Is it just me or is April 2006 starting out good?

revenue increased by 30%

[StuntasticAudi]

April has been great so far. Breaking my personal records revenue records already.

[con771]

It's not just you, but for me April has been terrible. I actually can't believe it've dropped so much so quickly

[fischermx]

This first April weekend was awfull for me too.
After having a great March.
Monday is looking good, but my eCPM is down by 25% if March's average.

[G_Smitty]

The best weekend in over 2 years. My traffic is up as well as eCPM.

[humblebeginnings]

March was disastrous for me, falling back to 10% of my december earnings. Things seem to lighten up a bit now. Google is moving the money bucket again...

[MichaelEng]

April has not started well, down CTR lower than usual

[Fuzzyfish1000]

April started low for me. About average over the weekend, but down a bit so far today...

[ember]

So far, April is not so good. Last month was our best yet, but this month is 15% behind so far.

[21_blue]

I'm with StuntasticAudi, April has started very well. It may be due to selective modification/removal of low EPC pages, prompted by Chris999's thread [webmasterworld.com].

[sven1977]

March was good for me. I grew 18% with respect to Feb. April so far ~20% (compared to March). Today looks good, too. Can't complain. :)

[sem4u]

Poor so far but I only have a small site running AdSense and I am a bit of an AdSense newbie! ;)

[MrSpeed]

I noticed this too. March was terrible, about 1/3 earnings with the same traffic. So far Aprils earnings are 50% better than March's. Maybe Advertisers are opening the pockets again.

[Vampyre]

March was a little below where I expected, but so far April has been terrible.

Traffic to my site is down about 25%, but Adsense revenue is down about 75%.

[Eazygoin]

Daily traffic is up 100% since 1st April, compared to March average. New to AdSense, so no real comparison to make.

[jema]

All very unremarkable here. But with 2.5 days to go on, it is way too early to say much unless you are seeing something really drastic.
If The best 2 days in march happened to be on the first two days I would have thought things would be wonderful in march, equally if the two worst days had happened to occur in the first two days I would have been grumbling the month was a disaster!
My best day was actually over twice the money of the worst day!
So please give things a week before reading weird and wonderful trends into a month.

[Eazygoin]

So please give things a week before reading weird and wonderful trends into a month

The initial question was if April has started well, and so people have the right to offer a response. The other option is don't read the thread :-)

[dyvel]

Yesterday was very close to my best day ever, and I think today is going to be the best day ever, so yes April is starting out good to me :-)

My smile is very natural if you know what I mean...

[jetteroheller]

The return of the weak weekends.

But this a phenomena, I experienced also last year.

Less difference between workdays and Sauturday Sunday in the winter, bigger differences in summer.

I think because of more outdoor activities.

[Khensu]

The weekend was bad but today is great.

I have a very business orientated site so weekends are 70% of a weekday but this weekend was uber horrible.

I actually started to turn my Adwords campaign totally off on the weekends, it just isn't worth it.

[StuntasticAudi]

I've been with adsense for couple months now and 2 days in April have been great. The most i have ever made in one day out of any month in the past.

[send2paul]

It's just you..... trust me.

[djohnson]

I want to see the statistics for something like an average with only 2 days worth of information.

Seriously, I need a good laugh today.

[hunderdown]

Let's all bookmark this thread and come back and post in it two weeks from now, when we can draw some real conclusions.

[Nitrous]

April up by about 15 percent per day (20 dollars) due to improved epc. EPC improved because I refreshed my banned site list. EVERY site that has adverts or aff links goes straight in the filter.

[humblebeginnings]

"EVERY site that has adverts or aff links goes straight in the filter"

Yeah, I know, I know, I know, Nitrous!;-)

[europeforvisitors]

April is starting off much better than March did, with record or near-record eCPMs. (eCPM is also about 50% higher than for April 1-3, 2005.)

Still, I know better than to draw conclusions from 2-1/2 days of AdSense reports.

[StuntasticAudi]

I am not making conclusions for the whole month. I said that the month of April has started out good. Both days i made more money then any other day in the past of any month.

[Mentat]

Bad days for me.
eCPM and clickrate is down...

[JollyK]

First weekend was way down from March, but today is looking pretty good. Maybe just a slow weekend.

Someone's always up, and someone's always down. It just seems to work that way.

JK

[ann]

I didn't think it could get any worse and sure enough, it did!

Ann