Friday, 1 February 2013

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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Posted by Jordan McClements at 08:48

6 comments:

  1. Hello Jordan.

    Do you see an impact, positive or negative, of the new Google Image Search on your website's traffic?

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  2. If by new you mean the way they do bottomless pages so people can scroll down and down without having to click to go to the next page - then (without examaing the figures closely) it has increased the number of impressions my images get a *lot* and the number of clicks they get a bit...

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  3. Ah right - I see what you mean - I've only just noticed this now.
    They display everyone's images in image search with the option to view the full size image without having to visit the page the image is on.
    I'll have to look closely at this - but I would be 90% certain this will lead to a big decrease in my traffic (looking at the last few days there has been a decrease but that may be incidental).
    As someone else said on a forum - I think Google have *really* crossed the line with this.
    They are displaying other people's images as if they own them, and it'll probably not be long before hey are displaying ads alongside all these hotlinked images and making money for themselves while cutting out the person who provides the images completely.
    I guess it'll take the majority of web sites in the world to disallow the Google image bot from their sites before Google will realise that they have gone too far (but I'm not holding my breath for this to happen).

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  5. I've just read that post, glad I'm not alone, I've seen a decrease in traffic in all my image sites, in inglish and portuguese, a 50 to 80% decrease since the update.

    I guess you'll probably see this tendency in your websites too.

    Maybe if we send massive amounts of DMCAs takedowns, google will change that, I think how the image search display operates right now constitutes a violation of copyright...

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    1. I agree with you that it violates copyright.

      Imagine if another (scraper) web site was performing the same function - Google would say it was not original content and not rank the site at all..

      I hope there is enough bad PR about this that Google change their mind.

      It really is a shame that they are a monopoly in so many countries and think they can get away with anything.

      It'll be interesting to see what happens over this in the near future...

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