July 2012 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[tonyolm]

There you go...

How is your July 2012 coming along...

[zarathustra2011]

Yesterday was very encouraging.

[zarathustra2011]

No idea what's happening today. Started okay, and impressions continue to rise, but no clicks. Should probably take a leaf from incrediBILL and just ignore it. I'll perhaps check in tomorrow, and hope there's a clickdump forthcoming.

[netmeg]

Yea me too. Maybe it's a thing.

Edit - whoops, I take that back. Starting to come through now.

[zarathustra2011]

Guess who wasn't able to resist checking their account again! Seems stuck again now - hopefully it will unstick with a pleasant surprise later on - I'm off to have a curry night with some people I've never met before.

[Compworld]

Earnings for July, through AdMeld, have been down for me ass well. The fill rate , which was once around 90%, has dropped to around 40%. Not sure why.

[JCKline]

Things seem to be heading on a downward trend for me. July started strong, and keeps dropping. I hope it picks up soon.

[tonyolm]

I discovered the chrome adsense tool bar. Pretty cool.

I had two crappy days and today is awesome and I DON'T HAVE A CLUE why.

I still wish google gave a report that showed which ads paid what amount.

Ad space is like real estate. There is a value associated with that
space.

As example with example CPC's

Lets say you have an ad popping up that generates 50 clicks at .33 cents while other days you have an ad popping up that generates 50 clicks at $1.23.

That is what is going on this week for me. Same ad space, same content production and but one ad pays far less. I still did the same amount of content production but that space was sold for less..

I'd rather take a chance. Say have a setting for the minimum cost per click. Would you rather have 50 5 cent ($2.50) clicks or 20 75 cent ($15) clicks. You might end up getting no clicks because no one is willing to pay what you want for your ad space.

[netmeg]

It will never happen. Never never never. Remember, you're not driving this bus.

[Lame_Wolf]

I still wish google gave a report that showed which ads paid what amount.

That will happen when Frosty the Snowman walks out of the gates of hell, throwing snowballs. It doesn't take a genius to work out that it would be open to abuse and fraud.

[studee]

big increase in rpm today, rather since yesterday

[tonyolm]

We are all driving the bus.... Some people happen to be on the short bus but that is a story for another thread... :)

Google allows us to block topic categories so I don't understand why they would not allow us to block CPC categories. 5 to 15 cents - 16 to 25- 26 to 50 etc... You are still going to have CTR's and ad inventory to deal with.

My last two days were bad but today is awesome. Remember it is all relative to the publisher. A bad day for me may be what another publisher earns in a week.

[netmeg]

No, you only think you're driving the bus.

[tonyolm]

Later tonight or tomorrow we'll start another thread about who is driving the bus when your a publisher. We don't want to take this thread off topic :)

[Compworld]

If Google Adsense continues to perform like this, I may have to start driving a bus.

[NomadMan]

Average days in July - CTR jumped up from 0.7 to 1.1 - what a treat.

It's not a bus - it's Jap Zero suicide plane. Once you take of....

[JCKline]

Clicks haven't budged all day.

[azlinda]

I'm right now where I normally am at 7 AM and it's 1 PM here now.

[edinburgher]

After an outage this long most companies would at least post a message saying "We're aware of the problem and are working on it". Not so the mighty Google, who never admit to being less than perfect.

[zarathustra2011]

Yesterday was neither great nor bad.

[Lame_Wolf]

After an outage this long most companies would at least post a message saying "We're aware of the problem and are working on it". Not so the mighty Google, who never admit to being less than perfect.

Google have never stated how often payments will be updated. Please prove otherwise.

And if you have noticed, since we've had the new interface, how many times has it said that there is maintenance going on. Never that I can recall, yet I bet they've had a ton of maintenance schedules.

[HuskyPup]

Google have never stated how often payments will be updated. Please prove otherwise.

I have to disagree with you there L_W however I can't be a$$sed to look for it assuming it still exists.

A few years ago they did announce that the metrics would be updated in real-time and, I think, as near to real-time as they could possibly manage.

This did happen for several months and it used to be great fun watching the Firefox Sy Sense pop-up updating constantly with new earnings etc.

I also remeber when I could buy 20 pints of beer for a pound...ahhhh:-)

[edinburgher]

After an outage this long most companies would at least post a message saying "We're aware of the problem and are working on it". Not so the mighty Google, who never admit to being less than perfect.

Google have never stated how often payments will be updated. Please prove otherwise.

Oh I agree, there's no SLA commitment from them. But even so, this is basic public relations stuff. People will put up with almost anything if they're kept informed.

Google employ a lot of PhDs. It seems that few if any of them have studied relationship management.

[Lame_Wolf]

I have to disagree with you there L_W however I can't be a$$sed to look for it assuming it still exists.

I've never found anything where they would update the payments every x amount of minutes/hours.

Sometimes, mine updates every ten minutes or so. Other times it is hours... and even into the next day.

[Lame_Wolf]

People will put up with almost anything if they're kept informed.

Very true. And don't get me wrong, I get pissed with Google too at times.

Google employ a lot of PhDs. It seems that few if any of them have studied relationship management.

I agree.

[netmeg]

I participate or have participated in a lot of ad networks, affiliate programs and other revenue-generating stuff. AdSense, even now, generally updates WAY faster and more often than any of them. Anywhere. We're just spoiled is all. Even with Amazon, you can't get your stats till the next day. And considering how complex the system is (yea yea yea, shut up. I'm an pro-level advertiser. It's complex) it's a minor miracle we get same day stats at all.

But of course, we're all free to use the alternatives available to us.

There are legitimate beefs about AdSense, and there's crazy pants talk. This one is crazy pants talk

[Compworld]

Same as yesterday. :(

[jpch]

I'm definitely not driving the bus...just hope I'm not licking the windows either.

[Play_Bach]

Hit by the bus here. :-(

[netmeg]

Any day I get a random click on an off-season site worth $9.24, it's a good day. I believe that's a record for me (insofar as I can tell - and I can only tell because that site won't start getting normal traffic for another three months at least)

[edinburgher]

Today's figures seem to be back up to poor but believable numbers. Still no sign of the missing data from yesterday.