Adsense sucks for last 3 days

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Hi,

I made consistently less than 10 cents for each click in Adsense for last 3 days. Its happening to me only? what about you guys
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    wrong choice of keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author bannor32
    Could be smart priced. Google is sticky about making sure their advertisers are getting value for their money. If your visitors are arriving on your site by searching for antique tea cups, but are clicking an Adsense ad for football tickets then you aren't sending the advertiser targeted visitors. This happens if your website is broad in topic rather than focusing on a narrow niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      I have asked a similar question before and have been blown off
      the same way. So I stopped asking it. But if people will
      really, really, PLEASE look at what the question is and
      give a fair assessment.

      Satisfied with adsense. Then boom, sinks like a rock, then
      picks up again. The problem can't be keywords as the
      same keywords are there since the beginning. So, please,
      what is a reasonable explanation for humming along,
      crashing, then humming, crashing, repeat. Is it
      popular search terms? Google slap on website? Or what?

      It would be keywords and other things if it sucked for
      the whole time.


      Paul


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      • Profile picture of the author askloz
        it is the keywords... if you're gonna remain in that box, then you aint gonna know how to pull out the high paying keywords... THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

        and if ppl decided to read the forum rather than asking the same question over and over again, one might learn something, so many ppl here ask the same questions cos they can;t be bothered to read the posts that have been answered about a 1000 times already.

        If you want the answer, head over to bradcallen.com/forum and watch the keyword elite video I did, it explains the formula I use to pull out $1-4 clicks ALL the time.

        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        I have asked a similar question before and have been blown off
        the same way. So I stopped asking it. But if people will
        really, really, PLEASE look at what the question is and
        give a fair assessment.

        Satisfied with adsense. Then boom, sinks like a rock, then
        picks up again. The problem can't be keywords as the
        same keywords are there since the beginning. So, please,
        what is a reasonable explanation for humming along,
        crashing, then humming, crashing, repeat. Is it
        popular search terms? Google slap on website? Or what?

        It would be keywords and other things if it sucked for
        the whole time.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          How do keywords work for quite a while, then boom,
          they suck ? There is nothing in your answer to explain
          that. We are not asking what keywords pay. We are not
          asking what keywords to put on a site. At least I'm not.

          I am simply asking the following:
          I was perfectly happy with adsense for a long time.
          Then boom. Goes to nothing.

          Now, maybe I can guess what you are saying by reading between
          the lines. Are you saying that because we have iffy keywords,
          that adsense will fluctuate? And if we don't want our adsense to
          have such drop-offs, then we need to rethink what we are targeting?

          If this is not the case, then can you at least give us people some
          other scenarios that would lead to a sudden drop off?

          I don't care if you call me names, rant, rave, whatever, I can
          take it, just give me a little more valuable info from one
          Warrior to another! Trust me, I am watching the video!!!!!!!
          So far, looks just like one of the best!

          Paul
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          • Profile picture of the author askloz
            dude, you're proving my point here, ppl rather have their hand held out screaming for help and wont get off their butt to find out.

            I already gave you the solution, did you get off your bottom and go watch the video I was talking about on brad callens forum for keyword elite VIDEO manual I made?
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    We seem to be on a merry-go-round.
    Since nobody has given a good answer, I guess
    I will take a stab at the answer, starting with the first reply above.

    I am assuming it has everything to do with updated content, PR,
    quality of traffic, SERP, etc. that has recently taken a dive.
    If your site was SEO'd for your keywords and indeed was humming
    along successfully, it would have nothing to do with keywords, as
    those have served you well all along.

    Paul

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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      paul, you're lazy... aren't you.... and stop spamming your links on the forum!

      http://bradcallen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7235

      now get off your butt and watch the video
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        If you do research on keywords - and go back a couple months later and do the same research you will have quite different results in many niches.

        My adsense has been up considerably this week - but that might (or might not) be related to adding some articles/content with expanded keywords after doing my KW research once again for those sites.

        Keywords don't "serve you well over time" for many niches. The focus changes, the long tails change, what the public searches for changes - that's the point.

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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by askloz View Post

        paul, you're lazy... aren't you.... and stop spamming your links on the forum!

        BradCallen.com • View topic - Keyword Elite Video Manual Inside - Click Here

        now get off your butt and watch the video
        See the last two responses have been terrific.
        Why is this askloz allowed to rant, rave and call people names?
        I wouldn't even consider watching your video now, that's for
        sure. Perhaps you have some pull here and they allow you to
        go off. You seem to be the one spamming links. Answering
        questions by saying look at my site. And cram their sig
        with links.

        I ask real questions and give thoughtful answers, not one
        liners like the aforementioned person.

        But hey, I heard the warriors forum was like that.
        Just have avoided people like that so far I guess.

        Why is this forum allowed to be run by people like askloz, who can flame people,
        and post non-replies, spin a whole bunch of links, and get away with
        it?

        Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          Why is this askloz allowed to rant, rave and call people names?
          Excuse me... why is it that you DEMAND an answer and you can't be arsed to search for posts about it, or even watch a video that answers your question...

          Listen, other people's lives do not revolve around you. If you think ppl are gonna come to your door and answer your questions without you getting off your backside, then you got another thing coming, and it doesn't surprise me why you're not successful.

          Those that are, get off their bum and find the answers

          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          I wouldn't even consider watching your video now, that's for
          sure. Perhaps you have some pull here and they allow you to
          go off. You seem to be the one spamming links. Answering
          questions by saying look at my site. And cram their sig
          with links.
          I'm not spamming links at all, and since you're not that observant, you might want to check the forum posting rules of spamming links in posts that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic in question.

          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          I ask real questions and give thoughtful answers, not one
          liners like the aforementioned person.
          for crying out loud... I gave you a resource to go and look at, if you don't want to watch it and learn HOW I HAVE TAUGHT OVER 1000 PEOPLE to find high paying keywords, fine, settle with your low paying clicks! No skin off my nose.

          as for one liners.. ok, then I wonder why 99 ppl gave thanks to my posts for all those one liners? OK.. what ever!

          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          But hey, I heard the warriors forum was like that.
          Just have avoided people like that so far I guess.
          yeah, and they also ignore those ppl like you who don't bother to help themselves... rather with their hand held out looking for ppl to rush to THEM to help them.

          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          Why is this forum allowed to be run by people like askloz, who can flame people,
          and post non-replies, spin a whole bunch of links, and get away with
          it?

          Paul
          I'm not spinning any links anywhere, that link there is a resource that answers your question, not like your posts that talks about steriods.. I unlike you follow the rules of a forum that Allen sets... I have a sig, sure, I only have a few links there, compared to some ppl here, some have twice the amount I have, so they're spamming too? hmm, ok, what ever...

          Go and take a chill pill - or have you substuted them with the steriods instead?? If so, that explains it all.
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          • Profile picture of the author paulgl
            Demanding an answer on THE question.
            Not answering a question that somehow you
            twist around. But hey, that suits your style.

            Beats me why Kay King can answer the question
            at hand, but you can't. So, just admit it.
            You have no answer.

            If there's spamming done here, you are the main culprit.
            You give multiple one-line answers, with multiple links.
            But I could care less about you. And this thread may
            open the eyes of other people.

            Paul
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            • Profile picture of the author askloz
              you're pathetic, you know that... and Kay King didn't explain how to pull out those high paying clicks, I DO IN THE VIDEO THAT YOU'RE TOO LAZY TO WATCH!

              Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

              So, just admit it.
              You have no answer.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlbertF
    Use Adword's keyword tool to find high competitive keywords and base your blog on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author webwealth7
    My Adsense earnings have been declining for the past several weeks regardless of what I try.

    Fortunately, my amazon earnings have skyrocketed - far surpassing adsense earnings.
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  • Profile picture of the author MADINAZ
    I've pulled adsense off of as many pages as I could replacing it with cpa offers. I've had more luck doing that then using adsense even on really adsense friendly sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cosmo Demopoulos
    I've had 3 really good AdSense days, including a record yesterday. Before that I was getting lots of 4-10 cent clicks.

    Don't know why, could just be random variations.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Heron
    Dear Raider,

    There could be a few reasons for the lowering of your CPC.

    If you haven't changed any of your sites content, then the demand for the keywords you've optimized your site under could have lowered. This usually results if a high paying advertiser who was paying a lot of money for broad keywords ends up pulling all of their ads. This is of course considering that this advertisers ads were clicked on a lot before the problem. This is not necessarily a likely scenario, but one that does happen.

    If on the other hand you've made changes to your website, then we could go into the diagnostics of it and look at a more probable explanation.

    Without knowing how much you were making per click before the price decrease, knowing whether you've made changes to your website and keywords, and things like that, we can only speculate what the problem may be.
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  • Profile picture of the author pearsonbrown
    Askloz may have a somewhat confrontational style but he does provide more useful and relevant help than 99% of Warriors. If you're getting hung up on HOW he says it rather than WHAT he says, you're the one losing out big time.

    My own Adsense income has been poor recently, sometimes less than $100 a day, and the only explanation I can come up with is that that the competition on Adwords is down and prices have gone down.

    Pearson
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  • Profile picture of the author arturus
    Hi Pearson, I'll have to agree with you on that one. Askloz is confrontational but he knows his stuff. The search facility on WF is good and I use it a lot to find the info I want.

    Arturus
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      Originally Posted by pearsonbrown View Post

      Askloz may have a somewhat confrontational style but he does provide more useful and relevant help than 99% of Warriors. If you're getting hung up on HOW he says it rather than WHAT he says, you're the one losing out big time.
      I just speak my mind... I don't mean any disprect to any one, but as I say, being blunt is the way I have always been, and what gets on my tits the most are lazy ppl who demand answers, and what's more, u give them a resource to look at, and they still wont look at it...

      oh hum... some ppl are hard to pls.



      Originally Posted by arturus View Post

      Hi Pearson, I'll have to agree with you on that one. Askloz is confrontational but he knows his stuff. The search facility on WF is good and I use it a lot to find the info I want.

      Arturus

      Any ways, in the light of a new morning, a new day... here's a tip

      Who's done PPC with Adwords? Any one?

      K, who knows the basics that if you have a high performing ad, fair amount of impressions and lots of clicks... what's the end result?

      LOW COST PER CLICK, right? ok

      Now we're on the same page.

      Now, lets move over to Adsense, and apply the same theory - but in reverse, this is where the out of box thinking comes into play, which I have proven about 100 times to 1000's of people already.

      The more impressions your web page gets, and the odd click here or there, what happens? The less you get.

      What happens if you get fewer page impressions with a high CTR, and a click or two... what's the end result? A higher payout.

      Now, this varies from niche to niche... and I don't recommend MP3's, they only pay 1-8 cents...

      BUT, niches like Asbestos Exposure pays around $1.10 - $2.85 per click. Where asbestos pays around 35-50 cents.

      Why?

      Cos Asbestos Exposure is more of a targeted phrase compared to the broad term "asbestos"... it's more of a research word... and less targeted, where "asbestos exposure" is more specific, ie, asbestos poisoning, asbestos lawyer...

      now, since "asbestos" is a broad term, more ppl may just enter that into the search engine, or you may just have that word only on your page with adsense on it. This will cause the visitor to click on ads related to that particular phrase, more clicks, the less the advertiser has to pay... less clicks they get, the more they pay,the more they pay, the higher your share will be.

      since the other phrases "asbestos exposure", "asbestos lawyer", "asbestos poisoning" are more targeted and less searched compared to "asbestos", less clicks are gonna be seen from it, which results in more of a cut of your commission from adsense.

      it doesn't end there either... there's another very important part of the formula here, infact, probably the most important one that I have discovered.

      I pull out keyword elite. run a huge ass keyword list.

      Filter it out to 2-3 worded phrases... split them in groups of 100 and run them via project 2.

      when the results come back... I take a look at how many campaigns there are.

      If it has a max of 10, but min of 5, or if I lucky enough to find max 8, min 5 for a variety of 2-3 word phrases (this tends to cut about 70-80% of the fluff out there - low paying ones even if they have a High CPC)...

      Once I find those amount of campaigns, I then sort them into $25-30 or higher CPC's... and a medium amount of searches, ie, 1000-5000 searches per month.

      Once I've done that, I place 3 of the main high paying, low campaigned associating keywords inside an article, in the first paragraph, last paragrah, and one in each on it's own paragraph, and link these up which only have one keyword in each paragraph to another page that specifically goes into more detail about that single linked up phrase, which helps a lot in regards to the onpage seo factors for a good score of relevency and high rankings.

      And only place ONE 336x280 or 300x250 which are the highest paying and performing ad units...

      Why only one?

      Same goes here, the more impressions you get on your page, the less you get as an advertiser, more impressions tends to lead to more clicks.

      This is why I only go for phrases that aren't searched that much... many of my pages get about 10-30 hits per month, and most of my sites have 5000+ pages on them....

      so when these phrases aren't searched that much, my ad impression is low, my CTR is in double figures, the advertiser doesn't get many clicks, but lots of impressions due to the wide network of adsense sites out there, the more he pays, more he pays, more you get...

      there, I spilled the beans....

      Enjoy
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  • Profile picture of the author riolas
    It varies. Yesterday I got 1 cents for a click, 3 days ago one of my clicks for over $2.
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  • Profile picture of the author eseller17
    I think its because of your site's niche I have 2 sites in different niches one makes me an average of 5 cents per click and the other makes me 50 cents per click
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    • Profile picture of the author bobwilson37
      See that you use perfectly relevant keywords. See that ads on your site is a perfect match to your website(its targeted keywords).
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    oh, BTW, someone bookmark this thread, saves me having to repeat myself all the time
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  • Profile picture of the author bingbong
    Very useful tips. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author josher
    I have noticed that as the month moves along my "per click $$" moves down.

    Most of my adsense money comes from sites that I send traffic to via PPC. The per click $$ becomes lower, I'm guessing because the Adwords advertisers may have hit their limit and lesser paying ads replace those.

    I was just listening to an interview by a heavy hitter who ran a Mercedes dealership in Australia and he learned PPC while running the dealership. Anyway, while starting PPC campaigns they were bidding up to $25 for the term "Mercedes".

    Get this, their budget for the month was $300.

    How fast do you think they blew through that?
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      Originally Posted by josher View Post


      Get this, their budget for the month was $300.

      How fast do you think they blew through that?
      LOL, prolly faster than you can eat a Big Mac
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      • Profile picture of the author josher
        Originally Posted by askloz View Post

        LOL, prolly faster than you can eat a Big Mac
        I'm a quarter pounder type of guy myself.

        I decide to see if if theory was true, so I quickly looked at my numbers for the month.

        Attached is a chart that shows my average click per day (AVC/day) , and the 5 day average of the AVC/day. This isn't conclusive obviously, as I did a quick test for just the first 23 days of May but you you can definitely see the AVC/day trending down.
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    Everyone Else = Millions

    So if you think it sucks then it must suck, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author WarriorNY
    It's probably normal budget decreases as we approach Memorial day. Lots of people traveling.
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  • Profile picture of the author developerholic
    Dont feel bad, sometimes I even get 0.01/click or none.
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  • Profile picture of the author cienik
    change a little keyword maybe can increase your cpc
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  • Profile picture of the author AlphaWarrior
    Raider, I have had the same problem for several weeks. At first, I though that it was the case where AdSense works well most of the time, but there are times when it doesn't work well. However, I just checked my websites. I was shocked. Right now most pages do not have subject related ads. In other words, a page was about subject X, but the ads were about subject Z. Viewers looking for info on X are not interested in ads for Z. Before the ads were on the same subject as the page, but not now. I don't know why Google changed the ads.

    Google has a code you you can use which identifies a portion of your page that Google should look at to determine relevant ads. I am going to add it to my pages. You might want to try it also.
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  • Profile picture of the author Manuel Viloria
    Originally Posted by raiderremo View Post

    Hi,

    I made consistently less than X cents for each click in Adsense for last 3 days. Its happening to me only? what about you guys
    Hi! It's possible that the advertisers who were paying or helping your
    site earn more than X cents per click have run out of ad spend / budget,
    which means "smaller" advertisers' ads are now appearing in your site.

    Hence, the recent drop in AdSense earnings for some AdSense publishers.

    (It's mostly about business cycles and the scheduling of ad campaigns.)

    Kind regards,
    Manuel Viloria
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