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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
These threads always crack me up. Ask 1000 people, "are you experiencing X" and obviously a certain number of people are bound to respond in the affirmative. Of course, it proves nothing, yields no actionable information and really means nothing. It's always just an attempt by one person to alleviate his own concerns and anxiety about what he believes he is observing with his own sales, which of course are entirely unique to him. If everyone had the exact same site, same design, same text, same content, same links, same servers, same load times, same SE traffic for the same phrases, and same sponsors etc.. etc.. etc.. then it might be meaningful to ask what others are experiencing. Otherwise, its really just an exercise in self denial... like a woman asking if she looks fat in a dress because she already knows the answer.
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You might be right. But...
In the period 2005-2008 I had steady sales. Every day was arround the same average. Offcourse there were good days and bad days, but in the end I had every month about the same sales. Since 2nd half of 2008 things changed. My sales dropped, but I had about the same sales each day. May 2010 started very good (could have been a record month) but in the 2nd half my sales dropped. I made a thread and there were a whole lot of webmasters who saw the same. In 2 weeks I made about 10% of the month while in the first half it was 90%. That sounds strange but it is the truth. And I was not the only one.
Now I see about the same. Very good start of October and arround the 12th/13th I almost got no sales anymore. It's like there's nobody out there anymore. I checked my traffiic and all was normal. I made again a thread and I got replies from several webmasters who see the same thing! I am not the biggest webmaster out there but I make some good sales each and every day and at the moment that the sales are cut down (not for one day but for about 10 days) and there are other webmasters who see the same thing than this is really remarkable.