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Talk About Heart Attack!

My Adsense Earnings Doubled in Just 1 Hour!

         

Roseb44170

9:46 pm on Jul 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Adsense is soooo unpredictable! While browsing these message boards I decided to take another look at my adsense earnings for the day so far and I was actually shocked to find out that they had DOUBLED in one half hour! :o

jimbeetle

9:57 pm on Jul 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Not really, the amount Google posted doubled. The earnings themselves could have come in almost any hour of the day before that.

Google doesn't post clicks and earnings real time, it doesn't post clicks and earnings at the same time, nor does it post them for corresponding time periods. G likes to play with our heads and keeps the daily data as non-transparent as possible.

The only time you can really "trust" the stats is the next day.

Roseb44170

2:08 am on Jul 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Okay thanks for "bursting my bubble" :(

- it still feels good though!

Away from my computer for about 4 hours and it increased - almost doubled again but I'm keeping what you said in mind!

blurblade

2:59 am on Jul 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Would you share with me how that kind of heart attack feels like? perhaps I can have some good dreams tonight =) mine stayed ZERO for the whole day...

m0thman

8:21 am on Jul 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Nope. Here's the real heart attack scenario. You're income has been stable (as stable as it is in AdSense) for ages, then one day, it's halved.. then the next day, still the same, not just an "off" day. The rest of the week the same - and this is your main income.

Make a game out of it, it will cheer you up. Try and count how many different things you look at and call into question, the lines of code you may have changed, page content, ad sizes, formats, positions, block lists, calendar events, seasonal trends.

Next week your earnings are back where they were but you're walking on eggshells for the next month. This stuff is all fun but there's a few scary moments too.

Roseb44170

5:34 pm on Jul 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I'm glad to see someone who admits that Adsense is their main source of income!

Yesterday was my highest earnings day so far this month!

And I do try to make a game out of it - because otherwise it would make me crazy - er!

blurblade

8:47 pm on Jul 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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sounds scary....
i stayed up till 5am this morning to look for potential affiliate programs that may fit my site. Do you guys use affiliate ads on your sites? does AdSense allow us to use most affiliate programs along with AdSense?

Roseb44170

12:09 am on Jul 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Would you share with me how that kind of heart attack feels like? perhaps I can have some good dreams tonight =) mine stayed ZERO for the whole day...

You know the first thought that comes to one's mind when something good happens "oh its a mistake" - that's what I thought!

But its a day later now and that number is still there so I have calmed down a little bit more!

blurblade

12:31 am on Jul 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

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lol good for you. i have been getting fraud clicks since last friday...that's another kind of heart attack...perhaps someone is attacking me...help...what should i do?

J_Evans

10:04 pm on Jul 10, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Yea it really makes you feel good when your earnings double in an hour or even a little bit more. I can't even begin to describe how I feel when I see a big $ 0.06 in the earnings column instead of that old $ 0.02 or $ 0.03. Gotta go check and see what happened in the last few minutes. Later

jimbeetle

11:01 pm on Jul 10, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Yesterday was my highest earnings day so far this month!

Kudos to you. It's a good feeling to know you're doing something right.

And I do try to make a game out of it - because otherwise it would make me crazy - er!

Yeah, don't obsess over every little fluctuation, most are normal. Keep an eye on longer term trends, month to month, quarter to quarter,etc. And when you get there, this month over the same month last year, etc.

Sounds like if you just keep working it the way you are you just might wind up being a successful AdSense publisher.

Roseb44170

12:21 am on Jul 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Sounds like if you just keep working it the way you are you just might wind up being a successful AdSense publisher.

Oh I am DEFINITELY aiming to be one of the Adsense Millionaires! ;)

Roseb44170

12:24 am on Jul 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

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lol good for you. i have been getting fraud clicks since last friday...that's another kind of heart attack...perhaps someone is attacking me...help...what should i do?

well adsense has such sophisticated technology that they use to identify invalid clicks so as long as its not YOU who is doing the invalid clicking then you don't have too much to worry about although if you are getting a lot of invalid clicks I would report it to adsense just the same!