adsense stats stuck again? May 4, 2009

[danielanaidu]

anyone else have stats that appear to be stuck today? this seems to be happening more and more often lately.

[Lame_Wolf]

no.
Dropping to an all time low.

[azlinda]

They're still at rock bottom!

[CWebguy]

the reason I ask is because generally only those affected by something tend to be more vocal, or is this across the board?

[azlinda]

This began for me when they had their last stats stuck episode a few days back.

[frakilk]

CTR tanking even further. I just don't know what to think anymore.

[realmaverick]

#*$! man. I have had some issues with my site over the past few days and I assumed the stats were so bad because of that.

However, today things are back to normal with my website but the eCPM and CTR are appalling.

We're talking 50% of normal.

[radix]

Started out to be a normal day today. Then, CTR has been sinking to ever lower levels for a few hours now.

[SEOPTI]

CTR reporting seems to be down completely!

[frakilk]

My brother is reporting that his CTR is tanking also today. Looks like it could be yet another glitchy day.

[Freedom]

Stats not good for this time of day. Was fine this morning. Another adsense SNAFU

[CWebguy]

so what's the answer, switch to YPN?

[Lame_Wolf]

so what's the answer, switch to YPN?

I wish... but YPN only operate within USA borders. :(

[nrep]

I really hope they are stuck, I've not seen stats this low for years.

[adamxcl]

I'm glad I'm not the only one, but not glad at how bad it is getting. It is hard to test anything when other factors are at play. You think oh, it's this or that change I just made but then I see others are down too. This is pretty lame.

[realmaverick]

I tell a lie, if it continues how it is today. I'll earn about 1/3 of my average earnings for this year.

That'd have one massive impact of my business and life, if things continued this way.

We've already taken a beating but this would really be the kick in the balls while we're down.

[azlinda]

And not a word from the AdSenseAdvisor either. I wonder if Google even cares that there are some very unhappy people out here.

[HuhuFruFru]

stats stuck

[eeek]

I've noticed some ad display failures today. I'm just hoping they aren't the cause of the low stats (I much prefer reporting lag as a reason).

[eeek]

Yesterday wound up as one of the lowest earners in years. Is the party over?

Mine were higher than average.

[Play_Bach]

Just got back from work and logged into AdSense hoping by this time of day the numbers would have been higher than yesterday. Nope, the numbers once again are at about 50% of average (an average that goes back to 2004!). At this rate, May is shaping up to be a very tough month to earn an AdSense buck.

[edited by: Play_Bach at 11:12 pm (utc) on May 6, 2009]

[digic]

Been in this situation for almost 2 weeks now. 50% dropped in earnings. I now believed that its not stuck stats anymore. One thing I noticed, some ads on my site were irrelevant. On one adblock with 4 ads, only 1 is relevant? That would relate to low CTR and eCPM. Could it be that advertisers are on tight budget?

[azlinda]

The ads I have appearing on the 300x250 blocks are about 98% relevant to the site. My CTR has fallen 90% from the average over the past few years.

[Play_Bach]

That's what doesn't make sense to me either - ads look the same as always, traffic is normal, yet CTR is 1/3?

[azlinda]

I think there is a technical problem at Google that they are not telling us about. I'm just wondering if they're working on correcting it. It would be nice if there was a little communication from them now and then. They must know by now that there is a huge problem.

[Play_Bach]

In order for me to get back to where I was before the drop, it looks like I'll have to triple my traffic. Yeah right.

[edited by: Play_Bach at 2:56 am (utc) on May 7, 2009]

[CWebguy]

I changed templates on my main site a couple of days ago, expecting an increase in CTR, only to surprisingly not see any, and actually a slight decrease, wonder if this is what is going on.

[frakilk]

Wow yesterday ended up terrible. And my site is in its peak months too :( eCPM down 50% since the start of April. I don't believe it is the economy which is responsible, there was such a violent swing in April whereas previously it had been quite stable.

[WolfLover]

April was awesome until April 23rd. Most days since then have been off about 25% or so. A couple of days ago I had a back to "normal" day and then back down to this crud again.

[nrep]

Earnings were way off the norm for me yesterday - across lots of very large sites. I hope this is just a blip rather than a trend.

[oddsod]

I've got very high eCPMs today. Thought it was a click dump at first but the figures seem to be continuing. My eCPM doesn't normally vary outside 80-120% from the average. Today it's running at 180%. Maybe it is a clickdump but only one site in the account seems to be accounting for the increase.