Comments on: Is Adsense Performing Poorly?

By: Arman

Arman — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:34:15 +0000

I’ve been reading about this in some forums since last week. People complaining about lower cpm and stuff. I wasn’t worried then since my site is doing okay. But this week i’m starting to see off topic ads displayed on one of my site. ctr and earning about drops

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:00:24 +0000

First thing this morning I saw that I had 8 clicks worth $1.14; however a couple of hours later these same 8 clicks became worth .48! How and why does this happen?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:55:47 +0000

Both CTR and CPM are slightly up for me this month. I hit an all time low in Sept., but it looks like things will bounce back nicely.

Things should continue to gain steam through Q4 and in the first month or so of Q1 2006, at least that’s what seems to happen the past couple holiday shopping seasons.

By: Kathy Herrmann

Kathy Herrmann — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:57:40 +0000

My little Google revenues are down but my traffic is a little lower right now too. However, my Google ads are not very good compared to what I was getting in August and September and I think it has something to do with it. I assumed it was some sort of indexing issue.

Also, I just launched a new blog with Google AdSense included. There are still some PSAs showing until there’s enough content for good indexing. However, the PSAs are in a foreign language on the new blog instead of English. This has become less frequent but it’s weird.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:49:38 +0000

mine have been going up and up, although because I’m getting more traffic this month.

By: Rose Tacher

Rose Tacher — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:37:46 +0000

Google does not disclose the share that they give us. Most of the time they can try to keep us happy by giving us bit more, but on times when quarterly financials are coming out, just behind the corner, it is time to squeeze the money screw and produce those needed figures.

Wonderful way to show up at their best at any Wall Street party. “By the way, we did it again – we topped expectations.” Great to have such a power over ones income.

I myself have seen amazing AdSense revenue over the past month and I do not even write about anything special plus I write very seldom.

By: Toivo Lainevool

Toivo Lainevool — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:04:17 +0000

My two highest earnings sites have been doing fine. One has had steady CTR and CPC over the last month. On the other, the CTR and CPC have both improved over the last week.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:03:06 +0000

I’ve been about normal/good.

By: Jacob G.

Jacob G. — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:29:37 +0000

I’ve been down as well for a couple of weeks.

By: Cary

Cary — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:10:58 +0000

Hmmm, my CTR has actually increased significantly over the last few weeks, but the CPC has definitely dropped for me…I use AD targeting, too.

By: John

John — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:47:10 +0000

There is also another factor that no one has mentioned and that is the economy. I am not saying the economy on the whole is slowing down but it could have something to do with it. Gas prices has been going up around the world and has been really felt hard by the US economy. Also the stock market has been declining quite a bit in the last few weeks.

If the economy is not doing well, businesses spend less which means publishers get fewer and lower paying ads.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:20:29 +0000

I agree earnings are down, but that could be due to a number of things on my sites.

Definitely the extra competition in the market place is starting to take affect.

The days when UPS delivered google checks could be sadly over.

By: Scaramouch

Scaramouch — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:50:39 +0000

Yes, CTR dramtically down over the last week. They were never really high on our blog, as it’s not a blog focussed on products or product evaluation, so no-one comes to our site in “buying mode”. So, regardless of page design (and I happen to think ours is pretty good) my CTR have always been less than 1%. But we still get enough traffic that I can see CTR decrease dramatically over the last week.

But again, also, it coincided with a) Chikita implementation and b) section targetting. CTR going down due to Chikita I can handle. CTR decreasing because of section targetting makes no sense at all.

By: colbert

colbert — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:32:47 +0000

my site at http://www.thesmsguide.com/blog/ is DOING ok for now. Its even increased from last month. So no rotten eggs to throw at Google yet.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:53:00 +0000

My CTR has been steady, if not improving a little, but click values have gone down across the board.

By: Dan Wolfgang

Dan Wolfgang — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:43:20 +0000

I’ve seen a slight decrease in CTR over the past three weeks. (10% below normal? About that.) But the last three days have been absolutely horrendous–CTR has been about 25% of normal.

Ads seem to be targetted pretty well, and I am using section targetting (which was implemented a few weeks back).

The thing is, I’ve been using Mint [http://www.haveamint.com] and the AdSense Pepper. According to the Pepper, over the past few days I’ve been getting the same number of clicks as normal, making me wonder if Google isn’t miscounting somehow.

By: Rob Barac

Rob Barac — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:39:04 +0000

My adsense figures have been pretty dismal since I started. I put that down to poor page design and ad placement. My chitika numbers have been inconsistant, but have earned similar revenue compared to AdSense.

I recently updated the roblog (http://www.intersplice.com.au/blog) with better ad placement and I tried using alternating adsense colours. I saw an immediate spike in my adsense CTR. Double figures infact. This worries me a bit as I wonder if Google may react badly/suspiciously to a sudden spike and close the acc.

I am yet to try AdGenta, maybe I’ll throw the code into a different blog altogether.

By: Bryan Rich

Bryan Rich — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:19:48 +0000

Hi Darren,

a couple of days ago I’ve started using AlternateURL to replace Google’s PSA ads. I’m still evaluating revenues, but my traffic is low so I need an entire month to have numbers.

If you wanna give it a try this is my affiliate link:

http://www.alternateurl.com/index.php?rid=799

and here the disclaimer:

Disclaimer: the link to AlternateURL in this comment is an affiliate link – if you sign up using these links I earn a small amount as a commission. It does not impact what you earn from AlternateURL but rather is paid by AlternateURL. While this link is an affiliate link I genuinely believe in the product and have endeavored to point out both its benefits and weaknesses in all my writing about it.

By: pcunix

pcunix — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:54:02 +0000

I’m also up about 15% since adding YPN and Chitika. I attributed this to the new ads helping combat ad blindness. Chitika revenue is dismal, but as Google is up quite a bit, and I can run them non-contextual on the same page, I’ll leave them in place. YPN revenue varies; sometimes its better than Google, sometimes much worse. Over a week, YPN seems to have similar performance to Google so again I’ll leave it in place.

By: lyndon

lyndon — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:44:50 +0000

I see programmes like Chitika (I still can’t say it out loud) as a viable replacement for adsense. For one, it’s sexier, more exciting, makes my website look cool. It also allows hard coding of the keywords, which can be very useful. I signed up using your affiliate link Darren so hopefully you get lots of lovely cash.

It seems that all these new contextual and quasi contextual ad systems coming on to the market are making the buy advertising market more efficient outside of adsense and are chipping away at the Google behomoth with a thousand little hammers. This can only be good for us little and not so little bloggers.

In this business, nothing stays still for long, you have to constantly try new systems and test test test.