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I installed the tracer script on my site in the middle of the day one day this week. By the end of the day, Google AdSense eCPM was the lowest it had ever been, about 30% lower than normal.
The next day was worse with eCPM dropping to about 50% of the norm. CTR was about average but the payout was abysmal.
Yesterday I decided to stop being mesmerized by the reporting page shown by tynt and I uninstalled the script from my web site. By the end of the day AdSense eCPM was obviously on the rise. Today things look normal again.
I know correlation does not imply causation, but it's a major coincidence. Does anyone here have any experience running tynt tracer along with AdSense?
I have included tynt js code for half-a-day and CPC/eCPM dropped 50% instantly..
I'm the Product Manager at Tynt. I've recently become aware of this concern and wanted to give everyone an update on what we've found so far.
First we, in detail, went through the AdSense and the Tracer code and were not able to locate any conflicts or issues from Tracer that would change the behavior of AdSense.
Next we were able to get data from some of our Beta sites that run AdSense and Tracer and we reviewed the various AdSense stats to see if there was a correlation with the install of Tracer and a negative impact on AdSense revenue. From this review it appeared that in the periods both before and after Tracer implementation on the sites, AdSense revenue was a highly variable and volatile number. Looking at the eCPM, Revenue, etc of a site for the 3 weeks prior to implementing Tynt Tracer and the 3 weeks post implementing Tynt, on average there seemed to be little discernable movement up or down. On one site we did see a drop right after implementation that lasted about 2 days, but this was not inconsistent with other periodic drops that they had experienced prior to Tracer, and on the third day, things were again in their normal range.
At this point, the reports look to be coincidental, but we certainly aren't dismissing the question and will continue to research this.
Thanks,
Mike W
[edited by: martinibuster at 8:44 pm (utc) on May 11, 2009]
[edit reason] See TOS [webmasterworld.com]. [/edit]
Very nice application -- provides a graphic illustration of top pages as well as those frequently "clipped," and, to go even further, which parts of which pages are being quoted most often.
There's lots of talk about long-tail sites, and applications like Tynt certainly illustrate the value of such pages. Some of our top pages are like the Rolling Stones -- geriatric but still topping the charts, both in terms of page views and copy/pastes.
We have a very expensive print/mail application from a company whose name begins with "Click" and the information it provides is far skimpier than Tynt's, by the way.
i see on your site that you're taking on suggestions... i've got one.
it would be nice if you could let the user enter a few phrases for the first few words of the link text, and then rotate between them. otherwise they're all going to end up saying the same thing ("Read more: blah blah"), which is supposedly something that the mighty G frowns upon.
Cheers,
Mike
Thank you for responding, but I won't be adding it to my sites. Sorry.
[edited by: martinibuster at 6:31 pm (utc) on May 11, 2009]
[edit reason] See TOS [webmasterworld.com]. [/edit]
but... having said that... i've taken Tynt Tracer off my site a few days after adding it on. my adsense earnings plummeted straight away. and i mean PLUMMETED. my earnings were down to half what they normally are. maybe it was a coincedence and maybe it wasn't, but with other people already saying the same thing i couldn't afford to take keep it on and wait it out.
shame though, because it seemed quite handy when i put it on.
I still won't add it to my sites though, because "it's too new" and never jump on the bandwagon until I know things are stable, and for the good.
