Trying to diagnose root cause of revenue loss

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by Mike343, Dec 10, 2014.

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    Ever since I had downtime November 23rd my adsense revenue has nose dived, 50% or more drop and I am trying to figure out what the root cause is. So far I have tried changing ad formats, styling and placement with no results. I am wondering if someone else can see something I do not.

    Site
    http://www.nfscars.net

    Statistics
    180-230k pageviews/day
    11-14k users/day
    15-19k sessions/day

    According to cloudflare I do about 31k/unique vistors/day and 280k+ pageviews/day of which 220k is regular traffic.

    Thanks,
    Mike
     
    Mike343, Dec 10, 2014 IP
  2. Daniel.Thomas

    Daniel.Thomas Member

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    Hi Mike. Did you also experience a drop in traffic after downtime? What changed after 23rd? Did you check analytics and webmaster tools to see what changed? Traffic sources maybe? Did you changed ad positions? Give use more details please
     
    Daniel.Thomas, Dec 11, 2014 IP
  3. Mike343

    Mike343 Greenhorn

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    Traffic recovered after the downtime about about a day or two after but the drop remained so to try and fix the issue I changed the site design but the ad placement has remained basically the same. Now I am testing with left column versus right column and not seeing much of a change yet.
     
    Mike343, Dec 11, 2014 IP
  4. Mike343

    Mike343 Greenhorn

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    I have attached some screenshots of analytics from Nov 10th to December 11th. pageviews, users, sessions.

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    Mike343, Dec 11, 2014 IP
  5. Daniel.Thomas

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    Your analytics stats look good. I see no problem whatsoever. One more questions, did also your CPC decreased? Did you made changes in content/keywords?
    My best guess is just a temporary thing and your earning will improve.
     
    Daniel.Thomas, Dec 12, 2014 IP
  6. Mike343

    Mike343 Greenhorn

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    What I am trying to figure out the clicks have been all over the place since the downtime like half of what they where which makes me think that adsense is not always showing an ad even though the ad pageviews have stayed the same.

    No changes to content/keywords just reskinned the site after the downtime and the huge revenue drop. Went responsive/cleaned up the html, made speed improvements, etc.
     
    Mike343, Dec 12, 2014 IP
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    Mike, how are things going? Did you get to the bottom of it?
     
    Daniel.Thomas, Dec 22, 2014 IP
  8. Mike343

    Mike343 Greenhorn

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    I did not, almost appears I was smart priced after that downtime or a lot of the clicks are not being counted now. Basically my December earnings are half of what my November earnings where and December is usually my best month out of the whole year. Crazy it went this far south.
     
    Mike343, Dec 26, 2014 IP
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    wikinewforum Banned

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    I know he reason.
    Reach me
     
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    Mike343 Greenhorn

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    I emailed you but never got a response...
     
    Mike343, Dec 28, 2014 IP
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    wikinewforum may you be so kind to share the information here. I am also very curious...
     
    Daniel.Thomas, Jan 5, 2015 IP
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    Darth Vader Peon

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    I think my sites were smart priced too cuz my CPC has dropped by a lot, its killing my revenue.
     
    Darth Vader, Jan 5, 2015 IP