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Does anyone know whats really happeneing/happened?
Please only post facts, and if your earnings are down state traffic/income because less that a good few thousand and say 50 dollars a day is too statistically liable to variation to be of any real use.
In my case I went from an average of 128 daily dollars for months to about 120, 110, 90, 85 dollars daily, not in that order, but its odd. Around 7000 page views a day. And stats are REALLY slow...
Been stable for years. Traffic as reported by google adsense is low. So it must be a bit "down" somewhere!But only a little low according to my own server stats.
I suppose they will fix things but its interesting to know whats really happeneng.
Wouldn't this require some type of corrective action in most industries?
He wont believe you! :)
Theres nothing much there, in fact theres snow in places.
Wired mag #14.01-Jan 2006 [wired.com]
things really don't look good unless the powers that be can get rid of them.
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Just as yours did initially. It does seem that today things are getting back to normal (almost) though. At least here! You probably cant see this though without a bunch of unrelated sites and say 4 to 8 thousand daily page views. Or the natural mathmatical variation will disguise things.
Check your stats against googles page impressions. There is always a gap. But its been about 20 percen bigger for about 4 days here! Seems that in some parts of the world there were no ads displaying - at least on sat.
Just wait, because once google adsense fixes its slight hiccup then you will see a real improvement.
I did block all of the annoying MFAs, but I don't think that is related to the decline in price per click. However, if blocking MFAs does mean less per click, then so be it. I'd rather earn less per click in the short term than advertise for MFAs because, like others here, I think in the long term they will only degrade the perceived quality of my site.
Everything is the same , but our ppc has been reduced to 2 cents.
its ridiculous
Dont worry its not removing the mfa ads that caused this.
I agree. I would tend to argue the other way and say that MFA's are more likely to to contribute to a ppc decrease because they could potentially help to cause ad blindness resulting in a lower click thru rate over the entire system. The effect could be two fold if they also scare off potential advertisers once because of any negative perceptions that MFA's contribute regarding credibility issues. I don't know if I am right but I think I am noticing an increase in MFA's lately.
While bad, this slowdown is better than being banned. :)
last week = worst earnings in more than 2 years for a week's time
Same number of clicks, but about a third down on income. I have had exactly the same epc averaged over 15 sites for years. Last 7 days it is really low, sometimes almost halfed! I could understand this if it was on just one site in one niche, happens all the time. Its why I have 15 totally different ones. But its not. Click through rate is down by a third this morning, as well! Probably the obvious bad targeting. It almost never varied much for two years. But its only 3 hours in so that may change later on today.
So whatever is happening is still happening.
It is a worry. My ctr and ecpm are back up but actual clicks are way too low.
Ann
Both accounts suffered very badly in the last few days, however the higher earning account (much higher than the other) has now recovered.
The 2nd account (which does not earn very much) is still way below what it normally is.
My guess is that Google are slowly fixing whatever went wrong with the priority being on the high earners first.
I am not positing a conspiracy theory here but one could and no doubt some will. That conspiracy being that Google is cooking the books so its first quarter earnings statement doesn't torpedo their stock price. I'm mentioning this first in order to proclaim emphatically that I do not believe that this is what is happening.
I truly have contempt for people who construct conspiracy theories in order to explain their own misfortune, so it goes without saying that I am NOT doing this.
Having gotten that out of the way I'll have to say that such a conspiracy is much preferable to a collapse of the AdSense model entirely which others here seem to be fretting about. I don't think that is the case either but until this is resolved or explained by Google we are left only to speculate...
until this is resolved or explained by Google we are left only to speculate...
There isn't anything for Google to explain. It's a bit like asking Wall Street to explain why the value of your shares have dropped.
I just had my first day with ZERO dollars in adsense earnings!
Granted I'm not a big Adsense player and it's not even close to being my main money source. But still, I've made money every single day for about 2 years until today. Hmmm...
BTW, impressions are still up there just no money. I'm wondering if this is like what CJ does all the time..."Sorry our reporting is down but don't worry your links are still working."
That or the conspiracy theory above sounds fairly likely. As it usually seems to happen when a company goes public, the decisions are made more for the benefit of the shareholders than the users or customers. I'm not saying that it's going on here but it has been known to happen to many companies before. Just food for thought.
Like so many others, I'm also seeing an enormous amount of junk ads and my competitive ad filter has been full for some time now.
There certainly seems to be a common thread with few exceptions. I guess the only way it could be made even worse would be if Google implemented another Jagger 'improvement'.
My earnings in March are great, almost as good as my peak last August so low earnings and poor targetting is not a general problem.
Jean, where are geographically?
So far today (after 4 hours only) things seem to be getting back to normal after a very strange week
Glad to hear your Proxigean Spring Tide is coming to an end. Next one in 18 months :-))
There isn't anything for Google to explain. It's a bit like asking Wall Street to explain why the value of your shares have dropped.
21_blue, I wasn't suggesting that Google ever would or should explain. I was in fact using that example to illustrate the unliklihood of our ever knowing what actually happened. What's your point?
Whether the irregularities were due to an intentional manipulation by Google, some attack from the outside, or just some unknown anomaly the only reason Google would ever explain anything would be a firestorm of negative publicity--which wouldn't happen unless 1) the situation got very serious and noticeable (not just a thread like this) or 2) some irresponsible reporter from a respected publication ran an erroneous story about it.
During the panics of 1877, 1907, 1929 and at other times, such irresponsible stories were common in the daily press. But newspapers are not so trigger-happy any more. Such a rumor would not get past even the more reputable bloggers unless there were actual evidence or it came from a source inside Google.
But your over-reaction to my off-hand comment 21_blue is an example of how these misunderstandings can occur. Please read and consider my meaning more carefully because containing your misapprehensions is quite time-consuming.
