Forum Moderators: martinibuster
I did what the April report suggested and watched my adsense go down the toilet through the summer and fall. I got sick of seeing ads for god-awful unrelated ads that would make my mother blush and eliminated the ad unit that these disgusting, hard-to-block ads typically appeared in. Sure I lost another 10%, but I've been able to spend my time making a better site and diversifying into another area of my life I enjoy rather than checking constantly to see if adsense is out of hand- again.
I can't really appreciate what Google -advises- because there's these little things that they keep doing "half-asked." If they could possibly get their own house in order (the page I look at) and get these little nits straightened out, then maybe their "tips" would have a shred of credibility.
- If your site is of the gazillion page impression type then the more ads the merrier.
- If your niche is saturated with valid and eager advertisers, fill them up by all means.
- If you have very little competition, more ad units is your friend.
But how many of us publishers enjoy one let alone all 3 of the conditions above? Very few, so that advice is only targeting more inventory for Google not better performance for us publishers, and should be taken as such.
I still receive those optimisation messages also.
They could use some sort of basic filters, like if CTR is over 20%, publisher most likely doesn't need any 'basic' tips.
But I'm afraid that eventually this useless feature, which kills income for many beginners, will be removed -- what seems to be fate of many of these Google's recent """"""""features"""""""" added in hurry.
