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Either that or my AdSense is in a death sprial!
My stats are not stuck, but I'm finally getting the pageviews clicks and earnings I've been expecting.
Those of you not doing as well, hang in there. You know one thing about AdSense. It's like the weather. It will change.
It'll catch up.
My CTR is dismal again today, as well. Mid single digits. Has been double digits for a month! I made no changes. Where have my clicks gone? Yikes!
[edited by: Sally_Stitts at 4:14 pm (utc) on Sep. 3, 2008]
So, I'm just going to keep working on my sites and consulting and see what happens in a week or so.
Maybe it's something to do with electricity?
those of you that are having bad days, could it be that you have less visitors from Google Images?
I spent all afternoon trying to understand why my images are not indexed anymore on Google (Went from 3000 to 239 on September 1st). About the same thing for a similar site.
No answer yet...
Lost 30% of my visitors and Adsense revenue...
Maybe it's something to do with electricity?
that's why I tape ALL electrical connections to my computer in case electricity is leaking out. ;)
other than that, it's a death spiral.
in case electricity is leaking out
Try submerging it in water then it won't leak! :-)
Try submerging it in water then it won't leak! :-)
now that would be a death spiral.
those of you that are having bad days, could it be that you have less visitors from Google Images?
In reply to Shrike99
One particular page of mine gets most of its traffic from Google Images. This started all of a sudden some time ago. The traffic from that source remained high for a while but then completely disappeared - then it came back - then it disappeared - and then it came back again.
After reading your message I wondered if another disappearance from the Google Images index had occurred. That wasn't the case. If anything, traffic from Google Images to that page has increased recently.
However, the pattern from previous experience is that it is completely unpredictable and liable to dry up at any time without any warning or reason.
The problem I have been seeing since the start of September is a slightly lower CTR but hugely lower payments on clicks. I too was optimistic about a return to decent levels this month after the end of the holiday season but this has been my worst ever start to a month.
PS: Google image search can be *very* fickle. I would never dare focus my site traffic on it.
Of course I could torture logic and find some "rational explanation" for this. If I don't I'm sure someone here will.
This is demoralizing and gives me little incentive to improve my site.
This is demoralizing and gives me little incentive to improve my site.
I understand where you are coming from, but I believe that as I continue to improve my site(s), they wil eventually be able to generate more (profitable) income streams other than Adsense. With any luck, I will reach a level where I have many income streams of equal strength. Adsense will then be just another flavor.
I guess what I'm saying is that if Adsense is the ONLY incentive to improve my site(s) Id be in for a really rocky ride.
I guess what I'm saying is that if Adsense is the ONLY incentive to improve my site(s) Id be in for a really rocky ride.
or my AdSense is in a death sprial!
Fortunately I have a ton of real work to do and since the spiral is just getting worse and worse I think I'll not even bother checking metrics for a few days nor come here since it's both pointless and depressing since there is not a single thing within my control that I can do except remove AdSense altogether!
I've seen some $2.00 clicks today (on a forum board!) but the quantity of $0.01-0.05 clicks is ridiculous, I'd rather Google gave them to charity than see clicks of this "value" polluting my metrics!
I'm fairly sure what and why it is happening and unless one is in a sector which is popular and expanding right now many are going to feel as though they are flogging a dead horse.
I reckon there's a lot of processing going on at the 'plex and anyone way below normal might be rewarded later in the week.
I'd rather Google gave them to charity than see clicks of this "value" polluting my metrics!
husky... I've stickied you my ID. if you don't mind, can you slap it onto your site with lots of 5 cents clicks? If your traffic is anything to go by, I'd say that would give me enough to buy a house or maybe a Porsche. hehehe...
;) ;) ;)
I'd also have retracted my little insult aimed at HuskyPup after the very helpful post in the Google News forum, but the post edit timeout proved troublematic. Please ignore or forgive that.
