Well, Now I Am A Tad Discouraged For Sure

You should know that your articles will get a huge spike when you first submit them to directories. That's because they will be sitting on the first page of the article directories for perhaps a day or two before getting pushed down to deep pages. Once that happens, your articles will not get the exposure they did when you first posted them.

That's why you want to keep putting out an article every 2-3 days so that you keep a presence on the first page.

Also, Google grabs new articles on those directories when people search for your keywords. After awhile, there are newer articles to replace yours. So you literally could see your article get indexed in Google very quickly, stay there for a few days, and then disappear from the index. But as you keep Google's attention with new articles, over time your articles will get picked up by other sites and never disappear.

That's when your efforts really start to pay off... but it is a long process to get your articles onto enough sites that people constantly see them and click.

Sylvia

It does seem that they have received quite a few complaints about the adsenses changes. Hopefully, they will listen to their customers and reconsider what they have done.

Don't focus too much on factors beyond control. When you do that you shift the momentum away from yourself to external factors that become obstacles in your mind. Instead focus on what you *can* do. Let's dissect this:

Let's say that you had 10 articles live getting an average of 500 views a day with a 20% CTR. From 10 articles you have 100 click throughs. This then drops to 16% which reduces the average to 80 click throughs.

Solution based on averages to get back to 100. Write another 2 articles OR choose another method of promotion that isn't messing with your mental state.

Don't let something like this hold you back. Also don't over analyze your stats ( stats are good for seeing 'where you are' but don't obsess ).

Also try not to think, "For now I will keep on keeping on" - this is like setting up your mind for quitting if things don't *quite* work out. Lots of people fizzle out in this business just before they were going to really succeed.

Instead say to yourself, "I will never quit". The shift is subtle but makes you mentally resilient to keep going no matter what.

I'm off my soapbox

Dean