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Stats are looking acceptable with a double fold increase of income in the last hour... crazy huh.
Anyone else notice a sudden change?
Anyone else notice a sudden change?
Yep, it started very slowly and not very nice however after 7 hours I've now posted 50% of Saturday's earning!
Both CTR and eCPM seem to have returned to more "normal" levels.
Let's hope yesterday's maintenance is smoothing through:-)
Anyone else notice a sudden change?
I hope it continues!
It could have refined smart pricing and could have improved adsense intelligence to display more accurate adverts - or refined to display better paying adverts instead of just MFA accounts.
I vote for less 'routine maintenance'.
My stats are way behind a typical Sunday. It's showing only 10% of the usual number of clicks for this day and time. I'm hoping these stats aren't real.
I think it's because of Mother's day - evaluate what category of business your site is in.
Today is looking up from the past few days. Nothing to write home about (still low, but at least not FRIGHTENINGLY low) for sure but the weekends are usually my worst days anyway.
Sunday ended up with my 3rd best day of the month with a 36.16% increase in CTR, a 67.7% increase in eCPM and 80.78% increase in earnings!
Ok, I know it's early yet however today so far?
Both CTR and eCPM down 50%...
Interestingly taking Saturday and Sunday together I ended up with a completely "normal" weekend...I haven't had one of these roller coaster rides for a while:-))
I had my best ever Sunday yesterday by some considerable margin - somthing was definelty cooking.
Exactly. I had a record day on Sunday.
I am wondering, perhaps they are cracking down on MFA's and lowering their payouts and boosting quality sites?
Who knows. It could have just been a fluke, but today is on track for another fluke.
I am wondering, perhaps they are cracking down on MFA's and lowering their payouts and boosting quality sites?
They're twitching, tweaking and messing about...I am seeing wild variations across all 100+ URL channel sites, some look completely normal, some are so far down they look dead and others are outperforming their normal metrics.
My concern is that my core sites, which are usually rock-steady, have gone wild in the past few days from record lows to near highs for CTRs and eCPMs.
Did I get a huge dump on Sunday? I must have, am I going to get another one later today or tomorrow? I assume so.
The good thing, for me anyway, is that over the last 10 days my overall earnings are only slightly down which is well within normal metrics.
Tweak, twitch, pull, push, turn, suck, blow, hammer, lever, screw-in, screw-out...they'll end up breaking the darned thing!
I therefore suspect there has been a smartprice impact of Easter - where for the weekend itself both our traffic and earnings were high. But if it was casual interest and they converted poorly that would explain the lower EPC since then. Now that Easter is dropping out of the month-long smartprice cycle, EPC (and earnings) is starting to climb back up again.
As ever, it's only speculation/a theory. But if it's correct, I want to ban all holidays in future :-).
I also have conclusive proof that NOBODY uses MSN search. I just found out that one of my sites is #1 for a term I've been after for a while on MSN and yet I've got no real traffic from it. Were that Google #1 on the other hand... I'd be making a couple hundred a day from that one site.
Anybody elses Monday abysmal? At this rate I'll be lucky if I hit a double digit number which is HORRIFYING.
I guess reporting all this is a pointless exersise as tomorrow or the next day earnings will be way down again.
