We also dropped AL this year after 6 years. We used to kill it on there about 4 years ago but a steady decline finally hit a point where its not worth it.
AL blew it when they tried to rebuild their entire site at the cost of all their advertisers, I had customers screaming at me because the message system through AL wasnt working lol. That was 2 years ago, I got them to refund 2.5 months @ $1300/month. Had to pry it out of them.
Right now we are focusing on FB, adwords, website strength, and House Call pro is marketing to our database which works very well.
definitely looking for another avenue, we also dropped Yelp as they are equally pathetic.