results, I have lost 70% of my pages STILL while bigdaddy is busy doing whatever it is its doing, BUT since jagger my traffic has kept going up, so have my earnings in adsense eCPM is excellent well above my normal monthly avg, yesterday was my highest ever day almost $100 I never thought I would get to 3 figures a day, and when bigD started I thought that was it, all downhill but it isnt, maybe its still coming.

During this bigD update/shuffle whatever, I have held stable for my major keyphrases, traffic is better than during jagger up about 20%, 70% of site M.I.A new pages not turning up or slow getting in, for well over a month now.

go figure.........I cant work it out, will traffic get better if and when the pages return? I hope so.

With adSense from a month after it came out.

PR5 site 7 years old a .com hosted in UK for UK only searches
Average of 350 unique and 600 return visitors per day
Approx 950 pages (pre bigD)
Currently 365 - 372 pages (depending on DC)
Pages are a mixture of html and php using MySql DB, no url rewriting, .php?num=word, 301 non www to www since 7 years ago
No canonical issues, no supplementals

[europeforvisitors]

I checked out the other threads but couldn't find any threads like this. If this is already discussed please forward me there.

As FrostyMug pointed out, there are plenty of Big Daddy discussions in the Google Search News forum:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Also, Big Daddy wasn't an update; it was the rollout of Google's new search infrastructure, and the search results that you see now aren't necessarily indicative of what you'll see a month or three months from now.