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Across the web I am seeing that many people are having Google woes - not just Adsense, but Adwords and Google search.
For Adsense many (but not all) people are seeing a dramatic drop in eCPM, plus there are increased reports of poorly targeted ads appearing (these two issues are inter-linked).
Over at Google Search, many sites have disappeared and I have seen numerous sites have a drop in reported links back to their site - some are now reporting about 30% of links. In a couple of cases, thousands of back-links frm quality sites have completely disappeared from Google in this last few days (the sites are there).
At Adwords, there is also reports of erratic behaviour.
Now, I am only guessing and it could well be a coincidence and selective reporting, but it sounds like a major technical glitch has hit Google's processing power. This would explain way many sites are untouched but others are being decimated.
This could also account for all the odd behaviour which has strangely occurred at the same time.
For Adwords it can mean that some newer advertisers may not have their ads to appear - or they may get mistargeted listings. This flows onto Adsense in terms of poorly targeted ads and low eCPM.
I have a network of 3 sites which has adsense on them. I see adsense ads totaly out of tune of what these sites are about.
I wonder if the reason could be a google flaw, or a wrong choice of keywords by the advertisers.
Also, does the 'per click earning' change if the publishers site is not really about the advertisers' keywords chosen?
[thehostingnews.com...]
"Beginning Thursday, February 3, 2005, apparently several keywords across multiple search topics have been attacked."
Google backlinks have been disabled for a long time now. It happened progressively. First, links from <PR4 went, then others, then it went pretty much random. It's generally understood that you can't rely on Google backlink check.
There may not be problems with Google - just a lot of change.
If they had processing power problems they wouldn't be also updating the Google Directory in the midst of all this. But they are. Right now.
Just look on it as a combination of things Google are doing all at once and perhaps for a variety of reasons, including competitor activity.
Sobriquest said on Feb 3: I have noticed the change, It started about 5 days ago and is still continuing...
In a different thread today (before I saw this thread) I posted that with my network of sites it started on Jan 29 with a sharp decline thru Feb 4. Your post date re 5 days earlier seems to correspond with my decline time frame. Anyone else agree on Jan 29 date? Could this be a bug or computer issue?
After almost 2 years of being a proud 'publisher partner', I must say I am loosing patience with Adsense and Google in general. Too much behind the scenes stuff happening in both their search results (massive drop in placing with irrelanant search results taking up the top places) and the Adsense program (massive drops) and affecting hard working publishers, without even an explaination. We're used to this sort of arrogance from Microsoft, but I believe Google are digging their own grave unfortunately.
I think it's the beginning of the end for Google, I really do. Someone's screwed up massively.
Saturday (all day) vs. Sunday (to 6pm EST)
- all my old ads are back
- CTR up 100% over Saturday
- total clicks up 50% over saturday (and day is not over)
- CPM up 30% over Saturday
- Earnings DOWN 50%
The only way this makes sense is some sort of data handling issue, and I am wondering if it is ever going to catch up....
What is going on?
