Adsense

[I, Brian]

Anyone else seeing a sharp drop in Adsense earnings since Jan 30th?

I run a few forums, so I suspect possibly the recent update Google announced for dimishing sites with too many ads may have rolled out to the UK now, and this is what's causing a steep drop in traffic and earnings.

However, thought I'd check with everyone else first.

In the meantime, thank you, Google for continuing to squeeze everyday webmasters.

[ukgimp]

It's funny when you get the email on how to improve your Adsense revenue.

[Rooftop]

Not seeing a drop here.
We just had a record adsense month and performance is still at that level.

[I, Brian]

Okay, tracked the issue down to my three biggest forums, whose traffic and income had started to collapse the past two days. All had a double 336 box to the left of the registration box - seemed the most cost-effective before.

However, considering the recent announcement by Google of their war on ads, have instead set up a single 720 long box on each instead.

Am hoping that's the reason.

Either way, am mighty annoyed - my Adsense has been in a state of collapse since March last year. Just hope the new forum ads help reverse the trend of the past two days.

Maybe I should just go into autogenerated content spamming for Adsense?  

[rcjordan]

>Maybe I should just go into autogenerated content spamming for Adsense?

I'm looking for software now.  I want to stay away from WP, though, as it feels too prone to fingerprints.

[4Eyes]

>Maybe I should just go into autogenerated content spamming for Adsense?

I'm looking for software now.  I want to stay away from WP, though, as it feels too prone to fingerprints.

My ebay aff stuff has adsense 'potential' embedded in it - I change a couple of files on a central account and they all start showing adsense.

When ebay were paying too low for my liking, I switched it in and was surpised at how well it did - if I left in place combined revenue was slightly higher than without.
I removed it cos I don't want my nice spammy ebay sites to look any worse than they already do


For my next project, I plan on building on this by using ebay data, affiliate datafeeds and adsense together with a load of 'good' spun content.

[thesaintv12]

I'm looking for software now.  I want to stay away from WP, though, as it feels too prone to fingerprints.

I love WP, but I am currently moving away from it (writing my own generator).  The admin builds up and if you don't take care of it then the sites get hacked to bits.

[I, Brian]

Meh, turned out an exploit in vbseo left Google traffic for my biggest forums being redirected. Now fixed.

Lesson is: don't presume too much about Google updates.

[h00t]

I'm looking for software now.  I want to stay away from WP, though, as it feels too prone to fingerprints.

I love WP, but I am currently moving away from it (writing my own generator).  The admin builds up and if you don't take care of it then the sites get hacked to bits.

True, one of my sites gets almost 20 brute force attacks a day on the wp-admin.
Worth implementing .htaccess mods to stop back end attacks, but yes WP is a big target