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PS: CWebguy...
I just got last month's check which was just under $200, so you can see how I wonder . . .
Note: CCleaner wouldn't affect your websites
[edited by: CWebguy at 1:11 am (utc) on May 10, 2009]
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alot of diligent, tedious time consuming SEO and all for nothing . . .
Cheers,
Before AdSense, I had been running some sites for a long time just for fun with no income. I was a latecomer to AdSense but when I joined I found I could make easy money with no additional effort to what I was already doing. Great. It wasn't a fortune but it was something, and that was better than nothing.
It wasn't long before I got very close to getting a cheque each month and that seemed to be a reasonable goal. My earnings peaked after about a year of joining and I was very close to my goal.
Ever since then I have worked hard to improve content. However, while page impressions have gone up, Adsense earnings have gone down proportionally. It has been an endless trail of diminishing returns.
For a long time I hung on to the belief that all it would take was just one little tweak to get things back on target. Even in these forums people tell us they just made one little change and earnings increased substantially.
I believed this and I have spent lots of time experimenting but earnings just continue to plummet regardless of what I change. I am now out of ideas.
When I look at how many hours I have spent in the last year trying to get my AdSense earnings back on track compared to how much I have earned, there is no way I would do any other form of work for the same hourly rate.
However, I continued in the misguided belief that one day I would make the right tweak and everything would be wonderful again. In short, it became something of an obsession ... and obsessive behaviour is dangerous.
Enough is enough. The effort I was putting in just wasn't worth it and I have decided to leave everything alone now to get on with other things in life. My AdSense earnings should continue to cover hosting costs and domain registration, and with any luck there might be a little left over each month.
For doing nothing that is fine, but based on my experience, and for me personally, it is no longer worth putting huge amounts of effort into the program.
Good luck.
Was earning quite decent sums up until 4-5 days ago. We have some 60,000 impressions per day so it wasn't a little sum. However, since those few days we've seen a major decline in CPM and earnings. To about 20% of what it usually averaged at.
This is due to a major increase of Adsense PSA's.
Not happy about this at all! :(
[edited by: Kres7787 at 6:06 am (utc) on May 10, 2009]
check your sites to see if the adsense code still has -your- publisher ID.
and change the adsense/email passwords.
Count me in, and I was concerned about the dismal $100 Friday. I guess I'm not alone.
Number of sites or numbers of pages might not be the thing to aim for. Mind you, I don't aim to make a living from adsense so what do I know. Keep doing your thing if it works for you.
In your opening post you didn't mention the most important factor in ad revenue. How many unique visitors are you getting per day?
It's been discussed here before that a reasonable benchmark is $0.01 in ad revenue per unique visitor (note that this is not impressions or page views.) I'm curious as to how this compares to your network of web sites.
It's been discussed here before that a reasonable benchmark is $0.01 in ad revenue per unique visitor (note that this is not impressions or page views.) I'm curious as to how this compares to your network of web sites.
Interesting, I came up with that figure on my own one time :) Good to know I wasn't too far off! hehe
Interesting, I came up with that figure on my own one time :) Good to know I wasn't too far off! hehe
Actually I read it in a magazine (Wired?) during the dot-com boom over 10 years ago. Ever since then I've used it as a bench mark and it's proven to be pretty accurate. Funny how it hasn't changed over such a relatively long period of time. I've seen sites do 10x that amount and 1 tenth that amount, but usually it's right on the mark.
[edited by: dataguy at 10:18 pm (utc) on May 10, 2009]
I have 40 fairly decent sites...one PR5, Another PR4 and several PR3 and PR2....
PR is meaningless as an ad revenue metric.
How many unique page views do you serve across the 40 sites?
Actually I read it in a magazine (Wired?) during the dot-com boom over 10 years ago. Ever since then I've used it as a bench mark and it's proven to be pretty accurate. Funny how it hasn't changed over such a relatively long period of time. I've seen sites do 10x that amount and 1 tenth that amount, but usually it's right on the mark.
My goal is to build a site now that people will want to keep on visiting. I believe you get a lower earnings rate on each visitor/page view but possibly greater revenues in the long run. It's all a game, hehe :)
Although one thing I figured into all this, is that you can never put a figure on the amount a person is willing to "spread the word" so to speak, and on a big site, this can mean a lot. Basically if one unique is bringing in four extras, etc. there is no way to account for this anymore, even though the traffic came from the one unique. I am calling this the "Brush Fire Technique", and do a Google search as I am writing on this now ;)
Cheers,
[edited by: CWebguy at 11:15 pm (utc) on May 10, 2009]
To clarify... 20 pages up to 60,000 pages (and you guys know who you are).
I've still seen one page outperfom 60,000.
