remove ads completely for 1 week

[yc168]

Dear all,

i have a site that have everage 100k unique visitor per day.

my ecpm has been 1/4 of my everage ecpm since 1 dec 2006 and nver recover till now.

I am thinking to remove all adsense script from my site. and put it back 1 or 2 weeks later. I know i will lost about few hundreds dollars but I think it's worth to try.

Does anyone out here try it before? and if yes what is the outcome?

Cheers...

[jevosun]

good idea!

[yolkman]

same thing.

[rj87uk]

Why? Whats the point?

Let us know how it goes?

[Fuzzyfish1000]

I'm not sure why you would do that, or what you'd hope to achieve...

[subhendu]

I am facing the same situation. But I am thinking to remove some ads from different locations but not thinking to completely remove them.

[FourDegreez]

Wait... you have 100k users per day, and make only a few hundred dollars every one or two weeks?

[Scurramunga]

Rather than remove them completely limit supply, so that only a few blocks remain on your highest performing pages.

[Play_Bach]

> Rather than remove them completely limit supply, so that only a few blocks remain on your highest performing pages.

Have you tried doing this? If so, what happened?

Thanks

[yc168]

my intention is to see if after 1 or 2 weeks later my ecpm will recover. I know some will think this is stupid idea. but I believe no one know their algorithm, system design and logic. except google itself. So, the only way to find out is to try it out.

yes. i am earning around $100/day for that huge traffic. I have few sites. one of the site has ecpm < 0.05. I have one small site that has ecpm 4 previously. most of the users are repeating visitors in forum.

[sailorjwd]

Sounds like you might have a lot more to work with than just removing the ads.

Have you tried placement, colors, block ads that suc?

I'd think you'd get more clicks just from random idiot clicks.

[Scurramunga]

Have you tried doing this? If so, what happened?

I've been keeping my adblocks to a minimum for quite some time. During high traffic and high (average) EPC times I might display ads on about 20% of my site. If times turn sour as they did around mid November to early January I trim adblocks back even further. I seem to recover my average EPC and overall income each time I do this.

My philosophy is that ads that pay only a couple of cents a click arn't worth displaying as my traffic volumes aren't high. (aprox 400 uniques daily)

[Scurramunga]

Just a side note to that last post:

You might well argue that the rises in earnings described are coincidntal and not a result of my actions. Ok, that's a fair argument.

But........

In good times past when I have decided that it's time for an expansion of ad bearing pages or even an extra block on certain pages; I have always found that overall earnings do not increase. In fact durning each of those occasions, performance and earnings have always declined.

[iwannano1]

I'd like to share my past experience with forum. I had 3 ad blocks and 30k unique visitor a day and I was making around $30 with AS

I have removed the Google and made it as fallback only. I have sign up with the ad network for CPM based ads. If CPM ads are not available, ad system fallback to Google.

With 100k unique a day you should try out CPM ads, IMPO.

I have also added yearly $49 subscription option w/o ads. I'm getting 10-15 subscribers per month.

Hope this helps!

[ken_b]

It's possible that your epc will rise a bit when you put the ads back on the site. But that probably will last only until the first round of Smart Pricing strikes the site again.

And it might take a month or more of not running ads to get the temporary increase when ads are reinstalled.

In my opinion it's not likely to be worth it. You may lose more while the ads are off the site than you gain after putting them back on.