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has Exitjunction improved?

Computer Aid Posted on by

As many of you know, I tried exitjunction back in 2009, with disastrous effects.

This moring, I received an email from David Johnson, from DynamicOxygen (parent company of ExitJunction)… he said:

Hi Luigi,

I came across your review of our product ExitJunction
http://www.computer-aid.com.au/blog/2009/03/20/exitjunction-yahoo-google-and-adsense/
and just wanted to drop you an email.

I read your experience with ExitJunction and not really sure what happened
in your case in 2009 but I can tell you that I been with ExitJunction for
the past 14 month and never ever heard anything like that from any of our
publishers! We currently work with thousands of publishers and our service
continues to grow as can be seen from our traffic stats
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/exitjunction.com

I would like to ask you to place ExitJunction code on just few pages of
your site and see it for yourself that we don’t in any ways affect your
Google Rankings… I would hope that after seeing it for yourself you would
remove your negative review of ExitJunction since at current time the
information stated in your review dosent reflect the reality of our
product! If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch with
me and once again I fully stand behind our product experience since
nothing like that ever happened in the past 14 month I been with the
company…

thanks,

David Johnson
Client Services Manager
Dynamic Oxygen, LLC.
646 Maple St. STE 2B
Brooklyn, NY 11203
Office: (212) 937-7999
Fax:    (718) 228-5224
davidj@DynamicOxygen.com
http://www.DynamicOxygen.com

So my reply was:

Hi David,

Thanks for contacting me.

I find it highly unusual that you have never heard about the problems with exitjunction, as the internet is full of reports about google traffic drying up after exitjunction is applied to existing websites. But then you work for DO/EJ, so I’d expect you to say that.

Your traffic stats really don’t show much improvement (hovering around the 20,000 mark):

Given the very frightening effect of using exitjunction in 2009, I am very, very reluctant to try it again.

If I start seeing reviews (by others who have no affiliation with EJ/DO) who report no ill-effect with their google rankings, then I will consider trying it again… if that happens, I will not try it on a few pages, but on the whole site, to do otherwise will give useless results.

My understanding is that Google will penalise anyone who tries to influence or alter the way someone naturally uses google… so if Google themselves state that they will not penalise the likes of EJ, then I will seriously look at it again.

Otherwise I really don’t have the time & energy to test EJ again, unless I believe that google will not do what they did back in 2009.

 

So, has anyone else received a similar email saying: “trust us, we are actually good people, and have always been good, and what happened to you must have been something from before 2012”?

And has anyone tried EJ (or DynamicOxygen) recently, particularly if you have some stats on Google traffic before and after using exitjunction?

Let me know, as I’d be interested to see if google will now allow EJ to operate unhindered.

dynamicoxygen a variation on exitjunction?

Computer Aid Posted on by

I got an email from yet another company with a great advertising medium.

The company is DynamicOxygen, and they seem to have a good deal that allows for some extra advertising that is run together with existing advertising on my site.

It sounds interesting, but the name sounds familiar, after some thought and some looking around I finally found why the name sounded familiar.

I have previously wrote of my bad experience with using ExitJunction, and at the time, I made a note to myself that the ExitJunction website is copyright by (you guessed it): DynamicOxygen.

So now I’m a little skeptical about dynamic oxygen, and I don’t want to experience the same google problems I had with ExitJunction… So I’d like to know if anyone has tried DynamicOxygen, and can report any facts about what effect it has had on their existing internet traffic.

Note: it doesn’t count if you had no traffic to start with… you must have some measurable traffic before you started advertising with Dynamic Oxygen, and ideally, you would have also had some google adsense ads on your site as well.

Will google penalise you for using dynamic oxygen? Only time will tell.

exitjunction: How to get penalised using adsense (and not know it!)

Computer Aid Posted on by

After a prior “experiment” with exitjuction, I found myself with half the traffic I normally have. This was because search engines don’t like exitjunction somehow.

About a week after I ended the experiment, I noticed something unusual:

Yahoo traffic bounced back to its normal levels immediately, but google traffic only improved slightly.

 

See the graphs:

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Why? Maybe google is a bit slower to respond… but maybe not.

I remember adding 2 youtube video ads to my pages with adsense (one in the sidebar, and one at the bottom of individual posts).

Do I have too many Adsense ad units running at the same time?

I kinda remember that there might have been a limit, so I investigate.

Oops, looks like there is a limit of 3 ad units per page… and I had 4… but after some more searching, I find that there are different limits on different ad units:

  • Max of 3 “content” ad units per page
  • Max of 3 link ad units per page
  • Max of 1 youtube video units per page (oops again!).
  • Max of 2 adsense search boxes per page

Weird: you get hit if you have only 2 video units, but its ok if you have 3 + 3 + 1 + 2 = 9 units in the right proportion!

So around the 22 Feb, I removed the second youtube unit, and the results were:

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What a relief!

It took over a week for my google traffic to recover, but its now back to normal.

So there you go: you can get penalised by google without even realising it, but by correcting your adsense mistake, google will (eventually) trust you again.

For those of you who might wonder: my (tiny) adsense income also took a huge nosedive during the penalty period.

Exitjunction, Yahoo, Google, and Adsense

Computer Aid Posted on by

I recently heard of an interesting advertising company called exitjunction.

I liked the idea, as the advertising doesn’t take up space on my website.

The way it works is: someone finds your website via a search engine, they take a stickybeak, then decide to press the browser back button to look for something else. Instead of going back to the search engine, they get taken to an exitjunction.com advert page (that looks like search results).

At this point, you can either click on an ad, or you can click the back button once again, and end up back at the search engine.exitjunction1

Now, I did a bit of research, and I found some people saying it could interfere with google adsense. But nobody had any positive proof… it was all: “maybe”, “it shouldn’t”, “it might”.

OK, I’ll try it out.

I also decided to try out the new google youtube ads at the same time (I should know better by now: never do multiple changes, as you don’t know which one is causing the problem).

My adsense income is so low, that I figured that it won’t matter if I get penalised for a while.

At first, everything seemed fine, but after 6 days (15th Feb), I noticed a huge drop in traffic (from around 1,000 unique visits per day to about 500). See the graph:ej-1

I took a look at my website stats, and I could see that the traffic from google, yahoo and MSN search results, had dropped almost immediately after implementing exitjunction, but this drop was masked by an increase in direct and referred traffic (until all traffic dropped after 6 days). See graph:

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So, I decided to take out exitjunction, and the search engine traffic started improving, but only slightly.

Luckily, the overall traffic didn’t drop to almost zero… thanks in large part to entrecard traffic… Thank you EntreCard!

Maybe it will take a few weeks for traffic to return to normal… I hope!

The income from people clicking on exitjunction ads was lower than what I get from adsense, so removing exitjunction was an easy decision.

I can only hope that at some point in the future, google and exitjunction will play together nicely. But for now, I’m putting exitjunction on the back burner.

Why does exitjunction affect search traffic?