AdSense Earnings For April 2013 For photos-for-you.com - £37.14

£37.14 is a bit of a dip on the previous month. But I am consoling myself with the fact that I only put about 2 hours worth of effort into photos-for-you.com during April.


Here's what things look like for the last 12 months :-

Here are my earnings that came from the traffic that clicks on the 'view original image' in Google image search during April 2013:-

(About one third of my traffic).

You can see that this traffic is worth a whole lot less than other traffic, but nevertheless, because of the super great and brilliant IMA Guard plugin for Wordpress, at least this traffic is coming to my site again...

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30 Day AdSense Earnings From People Who Clicked On 'View Original Image' From Google Images - £6.35.

It's a bit disappointing, but it's £6.35 more than I would have in my pocket if it wasn't for the great folks at imaguard.

The easiest way to measure this (I have found) is to set up a new URL Channel in AdSense for /show-image as this is the URL that IMAguard always uses when people click on 'view original image'.

The RPM for this traffic is just over 50% of the site average, though there is not a huge amount of data in yet so this may change (probably for the worse).

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AdSense Earnings - March 2013 - £47.71

£47.71 means earnings are back down to more or less the same as in January, and February must have been a blip.

It also means that my hopes that traffic would increase massively in the run up to St. Patrick's day (March 17th) were completely unfounded, and my lame attempt at some Saint Patrick's Day wallpapers were too little, too late..

Photos-for-you.com has now made £366.11 over the last 12 months, so it is now past the £1 a day mark!

(This blog (what you are now reading) made £6.44 in March, which makes £59.44 over the last 12 months!)

Here's a wee graph for the last 12 months for photos-for-you.com (earnings in green, page views in blue) :-

The big dip in page views was caused by hosting problems making the site dead slow and stop for a number of weeks...

I'm really not sure what caused the big increase in earnings in February.

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I'm Finally Starting To See Some Half Decent 300x600 Ads.

Here's one example :-

It'll be interesting to see how what sort of CTR and earnings these ads get once advertisers really start to use them properly!

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Anyone looking for Irish / Saint Patrick images / photos can head on over here :-

http://photos-for-you.com/tag/saint-patrick/

or here

http://photos-for-you.com/tag/ireland/

or here

http://photos-for-you.com/author/free-photo-guy/

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AdSense Earnings February 2013 - £82.15

£82.15 of AdSense earnings for photos-for-you.com represents a huge improvement compared to the previous month (£46.41).

Though earnings would have been a lot lower if I had not implemented the superb Wordpress plugin

http://imaguard.com/

See This Link on why that was necessary.

Here is the AdSense graph for February 2013 (page views in blue):-

I'm hoping that traffic keeps improving in the run up to Saint Patrick's Day as I have quite a lot of Irish related photos on photos-for-you.com.

I'm not sure what the reason is for the increase in earnings (page views were actually down slightly compared to the previous month). It may be a bit of a fluke. It may be because Saint Patrick's day is approaching. It may be (at least a little bit) to do with the imaguard plugin / not having to use a javascript framebuster for Google Image Search traffic any loner. It's a bit early to say with any degree of certainty...

Here's earnings and page views from November 2011 to end of February 2013 :-

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Google Decide That Making People Visit A Web Site That Owns An Image They Have Indexed Is No Longer Necessary.

In yet another 'bite the hand that feeds us' step, the new Google Image search actively encourages people to view full size images without having to visit the page where Google found the image!

Thanks a lot Google!

Further discussion on the subject here :-

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-images-protest-16283.html

At this rate it will not be long before visiting any site other than Google will be totally unnecessary...

Sorry Google but you motto about not being evil is just plain ludicrous now.

Here's a screen shot of what the new image search looks like with one of my photos after I have clicked on it :-

Why would anyone click on the 'visit page' button?

Update  -

It look like fanshare.com have worked out how to redirect people clicking on the link for the hi-res image to the page it originally came from.
Try
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:fansshare.com
Then click on images to see what I mean..
If someone can tell me how to do this for my own site it would be a very good start.

I know there is a .htaccess modification which will redirect image traffic to the home page. e.g. :-

http://galleryproject.org/node/110849 

But that's really not ideal.i.e. If someone is looking at a sheep image, I want them to come through to the page with that image on it with links to other sheep images (and AdSense ads).

Also - one silver lining in this cloud is that a frame busting javascript will no longer be necessary, and if image search traffic can be redirected to the appropriate page, then data from Google analytics will start to make sense again (currently most traffic to photos-for-you.com is labelled 'direct' because of the frame buster).

By the way, it looks like Bing image search does pretty much the same thing these days...

Once I work out how to redirect Google image search traffic (viewing a hi-res image directly) to the appropriate page, I'll update this post. So stay tuned!

Another Update - Here is a link to a petition to sign if you feel Google are being unfair :-

https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/google-stop-hotlinking-copyrighted-images-of-web-publishers

Here are a few more relevant links :-

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026989/google-cuts-copyright-deal-with-french-publishers.html

http://www.onthewingphotography.com/wings/2013/02/04/is-googles-new-image-search-violating-their-own-policies-the-law/

http://www.onthewingphotography.com/wings/2013/02/01/google-has-become-the-biggest-image-scraper-of-the-millennium/

Another Update - for self hosted Wordpress users - here is a plugin / .htaccess mod which seems to work for others (but not me unfortunately - I am assuming because I am using the YAPB plugin) :-

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-break-dance/

Another Update (14th February 2013) - here is another plugin for Wordpress which doesn't involve altering .htaccess  (if you don't know that .htacccess is then you probably should not be altering it). :-

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imaguard/

I got it working first time on my site. I've not been able to get it to redirect to the original post, but it is doing the next best thing by displaying the image in a new single post to which you can add AdSense code etc.

To have a look at what this looks like - click on the following link :-

http://photos-for-you.com/show-image/?img=/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Old-Castleward-From-Portaferry.jpg

I've still a few wee tweaks to make, but I'm 95% happy with this, and a great big thank you goes out to http://imaguard.com/. Thanks!

Update - 17th February 2013 - 

Here's a look at the traffic to photos-for-you.com before and after activating imaguard :-

The first 3 full days that the plugin was activated, the 'show-image' page (which is displayed when someone clicks on the 'view full size image' button in Google Image Search) accounted for 40% of all page views on photos-for-you.com. So this proves (for my site anyway) that the Google image search change decreased page views by approximately 40%, and shows that the nonsense from Google about people have an extra button to click on to bring them to your site would have a positive effect was just that, nonsense.

Update - 22nd Feb 2013.

Here's an updated look at traffic from within Google AdSense (dates indicated are not 100% precise) :-

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AdSense Earnings - January 2012 - £46.61

Earnings are down a wee bit compared to December - but not by a huge amount so this (hopefully) shows that December what not a complete fluke.

Adding on the hi-res photo I sold earlier in the month, my total photo earnings for January 2013 were £94.46!

Here's earnings and page views since November 2011 for photos-for-you.com (page views in blue) :-

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Sold A Hi-Res Photo For £50

(£47.85 if you include Paypal charges).

After a number of enquiries through photos-for-you.com, this is the first one I have actually sold.

Here is the photo responsible for my new found wealth :-)-

Obviously I'm not going to give up the day job with proceed from photo sales, but it's nice to get one now and again*.

*If you are an incredibly talented photographer with amazing images, then I'm sure you could sell a hell of a lot more photos than me...

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AdSense Earnings 2012 - £225.82

I hope this trend continues! :-)

(It won't).

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