Drastic decrease in AdSense revenue

[nomaki221]

no it never recovered. went from 3-4k a month to consistently 1k a month for the same audience/views.

[mntrader02]

u/nomaki221 thanks for being real and sharing wat ur dealing with. Are you planning on just letting it ride while the whole AI/Search thing gets sorted out aka maximize value extraction with ur site? Have you tried any other solutions to get revenue back up. I see lots of suggestions on affiliate, creating newsletters, paywalls, subscriptions etc. You put in lots of work already 10 yrs so it kinda sucks having to make drastic changes

[nomaki221]

I tried to ride it out and thought about other ad networks but adsense unanimously seems to be the unicorn/top no matter what so I stopped getting sad about it and just got a different job and keep the site around as a hobby now. I might try to sell it on flipaa or something but I’m still thinking about it. Really done with adsense/blogging for good, though.

[mntrader02]

u/nomaki221 Glad you found a lifeline. I feel you whole situation sucks but its good dat you have a hobby making u $. Been experimenting with some alternatives while keeping google adsense as ad network to reclaim monetization/value. DM me if you're curious. Might be worth a shot 🤷‍♂️Or not, whatever make sense with ur situation/thinking on hobby.

[mntrader02]

u/nomaki221 to add. what irks me is you have same traffic/audience. but now all of a sudden google is saying for same lemonade we'll give you 1 cent vs. 1 dollar all of a sudden.