November 2014 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[RedBar]

The month that starts my traditional slide towards Xmas and New Year.

[dethfire]

Yikes, RPM still falling for me

[RedBar]

Clicks stopped several hours ago for me, anyone else?

[RedBar]

Errrr...is there anyone here?

Still the same for me, no additional clicks, PVs going up, broken/delayed, again.

[terexberd]

Adsense has died last week and still dead this week. Worst rpm ever.

[RedBar]

Supposedly ads stopped serving for a while yesterday, I had my lowest clicks and CTR in months, down 33%, UK PVs were at 50%, yep something was broken, again.

Plus the first time since Easter no tablet clicks.

[RedBar]

Delayed stats, low ctr and still no tablet clicks ... what's going on G?

[FourDegreez]

Right now stats seem stuck or slow to update. Anyone else?

Overall.. November/December are usually strong performers for me, but not so far this year. CPC down by about 1/3rd from a year ago. Any explanations for a declining CPC?

[RedBar]

Nothing less than dire since Monday, today's CPC running at 56%, everything seems to to be stuck/slow with earnings way down.

I don't know what they've done but it's an absolute mess so far as I am concerned.

[ian_D]

PageViews down 30%, CTR and earnings down 50%

A few minor US outages today but nothing to account for such a large decline.

Yesterday looked similarly bad at noon but went back to normal in the evening.
Have to wonder if they're focussing everything on the doubleclick incident and mucking up real-time reporting?

[breeks]

Stats way slow compared to traffic.

Reboot of double click may be the cause.

November was doing great until today.

[avalon37]

Stas are definitely stuck me for me. Guess it's going to be one of the days where I get a bunch of clicks that never show up in my account. Go Google!

[avalon37]

Ummm Google - how about posting my clicks? Stats haven't moved in 12 hours.

[RedBar]

Interesting, yesterday has already had some extra clicks and earnings added since this morning.

Today I have a disaster zone, hardly any traffic whatsoever across all sites, fubard.

[Saffron]

Mine has been slowly improving month by month, still lower than it was 2 years ago, but hanging in there.

I'm no doubt missing the entire point of advertising, but I recently bought some clothes and a cordless phone online, and ever since then, all I see is ads for that phone and ads for the clothing store. It is driving me mental. I've already bought the product, I don't need to see ads for something I already have. At least on FB I was able to block the ads for the phone and when giving a reason, ticked that I already have the product. But the Adsense ads follow me around the Internet. I'm sick of seeing the same products over and over and over again.

[breeks]

seeing the same products over and over and over again

dump the cookies

I think this is more of an AdWords problem than adsense.

[SnowLeppard]

All day my site has had one ad for Rackspace and another for Mercedes-Benz. I suspect Google are going to send me so much traffic I have to start using Rackspace and then have so much money I have to buy a Mercedes.

[Saffron]

I wonder if it would be a good idea for visitors to be able to opt out of certain ads like you can on FB.

I don't mind seeing ads on websites, I used to block them but I don't anymore. But it would be nice to block the ads for the same company over and over again. You only buy a cordless phone once in every 5-10 years, no need to see the same phone being advertised over and over again.

But yes, I should dump my cookies. Didn't even think of that. Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[netmeg]

Click the blue arrow on the ad, and you get opt-out choices.

[borishar]

Past few days are the worst in 2 years for me.

[ember]

Very good month here. RPM above normal for November.

[RedBar]

Utterly bizarre weekend so far.

Saturday saw traffic way behind all day, on statcounter and my logs as well, and got up this morning to an almost normal AdSense day!

Today traffic is chugging along nicely but with CPC at 200% at the moment.

Nothing, absolutely nothing makes sense any more.

[dethfire]

sure hope monday stats are delayed because this is a terrible monday morning

[MrSavage]

Half way through the day and I can already order a steak and lobster. Earnings today should blow the dust off my Adsense hopes and dreams.

[RedBar]

For me every day now seems to be an uphill struggle with AdSense, the ads I see are relevant to my sites, I know that my industry globally is doing ok, yet nothing feels right insofar as trade websites are concerned.

I am not the only one in my widget industry to be voicing this. Sure G's messed-up serps do not help but everyone I'm talking to in my industry is reporting much reduced www activity meanwhile their real world businesses are showing the same or better levels of enquiries and orders.

I had a look on my trade's biggest portal for buying requests and they're at their lowest-ever levels, some G7 countries are not showing any buying requests whatsoever yet I know those enquiries and projects exist since I'm getting them direct.

This is not the best of news for publishers who rely on advertising!

[avalon37]

Ad relevancy looking very poor today. Also seeing frequent cases of double ad serving on same page. AdSense tinkering.

[RedBar]

I assume the US weather conditions are having a mass effect today? Absolutely dire US PVs for me so far.

[avalon37]

Unbelievable day today. Have to believe getting "credited" clicks from previous days.

[RedBar]

Amazingly US PVs were 100% average yesterday however today, so far, I'm only at 12% which doesn't bode well at the moment however earnings are looking ok, strange.

[avalon37]

CPC prices are WAY up yesterday and today; more than double the 1st half of the month. Either advertisers are finally starting to spend their holiday budgets, or Google is paying us our fair due.

[MrSavage]

Juicy day here.