The Worst Time of The Month

[Engineer]

Overall spending is down from the holiday and winter season. Anyone else seeing somewhat less play lately?

I noticed this, too. The month-end projection on StatsRemote is not looking good at all.

 

[slotplayer]

Earnings are okay but have noticed less clicks and signups.

 

[muffincrumbs]

The weather is warm making is a worse-er time of the month lol

 

[AussieDave]

Overall spending is down from the holiday and winter season. Anyone else seeing somewhat less play lately?

We're the opposite, Autumn has recently commenced. While we target different markets, players are definately playing less and I'm getting less new players.The dive in sign-ups I attribute to the hacker. Less play, could be the dive in the Aussie Dollar ($0.77 cents against USD). While the casinos I've promoted over the years accept AU$ now, the majority of my player base is $US.

Hence if a player has a $100AUD to spend, their only getting $77US to play with. Agreed if they win, the conversion back is nice but if a player has a limited bankroll, it's leaving them with less bang for their buck and far less play time.

Looking back over my stats for April 2014 and previous years, this month isn't anything to write home about. But things can change overnight.

 

[slotplayer]

I'm stats out at this point.

 

[PaaskeUK]

Total down since the crap german tax. I had many "good" players from Germany. Lost them totally from Guts as accounts closed and vera&john earnings gone down as of that with dutch and german players. Same other places. GRRR also my UK players 15% less as well makes it much harder.

 

[TheGooner]

We have readers (and hopefully players) from 180 different countries each month - so tend to be immune to seasonal variances.
Spring in UK (and warmer weather) is Autumn in Asia (etc) - so it balances out.

Doing well this month - but that's boosted by good performance at my top two programs.
There are places like PaddyPower dropped 10K on the Grand National (who won - a favourite?)
But overall casino and poker play seems steady.

 

[frankcolt]

Well it's that time again - and I'm still checking stats - hoping nothing happens. Looks like I might have a 1971 month - best month in about 1.5 years

 

[roey]

Well it's that time again - and I'm still checking stats - hoping nothing happens. Looks like I might have a 1971 month - best month in about 1.5 years

It is pretty crazy how things can change from month to month.

 

[AussieDave]

We have readers (and hopefully players) from 180 different countries each month - so tend to be immune to seasonal variances.

And you also have longivity, which I believe you commenced in 1999.

In hindsight and taking into account the affiliates who have concerntrated on 1 (one) large site, as apposed to what I did; at one time had a network of 50 or so. I think the single BIG sites are now holding their own against this onslaught of hacked sites. And have continued to maintain a fairly even status qou through the years. Way back before the G animals marched into town, you could set-up sites and essentially set-them and forget them. Sadly all that changed and it seems, although I'm still doing ok, that one mistake, may have cost me literally 15 years of hard work.... That and trusting programs way too much!

k sera sera

 

[RyanWeb]

And you also have longivity, which I believe you commenced in 1999.

In hindsight and taking into account the affiliates who have concerntrated on 1 (one) large site, as apposed to what I did; at one time had a network of 50 or so. I think the single BIG sites are now holding their own against this onslaught of hacked sites. And have continued to maintain a fairly even status qou through the years. Way back before the G animals marched into town, you could set-up sites and essentially set-them and forget them. Sadly all that changed and it seems, although I'm still doing ok, that one mistake, may have cost me literally 15 years of hard work.... That and trusting programs way too much!

k sera sera

I pretty much did just this, also. I have a handful of medium sized sites now, and a few smaller ones for smaller niches. It has become very time consuming to keep them all up to date, more like a balancing act really. I have slowly been trying to consolidate them into just a few sites, but its not the same as one quality site from the start.

 

[slotplayer]

its easy money, trust me, with mail order business I work 5 times as hard to earn the same dollar.

 

[edgarf76]

I don't have the time anymore to look at stats constantly. I wish I did.

Are you using stats remote or nifty stats?

 

[muffincrumbs]

In hindsight and taking into account the affiliates who have concerntrated on 1 (one) large site, as apposed to what I did; at one time had a network of 50 or so. I think the single BIG sites are now holding their own against this onslaught of hacked sites. And have continued to maintain a fairly even status qou through the years. Way back before the G animals marched into town, you could set-up sites and essentially set-them and forget them. Sadly all that changed and it seems, although I'm still doing ok, that one mistake, may have cost me literally 15 years of hard work.... That and trusting programs way too much!

k sera sera

Although this is true, one big site can fall victim to penalties, algorithmic or manual, with the former most of the time being incorrect anyway. Then you would wish you had a fall back. As you know sometimes G just really likes a site. One of 50 and you have a really good chance of pulling one out and putting it up as your main.

Now, you may not have had too, but it would have had that insurance if you followed the same strat today.

I'm not disagreeing, I think one big site is the way to go, I don't think it would equate to 15 years! I see big sites come and go...

 

[slotplayer]

Are you using stats remote or nifty stats?

No but maybe I should.

 

[slotplayer]

looks like another year of changes just like 2012/2013. 2014 things seemed pretty stable.

 

[muffincrumbs]

looks like another year of changes just like 2012/2013. 2014 things seemed pretty stable.

Yeah and now there's all sorts of turmoil.

I use analytics because I believe G likes to use info from there to award or penalize according to bounce rate and engagement.

 

[slotplayer]

I just meant across the board.

 

[RyanWeb]

Yeah and now there's all sorts of turmoil.

I use analytics because I believe G likes to use info from there to award or penalize according to bounce rate and engagement.

I gave up on hiding from Google lol.. I set up all different WMT accounts, from different IPs and everything... Then I gave up and just added them all to the same account last week. Hopefully none of my sites suffer from it, but if I'm going to get anything done anymore I need to consolidate everything.

 

[slotplayer]

Google only wants to display the best.