Two Adsense Accounts, Do They Hurt Each Other?

Page views going down on both

[vegasrick]

I asked this question earlier, but may have asked it the wrong way.

I've noticed a very noticeable decline in my Adsense. Page Views, Impressions and Clicks.

I've also noticed that one of my top tier networks (who I earn more with than Adsense) is rotating in a third party partner network - and that party network is rotating in their company Adsense account.

Every since that started taking place, the decline began with my Page Views, Impressions and Clicks.

My traffic has been steady. Is it possible that this secondary Adsense account is causing my stats to decline? For example, if their Adsense ad loads first, would that cause my page impression/page view to lose the credit?

I've also noticed some blank ads on my end, likely from their rotation of Adsense causing too many Adsense spots to come up on the page at once, so the duplicates are blanked out.

[RedBar]

I wonder if you're clutching at straws here, so many people are reporting reduced earnings that I feel you may have to sit back and just see if it recovers naturally over the next few weeks since tampering with it may just make things worse and a combination of circumstances may make it very difficult for you to know precisely what did what to what and when!

Than again I don't use any other form of advertising therefore I may be way off.

[vegasrick]

@red, the adsense is always low during January so that's not exactly a concern. But when my clicks suddenly dip, along with other Adsense stats once we introduce those new tags, then it shows me something else is wrong.

[vegasrick]

Although in terms of clicks, we started adding photos to our most popular articles and I wonder if that's distracting users from clicking on ads.

But honestly think there is a pattern where my other network serving in Adsense is causing them to hurt each other.

[ember]

we started adding photos to our most popular articles and I wonder if that's distracting users from clicking on ads

Why I don't use photos.

[tangor]

If your third party is also using adsense, why? And why would you participate in dilution of product? I'd rethink that, for sure.

Secondly, you might be seeing some of this (Zombie Traffic): [webmasterworld.com...]

[vegasrick]

@tangor, they never did that before and when questioned they said they don't even work with Adsense. Likely, one of their third parties is rotating in the ads. My RPM has gone to hell because of this (as all of these ads are competing with each other) and I can't tell which of their partners is rotating in the ads.

[netmeg]

Some networks use AdSense and also other ads that look like AdSense (they have the blue arrow, but if you click on it, it doesn't go to Google it goes somewhere else) I haven't noticed a drop that I can attribute to that. However I don't much care for it because it seems to increase the instances of duplicate ads on a page.