Adsense Site Moved to Wordpress And Now No Adsense Earnings?

Hey Guys -

Need your help here. I recently took my website http://duicanadainfo.com and moved it from a php / html website to a Wordpress website.

The design is almost identical but now the Adsense earnings went from a couple dollars a day to nothing. I have no idea why that is. The site has been making money for about 3 years not consistently. Now all of a sudden poof its gone.

I've take every .php file that was indexed in Google and 301 redirected it to the new Wordpress pages. So the traffic shouldn't disappear. However I have seen a slight dip in my traffic from Google.

I am racking my brain trying to figure out why my adsense earnings have disappeared. You guys can check on my site on Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org/web/20110207104239/http://duicanadainfo.com/) to see how it was before. I had a 336x280 below the header and one 728x90 at the very bottom of each article.

Can't figure out why the earnings all of a sudden disappeared. Had 3 days now with no earnings. Only other thing I changed was moving the ads from in Adsense from everything to just text ads. I did that because I got all my earnings from text ads from what I saw. I just changed it back to flash/images/text now but don't think that is the answer.

Any ideas people? Really appreciate the help!

 

me too facing this problem daily visitors 400 but earning is only 20 to 30 cent only

 

how is your visitors? is it still the same?

i visited your site and see the ads are not relevant. generic ads ads being delivered which is not relevant to yor content which is one issue for which you are not getting clicks. usually after a new design or a new site launched, it takes a day or so for adsense bot to index the new content and start delivering relevant ads. if you dont see the ads being relevant and no clicks after a day or so, you can implement "section targeting" which will help.

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=23168

 

Hey SultanofSEO -

Yeah I've always noticed that my ads were not very relevant. I think I'll take your advise and try implementing "section targeting". Maybe that will help!

As for the visitors. It has actually dropped a bit lately. From like 60 - 80 UH to 20 - 30 UH a day. Any idea why that would be? I can't see why the traffic would drop.

Thanks.

 

What kind of plugin to adsense are you using on wp?

 

I am using the Quick Adsense plugin on WP. Whys that?

 

Hello, unless you have a special reason to use that plugin, try to swtich and check if something happens. I suggest newadman

 

How could switching that plugin fix the issue? I can see the ads fine on the page. I guess I can try and hardcode the adsense ads right into the theme itself and try that.

I'll make that change in a few minutes and see if that helps.

However if you could explain your reasoning that would be greatly appreciated.

 

Sorry , I am not good at web design and so on ... Looking ~~~

 

I did this. Google decided the original content was still there, I had a dup content penalty and my site earned nothing and got very few visitors.

Now the penalty is almost lifted this site which has always earnt < 50c a day is earning $10 a day. Ridiculous. Never, ever 301 content until google actually respects it as MOVED content not DUPLICATED content. This is a known issue with Google and it sucks.

 

Thanks for the heads up RumpledElf. However I've already done this. So what should I do now? I just have to wait until I stop getting penalized for duplicate content? That really sucks.

How long did it take for you to get back to your regular standings?

 

This might be because your ads are not placed good on your web site. Also try to have a nice color that fits your web page.

 

Thanks Lexyz for the ideas but I know my placement and colors are good. I've been running the site for 3 years with good returns.

I think the issue is that I've moved it from .php/.html/.css file type site to a Wordpress site and now Google can't find all the pages and is penalizing my content. Hopefully it goes back to normal soon!

 

It never went away, it just kept getting worse. I took off the redirect, went back to the highest earnings I've ever seen within 2 months after both sets of content got re-indexed. 10-20x income increase in CPM.

 

Hey RumpledElf - what you are saying makes no sense at all. Please explain.

If you take off the redirects on the old .php files then you've got two copies online for Google to index and therefore have duplicate content!

Right now I have all my indexed .php files 301 redirected to the cooresponding Wordpress pages. The Wordpress pages are now slowly getting indexed as well. That is what Google said in their instructions to do too.

Also I see that my traffic is starting to bounce back now but my earnings are just 0 now instead of a couple dollars a day like before. Very confusing as it is setup exactly the same way and in the same colors. I've also put the ads in the most optimal spots.

Gotta think of something else I can do here to fix this...

 

Mine were on two different domains. I changed the originals to just say "content moved" and once they were indexed, all my problems disappeared ... it is SO nice finally getting money from this site. My earnings are up from almost zero to fairly consistently above $10, almost overnight.

A little pissed I now have 8000 backlinks pointing to basically empty pages though, but not much I can do about that.

 

So I should take all my .php indexed in Google pages and change them from a 301 redirect to say content removed? And no links or anything at all to the new pages?

So all my backlinks extra are useless?

Then I need to wait for the Wordpress pages to get indexed and wait for traffic to build back up?

 

I should mention that my sites are on the same domain. So wouldn't doing that kind of thing hurt my page if I don't redirect the old indexed pages in Google to the new pages?

 

Won't hurt to back up all your old pages and give it a try for a few weeks. Google is so pedantic about its dup content penalties. If it doesn't work, undo the changes and just wait. My replacement "content moved" pages all have a link to the new page, and a LOT of people follow the links - something like 80% click through. It seems to have worked at every level except the backlinks, which I was hoping to move to the new site but apparently that's not possible

I was following google's 'best practises' too until it was obvious it didn't work and I started looking around and seeing other people with the same problem.

 

Okay I see what you are saying. Instead of using a 301 redirect on the php pages I put a message saying the content was moved and then a link to the new page that they can click on if they want. Yeah I guess I'll try that for a couple weeks and see if that helps. I've been running this new version for 3 weeks and the earnings have completely crashed to nothing. Its intense

I kind of wise I didn't move my site from a .php page to a Wordpress format. Might never get back the earnings. Kinda worried .