Adsense and Google search gone to pot

Adsense is bad, but Google search isn't too good either

[Thomas56]

My adsense figures are in keeping with the majority. Very bad.

My page views are around their normal average. I get around 140,000 page views a month, 60% from search engines from 4418 keywords and 17868 different keyphrases, according to AWStats as of morning of March 18, but my clicks are at about 20% of usual.

I've noticed that Google search isn't as good as it used to be. Lots of irrelevant returns. I did a search on ratings of my cell phone this morning and the second result was Obstetrician & Gynecologists in Washington.

After my cell phone search I wonder if there are others getting weird results and visiting sites out of curiosity raising the impression numbers, but not clicking on any Google ads.

Far reaching, but plausible.

I haven't been too impressed with Google trying to anticipate my searches using information from my previous searches. One interesting thing though, I'm in my 70s and my wife is sneaking up there and we haven't searched, nor are we interested in the services of Obstetricians.

Have you noticed that adsense is red underlined in Firefox and if you right click on it one of the replacement word choices is nonsense?

With all of their constant unnecessary changes has Google finally hit the Peter Principle?

I finally had to go to Bing to get some good cell phone results.

[IanCP]

I've noticed that Google search isn't as good as it used to be. Lots of irrelevant returns

Not in my personal experience. It just keeps on improving. As I type in the Google Toolbar suggestions come up to refine my search and it instinctively knows whether I want an Australian site or the WWW.

I'm well pleased.

[JasonDX]

What I do use aggressively is the "Ad Review" option for site targeted ads. I block about 80% of everything that shows up there.

My ecpm for site targeted ads is almost double that of contextual. Is this unusual or is it the norm?

[Web_speed]

I would guess the members here who are running AS are a pretty small segment of AS publishers, so it's reasonable that many others are experiencing the same thing, but aren't stopping to comment on it.

Well said!

[incrediBILL]

I would guess the members here who are running AS are a pretty small segment of AS publishers, so it's reasonable that many others are experiencing the same thing, but aren't stopping to comment on it.

Likewise, many others NOT experiencing the same thing aren't stopping to comment on it.

Well said!

Statistically unprovable.