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!

[andrewshim]

Lowest click count all month.

...all year...

[kd454]

...all year...

In several years (:

[andrewshim]

In several years

you're right, actually...

was there a maintenance last night and they forgot to switch Adsense back on?

[zarathustra2011]

Before I hit the pillow I was easily set to have my best day ever, but the night was on the slow side, but I still got my second highest earnings ever.
Was down on clicks, but CPC was way up.

[Play_Bach]

Yesterday's stats remained unchanged. Hopefully things will start moving again today.

[Play_Bach]

So far, better than average start than has been the norm lately. Unless there's a bunch of well targeted ads I'm not seeing, I suspect a number of clicks are being carried over from yesterday.

[sanblasena]

My site is about 5 years old. Until recently my earnings went up every year and I was doing pretty well. When Panda hit I lost about 10% of my traffic but I wasn't too concerned. Most of my site is good original content but some of my listing pages seemed a bit overwhelmed by ads so I deleted the ones that didn't have many listings and moved my adblock down some. Little by little my earnings decreased - 70% - 60% and now about 40%. The last 2 days are the worst. I am wondering, have I reached bottom yet? Or is this a downward spiril that won't stop until it is all gone?

[Play_Bach]

Maybe I spoke too soon. My AdSense reports are jumping all over the place. Just lost about 40% in earnings from the total I was seeing only a few minutes ago. Fun. :-|

[rlopes]

My traffic has raised the last months, but my CPC are down to about half of what it was. Hard to understand it.
Time to look for greener pastures...

[HuskyPup]

Hmmm...ok, so what's happened today? My usually highest url channel has had 12.5% of PIs so far, needless to say earnings are very low.

[JCKline]

My stats haven't moved in three hours. eCPM is up, CTR is below average, so payout is just below normal for an OK day.

[Play_Bach]

Earnings very low again. :-(

[Dragonfly080]

My first half of May is considerably okay but starting on 15th my earning declined significatly although the traffic and EPC still the same. Lost around 50% of CTR.

The last 2 days I got hit by whatever google did in their plex, lost around 40% of traffic. So my earning dropped again. Now my earning is just 35% of what it used to be.

PS: This is my first post here.Hi guys.. :)

[HuskyPup]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Dragonfly080 and hell's lair where, probably, none of us has a clue as to what has happened other than Panda 1.0, Panda 2.0 and Panda 2.1!

Considering on Sunday I had 28.4% more clicks than Saturday, the much lower EPC meant I only earned USD 0.37 more!

For the first time since the first week of May I actually had my old norm of a CTR but with Page Impressions at 75% of a normal weekend day and nearly 50% of a weekday, actual earnings ended up at 40% of PP (Pre-Panda).

Something changed again over the weekend with the SERPs. My second biggest url channel, a Coppermine gallery with thousands of widget images, was relegated to 11-13th position, this depends when looking, and has lost more than 70% of its regular traffic.

This gallery is the only one of its kind on The Net, some have much smaller ones, and had recently been updated with a further 1,000 images...well, that's damned pointless now!

On a personal note...I have not removed AdSense as yet since it has bounced back from the extreme lows of a few days ago and is providing beer money plus I need to know if it recovers at any point AND on an even brighter note I spent fewer hours in my office this weekend than in years, in fact Saturday I didn't even strike-up an office machine...thanks Google, maybe you're giving me my life back!

[Windslide]

Hi,

Iīm not new, but I havenīt posted in years. Now working with Adsense and I would like to share my toughts. I work mainly for the Spanish speaking countries, and I have been watching Adsense revenues going down for the last 2 months. Also, compared to prevoius months or years things seem to be very erratic, too many unpredictable changes. Not sure if google is testing Panda for spanish language. The thing that most bothers me is the unpredictability of the sistem.

Regards.

[jmccormac]

Almost all the business day gone already and earnings on the floor. If this keeps up, I am going to have to start my own search engine.

Regards...jmcc

[Play_Bach]

> Ever consider that the advertisers have gone?

@CenSin
Yes, unfortunately in my niche that does appear to be a factor. Also helps explain why ad targeting is such a mess, not enough relevant ads to fill the blocks.

[m0thman]

I wonder if the rise of Facebook is a factor here?

[Play_Bach]

Facebook has got to be a factor. Everybody I know is spending way too much time there.

[HuskyPup]

Facebook did not suddenly start on 6th May 2011...that was the day all the garbage started happening for me.

Apart from Play_Bach does that fit in with most others' sudden decline?

[Play_Bach]

Channel click count is stuck.

[azlinda]

My sudden decline began April 11.

[netmeg]

Facebook did not suddenly start on 6th May 2011...that was the day all the garbage started happening for me.

HP, you know I love you like my luggage, but... you've been bitching about the bottom falling out of your AdSense for a LOT longer than that...

[andrewshim]

HP, you know I love you like my luggage, but... you've been bitching about the bottom falling out of your AdSense for a LOT longer than that...

hehe... yes. I sometimes wonder if I come here for Adsense talk or HP's grumbling. Sort of soothing in a weird kind of way... like waking up Saturday morning to the sound of Mom's grumbles.

[m0thman]

My sudden decline began April 11

ssshhnnnnapp!

HP, you know I love you like my luggage, but...

like waking up Saturday morning to the sound of Mom's grumbles.

But this place cheers me up no end :-)

[JCKline]

Another garbage day! It smells worse then yesterdays...and not as tasty.

[ErnestHemingway]

Everyone going through high blood pressure, stress and all other problems. There is no solution, I wish there was. Adsense is getting worst day by day. After the Panda update, there were losers and winners. Even if you had great content you got hit. Accept the fact and move on. Find other means of driving traffic to your site and other means of generating income.

In my case I got direct advertisers and direct banners of affiliates. Earning is nowhere near as to what I was earning with Adsense but it is a good start at least I am not in Google fear anymore.

Gone good days of creating good content and monetizing it with Adsense.

[Play_Bach]

Earnings at 70%. Four hours left to go.

[thechromeguy]

hi everyone,I'm new here but I've been using adsense since they started. I think there are no true winners in this current scenario its just to unpredictable and makes you think twice on investing more time.

I had a feeling Google was planning to make changes from the start of the year and did some preparations. Sadly I was not fast enough and had to fire a few people.

Some of the preparations I did was to invest on generic domain names that had type in traffic that convert. I'm still paying of for the domains but I'm happy regardless of of what happens my family don't end up in the streets.

[Atomic]

I think there are no true winners in this current scenario its just to unpredictable and makes you think twice on investing more time.

Au contraire. Monday was my sixth best day ever. Six of my top ten all-time days have come this month.