Revenue drop due to indexing change

[ahearn]

Anyone else experienced a revenue drop in last four days due to Google's latest re-indexing?

In my case, they moved an entire directory of my best paying pages to the "supplemental results" index (Google Hell). Adsense revenue for those pages has dropped to almost nothing since March 1.

The pages were short but each had a large index of links to the other pages in the directory. My guess is that, since the large index dominated the content of each page, the pages were nailed for duplicate content.

[theduke56789]

I'm not sure what's going on but my per click revenue is down 25%. Now, this seemed to coincide with the rotation of YPN ads with phpadsnew, but then again it could be the re-indexing.

[mystikmedia]

I know that pages that used to rank for searches are not showing anymore. It is as if they are not in the index currently. My traffic has dropped over 2000 visitors per day from Google for blazemp.com. This is after an additional 1000+ visitors dropped after Jagger 3. :-/`

[dvduval]

Yep, big drop here too.

[dvduval]

And I was just starting to reinvest some of my earnings into adwords. I guess its time to stop this practice until there is some sign of stability.

[MtraX]

It's the smart pricing, I posted about this in the week... You're getting less 'cost per click' since your site is being 'trust ranked' and Google decides how 'relevant' your site is for the search term, thereby implementing variable smart pricing to save the publisher some money. In the end we're suffering a bit.

I guess some people won't notice since their sites are at the top anyway, they might actually be making more money.

MtraX