Photo Related Earnings - November 2008

A much shorter report this month, as my earnings were so small they are hardly worth reporting!

My November 2008 Adsense Earnings plummeted to $296 ! (Was $745 Last Month).

How did I manage this?

I finally got round to moving my main photos web site to its own domain.

i.e. all my photos were at ni-photos.jmcwd.com, and I moved them to http://www.irishviews.com.

I am fairly sure I followed the correct procedures, using a '301 redirect' etc. My 'Web' search results have not suffered noticeably, but the big problem is that all my images have disappeared from 'Google Image Search' which accounted for approx 50% of my traffic.

After making numerous inquiries, I am now resigned to just sitting back and waiting for my images to eventually reappear. But if it takes as long as it does for new images on my web site to get picked up - I'll be lucky if it is back to normal in 5 months! It does seem odd that Google would allow their image search to do something completely different from their web search (not to mention something completely illogical).

Earnings from other sources are, predictably, also not worth reporting this month!

The conundrum here is as follows...

On the one hand, you should spend more of your time doing stuff that works, and less time doing stuff that doesn't. But on the other hand, you don't want to have all your eggs in one basket...

One last point.. At least a small part of the drop in revenue can maybe be explained by advertisers tightening their belts because of the world wide recession. If anyone else has experienced an unexplained drop in revenue in November 2008 - please leave a comment below!

Thanks.

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