October 2011 AdSense Earnings & Observations

[incrediBILL]

Thought I'd kick off the thread this month just to prove I'm still here ;)

[HuskyPup]

Best Sunday since early September thanks to some really good EPCs on one specific url channel:

Impressions 80.2%
Clicks 88%
CTR 108.8%
eCPM 124.5%
Earnings 99.8%

One of my sites caught-up in "minor" Panda update seems to have been released, the other's made a partial recovery, about 25%, not that they contributed much anyway but I was really puzzled why they had been caught since they're no different to any other site builds.

[Play_Bach]

Another low earnings day in the works. :-(

[HuskyPup]

Seems stuck to me.

[freelanceit]

Earnings have been suicidal for the last 5 days. 4 websites earning pence per day instead of pounds. Now, to cap it all, as if things aren't bad enough, today I have lost 90 percent of my visitors. How can you possible loose 90 percent of visitors in just one day? What is google trying to do ruin us all?

[Lame_Wolf]

Earnings have been suicidal for the last 5 days.

Are you kidding ? For me, todays earnings are 5 times what they should be. I got my whole day's earnings all by 1600 GMT. Brilliant day for me.

[vampke]

it is extremely weird what is happening. I am having the best 3 months since I joined, but I am also having much earnings the hours my visitors should be asleep.
this is new. I don't understand what is going on.

[pelizden]

Monday very bad so far, low ctr, low paying clicks :(

[netmeg]

it is extremely weird what is happening. I am having the best 3 months since I joined, but I am also having much earnings the hours my visitors should be asleep.
this is new. I don't understand what is going on.

First of all, there's no reason to believe the clicks are always 'real time' and second of all, if it were me, I'd be checking the source of my traffic. If I get a bunch of strange or suspicious traffic all of a sudden, then I have to make a decision as to whether it's a potential risk.

[vampke]

nothing wrong with the source of my traffic.

Clicks are usually delayed 15 minutes or so. This is quite constant in my experience, you can see it when the date changes. 15 minutes in the new day (california time) the previous day's stats don't change anymore.
also: pageviews are shown in adsense, these seem to be pretty accurate as well

[HuskyPup]

I'm still stuck, no movement at all for about 3-4 hours, my logs are still moving and showing a normal day though.

[netmeg]

Clicks are usually delayed 15 minutes or so.

Really? Over six figures worth of clicks, that's not been my experience at all.

[HuskyPup]

Oh dear, a very poor EPC day resulting in my second worst day of the month with eCPM being 50% of the weekend.

Plus my biggest url channel had normal impressions and its worst-ever day with a 0.11% CTR and earnings at 14.9% of average!

[vampke]

@netmeg: do you mean you have over 100k clicks per day?!

[Play_Bach]

> do you mean you have over 100k clicks per day?!

Probably not. Since I've been with AdSense since 2004, I've got "six figures worth of clicks" too. Pretty sure that's what she's talking about.

[pelizden]

low ctr seems to be the main issue these days...

[vampke]

right, i realise i jumped to a conclusion much too soon :)
100k clicks per day would mean a nice monthly income though :)

[netmeg]

I was talking over the past year.

[Play_Bach]

Horrible earnings day so far. :-(

[atladsenser]

My stats are definitely stuck today, been the same dollar amount for a couple of hours now.

[breeks]

Stuck here also no update for several hours.

[fanboy]

Stuck here too. Glad to see I'm not the only one...

[netmeg]

Ya, it's stuck. It'll unstick.

[zarathustra2011]

Yep totally stuck today, and before it got stuck reportings have been amazingly erratic, the likes of which I've never seen before.

[kd454]

Maybe they are not stuck and Google is shaving just a little more than usual.. hummm

[Leosghost]

and maybe they are eating kitten burgers and laughing whilst they count what they must be skimming ..sheesh!

[netmeg]

Unstuck a bit but nowhere near done yet.

[thechromeguy]

Just want to say Good Bye, just got banned from Adsense been a publisher for 9 years. My company's adsense account was also banned, that's the hard part have to fire 3 people until we make the transition to other networks. It feels horrible to loose thousands of euros.

Keeping with the topic: it was really slow before they banned my account.

[vampke]

damn, what was the reason for the ban?

[HuskyPup]

Just want to say Good Bye,

Oh heck, any idea of the problem?

[Danwebsol]

Things are kind of strange here today. Report is showing 0 page views, 6 clicks 0.53 CPC and $3.21 in Estimated earnings.

Does that mean I'm banned or something?