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I am in the USA, State of Florida.
Still quite happy with earnings.
What happened was: After several years of ill health I was not able to do much to my site but now that I am much better I have went through and cleaned code, tweaked here and there added more content and generally freshened up the entire site. It is only about 650 pages, give or take a few, and has been up since 1997.
Not real happy with my smaller site as it has been scraped so many times that I can't get it off of page 4 to page 6 where it just slides around LOL.
It was when I finished the job that the increase began. I am now in the process of planning a new site, on a completely different subject, Just hope it flies.
I am now in the process of planning a new site, on a completely different subject, Just hope it flies.
Ad rotation is pretty stale, may have peaked until some new ones show up, other than that, I can't see a reason why. I'm at about 25% of last year this time (traffic up, $$ down)
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Me too, not sure if it is more ad money returning to the pool after the july 4th holidays, or because of site edits.
One site has hundreds of pages, most running adsense code, so I decided to do a little pruning.
I had some pages with a high ctr but with a low impression rate. Each page was only being viewed 10-20 times a month.
I decided to remove the code from all pages with low page impressions, and just run large rectangle ads on high traffic sections.
EPC has doubled.
Hopefully this trend continues upwards, some of the click payouts in the last week have been lower than a limbo pole at a jockey party.
I'm also thinking of experimenting with horizontal ad link units. Right now I only run one block of code per page, but the ad links seem unobtrusive, and might not scare off my visitors.
New ASA is here so I request him to participate here and clear doubts that Google has not changed sharing criteria based on Geographical algorithm. I would love to be assured by his/her answer i.e. “This might be due to recent updates in Google algorithm nothing to do with AdSense sharing” etc.. Once I have that I would be glad to concentrate on other aspect of my site.
If August is better than June/July, I may squeak into the UPS club.
ADSENSE RULES!
Thank you Google.
Amen.
It's a big Google world! LOL
Seriously, look how many are way down, and then look how many are up. We're all over the map, people! Damn sloppy way to run a forum.
I'll right this listing ship with my report of a July that picked up exactly where June left off. No discernible change at all.
SO THERE! HAVE AT YOU!
But today it has been really slow and I have hardly earned anything. The only conclusion I can draw is that Google is broke today. Or maybe they are cheating me?
Or maybe you just have good days and bad days . . .
one of the worst days ever
Nope, the day after was stellar as well.
I was stuck in your rut months ago swebbie, then I did a few things, including adding AdLinks and my daily average shot up to $160/day and I've been a hair away from breaking $200/day more times than I'd like to admit. Trying to getting over that $200/day hump has been interesting but it's getting closer all the time (this month's average is up) and I'm sure it'll be as thrilling as my first day of breaking $100.
There will be a round of beer for whoever visits the Prince of Wales pub on the day I bust $200 ;)
It just needs new carpeting, paint, power washing, more beer taps.....
