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How many publishers are affected?
I mean the way it's going some of us will start paying google :)
But yes I have even had a much bigger drop, one day it went down to 90% drop, lately its around your average 30-40%
Have my earnings dropped since MD ? yes. :( about 30%
June 3 and June 4 are looking normal.
I have sites reporting completely normal visitor numbers yet their clicks are at levels never, ever seen before and statistically very unlikely after 4+ years of data.
Methinks that they have a problem...again!
Get someone else to post about it, get a few interested who have seen the same thing and, hey presto, earnings go back to normal:-)
I just hate it when this happens, it's infuriating since it is something over which I have no control whatsoever and literally just have to accept what G says I've earned even though it's plainly obvious there is something wrong with the metrics.
I assume, and this is a a BIG ASSUMPTION, that when these glitches occur that Google also suffers an income drop since, again I assume, the publishers are not being charged since they've "lost or "been unable" to recover that data?
Or am I completely on the wrong track?
I assume with you that if data is lost advertisers (that's what you meant, right?) don't get charged, but I am not sure that that's the cause....
Could your dropoff be related to the outage at the Planet? Internet traffic not working as smoothly as usual might lead to PSAs or blanks and thus fewer clicks
I am not sure what you mean? If we had smaller fill rate (more PSAs), it would not affect ecpm.
I just hate it when this happens, it's infuriating since it is something over which I have no control whatsoever
Tribal Fusion for example, shows the full revenue, and then the publisher's cut separately from Tribal Fusion's cut. They are much more transparent.
Could your dropoff be related to the outage at the Planet?
Very doubtful, this started before the outage and continued until yesterday. After this thread started my earnings CTR, eCPM have all gone back to normal...I had my best Thursday in months:-)
I assume with you that if data is lost advertisers (that's what you meant, right?) don't get charged
Yes, well I would certainly hope that if I my data is being lost that the advertisers are not being charged.
My sites have very consistent visitors and CTRs therefore when there are sudden lows, or highs, I know something is wrong. I'm not saying it's deliberate, it just seems that data is being lost/mis-reported/corrupted causing some of us these wild abberations and too much time spent here attempting to analyse what's happened to some of us and not others.
eCPM is 1/4 or less what it has been for months.
Same here. I have the traffic, and the small number of clicks just doesn't make sense at all.
