What is the reason for the recent drop in helium.com daily earnings ?

Recently daily earnings start to fluctuate weirdly in helium.com. According to the staff members, the site was hit by a wave of artificial traffic from an Amazon cloud server on July 28th. On that day many writers experienced very high traffic to their articles and immediately after that daily earnings dropped to nearly 2/3 of the usual average daily revenue. These changes affected writers who promote their articles heavily (Including Me).

Immediate drop may be due their tweaking of the page view code to exclude suspected artificial traffic. However, there is a wide spread belief that they intend to cut revenue share for twitter and other social media traffic.





If they try to cut down social media traffic or at least try to devalue them then many writers will experience wide spread earning drop. In addition, many writers who write to helium.com earns through social media promotion and it is because Google penalized Helium.com in their recent Panda algorithm change (drop in traffic from search engines).

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