Operation Xmas Bonus

Le's go!

[ann]

It's Saturday, let the games begin!

Post your suspected changes due to maintenance here. :)

Ann

[FortySomething]

We will be worse off again. Advertisers will pay more, we will get less Google will get fatter.

[mainspot]

Don't be so negative thinking, we still don't know the result yet.
So far GA has done good job to eliminate MFA for us.
:)

[Hobbs]

Something is up already before the Xmas Bonus update.

There was some kind of a fluke yesterday (Friday ) where EPC was running at 4 times normal for many hours in the beginning of the Google day, but somebody flipped the switch off again and the day ended within normal metrics (with a little aftertaste of high epc and ecpm)

I am guessing we might be seeing more of this, good pages excellent pay, bad pages will drag your whole account down.

We are probably witnessing the birth of a new and improved rollercoaster with higher climbs and sharper bends, no wonder children are not allowed in this game.

[miguelito]

well the wheels came off my rollercoaster cart this week, my reward for breaking the 20 million page impressions a month barrier was to see eCPM drop from 0.38 to 0.14 so i'm hoping this maintenance will include some maintenance on my account :P

[ann]

Had the best all around good days from the first to the 10th that I have had for a year! Here's hoping this maintenance won't scr...errr foul things up.

Ann

[FortySomething]

Don't be so negative thinking, we still don't know the result yet. So far GA has done good job to eliminate MFA for us.

I'm only negative thinking because I've been here a long time, seen all the past "Upgrades" and always been worse off as a result.

have they done a good job with clearing out MFA's? Glad you think so. When you have been around here a little longer you may get to change your mind on that score.

[Januuski]

So far GA has done good job to eliminate MFA for us.

That is the funniest thing I heard in a very long time! You are very funny! :-)

[ann]

I finally managed to get in to check and wish I hadn't. :(

CTR down, EPC down, and earnings down....am I allowed to cry in this thread? Was doing so well.

Ann

[andrewshim]

I finally managed to get in to check and wish I hadn't.
CTR down, EPC down, and earnings down....am I allowed to cry in this thread? Was doing so well.

ditto. mebbe we should bust some martinis instead.... (ahem.... joke, MB, joke... notice the wink smiley ;) )

[Yippee]

OK, things seem semi normal here, however, a bit sturdy for an ecmp with slow traffic (normal day for Saturday). I'm wondering what a day like Monday would bring... I'm guessing the update was a positive one (if you are in the right game in G's eyes). I will report back in the upcoming days how things play out for us.

[trader]

It appears from my income decline that my sites and stats had 'maintanance' issues for a long time.

[miguelito]

and yet curiously, my sites performance stats have leapt up back to what they were last month.
looks like the Google cherry pie has been redistributed again.

[trannack]

Ann - gutted for you - you were doing so well! My eCPM is up, my traffic from adwords is down - the two have balanced. What I have noticed, is that some of my adgroups in adwords that had large numbers of inactive keywords - are now active. Now I have done nothing to these pages so why has big G suddenly decided they have a better quality score and have re-activated the keywords? If this has happened to a lot of adwords publishers in your niche, perhaps a lot of previously inactive keywords have been activated again.....weird.

[OptiRex]

and yet curiously, my sites performance stats have leapt up back to what they were last month

Likewise, Saturday saw my biggest earning day of the month with everything, dare I say it, looking normal!

Maybe they've replaced the elastic band with something stronger?

[FortySomething]

Maybe they've replaced the elastic band with something stronger?

Gosh - things are in a bad way!

We always knew that RandomPricing was decided by waving wet seaweed three times anticlockwise and thinking of a random number, but elastic bands? What exactly would they use it for?