Google Adsense earnings down?
März 5, 2008
Several website owners are reportedly seeing their Google Adsense income declining in the past months. A discussion over at WebmasterWorld got webmasters talking about the phenomenon and what supposedly is causing it.
We are also seeing that decreasing trend here in the site, albeit not consistently from month to month. Our monthly average income now is just barely half of the $1,800+ one-month all-time high income earned in June 2007.
In December last year, income dropped by 30% from the previous month. We don’t know what triggered this but we’re thinking the shrinking of clickable areas in Adsense ads and the PageRank penalty slapped on the site might be the culprit.
Fortunately, Adsense earnings reverted to its normal level in January 2008 but in February, income is back again in the same level as December 2007. Daily earnings during the first days of March this year are increasing but still nowhere close to the pre-December figures.
Why are Adsense earnings on a decline?
No one knows the actual reason but there are several guesses:
1. Google reducing the clickable regions of the Adsense ad units eventually brought fewer ad clicks and thus lesser ad revenue;
2. The recession in the US economy is causing companies to cut back on advertising, particularly online advertising;
3. The ones advertising now are primarily small-time advertisers who bid and pay less for every ad click; and
4. Google’s smart pricing system (that is, the automatic adjustment of the cost of a keyword-targeted content click based on its effectiveness compared to a search click) is causing lower return on content clicks to help protect the value of search clicks.
Whatever the reason is, the decline in Google Adsense earnings does not bode well with most website owners and bloggers.
Is this the same in your case? Is your Google Adsense income also dropping?
März 12th, 2008 at %H:%M
Sakin it increased.. di nmn kasi masyadong mataas traffic ng blog ko… right now I am averaging $1 per day.. not bad for a not well trafficked blog like mine. I am just hoping it will increase. I am doing my best ;D
März 13th, 2008 at %H:%M
ako ever since mababa na tlga earnings ko.. pero this past few weeks tska lang medyo bumabawi simula nung gumamit ako ng adsense optimized theme.
März 13th, 2008 at %H:%M
adsense earnings has been like hell for me since i got my own domain..from Blogger blogspot…before i earn 500 US monthly, now i am lucky to get a dollar a day.
März 14th, 2008 at %H:%M
yes, back in september napansin ko na my site has been dropping pennies from adsense, so i switched to clicksor.com and luckily my site has enough US visitors so I got accepted. $1 / 1000 ad impression ang labanan although back in google, i used to be from $2.5 / 1000 ad impression to a very depressing rate now of less than $0.5 / 1000 ad impression. And they pay by paypal, bi monthly.
März 15th, 2008 at %H:%M
I am down about 30% with an increase in traffic.
Dezember 16th, 2008 at %H:%M
over the past three months I’ve noticed a 400-percent decline in my monthly revenue from Google AdSense – I’m in Canada paid in Canadian Currency but even with the 80’s like drastic exchange rate it’s disturbing. I’ve googled tech sites and the finger pointing goes to advertisers pulling back on what they would normally pay-per-click since the stock market crash and also Google themselves reducing their rewards to publishers who have websites that aren’t up to their standards (whatever that bi-polar message sends).
Before I started my search I spent countless hours banging my head against the desk here thinking I messed up and require “new codes” to leafing through the endless AdSense admin area looking for tips, news and tweaks and following them like I was a sheep. Still, I login in to my daily earnings near the same time everyday and look at the figure with disgust. I’m offering my site and bandwidth to help expose these businesses and services (many I have never heard of before) to a potential worldwide audience in exchange for pennies; I’m debating pulling all the google ads from my sites rather than feel like slave labour.
I was earning $4 to $6 a day, not a big player but to see that drop to about a $1.50 almost overnight was rather depressing. Nothing lasts forever, and we’re even seeing Google AdSense taking a nose-dive.
Dezember 22nd, 2008 at %H:%M
I’ve experienced the same problem over the past 2 weeks.. declining Adsense earnings.. I don’t really have large earning from Google Adsense ever since, because mababa traffic ko, i really felt the effects of the economic recession as regards to adsense earning. I suppose its due to the same reason mentioned above. Let’s all hope the recession will be resolved soon.
Juli 10th, 2009 at %H:%M
but for now its a different story, its because of recession, not so many advertisers now.
August 26th, 2009 at %H:%M
I was banned last week. i was earned $5 per day but here i am now starting all over again.
August 27th, 2009 at %H:%M
madami na ksi tumatapat sa google kaya ang unti na kita sa knila ngaun.