Adsense Earnings Dropping, due to arbitrage crack down?

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Ahh, you have discovered the perfect scheme. Take a percentage that nobody knows and refuse to tell, and profit. If any other affiliate network did this, everyone would be up in arms.

I do not rely on google for anything. Diversify people. There is no sure thing! :)
 


I see your point and do not doubt that the above is a reality, but cutting revenue share and CTR are two totally different things.... Ive seen a huge drop in CTR not EPC, which is leading to lower earnings. Im not sure but am speculating that allot of big players are pulling their shit, in turn the variety of ads being shown through Googles content network for whatever terms is dropping, leading to lower CTR's....
 
It's either that or a sudden profound amount of businesses discovered they can bid on content placement separately from the search network. I always knew, if the majority ever found out about this ability, CTR would crash and burn due to lower quality results AND as a bonus, lower EPC too.

With the recent press about the arbitrage "problem" and "Google addressing the problem," it is very obvious to me some of your highest paying content clicks may have found the bid-by-content feature. A lot of businesses read Digg and Arbitrage was on the main page yesterday. Suddenly today, I see this thread which was started last night? I just put two and two together, but perhaps it is a coincidence? I personally don't believe in coincidences.

The upside? Once this blows over, new businesses will join and blindly pay $2 a click for <enter your target high paying phrase here> on both the search and content network again. Until then? Take this lesson and diversify.

Never, repeat, NEVER depend on one source as a means for most of your income. I learned this horrible lesson last year and I'm STILL recovering (IE piles of debt to get into new markets, fast..).
 
You would have to be a fool to depend soley on AS or any single sorce of income for that matter. You could not be more right.

This is off topic, but in my opinion Adsense as we know it is not going to exist in the near future, big ppc networks like Google are going to slowly die and be converted into CPA networks.
 
I think google is looking to get rid of smaller smart advertisers. Google wants the bids up, the keyword bidding system is not driving bids upwards anymore. Google also knows Arbi and affiliates will never pay big amounts for ads so they are dropping the advertisers.

Even the big arbi guys with +50K checks from adsense are spending only 15-20K per month on adwords. By advertising industry standards this is not much in spending volume.

Quality score was just a way to increase prices and get rid of low bidding advertisers or make more money off of them. This round of Adsense account closings is all targeted at low bidding adwords advertisers.
 
Actually, my earnings and per click earnings have increased the last days.
might be a fluke, though.

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Actually, my earnings and per click earnings have increased the last days.
might be a fluke, though.

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Mines too but i have more traffic aswell and more clicks and that's why i probably earn more per day.
 
Anyone any suggestions on how to "launder" PPC traffic before it hits my pages? I'm hitting $1000/day now and don't really want to throw that away. But G has told me no more PPC to Adsense or they'll close that account.
 
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The adsense arbi experts are still pulling in big sums...
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It's the luck of the draw to a great extent. I know some who where doing 6 figures that got busted, and others that didn't. Either way, it matters not, once G has you in their sights. I'm just bummed that this has knocked the momentum from me as it will take awhile to get it all back up to speed.
 
Being an adsense Pawn you have to play by the rules. It's their game. You choose to play or you choose to not play.

I have sites that are doing just fine and others that have bottomed out over the years.

Too many variables to even speculate.

It is amazing that so many people EXPECT a certain return while they do not publish or make any of the information on ROI available.
 
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