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What this means in Adsense earnings is a least a 30% drop. A 30% drop still leaves me in good shape but I hope it does not last.
Has anyone else seen a drastic decrease in earnings because of the update? I am hoping the answer is yes so Google will reverse the change they made yesterday.
cheers
mike
[stepping aside to avoid getting hit by the shrapnel]
Just from watching the number of "innocently misguided" people setting up AdSense sites on this forum makes me consider that there's at least a fair percentage of people who don't entirely play by the rules.
In summary, I feel for the top ranking legit people who have suffered, at the same time the change has also shaken out a lot of crud sites too. Perhaps it's a clean sweep across the board, who knows.
Those with legit operations hopefully will see their revenues return to normal and look back on this as perhaps one of those 'statistical glitches'?
My site has been at the top for 6 years and is a reputable site. Even though I dropped substantially I will survive. As history always shows my site will be back in a few months (hopefully). I have finally realized this time around that my site is a stand alone site and does not have to rely on Google referrals.
Google traffic was cut by 100%
So you lost all your traffic?
Or do you mean by half, 50%?
Although I have a relatively white-hat, hand-written content site, I lost about 50% traffic at the last major algorithm update (months ago). That slowly rebounded in the next few months afterwards. I suspect one part of the new algorithm was not my forte, and that actual user behavior of digging down through the SERPs to discover my often-the-only-useful-source-of-info pages helped bring me back to page #1 over time.
Earnings down to 1/3.
Never had such a drastic fall back, this month will have earnings like November 2004
[edited by: Jon_King at 6:34 pm (utc) on July 14, 2006]
The results are always "mfa free" and "the best ever" for those on top. You can always find discrepancies if you look; however those on top don't look very hard.
My site is unchaged at no 4 on google.com and 2 on google.uk. Traffic isn't particularly different, yet earnings over the last 2 days is down to 25% of the week's average eCPM.
None of my traffic comes from search engines
Absolutely none, 0%, not one click?
How is this possible?
On July 27th,
2 subdomains out of the filter
2 other into the filter, rest is unchanged.
Since we have a pretty eclectic site with content from a half dozen or a dozen unrelated topics, it may represent a shift in the Google algo to giving broad matches (ie, two word phrases) to themed sites. In some instances, I've seen phrases we used to rank in the top 3 for taken over by Fortune 500 companies, which could only be related to the subject by semantics, rather than search intent:-)
EX. Imagine you owned the phrase "growing wheat" for the last five years with a do-it-yourself farming guide, and now the results came up with Archer Daniels Midland and Stop&Shop. Another possibility is that Google has concluded two word phrases where both words can be individually associated with a serious corporation should go to them and completely ignore the smaller authority sites.
The update doesn't seem to have affected Adsense earnings for us, but that may be because the pages that tanked didn't display Adsense. Hey, wait a minute...:-)
Absolutely none, 0%, not one click?How is this possible?
well basically because my two main sites are underground forum sites- underground in the sense that you can't see much unless you are a registered member and membership is vetted and by invitation only.
some people may come via search engines but they can't see inside or the google ads, Nothing shady or illegal, it's just that so few cater for what i do in terms of offering webspace and bandwidth to do what we do that i would be swamped with users who would crash the server if i opened it further.
