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Anybody having a little dip in U.S traffic & revenues?
Dip started wednesday, long weekend in US,
Assume thing will be normal by Tuesday.
1) I get a lot of traffic from outside the U.S.; and...
2) My topic is leisure travel, and with the summer vacation season almost here, travelers are under pressure to make holiday plans.
Moral: Different topics often have different traffic patterns. (My site goes into hibernation during the frantic last-minute Christmas-shopping season when product-review sites may be going into turbo mode!)
Bummer for US holidays... Expect the same on Monday.
I just figured that on G Analytics accross all websites over 80% of traffic comes from the US.
Overall clicks are up 30% but revenue is down about 10%, due to lower EPC. Either advertisers are bailing and bidding lower or it's the last hurrah for the Arbi and MFA guys.
Can't wait until June 1. I am eager for a change of pace.
There's lots of reasons for slowness besides great weather and the Memorial Day weekend.
Can't wait until June 1. I am eager for a change of pace.
Don't hold your hopes too high. Through the years AS, (revenue wise) has only gotten worse for most publishers....comes 1st of June I think that the vast majority of publishers will hardly notice any up change....on the contrary, the deterioration of this program (for publishers) will continue inline with satisfying G's financial targets.
My two cents...
P.S.
Except for EFV ofcourse. He will continue to experience exceptional growth in EPC earnings, regardless ;)
[edited by: Web_speed at 12:47 am (utc) on May 28, 2007]
Through the years AS, (revenue wise) has only gotten worse for most publishers... the deterioration of this program...
Apr 27, 2006
Web_speed
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...daily income just keep deteriorating with every passing day... Right now, current click payout makes me feel abused.
Looks like you've been dealing with penny clicks for awhile now.
Is it possible the problem isn't that AdSense is witholding income from all publishers across the board and that a more likely scenario is that your site isn't performing optimally as an AdSense site for numerous reasons we've discussed recently?
We're going for a record breaking month, after 5 months of being dicked around, in and out of the index. A nice reward for hanging in there.
CPM is actually up, which is nice when the traffic is down.
That's it for me too this weekend. Traffic is down about 20%, but eCPM is up enough to offset the drop in traffic.
Is it possible the problem isn't that AdSense is witholding income from all publishers across the board and that a more likely scenario is that your site isn't performing optimally as an AdSense site for numerous reasons we've discussed recently?
:) ... anything is possible. I'm in this industry for more than 10 years now (with more then 12 web sites on a range of topics)...enough to know what is likly the reason though.
IMO, most publishers (empahsis on most) will continue to expriance deceresed earnings as time progresses. It is a sad fact of life...but it is what it is. We can continue calling it all kind of names...but nubmbers never lie.
[edited by: Web_speed at 5:12 am (utc) on May 28, 2007]
So this is pretty shaky time of year.
p/g
Through the years AS, (revenue wise) has only gotten worse for most publishers
Well. This weekend has been a bit slow, but I was expecting that, given that it's Spring Bank Holiday weekend in the UK.
But overall this is my best Adsense month in nearly four years of deploying AdSense across my site.
Each month my CTR and eCPM stay about the same but my topic coverage expands, my visitor numbers increase. This results in higher earnings month on month.
