why have our earnings gone down so much? I used to make a little less than a dollar a day and now I am making 7 cents
Well, the list is long, and there are several threads in the forums about the situation. I'd say the lack of transparency, Google, and the readers' ability to make comments removed, the placement of ads making it nearly impossible for readers to read the articles, and, primarily, TAG taking over.
Okay what can we do about this? This feels helpless
From our end, nothing.
From their end, depends on whether they are willing to lift the site out of the doldrums, or NOT!
It is helpless! How can writers be effective if the TAG is not transparent and there is no direct communication from TAG?
CPMs are miniscule so we are earning less per ad. That plus almost no traffic equals low to no earnings.
It's tied to traffic. Low traffic = low earnings.
A couple of years ago, I was getting a couple of thousand views a day. Then, the decline started. When it got to a thousand per day, I thought, it can't go any lower. But it has gone lower. Yesterday (Sunday) views dipped below 500.
I have stopped telling myself, it can't go lower.
Forgot about the pesky CPMs. But then, I've never been able to grasp their meaning so I would be ill-advised to comment on them.
Because the Hubpages Discover site doesn't have any street cred, AI is taking over in searches and presumably advertisers aren't willing to pay or in the automatic serving of ads, place high bids to place those ads. And maybe Hubpages taking an increasing cut of our profits also.
My current earnings are about 4% of what they used to be.
Mine is bad too. I also used to make around a dollar a day and now I'm in the pennies. Its not just Google traffic either. Everything has dropped. I used for get at least 100 views a day from my Pinterest and now I'm lucky to get 20.
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