Bad targetting, low epc, zillions of new MFAs, Google Down

Strange Days: Anyone Know what is REALLY happening?

[Nitrous]

There is something odd happening for days now. Bad targetting, low epc, zillions of new MFAs (to try and block) and stories of google "down" whatever that really means!

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.

[21_blue]

andrea99 wrote:

21_blue,... What's your point?... your over-reaction to my off-hand comment 21_blue is an example of how these misunderstandings can occur... containing your misapprehensions is quite time-consuming

There was no overreaction on my part. I was making what I thought was a straightforward point.

I'm sorry if I misunderstood what you meant by "until this is explained by Google", though it does usually take two to make a misunderstanding.

[andrea99]

I was making what I thought was a straightforward point.

And I took offense thinking it was a criticism (and misunderstanding) of my point of view about companies explaining their every step or mis-step--as though I were expecting Google to explain.

What I actually said was:

but until this is resolved or explained by Google we are left only to speculate...

I'm glad we cleared that up. :)

[21_blue]

I'm glad we cleared that up. :)

Me too, but everyone else is disappointed we didn't entertain them with some fisticuffs! :-)

[Thez]

I contacted my rep about the drop in the earnings last weekend, and his response was that they were performing tests on weekend/monday and that is most likely the reason for the drops.

He also wrote that they believe the tests will improve their system and it will show as increased revenue during the following days and weeks.

At least for me, ecpm and ctr are up slightly compared to last week.

[G_Smitty]

He also wrote that they believe the tests will improve their system and it will show as increased revenue during the following days and weeks.

I would agree since my earnings are up substantially since the weekend.