Wondering if anyone else has seen a dramatic decline in revenue? It fell off since last Saturday(1/22). Have about the same amount of impressions but ecpm has dropped. Traffic has also dropped about 200 visits a day from the normal when looking at G Analytics. Serp's look to have stayed the same or increase. Also did a little article marketing recently. This seems weird to me.
No. All January on my main site I've been seeing a steady rise in traffic/ecpm. Nil marketing (I don't market this site), no new content added. I did change the site theme in late November after 4 years with the same theme but I wouldn't have thought that would do that much.
Its a common problem people are facing right now. Due to lots of websites for keyword and people are bidding less and people are so smart as they dont click the ads now so income goes low
People are not smarter nor dumber. People click on ads that are appealing to them, meaning, no targeted traffic no revenue.
Adsense has been more or less the same since end of 2003 when I first signed up. It all depends on the traffic you can generate. After the eCPM is not that important, just bring in massive traffic and you'll earn way more than you need.
Actually when the whole 'smart pricing' concept was introduced, I've seen my revenues crash too. 2006-2007 were really good..but after that its mostly gone down