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AdSense Strangeness with PSA and Ads even showing.. help plz?

Discussion in 'Placement / Reviews / Examples' started by AndyG, Jun 13, 2006.

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    Please look at these websites:

    http://www.CombatVids.com
    http://www.RumbleVids.com
    http://www.PoliceVids.com
    http://www.IdiotVids.com
    http://www.GiggleVids.com

    Notice the lack of ads. There are supposed to be AdSense ads on the pages in 2-3 spots. First, there is an ad with a pic beside it in the video's listing. If this is against the TOS (I understand it is borderline perhaps based on my findings) please let me know as we want to continue to run legit. Another set of ads should show in the right hand bar and on some sites, another one on the same right hand side, only down further.

    Last month, in May, we were averaging over 100$ per day on these websites combined. Then out of nowhere, down to 60$ a day and I figured we were smart-priced. Then.. within days, down to $30.. and now hovering around $20 a day with no end in sight. As you will notice on the RumbleVids page, we get PSA's and have AdBrite ads showup instead and no ads on the right. For PoliceVids and CombatVids, we hardly get any targeted ads and again, hardly any ads on the right.

    I've recently vastly increased our keywords on the sites focusing on things like "fight videos", "law enforcement", "Police videos", "Military videos" and such depending on the site. We're ranked high in the Google search engine (search for Fight Videos, we're right there..) and yet our revenue is decreasing over and over on top of itself, which is frustrating when work you think should increase revenue isn't working.

    Another weird thing to note:

    Clicking on the pages of videos, you will be presented with ads. Take these two links for example:

    http://www.rumblevids.com/ <-- notice no AdSense ads.. AdBrite replacing the PSA's.

    http://www.rumblevids.com/?vidpage=1 <-- tons of ads, all related to fight videos and martial arts stuff. THE SAME CONTENT!


    This occurs with most sites we have now I've noticed, the exact same content being offered completely opposite ends of the spectrum ads. The plain index.php showing no contextual ads or zero at all, and the ?vidpage=xx pages showing the ads I would expect.

    What is broken here? Are we doing things Google is dissapproving of? Do they hate our websites and are trying in the nicest ways to let us know? Why are there so many variances in what ads are being shown even in places where the content is the same, yet the URL shows differently? Am I toying with the sites too much changing ad layouts, keywords, and such? As I watch the profits drop, I am frantically changing things around trying to figure out what is going on. Not by drastic measures, but things like putting the H1 above the first peice of descriptive text up top, 250x250 ads instead of 160x600, etc..

    I also had a couple of misc. questions that the answers to would help me sleep at night:
    - Should we remove the ads hidden in the video list?
    - Are our webpage contents to close to being full of "stop words"?
    - Would doing an immediate redirect to ?vidpage=1 when people hit the index.php be against the TOS? I feel it is simply because Google apparantly doesn't want us to have ads for some reason.


    I've recently almost decided to instead of focusing on our network of videos sites to work on the little information pages that seem to be popular and hanging them all off one domain. Creating hundreds of pages a month on nothing but everything it seems with google ads in them as well, but on subjects like "Dallas Homes and Living", "Fixing Broken XBOX" articles, "Hummer Driver Information" and such. Are these sites in general (when full of nothing but text information and links to each other) better overall than what we're doing now? We thought with the popularity of videos that these sites would be niche enough and popular (they get TONS of traffic) enough to garner some decent income from AdSense. Should we be looking into other advertising methods that would be more profitable? We feel so lost and only looking at our dwindling profits time and time again with AdSense. From $100-150 a day to $20-30 in under a month - what a mind game this is to play..

    I've read these forums for almost a month now as well and value any and all feedback, please help and guide us to making profits in the most legit of ways and I thank you for reading and replying.
     
    AndyG, Jun 13, 2006 IP
  2. Tyler Banfield

    Tyler Banfield Well-Known Member

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    Wow, this thread is a little too long to even attempt to answer...
     
    Tyler Banfield, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    alfie1848 is right that the posting is too long for anybody to start reading and replying. It is just like asking A to Z.

    I suggest you start with a teaser question then build up your postings.
     
    ainmohd, Jun 14, 2006 IP
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    It would be injustice if I don't tell you that topics related to videos are not going to be served with high-priced Adsense ads.
     
    ainmohd, Jun 14, 2006 IP
  5. AndyG

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    Thank you all, sorry for being long winded and I think I have things worked out a bit now. Thank you ainmohd for the tip on the videos sites, we're working on other revenue streams now. :D
     
    AndyG, Jun 15, 2006 IP
  6. alemcherry

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    You seems to have 3 set of ads working on rumblevids.com/ . Has it been fixed? Actually your question was very interesting, and deserved a better look in. Did you find out the reason for the drop? Have you been able to fix it?
     
    alemcherry, Jun 17, 2006 IP
  7. AndyG

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    Alem,

    It seems that time has helped resolve the issue as we are now getting ads on all pages. I suspect the reason for the drop being smart pricing and hopefully that will sort itself out. Now we are trying to focus on building traffic to the sites.
     
    AndyG, Jun 18, 2006 IP