02.06.2007 - Clicks are Down by 50 %

Is there some explanation?

[rebbu]

Last 4 days my clicks drop down by 50%, and my visits go up by 10-15%, and today is the same. Can someone explain how is that possible?

I think that someone is "stealing" my Cliks.

[Green_Grass]

How does one steal clicks. Pls illuminate.

[FourDegreez]

CPM ads, maybe.

[rebbu]

How can i disable CPM Ads?

Is that possible?

Or it is just my luck

[edited by: rebbu at 6:40 pm (utc) on Feb. 8, 2007]

[MThiessen]

You have to contact google directly, I did it before and it lowered income. There is nothing in the account interface to shut it off.

[rebbu]

What do you mean when you say contact google? and tell them what, dont show CPM ads on my site?

Please help, this thing is no better even today?

[europeforvisitors]

Your drop in clicks could be caused by any number of things, ranging from poor ad targeting to changes in your traffic mix (as a result of search-engine changes) to "ad blindness" by repeat visitors who have seen the same handful of ads too many times. Also, it could be within the statistical margin of error. I'd wait a while before doing anything drastic.

[MThiessen]

What do you mean when you say contact google?

I mean go into the adsense help section and look for an email or contact form. Don't remeber what page right off, I have a rep so I just call her when I need something.

Only by writing google and asking them to "Shut off CPM targeted ads" can you get it to shut off.

I doubt very seriously it will solve your problem...

Why not try different ad unit sizes, colors at different locations in your site? Experiment. Try running more ad units, if you are running the max amount, cut back some. Just experiment.

Give a week between experiments to get true data, daily fluctuations can be misleading.

[Leonard0]

Maybe advertisers are switching to Yahoo. Their new ad system started up on Feb 5, but just in the US.

Yahoo's Panama: The Switch Is Flipped on The New Ad System [webmasterworld.com ]

[wings]

I'm 50% down everywhere over a period of 6 days now on a site with severqal thousand visitors daily. Both eCPM and CTR are down, I'm almost breaking record lows every day since I started to use Adsense 1 1/2 years ago. Fluctations...that's what Google said to me. Sure....

[guru5571]

I'm having record lows too. Same timeframe.

[koan]

Could these new lows be attributed to new big adsense publishers such as MySpace that are driving the EPC down?

[andrewshim]

I'm 50% down everywhere over a period of 6 days now ... Fluctations...that's what Google said to me. Sure....

ditto...

Maybe advertisers are switching to Yahoo. Their new ad system started up on Feb 5, but just in the US.

Would explain why...

[eddy22]

Is it related to valentine's day?