Just in July I made $333, thats an average of $11 a day. Now August started, I put Kontera, It made me $3.50 the first day, 2nd day, was going near $3 too, but users started complaining that site went slow, I experienced with Kontera too, I removed it due to slow loading of forums. The first day google gave me 9.76, almost 10, so I was fine, but today its horrible! The $$ per click seems to be around 5 cents/click.......and money lowered to 5.76, looks by the end, it'd not cross 6.5 even! Have I been smartpriced, however I dunno whats smart pricing really, Just read somewhere that it means you get low amount for a click than you should get..... Does Kontera affected google earnings? Or its like good paying advertisers ran away in August? My site is the first link in signature Today I used adsense preview tool and checked a few crap ads and removed them, some were PARKED DOMAINS with ads only...ofcource....I removed them....they must be low paying right?
btw, what adsense preview tool you use. i want to check waht kinda ad on my page, but coudln't click on them
Your experience with Kontera is way different from mine. I've never noticed Kontera slowing down my site. are you sure that was the cause? And, it is possible that your CTR on Adsense could drop if people click on your Kontera ads instead - but i never noticed any difference.. As for poor adsense earnings today, see THIS THREAD about adsense stats lagging.. .
I emailed Kontera too, I made a thread but no one replied, so I got no help, I had to take action. Someone made a thread at my site saying, Teenhut has slowed down since past few days, I faced the slowing down on my forums too, I placed kontera in the header style of vbulletin What actually was happening is : - The page loads, then addfree stats loads for 2-3 seconds, then starts kontera, Firefox hangs for 2-3 seconds then runs the next second and hangs again for 2-3 seconds. My net is only 256 kbps, but still must be hurting others too, I checked in opera, it doesnt hang but slows down, unless kontera ads loads fully, it doesnt let me browse any further.... If anyone can check please, I will put Kontera again to test if its slows down removing addfreestats? Thats why i made the thread, but no one replied or checked...
I have Kontera ads on my forums. You might want to remove any unwanted plugins and code on ur site. I have added the kontera in the header too.
Can you show your forum please? And unwanted plugins remove means site performs better? I may have added quite lots of plugins, some are just getting wasted and not put to use....
About the past two days being low - it happened last month too; I think it's just a first-of-the-month thing. I hope. (He says thru gritted teeth.)
I've experienced the same thing as heinlein99 - the first 2-3 days of the month are very poor and then it picks again. August is no exception.
Pretty nice forum you have there. Its only been a couple of days into the month. Its way too eaarly to be judging.
Okay...since you all saying 2-3 days, I agree. Thanks qwestcommunications....for nice comments....Actually july end was also awesome with 12-13 a day, and suddenly on 1st august, 9.76 and then next day...it looked 5.76 but it picked up to 8.3.. And today seems cool.. Thanks everyone for help
Mayank, I remove all the useless plugins and template edits. Also you should try to remove useless code for guests that put load on the server. Check this page: http://www.vbseo.com/f28/reduce-bandwidth-enhance-pagerank-remove-last-post-guests-11013/
I haven't noticed lower earnings this month. It might just be bad luck. I don't see Kontera being the problem, unless you notice much lower CTR -- which could be caused by visitors leaving before they see the ads. If it's just a lower CPC causing the decrease in revenue, I wouldn't worry about it. I see wild fluctuations in CPC, which can be the result of just a couple of advertisers being low on their advertising budget at that particular time and not competing for valued keywords.
For me, some of my sites are teen related (which of course.. not many are indoors right about now - at least here in North America.) since the summer is always a slow time for a good % of my sites, iv seen earnings decreasing, but not by alot..... I know many people who use Kontera, and never have I heard it slows down websites.... maybe someone else was going on you aren't aware of?
does really forum can give enough earning for adsense? i have always got low clicks on my forum for adsense, but in blogs i earned enough for my first month.
Thanks a lot for helping everyone. Today I see a rise in both, Kontera And Adsense. Users aren't complaining either, so maybe it wasnt Kontera but I think some server problem? Or add free stats conflicting with Kontera and both made it slow.... And Adsense performs low on forums yes! If I had this much traffic in a blog, CTR would be high and so would earnings. But hey, forum is a good thing, I don't have to keep it updated always and write something so important or who will want to read?, I dont have to sit moderating comments, and then, ofcource, Banner Ads are mostly great in forums not in blogs.... Happy today!
Same thing for me. What google is trying to grab some extra money to buy something? Everything was moving steadily with an increase for 5 months on a site I have and now cames august 1st and my earnings a day dropped by 6X. This is only with adsense, not that annoying kontera ad thing. I'm getting the same and then some with traffic.
haha Annoying Kontera ad makes me laugh.... Today I saw 50 clicks and $2.5 for contexual, and as usual $3 for cpm...but then I sat and used google preview tool, any stupid site like parked domain site, non relevant crap sites, I filtered them. I saw some difference. Some sites I filtered, I did not see them before, so it means they appeared today only. How often I have to sit down and clear off crap low payings? And we have only 200 filter sites. But 1 thing I noticed that, we dont have to keep all ads filtered always. Some ads I had filtered a month ago, I removed a few days back, but they never appeared, so I assume their ads are over and they were just using my filter space of 200 just like waste...