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Just kidding. CTR is a bit low for me too, but who knows why? And I bet there are plenty of others who could respond that it's unusually high.
Over the last 2 months, maybe longer, we have much better days on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays that the rest of the week.
EPC is also down a couple of cents.
Nothing dramatic, as far is I can see--just the usual swings from the norm.
My CTR for Thursday is above the averages for the month. For the first time since Oct 2003 I have broken the $5.00 /day barrier. Smashed it, in fact. The CTR is comparable to Thursday of two weeks ago, but the earnings two weeks ago were far less. Thursday last week CTR was ridiciously low, as were earnings. Around here that is called normal.
OK, somebody shoot me now.. please
too many variables involved
So true. I manage two AdSense accouunts. One is my own (instaded in July 03) and one is a customer's (from December the same year). My own account makes a healthy if not excellent amount of money and covers ads on 6 sites (one multy topic. The customer's account is running ads on 3 high volume niche sites but actually only pulls in 200 $ a month (there aren't too many advertisers in the topics the sites cover).
Now, on 05/05/05 the customer's wasn't hit at all. Actually it hat better figures on the disaster date and on the following two days than ever before.
My own account had terrible figures for those three days.
And yesterday's figures looks just as disastrous as 05/05/05 for my own account, while the other account had another all time high.
Consider yourself shot ;-)
My aggregate report is showing normalish impressions but CTR and earnings about a third of what I expect for a Friday.
When I check my channel report it looks much more normal - in fact one single channel shows more clicks and more $ than the aggregate report is showing in total.
grandpa, welcome to the club. And I hope the figures keep getting better as the higher they are the more you'll get pulled into threads like these ;)
IMHO (and I'm not trying to offend) are you all reading a little too much into this? I'm sure most here would agree on one thing - the numbers will fluctuate, but what's important is how the averages translate into income at the end of the month.
If this is just a one day thing it's not going to make a huge impact, but if it's the beginning of a downward trend then it will be time to worry. Unfortunately we won't know until after the weekend because this seems to be when the wildest fluctuations occur, for me anyways.
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