Adsense earnings dropped by changing web-host

Is this coincidence?

[KFish]

I changed my web-host and my earnings dropped by about 20%. Is this coincidence? Has anyone experienced this?

Do Adsense earning depends on web-host too?

[edited by: KFish at 7:59 am (utc) on June 7, 2008]

[ecmedia]

Is this coincidence?
Yes
Has anyone experienced this?
No
Do Adsense earning depends on web-host too?
No

Just make sure that your new host is a decent company that makes sure that the website is up and running 24/7 and it does not insert its own ads or do anything fishy.

[Lame_Wolf]

I agree with ecmedia. I have moved hosts a number of times and not affected earnings.

Note : My earnings have been affected, but not because of moving hosts.

[Edge]

If you’re on a shared host of any flavor, I would check your site availability time. Most shared host organizations measure "up time" as the time which the computer has electricity applied. Website access time tends to be different.

[edited by: Edge at 1:55 pm (utc) on June 7, 2008]

[surfer67]

When you changed web hosts you also changed domain name servers. This means your site may have been down for at least a few hours. Google may have visited your site during this down time and found that it did not exist. Give it a few days or more and you should be back to where you were before the move.

[Leonard0]

I experienced a drop of about 30% after my site was down for a day and had to change to a new hosting service. It took several months for my earnings to return to previous levels. Was it the downtime or the change in IP or maybe just a coincidence?
There was a similar thread a few days ago:
Changing IP and possible earnings correlation [webmasterworld.com...]

[cabowabo]

Still have the same .htaccess and robots.txt files in place?

[KFish]

Thanks everybody. So I need to wait for a few more days to see if my earnings come back to its original level.

Another interesting thing is that CTR remains the same, but EPC dropped after I changed my host.

My EPC was almost same for the last couple of years. I am sure this is no coincidence. This is why I feel it – Google has taken note of my site(s) new IP address. It will now check for sometime the quality of clicks, and if it finds its still good – will raise my EPC to its original level.

Will have to wait and see what happens.

Just make sure that your new host is a decent company

The present company is more and highly reputed and has a larger client base than the previous one.

Still have the same .htaccess and robots.txt files in place?

Yes .htaccess and robots.txt files are in place.

[edited by: KFish at 8:16 am (utc) on June 9, 2008]

[vero]

One thing I recommend to anyone who is making decent money on Adsense, is to use a website monitoring company. They're not that expensive - about $20-30 a month. I had a web host once who "guaranteed" 99.99 percent uptime, but I got notifications 4 and 5 times a day that the site was unreachable. Changed hosts REAL fast after that, and I keep the new sites monitored 24/7.

[purplecape]

I just changed hosts--for the first time in ten years!--and had some hours of downtime over the weekend due to a glitch in the switchover. But today, which is my first full day with the new host, looks like a good, solid Monday, no EPC dip, no earnings dip.

So I don't think that changing hosts necessarily causes Google to do anything.