How's your June been so far since we're halfway through the month?

Considering the various issues several have reported.

[OptiRex]

I suspected that I may see a downturn in June with the advent of summer in the northern hemisphere and widget trade holidays. I certainly was not expecting the Twister update to have the effect it has to my metrics however it seems to have mostly settled down now.

With the first half of the month concluded compared to the month of May:

Daily page views -3.99%
Daily clicks -6.58%
CTR -2.71%
eCPM -7.66%
Total earnings -11.35%

What about you?

[icedowl]

So far as earnings are concerned, this June is looking like last December (and that's a very good thing). It's crazy! It's a roller coaster!

Thanks to Big Daddy my traffic sources have shifted. MSN 51%, Yahoo 25%, Google <5%, plus other sources is current. A year ago Google sent 3-4 visitors for every 1 that came from Yahoo, and MSN was only a mention. Anyone else seen such a shift?

[jeepers]

Thanks to Big Daddy my traffic sources have shifted. MSN 51%, Yahoo 25%, Google <5%, plus other sources is current. A year ago Google sent 3-4 visitors for every 1 that came from Yahoo, and MSN was only a mention. Anyone else seen such a shift?

I have seen a shift as well, almost evenly split between Yahoo, MSN, and surprisingly Ask. Google maybe 1 percent at most.

Traffic is about 80 percent of what it was under nearly 100% from G, but increasing daily. So I guess there is life after G. I've actually stopped worrying about G and what would upset its algo.

I don't know why these search engines have stepped in to take G's place. Maybe searchers are becoming disillusioned as well?

[caran1]

Adsense income is increasing but traffic from Google has almost disappeared.

[Ganceann]

My traffic, earnings + CTR have all increased.

However, it is still pretty low overall and the factors I am thinking that contributed to this was nothing to do with trends - but my restyling of the site + increasing the on-page SEO which has brought almost 100% increase in MSN organic referrals but has had no impact on google referrals at all ... they continue to decline.

My site was only launched last month so effectively could be in that much maligned google sandbox ... however, the worrying thing for me is that other sites that scrape some of my content have increased their rankings with some being adsense TOS abusers, some being MFA sites, and the majority of them using what google would say would cause a site to be penalised (hidden text etc all that kinda stuff).

It just gets frustrating, the more effort I am putting into my site, the further I disappear from google serps ... yet all the sites I consider as spam, irrelevant etc continue to rank better.

Jeepers -I don't know why these search engines have stepped in to take G's place. Maybe searchers are becoming disillusioned as well?

Yes ... it could be the fact that more and more searchers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with google searching because of the amount of pointless sites that get returned ... (search landing pages, re-direct pages, MFA scraper sites offering no information,and many other poor quality sites that just defies belief that they can appear anywhere in the top 100k results compared to other sites that appear nowhere).

[jema]

A record month here, great views clicks and figures.
But if you look at my monthly charts, the figures are where they should be.
From April to Early June figures had gone way down!

[benallos]

earnings dropped

[Powdork]

Powdork said

Lately it seems I will have these ridiculously low ctr periods (three days or so) that always end with what must be a click dump of sorts. For instance, today my ctr is one-eighth of yesterday's which was a little over average.

And the cycle continues. After several very good days, today I have yet to receive a click (according to the stats). Zero, zilch, nada.

[FrostyMug]

if nothing, this month has been extremely consistent... practically the same ctr/ecpm numbers day in and day out. should be about 10% higher than last month. last month was 10% higher than this month. slowly moving up, but not at the same speed as before, gaining 25-30% a month.

i'm attributing this to me building a new site, therefore, i left the current one as it was, for at least 3 months now. i'm having a bit of a designer's block on it, designed a brand new layout every weekend, and scrapping it the next weekend... :(

[makes a little sense]

Been getting some very low results this last week. Not sure why.

[sven1977]

The last three days were great with the two highest days ever (two days above $30). Can't complain anymore after a somewhat slow start at the beginning of June. :)

[Essex_boy]

From June 2nd, everything down by half.

[ann]

Well, I said the other day that it couldn't get worse. Sure enough, it did!

Ann

[ann]

I've been wondering if the clickbot.A ring that was shut down this month along with loads of infected "zombie" computers has anything to do with the radical drop in clicks as Google weeds out the damage done to their advertisers.

I read where some publishers were involved and got the boot for invalid clicks and also that along with YPN, both affected, but Google was hit the hardest.

Maybe things will return to normal soon...One can only hope so.

Ann

[incrediBILL]

OptiRex is complaining about AdSense again?

<faints>

[larryhatch]

Traffic here is down 30-40 percent due to setbacks in the SERPs (latest 'updates')
What I do NOT see is the usual Doldrums kicking in like all of the last few summers.

I find this odd. -Larry

[OptiRex]

Hi incrediBILL

Been on your holidays?

</as usual>

My stats seemed to have levelled out for the moment at -13% for Page Impressions, Clicks and Earnings.

Will they drop even further when Europe kicks out of school for the summer holidays and industry comes to a grinding halt?

If I assume so then maybe it will not hurt as much!

[Play_Bach]

> I've been wondering if the clickbot.

What clickbot/ring Google shut down are you referring to? More info please - thanks.