Mar
31A couple of months ago on this blog I wondered whether there was such a thing as an Adsense penalty. Over at my software downloads site, traffic had been building up nicely and I was getting over 2000 page views a day. I was starting to make a nice bit of Adsense income and looking at making 2 or 3 hundred dollars a month. Then it all went inexplicably wrong and over the next few weeks traffic shrank down and down to 4 or 500 page views a day. At this level, it means that the only traffic I was getting was authors submitting PAD files.
However, I’ve been doing some link-building since the traffic disappeared and gained a load of one-way links from other download sites, partly by trading links from other sites. For a while there seemed to be no effect and traffic kept on falling. However, this week and last things are beginning to look good again and I’m now back up to 1600 page views a day. I’ve even picked up sitelinks for the term “softwarelode”.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that the increase in traffic will stick. All the links I’ve built should help all our sites including SoftTester. I’ve noticed today that SoftTester is at #29 on Google for the term “free software downloads” which is the highest I’ve ever seen it placed.
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Yep, like you I have experienced a dip since the end of last year. But not as severe as you.
Although my impressions have returned to about the same level, my profit has not, I rarely get $10 a day now.
I had wanted to wait until your situation improved before I acted on your last advice and your adsense filtering suggestions.
Whats your current advice for the way forward?
I’ve not changed anything since the end of last year.