Hard Ranking Drops after Switching to Ezoic...Anyone else?

[Sugirl]

Enabled Ezoic ads on my site some 10days ago & switched to their nameservers, since than I have lost 60% of my Organic google traffic & It's continuing to drop heavily along with most of my Keyword Positions..Just down down down every day for practically all keywords...

The ads completely slowed down the site to crawl & I guess I actually listened to their suggestion to place as many ad testing spots as possible thinking it would only randomly test the ad spots without filling them all in , but nop... they filled up almost all of the spaces with ads and made the website just crap to look at & littered with ads, have cut back on the ad locations now but I guess the harm was already done...

So I really have no idea what to do now, thinking about ditching them & praying the site will recover on itself & wait till I have enough traffic to apply for adthrive/mediavine.

Anyone else has experienced this? What was the outcome? did your site bounced back? Is it somekind of re-shuffling since it runs through different nameservers now &the site layout has changed quite a bit due to their ads?

I have removed most of the worst ad locations which messed up the user experience however the website still is dead slow due to ezoic system.
went from like 1.5sec load time before to like 12sec fully loaded with ads

Pagespeed insights score decreased from like 85+ for mobile to around 20 & I believe when running their paid site speed accelerator they fool the google speed tool to show excellent results by simply not showing their ads to google bots... very cheeky...

How ''normal'' is this? Saw some fairly good RPM's from them , however If this will destroy my site - I'm out.

 

[WoyThe2nd]

Change to less intrusive ads. Also I wouldn't switch nameservers to some random ad site that would probably take advantage of that.

 

[GreenGrass2019]

you should read past threads about this, people were reporting similar thing throughout the year

 

[acur042]

To be expected. Google puts heavy weight on page speed and Ezoic ads really put a toll on your site

 

[stoat]

My rankings also dropped, so I left after 2 weeks. Fortunately the site recovered after some time.

 

[Sugirl]

My rankings also dropped, so I left after 2 weeks. Fortunately the site recovered after some time.

damn that's sad to hear how fast did your rankings recover after you left? Did they completely recover to the previous level?

 

[leit]

Relax, your traffic will come back, it happened to me too, just check that your server is not blocking ezoic ips, as it will slow down your site and users will experience the typical "You are a bot" screens from imunify360.

 

[stoat]

damn that's sad to hear how fast did your rankings recover after you left? Did they completely recover to the previous level?

Don't worry, it didn't take long to recover about one week if I remember correctly. Yes it recovered completely and now it's doing better than ever.

 

[Sugirl]

Relax, your traffic will come back, it happened to me too, just check that your server is not blocking ezoic ips, as it will slow down your site and users will experience the typical "You are a bot" screens from imunify360.

So, are you still with them? After how long time did the traffic came back for you?

 

[leit]

So, are you still with them? After how long time did the traffic came back for you?

One week

 

[JinxerCraft]

One week

How did you integrate? Nameservers or plugin?

 

[Rikabu]

Relax, your traffic will come back, it happened to me too, just check that your server is not blocking ezoic ips, as it will slow down your site and users will experience the typical "You are a bot" screens from imunify360.

does having high-speed hosting with ezoic affect the site? like you're using a VPS hosting for your blog and having ezoic ads affect the site speed?

 

[Sugirl]

does having high-speed hosting with ezoic affect the site? like you're using a VPS hosting for your blog and having ezoic ads affect the site speed?

Yup it will still mess up your site speed wise, it's not your hosting that's the slow part..
btw your site will be running through their CDN ,so theoretically if you had a slow hosting it's supposed to boost up your speeds - only if that was the case with their ads
I believe their CDN/speed tools might be ok - just their Ad delivery methods/system completely suck and will fck up your website + your site WILL get Bombarded full of ads if you setup it like they suggest.

From my research I saw that you can earn about the same from ezoic as mediavine/adthrive however...the Other 2 will place CONSIDERABLY less ads on your site to earn the same money as ezoic will
That has to tell you something....

 

[McSpike]

It's sort of insane to hear Ezoic are still crap after all these years. I tried them 5 years ago. They blasted the ads all over the place. I used their nameservers. I was appalled by the way this is done. The stuff was slow. Their JS solution at the time even slower. I lost my cool and left in a week. The rep was an idiot too. He chose the ad spots for me being a "pro" and what he did he only selected those few "default" optons and that was it. I got vignette ads blasted (that I didn't want) and some other intrusive crap at the top (that I didn't want). So they just do it with no regard to your site.

This may be good for sites that don't depend on user experience and just want to maximize by squeezing every last dollar out of your site at the expense of speed, user experience, rankings.

It may be good for "lab testing" (where no one actually sees the site but you), staging levels of development (lol), beta sites, Google independent... For the rest, it's just nonsense.

 

[Sugirl]

It's sort of insane to hear Ezoic are still crap after all these years. I tried them 5 years ago. They blasted the ads all over the place. I used their nameservers. I was appalled by the way this is done. The stuff was slow. Their JS solution at the time even slower. I lost my cool and left in a week. The rep was an idiot too. He chose the ad spots for me being a "pro" and what he did he only selected those few "default" optons and that was it. I got vignette ads blasted (that I didn't want) and some other intrusive crap at the top (that I didn't want). So they just do it with no regard to your site.

This may be good for sites that don't depend on user experience and just want to maximize by squeezing every last dollar out of your site at the expense of speed, user experience, rankings.

It may be good for "lab testing" (where no one actually sees the site but you), staging levels of development (lol), beta sites, Google independent... For the rest, it's just nonsense.

damn... I actually also asked to look at my ad positions/adjust to better as the setup truly sucked/was buggy as hell, only to find out that even more ads were placed including the incredibly annoying vignette ads
That & some of their other stuff left me with the same impression that they don't care about anything else but squeezing every last penny out...

 

[Psh]

If they have direct links to their ads, use that and get static images linking to them from your sidebars/whatever. Ads like that will slow down your site, amongst other crap what will wreck your site/ranks.

 

[gipulvorka]

If you have a review site, this is most likely due to Google's latest reviews update and not Ezoic.

If your site is not about product reviews, then It could be Ezoic.

 

[warriorsam53]

Turn off the AI Ad placeholders and manually select the placeholders you want to use. Insert the ads in the spots you like using a plugin and it'll work very well. I have multiple sites on Ezoic. I've never had issues with rankings because I make sure I control the ads and the placements instead of leaving it up to them.

 

[BufferOver]

Turn off the AI Ad placeholders and manually select the placeholders you want to use. Insert the ads in the spots you like using a plugin and it'll work very well. I have multiple sites on Ezoic. I've never had issues with rankings because I make sure I control the ads and the placements instead of leaving it up to them.

You use their plugin, instead of their nameservers?

 

[warriorsam53]

You use their plugin, instead of their nameservers?

On some sites I use the plugin. On some sites I use their CloudFlare integration option and on 2 sites I use their nameservers because I'm paying for the Speed add-on.