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Mine were pulverised for the second 12 hours! Only 20% of my earnings came after AdSense came back online.
All my final metrics were well down to average and even more noticeable in that I was having a storming day until the outtage.
Am I the only one?
perhaps the Google mouse monitor got you!
Obviously I've been eating too much cheese:-)
Mine were pulverised for the second 12 hours!
It's often curious what happens on the other side of the Atlantic! My earnings were non-existant the FIRST 12 hours of yesterday. By 4 PM (EST) I was still looking at 8 AM numbers. It was all I could do to keep myself from starting a "Are the stats slow today thread?".
I dashed off around 5 PM to take my daughter to ballet and when I returned an hour later, I was getting rapid click dumps in large "clumps" with the result being... a slightly above average day.
Chapman
Mine were pulverised for the second 12 hours!
Ok it's early in the AdSense day however the pumelling continues for me, everything down by 50%, except the EPC which is a little down on average, that I can live with but CTR's and eCPM's at this level and AdSense is off my sites.
All ads looking normal etc.
Come on, give me the mother of all click dumps:-)))
Mind you - at 18:00 GMT it was looking even better, so I guess I was hit somewhat.
Still - it leaves some room for the new record to be beaten.
:-) :-) :-)
Outage or no, Wednesday was my best day of the month so far in terms of both eCPM and total revenues.
Best day for a long long time yesterday - over 50% more revenue than usual
Was there really an "AdSense outage?" Or are you referring to the fact that statistics were unavailable for part of the day?
Insofar as I am concerned if AdSense stats are not available then there has been an outtage and especially so when afterwards I see abnormal metrics:-(
What is of even greater concern to me now, and I have already written to AdSense requesting clarity, is that our two accounts are absolute abysmal today already showing 25% of the normal page impressions yet only 10% of the usual earnings associated with that level of traffic.
This very low level and never before seen CTR and eCPM makes me wonder whether the kids broke my system at the plex...or wherever it is:-)
yesterday was as normal, TODAY CTR and eCPM halved so far, just waiting for the google fart/dump hopefully
I never thought chitika would look good compared to adsense :(
I see a lot of 4-up ad blocks only showing one crappy ad.
If I wanted to give my users only one ad option I would have picked the single-ad block to show them.
What is of even greater concern to me now, and I have already written to AdSense requesting clarity, is that our two accounts are absolute abysmal today already showing 25% of the normal page impressions yet only 10% of the usual earnings associated with that level of traffic.
Sounds like a reporting problem or delay, which isn't the same as an outage on the serving-ads-to-users-and-capturing-the-clicks side. If I were you, I'd wait a day or so before drawing any conclusions.
Today is not too different from yesterday, in regard to non-linear reporting and if an early evening "dumpdation" occurs again... I'll still be happy.
Maybe if you "AdSenseAholics" (I always thought 'AA' stood for something else) had stayed at your posts yesterday... none of this would have happened! ;-)
Chapman
[edited by: Chapman at 3:53 pm (utc) on Oct. 12, 2006]
On September 15, my site lost about 60% of its traffic and therefore 60% of its income. My site came back on September 27th, with all traffic back to normal, even a little bit higher.
Sunday, I saw the highest eCPM ever and with a little bit higher traffic, it was my record AdSense day ever! Monday was nearly as good and so far this week, I've had above average earnings every day.
I just hope this keeps up and I'm really feeling nervous about the 15th and 27th of this month, hoping that my site does not fall in the serps again.
I'm very thankful for the high earnings of this month. Since I just started AdSense full time in May this year, I'm not sure if the eCPM normally goes up starting in October anyway with no past years to judge it by.
I'm sure things will pick back up for you Opti. You have been very successful with your sites and I'm sure this is a temporary glitch. Good luck to you!
[edited by: WolfLover at 4:09 pm (utc) on Oct. 12, 2006]
OptiRex, I don't know what it is about your website(s), but you're always posting about seeing the wildest swings. Maybe at some point you should decide that the unusual is usual for you.
Might be helpful to note your geographical area, as that could be a factor.
Sounds like a reporting problem or delay
I'm all caught up after a stagnant four some hours and actually doing quite well.
Interesting to note, if the number of impressions, since my last post, were compared to the number of clicks in that same period... the resulting CTR would have been almost 20%. Don't I wish!
NE US per MB
Chapman
global, regional or local focus
as to the intended audience of the website pertains.
So I would be: based in AZ, global focus > satis quo.
[edited by: Khensu at 8:13 pm (utc) on Oct. 12, 2006]
Today looks just as boring.
Minnesota, USA.
Because if you are low traffic/low earnings site then statistically you are going to see big swings anyway and its not really statistically meaningful.
I have some small sites that over 3 years or so have earned anything from a dollar a day to 60+ a day, sometimes for months.
But add all of my sites together and the wild swings each seperate site seems to all even out increadibly well. Almost as if someone from the plex took a look at my group of sites and gave it a value.
The totals across all sites for income/traffic are amazingly steady!
I mean really steady! EPC (average) is actually a little better than 3 years ago, as is traffic and income. Overall. But not taken individually.
None of these sites have had much if any updates or additional pages added in this time period either.
If you get say 5k page views a day, or say $100 a day average over a long period then a drop in income of 50 percent or traffic etc is much more statistically meaningful than a site with 100 veiws a day that earns 2 dollars average. You can see real trends clearly.
A 50 percent swing on the low traffic sites is not only likely but much bigger swings should actually be expected just through mathmatical probability.
I think optirex does not fall into the low traffic category though?
