Did Friday 26th October Herald The New Era?

More analysed data.

[HuskyPup]

We've agreed that 19th-21st October was the date when those of us hit by "whatever" first noticed a drastic cut however I've also noticed that Friday 26th was also a very significant date for my eCPM etc.

Using 100% as the median for 2007 my eCPM looks like this for the past 14 days:

1-19 - 102.5%
20 - 106%
21 - 66.8%
22 - 84.9%
23 - 79.8%
24 - 66.5%
25 - 70.7%
26 - 59.5% Note the consistency from here onwards
27 - 50.3%
28 - 60.4%
29 - 42.5%
30 - 55.2%
31 - 52.3%
01 - 55.1%
02 - 55.7%

I just have this feeling that we are all being well and truly prepared like a turkey!

Do your metrics look similar?

[iwannano1]

Yuo, please see thread:

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[HuskyPup]

I am aware of that thread however I would like to know if others saw similar metrics from Friday 26th since the reduction from that date and the consistency is very significant.

YMMV!

[frakilk]

Well all I know is that something definitely shook the system on the 29th. Because others reported this also rules out traditional smartpricing as the cause. Unless of course Google has introduced some form of 'group smartpricing' *eek*

I still think it was due to the glitch.

[HuskyPup]

something definitely shook the system on the 29th

Yep, my metrics show that too, a completely normal day yet significantly lower earnings however the last four days' eCPM is so tight it's uncanny!

Today is truly diabolical, I've not even earned double digit figures yet plus a further reduction of eCPM of 31.4%!

I am beginning to feel that for some of us the entire program is in meltdown, what other explanation is there?

[inactivist]

I just checked my stats, and no, I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing fewer visitors (and therefore reduced income) but EPC and eCPM are consistent with averages. There was a slight dip mid-October, but it's recovering.

I'm more concerned about the downward spiral in visitors across all sites I track, but that's got nothing to do with AdSense... or does it? ;-)

[HuskyPup]

I'm more concerned about the downward spiral in visitors across all sites I track

I'm not seeing that at all, visitor numbers and pages etc are all consistent with previous years' metrics variations however the CTR has been reduced across all sites since the start of the debacle.

[edited by: HuskyPup at 4:33 pm (utc) on Nov. 3, 2007]