Forum Moderators: martinibuster
You said a couple of days ago that your average and standard deviation for revenue are roughly the same. In that case, the above results are quite normal. In fact, you will likely get what seem like wilder fluctuations than these at times, but it is all part of "normality". Effort spent worrying about normal statistical variations is effort wasted; building up more original content and driving more traffic to your site will reap future rewards.
I don't think that I've been hit by SP as the average amount per click I'm seeing hasn't changed. Traffic and impressions is both steady and stable. From my viewpoint, the folks are just not clicking on the ads.
My earnings per day have been down 50-90 percent beginning Thursday. I am not a happy camper.
Look on the bright side. If you make $0.02 tomorrow, it will entitle you to submit a dramatic post entitled "Smart Pricing hits me with an 80% drop in earnings!"
Now I have to increase traffic by 200% more to reach my goal when I could've finally have some much needed rest!
Holiday and then the weekend and of course all the kiddies who has/had time off for good? behaviour.
60% drop in eCPM starting 3 days ago, who else?
Three days is simply not enough time to determine if you are being hit by Smartpricing or anyother factors. You need at least two weeks or more.
No matter how much we do, results are falling day by day. Everymonth we face a new record low mark. Initialy it looked liek a weekend trend but no - epc is going down each day.
I guess this is because advertisers have been shifting to other avenues than adsense and teh overall bids are now all time low.
Google must do something to stabalize and let us choose a minimum click value, below which we must show an alternate url advert.
I am an advertiser and I see this. I haven't been advertising very long, but I am now ready to give Yahoo a look. And I must admit, I don't see a big picture here, just my own situation...
Google Adwords are okay, nice interface and tools, but not a compelling value proposition for me. And I wonder if it more difficult to make money with Adwords since their recent change in pricing structure.
"I guess this is because advertisers have been shifting to other avenues than adsense and teh overall bids are now all time low.
Do you have any evidence to support that belief? The EPC and eCPM that I'm seeing are considerably higher than they were at the same time last year.
The reason i guess is , Due to Diwali function last week in India, most of the advertisers paid high rate per click and after Diwali most of the diwali advertisers withdrawn and else normal or less pay per click.
