My traffic numbers have been growing steadily over the last 5 years since I started my blog. But suddenly, I check my traffic and both pageviews and visits have dropped in a HUGE way. For instance, the last time I checked my year-to-date traffic, I was around 1.2 MILLION pageviews and nearly 500,000 visits. Today the pageviews dropped to 250,000 and visits down to 195,000. REALLY?

And... when I would check early in the morning, my daily numbers would show 500-700 visitors... today it showed ZERO! At the end of each night I would check my traffic and I was averaging around 4000 pageviews and 1500 visitors. Now it shows in the hundreds for each. WTF?!

I was just promoting my blog to potential advertisors using the former stat numbers... what am I to do now? Is my blog even worth monetizing with these dropped numbers??

What about you people who are already getting advertising dollars based on the old traffic numbers? Are you going to lose cash? And what should I do now? When I could tout 1/2 million pageviews the potential for ad dollars looked great. When I calculated a low percentage of return on a Patreon campaign, the numbers looked fantastic... now that potential lhas fallen into the toilet.

Thoughts??? Have I been wasting my time for the last five years building my blog and brand and creating thousands of pages of great content for nothing?

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