Macro
msg:1149154 | 3:40 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Something is wonky [webmasterworld.com] with Adsense. Maybe it's all the part of the same issue.
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Syzygy
msg:1149155 | 4:07 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Nowhere near your levels of volume, bakedjake, but, in my small world, yes, over the last two weeks traffic has been strange. I posted elsewhere that impressions have doubled recently, and now, for the first time since I started adwords, I've had to up the daily budget. Last Mon-Fri saw traffic reach a nice plateau (relative to the new, higher volumes I'm experiencing), with usual weekend dips. Up to this new working-week plateau again for Monday & Tuesday this week, then crunch; down by one third yesterday. All most unusual based on past trends. I'm really not quite sure what to make of it all as yet. Syzygy
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sem4u
msg:1149156 | 4:12 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Something did seem to be up yesterday. On three accounts I could only spend 1/2 to 2/3 of the budget. These are accounts where a suggested budget increase is mentioned.
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FromRocky
msg:1149157 | 4:41 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| So, has anyone else been seeing completely wonky traffic patterns in the recent past? |
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Reason? The big AdWords clean-up begins... [webmasterworld.com]
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gopi
msg:1149158 | 6:04 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
> doubled yesterday For me its like a 60% increase in traffic yesterday and yes its a multimillion impression account ...But the ROI sucked though :(
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bakedjake
msg:1149159 | 6:05 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
gopi, that may be clickfraud. You may want to look further. I should add: My return on ad spend was the best it's ever been. This was certainly legit traffic.
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inasisi
msg:1149160 | 7:37 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Could this be related to the quarterly release of their financial data? The thought process could be - I read how wonderful Google did in Q4 2004. Then I read that 95% of Google's revenue comes from these advertisements. Wait, let me see how these advertisements look, by searching on Google. Hmmmm... So if I click on these ads, Google gets more money. Let me check that out. Oh.. this ad also looks good, let me check that out also. And so on. You get the idea....
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exmoorbeast
msg:1149161 | 8:36 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Traffic volumes were big yesterday no doubt about it
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gopi
msg:1149162 | 9:35 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
No Jake ,I checked it ,seems somehow there is a increase in search traffic .
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ddogg
msg:1149163 | 12:17 am on Feb 4, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I haven't noticed anything terribly unusual lately..
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Widestrides
msg:1149164 | 8:18 pm on Feb 4, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Yes, it certainly is an increase in traffic. I'm pretty sure it is just due to less competition from all the direct to merchant ads being dropped. That's exactly when it started happening dramatically for me. Yes, ROI went down, but total revenue went up - way up, so who cares about ROI at this point. We can work on improving that now. I'll take the traffic and the extra revenue for now!
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Brett_Tabke
msg:1149165 | 5:52 am on Feb 5, 2005 (gmt 0) |
What do we make of this? [thehostingnews.com...]
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EliteWeb
msg:1149166 | 6:38 am on Feb 5, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Brett, read that on a popular hacker site. Interesting concept indeed, the more people research the more things will become fool-proof(eh) and things will advance (assuming the money permits)
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Nikke
msg:1149167 | 11:22 am on Feb 5, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Good find Brett! Searching from Sweden through google.com I see no ads whatsoever for some very competitive keywords (mentioned in the article and in the comment at the bottom). Google.se still show them though. Might it also have something to do with advertisers turning their ads off for Super Bowl weekend?
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