Adsense Revenue

NameWolf · Apr 3, 2005

Hello Guys,

Has anyone noticed a huge drop in adsense revenue ? For the last two days, sites making $7-$8/day are making $0.50-$1 with the same impressions. Have any of you guys experienced a similar thing lately ? I always thought that Adsense was performing badly for the last 6-9 months but this is the last straw. If things do not change, I am going to go ahead, remove all Google ads on my sites and display my own picture instead !

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NW

csitenet · Apr 3, 2005

with the same number of click through rate? hmm.

StaticServer · Apr 3, 2005

yeah my site made 20$ in the first 3 days off of like 50 clicks or so, and since then (7 days) ive had 60 clicks and only made 7$

mike031 · Apr 3, 2005

adsense revenues are highly unstable.. there isn't much really that you can do about it... must deal with it'

NameWolf · Apr 3, 2005

Being unstable is something, but paying you a $1 for 18K impressions is something else... :-(

mike031 · Apr 3, 2005

namewolf, your google ad's aren't optimizing properly.. they must be displaying the google public service ad's..

NameWolf · Apr 3, 2005

Well not really, once a site is spidered after initial ad placement, we never see public ads. I however would be very interested to know if there is anything we can do to optimize the ads in a better fashion which would produce better results.

Thanks,

mike031 · Apr 3, 2005

what is your CTR like?

Jonathan · Apr 3, 2005

If you offer free services such as free forums, you'll probably have a really high number of impressions and low clickthrough rate. I know that this happens to me.

insomnia · Apr 3, 2005

Could just be bad season for advertisers, happends to me. Sometimes they get more competitive and up their bids, thusly changing our payouts.

cwsteam.com · Apr 3, 2005

I see a good CTR for my ads, and the numbers look good. Correct placement of ads is important.

daniel · Apr 3, 2005

I would agree with Namewolf, for the past 3 days some of our sites are down 75% in revenue. Nothing was changed and content is all optimized.

OgieOgalthorpe · Apr 3, 2005

I have found Adsense to be quite unpredictable. Furthermore, as was pointed out by Jonathan, Adsense seems to suck on forums.

mike031 · Apr 3, 2005

running adsense on small or generally open to all subjects and matters forums is pretty useless i would say.. even your everyday newbies nowadays know better then to click on the ad's which are just about everywhere you look on the net.... especially the ones drawn by keywords such as "free" which are nothing but a waste of time and complete rip offs even when infact clicked on.