Loss in Traffic Does Not Mean A Loss in Revenue
I fixed my sitemap.xml file to update automatically now and I am back to my original plan. Write content and see what happens.
Interesting enough, my loss in traffic does not correlate exactly to the lost revenue from less traffic. My traffic has dropped 76% from its usual quantity. This was effective Friday when I lost all Google search traffic, except for searches using my site's name explicitly. I don't know why I have been shuffled to the back pages of their search results.
Earnings With the Low Traffic?
My earnings are still pretty good, which pays tribute to John Chow's many articles on having multiple revenue sources. In particular, check out his article "Google Is Not My Biggest Income Source". I am still making around $2/day on PayU2Blog, $1/day on PayPerPost, over a $1/day on Adsense, but my Kontera has really taken a hit.
You can read about my revenue sources in "Revenue Sources For Thoughts From My Life". I outline each one I use and how much I have made so far. It is updated monthly.
What does this mean though? My revenue has only dropped around 15% to 20% at this point. Pretty good. The paid articles are based on ranking and prior performance so they will continue to pay out. My Adsense revenue has only dipped slightly, which might lead me to believe that the search engine traffic from the other sites might be more likely to "click" on my ads than the traffic I was getting from Google.
Time For More Analysis
I am going to do more of an analysis on this. I am going to collect some better statistics to look for a correlation. Traffic per day by source graphed along with the ads clicks. This should tell the story.
If anyone has any clue as to why I would suddenly stop showing on search results, please let me know.
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