May 2011 AdSense Earnings & Observations

[HuskyPup]

For me, so far today 1st May, it has continued in the same vein of the past few days.

I've never experienced such bad endofmonthitis before, here's hoping for a kick-start Monday or Tuesday or whenever anyone, asides from us lot, go back to work!

[JCKline]

stuck here too.

[Play_Bach]

Page views (Page impressions) seem to be pretty consistently lining up with Google Analytics (save for maybe being under/behind by 10% or so). What's interesting to me is this count doesn't appear to factor how many ad blocks are on the page like I remember the AdSense stats used to score. So whether I have one ad block or three, the page view count is still only one. This may explain in part why page views are running at about 1/3 what they once were.

[zarathustra2011]

Doing very well this evening - since updating the website, am getting more visitors, and more clicks.
I find if it gets stuck, you can sometimes switch between the new adsense interface and the old by clicking the link on the top right, and that updates things (sometimes, not always).

[koan]

So whether I have one ad block or three, the page view count is still only one.

A page view is a pageview, no matter how many ads there are. What you're looking for is "ad requests", it can be selected in the Columns drop down menu in the new interface.

[Play_Bach]

@koan
Agreed, but my point was this is relatively new reporting. I can go back in my stats and see very different pageview counts by large margins (3x) than what is being shown now.

[azlinda]

I've been working today on putting channels on my entire web site. I had not been using channels before, and I'm curious about whether there is a Pandalty (Panda penalty) for not having them.

[Atomic]

I had not been using channels before, and I'm curious about whether there is a Pandalty (Panda penalty) for not having them.

Why would Google do such a thing?

[koan]

Why would Google do such a thing?

Lol! Panda is paralyzing people with fear.

[HuskyPup]

Was it the maintenance Saturday?

They've changed something again, Monday I saw a 30% increase in page impressions and earnings compared to 6th May thru Saturday 14th May, Sunday 15th May was my best day since Panda 2.1, and today Tuesday 17th May, I'm seeing the same as yesterday.

Is it a reversal or have they had a major re-adjustment? Certainly I had a massive spidering on 10th May.

Now just get those EPC values back up!

[ascensions]

@HuskyPup.... Seeing an improvement here too. Traffic is still low for me though.

[Play_Bach]

Low numbers today. Earnings at 50%. Three hours left to go.

[zarathustra2011]

A better than average day here.

[HuskyPup]

Tuesday's impressions were about 90% of normal however my EPC is still just scraping along the bottom but certainly better than it has been recently.

[Automotive site]

HuskyPup, I have also seen an improvement in the ecpm over the last couple days. Not a lot but still quite significant.

Regarding Konetra, why are all the ads showing links to a dictionary about how to spell the word underlined? This could explain why I have been averaging around 2 cents a click since putting Kontera up several days ago. How long does it take to show serious ads?

Its been nearly a week now. I am going to give it another day before I try out Infolinks in their place. I went with Konetra because of positive reviews on this site and also because they appear to be a more professional outfit than Infolinks and I thought that would translate into higher earnings. Am I right in thinking Kontera shows ads to all traffic and not just search based?

[HuskyPup]

Have you tried Chitika? It used to be ok but paid 1/3 of AdSense.

[Automotive site]

Does Chitika still do the lynx ads they use to? I believe they were intext advertising (similar to Kontera), but when I go into the Chitika admin panel to create the ad tags, they don't offer the Lynx option, only formats similar to adsense.

[Automotive site]

The thing about these intext ads is that - judging by what quite a lot of people say - they do not adversely impact adsense CTR and earnings. I don't want to put the standard chtitika ads because I already have adsense on the site.

[bwnbwn]

Report on the changes I posted back on page 9. Looks like the changes I am still in the process of doing have done the trick. Kinda suprised it was picked up so fast by Google, but sure is good to see I found a problem corrected it and cpc has returned to normal or actually above normal.
The ctr is a little lower than what it was, but I have pushed the ads to the bottom of the page to increase the clicks to the affilates I have added to the site. This is an expected drop but with the increase in CPC our income is back.

[azlinda]

I'm having great success with VSW FeatureLink (VerticalSearchWorks, Inc.), and it's at the bottom of my content. I haven't tested it yet, but I believe if I put it where the two AdSense ads are above the fold, it would probably outperform AdSense.

[HuskyPup]

I hope the stats are stuck since they seriously suck for me today, absolutely diabolical, nothing less.

[Play_Bach]

Slow here too.

[netmeg]

Great day here.

[Play_Bach]

netmeg, you're my hero! ;-)

[Atomic]

Pretty good day here, too.

[zarathustra2011]

Average day, but jumped significantly in the past 20 minutes, so could be a good day here as well.

[JCKline]

Still not moving here.

[azlinda]

Best day I've had in a long time!

[JCKline]

That's great for you guys...waiting for my "great day".

[Atomic]

Now I've been stuck for a few hours.

[HuskyPup]

Even as bad as it's been recently today's earnings so far are hitting new lows, incredibly disappointing just when it looked as though there may have been a slight recovery on Monday and Tuesday.