Are your Adsense earnings low?

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I've noticed a massive drop in adsense revenue which started around the end of February and have noticed other people talking about the same thing... I think this is due to the economy, but just curious if anyone else there has noticed this?

Trying to figure out if I'm the only one going crazy or not?

Here are some posts about this:

Why AdSense Earnings Are Sharply Dropping : SEO Book.com

Google AdSense Earnings Way Down in January 2008?

Google Paid Search on the Decline | Inside the Secret Life of a Super Affiliate - Zac Johnson dot Com
 


This is an affiliate marketing forum, which means most of us are advertisers in adsense, not publishers. I hope you can understand the difference here.

Said differently; no one here gives a fuck. The less money you make as an adsense publisher is (probably) the less money we spend as advertisers.

You're in the wrong forum.
 
I know there are members here that do deal with Adsense (deStone?), so this is relevant. Maybe not relevant to the affiliate marketing forum in particular, but I don't see an Adsense forum.

That brings me to another issue - Why is there no forum specifically related to PPC here? Everything gets lumped into the affiliate marketing forum, whereas it would be best suited for its own section.
 
aim said:
This is an affiliate marketing forum, which means most of us are advertisers in adsense, not publishers. I hope you can understand the difference here.

Said differently; no one here gives a fuck. The less money you make as an adsense publisher is (probably) the less money we spend as advertisers.

You're in the wrong forum.
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Thank you for your wonderful advice ;)

Yes, I realize this is an affiliate marketing forum but did not see an adsense category. I was just curious...

So I assume it's safe to say your adwords bill has been lower lately?

:Yahoo_29:
 
I'm a newbie at adsense and I wish there was a section for that. So since there isn't, I think this person is fine to ask this here. I wish I had an answer, but I am bumping this for him....I would like to hear more about this.

Blessings!
 
While this is by no means scientific, for February and March I did have what I would consider to be an average number of impressions and clicks but lower earnings. I am relatively sure I'm not being smart priced so my anecdotal evidence would certainly tally with the general consensus but ultimately I always tend to err on the side of waiting a bit longer to see with these things.
 
Now that you mention it, my adsense has been down by about 80% over past months. I attributed it to the drop in traffic I've noticed to my sites. Economy? Who knows? I believe its just traffic volume .
 
It's the result of the changing the clickable area on the ads from the entire ad (including whitespace) to just the title and url. Don't remember the exact date this went into affect, but it was 2 or 3 months ago.

Do a search and you'll see everyone complaining about it... 3 months ago.
 
It's gonna be interesting to see how google's stock price reacts to this. I think I'm gonna nuke adsense and replace with various affiliate offers or ebay... cuz what they are paying is insulting.

I guess on the bright side this is good news for everyone buying ads...
 
All ads are down because clicks are down. On the cover of business week last week was an article asking if Google can maintain dominance. Their stock has tanked because of the drop in earnings, etc. Recessions do that I think ...
 
I have never really made money with adsense. I'm waiting Google to complete my next payment and then I'll remove the whole crap from my code. :)

'nuf said.
 
astroglide said:
It's the result of the changing the clickable area on the ads from the entire ad (including whitespace) to just the title and url. Don't remember the exact date this went into affect, but it was 2 or 3 months ago.

Do a search and you'll see everyone complaining about it... 3 months ago.
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Correct, this is exactly what has been killing adsense lately. In the long run it hurts both publishers and advertisers as well as google because when publishers aren't making dick with adsense they will remove it and look for other methods to monetize their site websites, that means less traffic sources via google adwords for us.
 
Could be because they started manually giving sites poor quality scores on the content network (which simply turns your ad off) just as they do on adwords. Less advertisers = less revenue for you
 
catman said:
While this is by no means scientific, for February and March I did have what I would consider to be an average number of impressions and clicks but lower earnings. I am relatively sure I'm not being smart priced so my anecdotal evidence would certainly tally with the general consensus but ultimately I always tend to err on the side of waiting a bit longer to see with these things.
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This has been my experience too. Exactly. I do run adsense on some sites, and I actually had more impressions/clicks last month then I did in February, but about 20% lower earnings.
 
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