wow I thought I was the only one, but me and another friend of mine both see a huge drop in our earnings. Maybe they are doing this as a whole. I have tried filtering btu it seemed that it got worse, same for my other friend as well. So we took out the filtering. Normally, about a month ago, if let's say I got 60 ad clicks, I would get about 5-6$, but now, it hasn't gone over 1.96$. THIS IS VERY FURSTRATING!!!!!
my earning droped about 50% these two weeks ...definitly something wrong with google ... i have more traffic more clicks but earnings are still dropping ...
Same here for the past 3-4 weeks. My earning has never been so low for more than 1 year and this doesn't seem to be just a random change of behaviour of visitors.
i don't know exactly what is happening because now i have more clicks and lowest earnings for ex today 40 clicks and 0.96 $ I'm trying to use a Competitive Ad Filter see if it works
I don't even bother with adsense any longer. They used to be decent, but their ecpm is horrible as of late.
I can attest that filtering doesn't work! I've made detailed tracking for a few weeks to prove this. See my blog entry below: http://www.adsense-success.com/2006/07/does-competitive-filtering-work.html
I agree income really drop last year I am averaging 100 click a day and averaging $60 - $90 a day. But now I am averaging 250 clicks a day but only making $13- $15 I have seen lot of $0.01 click now
I'm wonder. I've read a few articles recently that say Google doesn't have enough outlets for all its ad inventory, which is why they are doing radio spots and print advertising.
I have some bad news for you.....one test does not indicate whether anything works or does not work...you are but one very small iota on a scale of millions,,, so at best this is a hypothesis.... not conclusive evidence of anything other than you know a bit about how to promote your blog in a webmaster forum..and thats questionable I love this part.... Why if ad filtering does not work, is the very first entry on your blog, sending users to your tutorial on how to implement the very idea you state does not work?? As my American Indian friends would say: You speak with forked tongue