Adsense/Blog Traffic Declines after ChatGPT is Widely Adopted

ACMer

1 year ago

This blog traffic has declined a lot in the last 90 days. The following shows the clicks from the Google Search in the Google Webmaster Dashboard.

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Traffic From Search Clicks Declines after ChatGPT is introduced (Last 3 Months)

Take a look at the last 16 months you will see the trend is declining very obviously. The peaks of the curve correspond to the mid week working days, while the bottoms are usually weekends.

Traffic From Search Clicks Declines after ChatGPT is introduced (Last 16 Months)

This is due to the emerging ChatGPT. For myself, I used to google programming questions on Google search engines, but now, my first choice would be to ask ChatGPT. I believe this has greatly reduced the traffic from the Google search engines to my blog. And as the traffic is a biggest dominating factor of the revenue (Adsense), the site’s revenue via Google adsense has been greatly impacted proprotionally to the traffic.

Update 2024 May – the Traffic has declined 99% in the last 16 months due to ChatGPT and other AI Bots

The clicks from Google has directly impacted the revenues/traffic

ChatGPT is so helpful that I don’t rely on Google search engines any more. Also, with the help of Github Copilot (from Microsoft), I also don’t usually need Stackoverflow as well.

Those traffic from Google search are organic as they contribute most to the site revenues (Adsense is one of the typical sources of Passive Incomes), which is used to cover the hosting/domain costs.

The Wide ChatGPT adoption causes revenue decline

The revenue generated from Google Adsense has dropped a lot and not even able to meet the minimum payout threshold (60 GBP) (Adsense Revenue Dropped 26%…).