Removed low CTR pages, earnings way down

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Removed low CTR pages, earnings way down

sunfire

6:07 pm on Jan 14, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hi peeps,
Yesterday I removed AdSense from a few of my lower CTR blogs, and also removed the lower/zero CTR pages on the main site (which is the one I'm focusing on now), but today the AdSense earnings are way down. In fact, it's about half of the usual amount (if not less) with the same amount of clicks.

Should I worry, or will this bounce back after a week? I've read that Google's smart pricing ruins the party for AdSense publishers that may have a low CTR on some sites in the same AdSense account.

Have I done something stupid or should I wait till next week? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

HuskyPup

6:26 pm on Jan 14, 2010 (gmt 0)

Have you seen this thread today:

[webmasterworld.com...]

leadegroot

3:38 am on Jan 15, 2010 (gmt 0)

give it more than one day. Results are sometimes delayed and you need enough time to be able to compare the datasets, so you need enough data in the data set.

sunfire

5:50 am on Jan 15, 2010 (gmt 0)

HuskyPup - Thanks, I missed that thread, always comforting to know someone else is also struggling in the same way, lol :)

leadegroot - Guess so.. might as well leave it until next Wedensday as I made the changes on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.. holding thumbs!

I so wish the AdSense team would put as much effort into the AdSense front and backend as the Analytics team does. Analytics is so intricate and AdSense so basic, one would think that AdSense would be more of a priority as it's Google's main money spinner.

[edited by: sunfire at 5:52 am (utc) on Jan. 15, 2010]

sunfire

5:50 am on Jan 15, 2010 (gmt 0)

Ummm.. double posted and have no idea how to delete it.. :P