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I know its only small traffic but as you can see, this domain was pulling around the 100-125 hits per day mark until the rollout on the 12th. From then on it was pulling around the 50-60 traffic per day. This is just a small adsense site I have had for years. Previously, it had 1000 word articles with 3 x adsense display ads and 3x adsense link units.
I don't remember exactly when I did it but I changed that and pulled all of the link units as well as one of the adsense display ads off each page leaving 2 x display ads and as you can see in the analytics above, it has now returned to pre 12th December rollout traffic levels.
I have two other sites that were effected too, I initially attempted to reduce ads on those but forgot about the header and sidebar ads on the site, I then removed them and today I discovered the AAWP plugin I use for my comparison tables and geo-redirecting inserts 3-5 links per product box/grid rather than the one I thought it did. This means that some of my product tables had 25 or more affiliate links in them when I thought they only had 5 with the whole row bing a single clickable box.
Its almost 1am here now but my plan for tomorrow is manually go over each page on my other two domains and strip them down to having a handful of affiliate links on them rather than the 30 or so most have right now and then see what happens.
Similar to the adsense site, I don't expect instant changes due to Google having to recache the site and such but I hope they recover to pre-rollout traffic levels and keep growing at the rate they were. Either way, I will report back in a month or so depending on what they do.
Edit - The above may just have happened by chance but I just wanted to share my observation.