Effects of Saturday Maintenance

Notice anything?

[celgins]

I've always had well-targeted ads, so no complaint about MFA's. Every blue moon, a poorly targeted ad may creep in -- but not usually.

However, since the update on Saturday -- I have PSA's showing on a page that hasn't changed in weeks.

I'm wondering if the maintenance from Saturday involved a new list of poison-words Google is filtering. The page had nicely targeted ads before, but now only shows PSA's.

Anyone else noticing PSA's over the past two days?

[hunderdown]

No changes, at least not noticeable ones. I very seldom see PSAs.

[theRealairness]

Same here. It must be logic change on the algorithmn. Maybe, beefing up the Click Thru Fraud Detection algorithmn.

[andrewshim]

my niche is very competitive so no shortage of ads, but I did have a totally terrible sunday (made a total of $1.59!), then bounced back today with a near record high. not sure if this is the effect of saturday's maintenance.

i do notice that there are a lot better paying clicks for me today...

[europeforvisitors]

I haven't noticed any changes, good or bad.

[chikung]

Thanks for the post.

Because nobody asnwred the similar post of mine. Anyways.

Yes! I had terrible saturday and sunday with medical, hospital related ads on graphic site. I guess I am attacked by the fresh, new batch of MFA's ready to sweep the publishers efforts.

Previously I had the ads from best8sites and now I am getting from 8bestsites. Thats the significant change from the saturday maintainance.

I filtered few of the ads and I had introduced lots of content. Let us see what happens in this week. Monday seems to be skowly coming back to normal.

Record high etc is a history for me. The very word was the part of the good old days of adsense almost a year back.

I couldn't resist mailing support team when I saw eczema oilment ad on my site. I guess antidepressant ad would be more relevant in this situation. Anyways. No reply yet.

[humblebeginnings]

All changes I ever see after Google updates are massive amounts of posts in this forum.

[Green_Grass]

Whatever G did this time was positive for me. Better targetted ads leading to better CTR and also higher EPC.

[trannack]

I've noticed little change - if anything better EPC. However I did notice a German ad on one of my pages targeted for the ~UK. But I guess there are always a few that creep in.

[TheDonster]

No change for me either positive or negative.

[Ossifer]

Normally I really dislike these maintainance sessions, as invariably my stats are terrible when I check them a few days later.

However, almost the reverse this time - numbers are heading higher after a while in the doldrums (of course, now I've said that, things most likely will be bad today :()

[celgins]

All changes I ever see after Google updates are massive amounts of posts in this forum.

LOL I agree. In fact, I never notice huge fluctuations after an update. I don't check my stats that often.

But one of my most popular pages, which has always been about dating and relationships (for years) - only shows PSA's.

Just wondering if anyone else had a PSA issue since Saturday, 26 Aug.

[Jafo]

About 3 days before the maintenence, I did a complete makeover on my main site. I am getting a much higher payout. Probably more from the redesign than any maintenence..

However, another site of mine I have done nothing to. ECPM is way up, and there are different ads. I notice less Ebay ads. There seems to be much better targetting. I now see ads about my widgets where before there were some widget ads but many untargetted ads. For some reason is kept showing ads about New York even though the site has nothing to do with NY. I guess they were just using my address for targetting.

I do think G has started to take steps against MFA's. It will be a matter of time before they sneak back in, but it is a step.

[bts111]

I have only noticed a massive increase in EPC. Whether it has anything to do with the maintenance I will never know.

[netmeg]

Fewer clicks (because my traffic is down for other reasons) but WAY higher CPC. I don't know if it's because of the maintenance or not, but I'm not complaining. No difference in targeting, those were doing pretty well before Saturday, although my filter has been full for some weeks now.

[ken_b]

I see nothing new or different.

I liked it better when these maintenance breaks were accompanied by the introduction of nifty new features.

[chikung]

I got the reply and they have solved the problem with my site regarding ad targeting. I am geting pretty good targeted ads now. Thanks G.

[djulien]

I mentioned in a previous post that the updates always seem to initially mess up the targetting, but it usually recovers shortly afterward.