Friday Oct 22 Change and Adsense revenue

adsense debacle

[epmaniac]

just was wondering

we used to make around US$ 500 each day before october 22 changes (algo tweak whatever) now our revenue has gone downto lowly US$ 120

what is the case with rest of you guys, i am really frustrated

[jetteroheller]

Seems You are talking about the samt, as my best student is just right now suffering.

As I wrote in the past, he started summer 2008 with my system, had since summer 2009 stable abouve 600.-EUR a month.

September his first days beyond 50.-EUR, month total first time beyond 800,-EUR

October 21 to 22 his Google vistiors droped severe.

Before, about 2000 pages had been shown with
site:example.com

This has dropped to 930 pages.

All own written content, self created photos,
most about home improving and energy saving.

His AdSense revenues dropped by 60%

[farmboy]

October 21 to 22 his Google vistiors droped severe.

Before, about 2000 pages had been shown with
site:example.com

This has dropped to 930 pages.

Isn't that more of a search results situation rather than an AdSense situation?


FarmBoy

[nomis5]

No drop in earnings here, uk. I have a steady continuing increase. Some up some down syndrome?

[ken_b]

we used to make around US$ 500 each day before october 22 changes (algo tweak whatever) now our revenue has gone downto lowly US$ 120

That's big drop!.

Did your traffic drop or traffic source change or is traffic the same and just the income dropped?
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[alika]

I experienced the same exact levels of drop several years ago (Jagger update?). It was nerve racking to see that your numbers are not going up the way they used to. But ours was accompanied by 80% drop in Google traffic.

My Adsense rep had to check with the search team if the site was indeed penalized.

It took us 3 months to get back our normal earning levels when we corrected the problem. We were hurt by our magnanimous linking to other sites. We removed our links directory, and we got back in Google. Got our traffic back, Adsense income rose up to its highest levels, but never regained our #1 ranking for our main highly competitive keyword (2.4 billion results).

[nethead]

thats a big drop. do some seo and see what happens. Another reason could be that you got smart priced by the google police.

[Rockyou]

Have you lost traffic or its just adsense ecpm fall?

[indyank]

I strongly believe that kind of fall should have been triggered by a traffic drop.You probably need to correct that.

[epmaniac]

yes my traffic drop 75%

[nethead]

auto generated content? we had a site that it dropped dramatically couple months back (may day) and it was mainly auto generated.

[jetteroheller]

yes my traffic drop 75%

Does this means You do not have much repeated visitors?

At my student, the traffic dropped by 50%.
Same stream of repeated visitors, but far less from Google.

[jetteroheller]

yes my traffic drop 75%

Does this means You do not have much repeated visitors?

At my student, the traffic dropped by 50%.
Same stream of repeated visitors, but far less from Google.

[jetteroheller]

My student is just right now in "I have to change" panic, because of the changes.

He just thinks "To many ads on a page".

3 AdLinks
336x280
300x250
600x120 is common for many pages.

Anybody heared from search penalties base on Google ads?

He uses nearly the same layout as I,
the only difference to my own pages is,
he has in many pages a 600x120 left of the content area.

I compared in Google Analytics basic data of one of my sites and his site. Most parameters very similar according viditor behavior.

[ken_b]

yes my traffic drop 75%

I can sure understand your frustration with the traffic loss, and the resulting income drop.

What to do about the traffic drop is another matter. Did you have a "Plan B" ready to implement in case something like that happened?

[alika]

Anybody heared from search penalties base on Google ads?

NO. If this is true, then no one will ever use Adsense, thereby the death of Google's important cash cow

Like OP, we experienced a huge Adsense income drop when 80% of our Google traffic disappeared. But ours was due to our link policy at that time. We removed all our link exchange pages and linked to no one unless in the context of an article or blog post

Then and only then did Google traffic came back up, and with it the highest levels of Adsense income we ever got (this was 4Q 2005, and Jan 2006 was phenomenal in terms of Adsense)

Having gone through the same thing, my advice is to first look at your site with a fine tooth comb to see what Google disliked about it.

Ask for the help of some folks here - I remember asking about it in the Google forum to help me diagnose the problem. I had other folks look at my site. Once we've identified the culprit - link exchange -- we wasted no time fixing the problem

[koan]

If this is a traffic matter than this shouldn't be in the Adsense section.