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I run another travel blog and it’s a good source of revenue. Recently, I stumbled upon another revenue generating stream Exitjunction. According to them:

Visitors that find your site through a search engine eventually leave your site by hitting the “back” button. The question is, are you making money from this exit traffic?

Well, that’s a great question as you would be making money from the users who are eventually leaving your site. So, it all looked amazing and I signed up for the site and installed the code. After few days I started checking the earnings. The eCPM was $2.02 and I was getting roughly $0.025 per click. Well, this a very less amount but as I was getting from the people who are leaving the site it was good. So this whole thing was going on good and after few days I started recommending this service to my friends. So it was all good for the time being.

After about one month I was doing my regular check on the Google analytics and what I discovered was disastrous. There was literally no traffic from Google organic search. I tried to search by my own and could not find the blog even in the 3rd page of the SERPs. My blog used to be ranked third or fourth and now it was gone, literally deleted from the SERPs. I tried Yahoo and MSN search and my site rankings were the same. So why only traffic from Google organic search got affected? I was not able to sleep for few days trying to look out for the problem. I uninstalled few plugins, looked for broken links, changed my permalink structure, but no result. This all went on for about a month. Then, one day I started searching for my advertisers and found this article in a blog called Computer-Aid. Wow! this was thing happening to my blog. Because of Exitjunction I was loosing all the traffic from Google organic search. I removed all the code from my blog and thanked Computer Aid. After that I waited and prayed for about one month. Suddenly one day I found that my site was back on Google’s SERPs. I am not sure what is the reason behind Exitjunction and Google Search. But guys I would be far more careful to join advertiser networks from now on.