April 2012 AdSense Earnings & Observations

[HuskyPup]

March was one heck of a roller coaster ride for me and many others, let's hope they've ironed out whatever it is they've been attempting to do!

[Play_Bach]

Greetings from the pub! Earnings unchanged for hours and hours, beer on the other hand has been very enjoyable. Cheers! :-/

[IanCP]

Greetings from the pub!

Someone has correct priorities.

[Play_Bach]

Another 20% of average earnings day. :-(

[zarathustra2011]

Good pageviews, good number of clicks, but CPC is pretty low. Not a total disaster, but far from great.

[jackonaplane]

CTR dropped significantly yesterday, with CPC staying normal. Possibly some missing clicks.

[zarathustra2011]

Was looking mighty promising this morning, then my hosting company had a massive DOS attack and everything went down for 3 hours. :(

[HuskyPup]

What country do those clicks come from HuskyPup?

All over but principally, US, UK, Canada, OZ, NZ, India, China, South Africa, Thailand, Middle East...etc

So to yesterday and a bounce for me!

v April average so far earnings on Monday were 134.3%

Interestingly v Jan-Mar average they were at 99.77%

Click volume was 143.9%, highest this month
EPC at 95.6%
CTR 131.2%
Page views normal for a Monday

[zarathustra2011]

Even with three hours website down time, I'm currently doing better than yesterday for this time of day.

Huskypup - your diversity sounds similar to my own. USA typically pays the best for myself, and brings the most clicks. The UK, Scandinavian countries, Australia and Canada all fair quite well also.
How are things fairing today? I'm up on clicks, but normal pageviews, so I'm wondering if my ads are starting to improve.

[HuskyPup]

How are things fairing today?

It looks very stuck to me, everything has come to a grinding halt!

[Play_Bach]

Yup. Dead again.

[zarathustra2011]

Clicks are good here, then my CPC shot up, then a few minutes later it shot down, and I thought, here we go again. A few minutes later it shot up again, with several more clicks to boot, and now I'm doing better than Sunday. I think we can't trust the reporting - probably better to check it at the end of the day. If mine's to be trusted, I should be in for a good one today.

[Lame_Wolf]

I had a huge click dump about 30 minutes ago. Now they have taken back 3/4 of it. I wasn't surprised as they often do that.

[zarathustra2011]

I've only ever once had a click dump that was taken back, and that was Adsense for search, and I was suspicious at the time, especially when it all came from one country.

Today is going exceedingly well, which amazes me given how much downtime I had this morning. I'm not sure if it's a result of my updated website (though the changes have been live for a good week and a half now), better serving ads, or what.
Long may it last, and may it spread to others.

[edited by: zarathustra2011 at 6:01 pm (utc) on Apr 17, 2012]

[JCKline]

Long may it last...

You must be a true optimist.

[ken_b]

Hop to it guys, there are only 14 pages in this thread and it's already the 17th of the month!

The AdSense Forum has a reputation to uphold ya know!

:)

[HuskyPup]

Oh, my Page Views have updated however not my clicks, this is another disastrous day in the making...again!

[breeks]

Seems stuck to me, yesterday was great today stuck in the mud. Normal for AdSense.

[Play_Bach]

Still unchanged here. Interesting how some are reporting AdSense stats as normal while others (like me!) see no signs of life.

[zeus]

I have also noticed that the earnings has gone way done, but with same clicks and views. why do I have this feeling that they have cut earnings and they are playing with the earnings everyday, always to the negative of the publisher.

[HuskyPup]

Clicks are still stuck however Page Views look normal now, obviously an incredibly low CTR.

[Play_Bach]

> Clicks are still stuck

Yup. Dismal.

[Play_Bach]

Blocked my first category. Ads from this category have been flooding my site for over a year and there was no way I could drill down to it to block because it wasn't available, until now. Hopefully blocking it will make a difference, hard to imagine it making it worse.

Found the old thread
[webmasterworld.com...]

[edited by: Play_Bach at 9:42 pm (utc) on Apr 17, 2012]

[ThatsBoBo]

I'm rich!

[snickles121]

I got awesome ctr's and cpc's today. Have not seen this since last year. No clicks or impressions stuck either.

[Play_Bach]

Anybody else screaming at their monitor?

[HuskyPup]

I've given up screaming, with a CTR now less than 0.5% it's only a matter of time before this farce ends.

[ken_b]

Hey, when did they remove the "last visited" info on the AdSense control panel?

Or did they move it?

[JCKline]

I got awesome ctr's and cpc's today. Have not seen this since last year. No clicks or impressions stuck either.

Thanks for the "salt in my wound". I feel so much better. sigh

[zaktoo]

Yikes, CTR on my site is nowhere near 0.5% - am I doing something wrong? Anyone willing to take a look please? Could it just be my niche?

[zarathustra2011]

Finishing on a fairly strong day today.