yes that's right, It has come down by a significant amount.... All the top bidders in health category have started bidding for less, $8 clicks are now only $0.30 ... My site revenue has dropped by over 80%
One of my sites is built fully in layers. beginning of last week I did some tweaking for rankings for some minor KW phrases (which sucked rather than helped my main KW's...lol...but another story) and moved the adsense layer from the bottom of the page to the top. Since the move I have seen a gradual increase in $ per click. I did this when I read in the definintion thing (tells you what each thing means) something about higher placement of the ads..hmmm..I took it assume on page. Don't remember the exact verbage of the paragraph unfortunately. But since the move I have definitely seen a gradual increase. Could be coincidence. But figure I'll note it for everyone else just in case. (Btw, layers are great for placement of content just where you want it without resorting to CSS) PV are about the same even with the lost rankings - surprising - but got some more targeted traffic with the changes I guess as ranking for a few new "minor" KW phrases for this site. Cheers
Googles ranking doesn't effect EPC that's for sure. Right now Google is sending me a ridiculous amount of traffic much MUCH better than previous months, yet my payout keeps shrinking as my traffic rises. My traffic is 3 times what it was in November yet I made less money last month than I made in November (of course can't get too far into detail, you know google) hundreds less. I really don't understand it. I work so hard to grow my site but it's like rowing up stream - just seems like the more traffic I get the only thing I get out of it is a stonger server to be able to host it... 3 times the traffic should mean 3 times the revenue... it's the same site! I'm 23 and Google is making my hair gray!