I used to earn 1250 US monthly (Approx), now I am lucky to get just above a dollar a day. over the past six months I’ve noticed a 50% decline in my monthly revenue

Your figures do not make sense. If you've had a 50% decline in money, then that would make approx 625 USD... but you say you are lucky to get a dollar a day, (approx 31USD p/m)... then later on you say almost 3USD. (approx 93USD p/m)

Can anyone share ther experience so that I can Stand.

I find exercising the leg muscles helps. ;)

I am sorry about the % thing as i was a bit sleepy its 7:00 am in the morning here.

I just wanted to say that since many year we were earning handsome money from adsense. once we also crossed 2000$ but since Aug. 2008 the drop started till then we were stable earning from $1100 to $1500 anywere since Aug. 2008 the drop started slowly and in last six month the fall is all sudden 50% and now we are here earning just around average of $3 per day I hope u got my point...

The first question would be why did you stick with adsense after a month of that nonsense?

Lots of other ways to make more money than $100/month.

Heck, I have affiliates that pay $90/sale so why would I leave that on my site?

Wasted real estate on your site, wasted time waiting on money you'll never get back, wasted effort on a thread that can't recover your losses.

freaky; We get the idea, even if your numbers were a bit confusing.

Why such a drop in earnings, nobody can say for sure. But you don't seem to be alone, we see comments like yours pretty often in this forum.

Some of it is probably that advertizers in some categories have cut back on spending. Some advertizers may be dropping out altogether.

There's a current thread running about advertizers being dropped by Google.

On the other hand, not everyone is seeing a drop in earnings. In some cases earings per click seem to be going up significantly enough to offset a drop in CTR.

Is it just your overall earnings that are down?
Are your earnings per click down as well?
How about your CTR, is that down a lot also?
How about your traffic, is that down?

Whatever the case, I'm sure it is hard to take that kind of a drop.

Is your traffic mostly Indian?

Why such a drop in earnings, nobody can say for sure.

Economy, ad blindness, more competitors, blah, blah, the list goes on and on. Basically ad revenue will never be like it was in year's past.

Hard to say. My experience goes exactly as the title of the thread.

I had very VERY stable daily-monthly earnings for the years I have with adsense, in fact this year there was an increase until september... september is like I had erased an entire website by accident. Everything is the same, in fact I happen to have a very nice traffic increase but the earnings went down.

No idea why. Besides the usual updates, the last thing I did was blocking some new advertisers promoting spammy religious stuff. Yes, many jokes around the subject come to my mind as if the result was a direct punishment...... well you know :S.

Yes, for me each month since January has been dropping. Now it's approximately 35% of what it was at the start of this year.

greatstart, are you discussing a drop from $10 per day to around $3.50 per day?

Did you fix your issue from January 31st [webmasterworld.com], where you redesigned your site and now show ads below the fold for visitors who aren't using large screens?

Assuming the majority of your traffic is from the U.S. and not India, have you checked to see if there's a display bug happening? Have you tested your site in IE6?

Have you checked all sections of your site to make sure your ads are displaying properly?

Do you have channels for each of your site sections? If so, check the sections that earn the most for your site.

Yes, martinibuster my income has dropped approx. 65% since January, 2009.

I did move the ads up higher on the page so smaller screen monitors can view them above the fold.

I did test my pages using IE6, and it all looks the same as IE7 and Firefox.

The ads are displaying properly on all sections.

Most likely my problem is, the traffic seems to be less targeted since the beginning of this year.

I seem to get less SE traffic then I did a year ago.

I worked my butt off to grow my website this year.

Since Feb, I have double my traffic.

My adsense income, with 100% more traffic, is 20% less than it was in Feb

Im pretty pissed off

Worked this hard for 20% less, yaaaayyyy

jost

Pretty much the situation for many Adsense publishers, I suspect. I have the best traffic ever, income rises proportionately to traffic, and then dips suddenly. Try again, get even more traffic, and the same thing happens.

My only hope now is to wait till the recession is over and advertisers have more money to spend.

It is quite possible that this is due to the recession and low budgets for everyone.

What exactly dropped? CTR? Traffic? Ad inventory? What about targeting?

Hopelessly low and slow here.

I have the best traffic ever, income rises proportionately to traffic, and then dips suddenly. Try again, get even more traffic, and the same thing happens.

I'm there too. Whenever I grow up my traffic, my earnings go up only for a little while and then fall down to the previous amount (while having more visitors than before).

I have the best traffic ever

I'm there too. Whenever I grow up my traffic, my earnings go up only for a little while and then fall down to the previous amount (while having more visitors than before

Double ditto! (if that makes any sense)

I'm there too. Whenever I grow up my traffic, my earnings go up only for a little while and then fall down to the previous amount (while having more visitors than before).

Maybe this is an effect of depleting ad budgets and/or retreating advertisers?

It's really strange for me but my website is like finished and earn nothing now dont think if my website will even earn 100$ in next 5 months planing to remove all adsense ads and offer that place to sponsorers there i might earn better then adsense... its hard but true.

Very similar situation for us freaky we used to average around $2.5k / month for the last couple of years but this year it started to decrease like crazy and now we will be lucky to hit the $400-500 / month mark (I started removing adsense coz it would not even pay the server bills if would have let them continue) now adsense is just around 15-20% on the site still keeping them on hopes that things will turn around but it's looking hopeless as every month passes.

The interesting thing I have noticed is that the value of clicks have gone down like crazy seeing a lot of 1 - 2 cents clicks which I outright feel is insulting, used to average around 7-14 cents earlier.

for some one that is new to adsense how can I get traffic to my site?

For me earnings started to decline early last summer.

The big factor is CTR - down about 40-50%. EPC up maybe 15%. Visitors down about 8%

for some one that is new to adsense how can I get traffic to my site?

This isn't really an adsense question. If you are having problems with getting traffic, then you will have to improve your SEO skills.
Traffic first - Adsense second.

I have used Adsense since 2003. This is the best year I've had. 2005 and 2007 were down a bit, but the increase in 2009 has been faster than any year. What anyone with one or more web site(s) makes (including through Adsense or any other advertising) depends upon so many factors that what is a good month or year for one niche and type of web site vs. another is hard to analyze in a forum thread such as this.