Have been slowly switching to CBprosense and Adbrite lately. I decided to smart price them myself. So unless Adsense lift their game, FAST, then they can kiss my 15 million p/m impressions goodbye.

Text Link Ads
http://www.text-link-ads.com/?referrer=10847

Problogger, you really need to get rid of that recommendation and come out clean with a Blog about not doing paid links on Website!

Just having http://www.text-link-ads.com on your Website violates Google’s Webmasters Guidelines.

Clean it up and come clean or you may be on somebody’s shit list and Google will be Problogging you!!!

I have one Adsense leaderboard that that is getting X pageviews and Y clicks a day! I added another unit that was getting X*25% hits a day and Y*.02% hits a day!
Being that the second unit was generating many page views but no clicks! Of course my eCPM went down and I noticed my total CPC earned went down for the same amount of clicks as to when I had one unit!

Now maybe it was just a off day, but my gut tells me the CPC goes down when you have churn and no results!

Can someone confirm this feeling?

I hate micro managing Adsense – it must tell you if it is not dead it is dieing!

I am trying to find another CPC program but finding it a little difficult!
1. I am a travel industry vertical.
Trying Adbrite, but getting ads about dvd players!
2. 30% of my trafic is from usa the other 70% are by usa customer, generated while they are traveling abroad!
I tried Burst Media for CPM but I display 100 banner and they pay me for 30! Not fare! Also their banners are a bit grotesque!
Want to sell your liver?

Any recommendation and input would be highly appreciated!

http://www.travelconnecxion.com

P.S. not Spamming or looking for PR, just want to share my experience about web marketting, before the web disappears!
Now web 2.0 how and who is going to make money of it?
Do you guys think Myspace and Youtube user will click on buy DVD ads?
Maybe I should follow Pud and trash web 2.0 and then have some VC give me money to set up a company with intension of Google acquisition!
I am not like Pud, who spent his barmithzva money on a better modem! I spent it on, you all know what! :)
IMAO, happy bugger Pud!

Okay, any feed back would be appreaciated!

Advertisers who pay high CPC do not want to be in a busy chanel so they opt out of that one and sign up for a quite chanel to get a free ride! They know visitors see their domain name, so they get brand marketing for free – no click!

So in my humble opinion, stay away from targeted chanels,if an advertiser likes your website, let them bid for all space, the one they like or not!
No free ride, to market your domain!

Even though I fixed this problem, still compared to 3 years ago Adsense CPC and hits are down like 70%

Problogger, as for Text Link Ads, I would not recommend it!
Google and other search engines will drop your PR if you link to bad neighburhood! So a PR 7 having 3 PR 1 links may not be bad, but for PR 4 and 5 websites it may not be advised!
Also what happens if you are linking to a link farm, a spam list domain, a nasty forum with no moderator, etc.
I am sure you getting the picture!
Final thing what happens if Google and others determine that all these links come from the same program and not natural links – links out of your network of connectivety! Damb all hell will break loose and everyone will get pinalized!
Google does state in their webmaster SEO faq, do not play the pay for high PR linking we will catch you and you will be penalized!
Go figure, maybe they just saying this!
But since 3 years ago Google has reindexed its main index every time, and it has gotten harder to get an easy ride!

Anyway my .05, I do not want to squat here for ever otherwise Problogger will start charging me rent!
He, he!

My website use to get 120 hits a day but now I get 50 hits a day!
My page views unique visitors have actually increased over the period! I use to earn good money from Adsense but compering CPC and total earnings for the same amount of clicks, from before to now have decreased 70%! And you going to laugh today I am getting .04 cents CPC! I am ready to dump Adsense! It is a shame!

And some may say that my website visitors have changed, but this is not true!
I do a lot of work on my website and create useful and creative content! My searchengine refferels are good and very much optimized to my website, with good keywords to my website relevency and industry.

Too bad for Adsense!

Check out my website and see my work!
http://www.travelconnecxion.com

Problogger, I like your Blog, keep doing a good job!

for me, adsense is really alive and I think it will continue.

First, thanks for all the useful info that you have published regarding blogging. I’ve found your site to be very helpful. Just a quick question. I just started a travel-related blog… really just started, I only have two entries at this point, and I know it takes Google a while to get things up and running, but I was disturbed to notice that when I am logged onto my blog (through Soulcast), the Google ads that appear are very relevant… travel-related ads. But then, when I log out and go to my blog as a person just wanting to read it.. ie, not logged in as the blogger, the ads are all about iron-on patches, cloth patches, etc. Any idea why this would be happening? I certainly didn’t expect the ad content to change between the logged in and logged off status…. and I tried it several times in a row, and the same thing happened. Any insights you could offer would sure be appreciated.

Thanks!

To be honest I think it comes from the vast majority of bloggers who arent willing to put the effort in to find out.

Nothing comes easy. Blogging takes lots fo time, effort and dedication, but it does indeed work.