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Today is painful, it's worse than watching paint dry!
All my metrics are ok, my traffic seems to have come to a grinding halt.
Ah well, it's Monday tomorrow:-))
And whilst I remember:
CONGRATULATIONS JENSON BUTTON - at long last:-)
If you have to ask who he is then you missed an action-packed Grand Prix today.
Don't ask me why, but I don't complain ;)
CONGRATULATIONS JENSON BUTTON - at long last:-)
ditto... good to see a different face on the podium... and jenson's at that. he's been a real solid performer, but sometimes luck is the crucial factor. Which got me thinking...
smart pricing is like Schumacher's race at Hungaroring... you're zooming, you're expecting to win and zzzppppllllttt...
oh and yes... today's earnings are moving like a midlands F1 car in neutral.
That's about what I'd expect, based on past years: a nice uptick in August, with good traffic and earnings until the usual November-December lull.
Ann
And Sunday ending in 5 minutes was a normal earnings & trffic day.
Lower CTR & eCPM but I am testing a 5K ad impessions/day section previously non AdSensed.
And here we are on Monday afternoon UK time and I have already exceeded Sunday's earnings!
Something exciting was happening somewhere yesterday and I didn't get an invite:-(
After a strange Friday I had a solid Saturday, the type of Saturday I had all year until the beginning of June.
Today is painful, it's worse than watching paint dry!
All my metrics are ok, my traffic seems to have come to a grinding halt.
For me:
Friday bad
Saturday worse
Sunday - best day all month!
Really WILD fluctuations from one day to another. Very strange goings on from the Googleplex.
Today, Monday, started out slowly, but all of a sudden (just after 2:00 ET), CTR, eCPM and epc all leapt up like they were hit with lightning. Will easily outpace Sunday and maybe Sat and Sun combined.
This leaves the question: Seasonality, or a twist in the algo? Judging by some of the recent AdWords discussions, I'm going with the latter, with a little seasonality, just for taste ;).
The people who use AdWords have been somewhat annoyed by what they call the "new" algo and $10 minimum bids, since Mid-July. As usual, it takes a couple, three, four weeks for one of G's algos to propagate, pan out, whatever you want to call it.
Also, Matt Cutts and others have said to wait until summer's over. Maybe we're seeing the beginning of the end?
I hope so, but I think I'm going to take humblebeginning's advice and not monitor stats so frequently, stay away from these boards (and certain annoying posters who shall remain unnamed*) and concentrate on improving my sites (added one a couple of months ago, now have two).
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*EFV
At the end of the day it was one of my worst Sundays of the year for traffic, all Google metrics were normal.
At the end of the day it was a pretty good summer Sunday for me: impressions down 10-12% from my highest-traffic Sundays since June 1, but with a significantly higher eCPM. It was also the third-highest Sunday for "Earnings" during the same period. I credit the boost to normal seasonal increases in advertiser and user demand.
Besides the fact that you cannot see my stats, you have no clue how these things work. There are definite peaks and valleys, but I'm afraid you're too busy criticizing everyone else's ideas that you'd likely never know.
I'm simply reporting what I am seeing, and it is a definite change. In fact, it's still improving.
Let me put it this way: with nearly 12 hours left in the day, I've already surpassed yesterday's earnings with half the PVs and less than half the clicks. Now, I call that significant, but all you can do is tell me to take a longer view.
I'm probably going to get slapped down by the mods for saying this, but there are some people around here whose minds are so closed and vision so narrow as to disallow any kind of rational enquiry into the what, why and how Google works. Excuse me for being inquisitive, but what have you added to any thread around here lately beside dismissive remarks?
Please post something meaningful instead of attacking the thoughts and ideas of others.
Good riddance, hopefully.
It's the rockers.
If you have a grievance take it with him somewhere else please as it is taking any thread you participate in into a tangent, and to say the least distracts us from benefiting and helping others.
Keep WW civil, non personal and on topic as we like it. Think of the rest of us please.
Thanks
Hobbs
Likewise, no two websites are exactly alike. Proven everytime someone posts an "earnings down" thread like this. The good thing about no two websites being alike is that I can work on my OWN theories and strategies. What works for me may not work for others, so nowadays when I read a negative comment, I think "OK that's your opinion... but it may or may not apply to me..."
Just my 2 cents...
I can still live on it but no painting the town red.
Boys and girls I think we hit the bottom of the summer (except for selected lucky people).
The question is how long will it last?
