What am I doing wrong?

So I've been pondering what exactly has gone wrong. I'm hoping it might be something OTHER then our depression... Or for you politicians out there "Recession".

I'm the webmaster for an anime fan-subbing community http://www.yuurisan-subs.org and I was making ~ $15 a day. However, recently it's been crippled to about 10 cents.

We do get a diverse amount of traffic (UK/US/Aus/Germany/etc) I figure that might come into play? Can anyone help me out here?

 

How are your impressions and CTR holding up? If you're still getting the same amount of traffic and a similar number of clicks but a sharpe fall in income then there's usually some sort of smart pricing at play.

 

First find out where mainly your traffic is coming from, If its mainly europe your earnings will be little to none. If your main traffic is the usa then you got smart priced like i have from google but i smart priced them i took there ads of except fot the link and added adbrite. Check to see where your traffic comes from.

 

Well, it shows majority of my traffic (70%) comes from the US. Then an additional (10%) comes from Canada... So that's a majority of my traffic and I'm crawling here with 3 cents a day for 1000 unique visitors... Help me lol

EDIT:
Forgot about the other question. This month of march I've gotten ~60,000 "Page Impressions" and 215 Clicks

 

"Smartprice" OR (more likely) your site is infested with MFA advertisers who pay pennies.

 

You may try to block some advertisers, especially the URL at the top of your ad block. Because once you get rid of the highest bidder, the others may disappear since the new highest bidder will place at the top. You can use this tool see the highest bidder's ad worldwide: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10005

 

So, basically we're saying the ads that are generating on my site are being bidded on for next to nothing - thus I'm not making anything from the clicked ads and views.

And

If I happen to block said ads, google may or may not display ads with higher bids that pay out better?

Edit

I can't seem to get rid of this TurboTax ad, though it has NOTHING to do with my content...

 

what is smart pricing?

 

I believe smart pricing has to do with taking further steppes to prevent "accidental clicks"

 

That also depends on keyword bidding. If you get more clicks and the keyword bidding is low, then also we get only small amount of money.

 

Like others have previously mentioned; if your CTR is consistent it could just be down to the fact that advertising revenues in your sector have been limited by the recession... Do as all the others are doing; make sure that you look at reducing your costs to make sure your profit remains high. Have you checked your hosting costs are still competitive?

 

I'm going to have to do this aren't I, I recently moved to my current server for the outstanding prices BEFORE this whole recession mess... I guess I'll have to start looking again, there's just no way I can make a profit without it...

 

First things first.... What is your CTR? If you get something like 5% then that's good. If you get anything bellow that number you need to do better ad placement.

Has your traffic gone down lately? Or are you just seeing a drop in the number of clicks?

 

I know FFA, but what is an MFA mentioned int his thread?

 

MFA is Made for Adsense... What that means? I don't really know.

 

Or perhaps, big G increasing its own share, slashing a part from the publisher's revenue, in order to maintain its own bottom line!

Regards,

RightMan

 

Prime example of why making the site just for Adsense is not the way to go...

 

This f__kng time, it same happened with me.

 

Say what now?

 

I'd love to charge for hosting, I really would. It's just a tough niche to get in... How do you tell newer clients that your hosting has guaranteed space, bandwidth, and 1000mbps uplink but costs 10 dollars more then those 1 dollar unlimited stuff...

Sigh... Adsense curse you!