December 2014 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[RedBar]

An excellent month for some and the worst month of the year for others.

[netmeg]

On the publisher side?

On the advertisers side, sure.

Both. On the publisher side, there's placement, smart pricing, whether or not it's contextual or interest based, if an ad block shows three ads whether the user clicks on the first one or the 3rd one, etc etc etc.

[Mentat]

This Saturday, the CPC/eCPM has been drastically cut!

[RedBar]

Saturday was my lowest-ever PVs and 40% of 2014 average, CPC was at 66% but CTR was way up at 152% however that still didn't drag it out of the bottom six worst-ever earning days.

[breeks]

With steady traffic my daily earnings graph looks like a roller coaster. Every other day is good, while traffic is unchanged.

On another note. Google stock is down $70.00 from September.

[jmorgan]

Earnings seem a bit low so far today. Are they stuck/slow by any chance. Is there an event/holiday somewhere? SEO update or something affecting my traffic?

[RedBar]

After the last few days of way below averages Sunday's metrics almost came back to normal except for CPC average. Actually the USA was ok, it was many other low paying countries that dropped the overall average.

Where I live in the UK this weekend, in bars and restuarants, seemed more like what I expect this coming weekend to be like...bizarre...very busy, years of pub trade experience would normally suggest otherwise, is there a feel better factor back?

[Mentat]

Since Saturday, seems like I got hit by Smart Pricing...

[MrSavage]

I'm thrilled at the daily earning the past week or two. Seasonal is part of it, but I'm encouraged by mobile. The money couldn't come at a better time.

[Play_Bach]

Red bar.

We're sorry, some data in this report is delayed, please try again later. There's no impact to ad serving or payments.

[breeks]

RED BAR ALERT

Having a good day even with the red bar.

[Mentat]

The irony :(

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[RedBar]

The irony :(

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I'll be getting one of those tomorrow if they don't kickstart their damned servers into action today!

[avalon37]

Hey Google - post my clicks for today please.

[avalon37]

Today is a total bust so far. CTR down 95% from my daily average according to AdSense....yeah that's believable.

[Mentat]

Using some US VPNs, the strange this is that I can see very few image/flash ads! Only text ads and poorly targeted!

UK, DE ads are ok!

Something is broken in the adsense bidding system :(

[avalon37]

the strange this is that I can see very few image/flash ads! Only text ads and poorly targeted!

That sounds like most days to me.

[ember]

Something is broken in the adsense bidding system

It is actually the Adwords bidding system.

[avalon37]

So much double ad serving going on today.

[breeks]

Getting summer ads in winter

This is so bad its funny half the text is missing.

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Camp FU

[jbayabas]

Camp FU. That's a bad word. Tehe.

[ember]

Getting summer ads in winter.

That's a terrible ad, but I used to be a camp director, and parents/kids do start looking for summer camps this time of year.

[Mentat]

Today is a new low, that makes Saturday eCPM to look great!

[RedBar]

What the heck are the next two weeks going to be like? It's horrible, the worst I have ever seen it. If it were not for knowing it does this every year I'd remove AdSense altogether...that's assuming it's going to come back again in the New Year!

[netmeg]

Actually on track to have a decent December, considering it's still pretty much off season (until New Year's Eve anyway) Traffic is up on most sites too, and I don't really have an explanation for that. Haven't really been doing anything to them on the front end.

[eek2121]

Highest earnings ever as of noon. Clicks stopped pouring in though. AdSense is so weird.

[avalon37]

Been having a huge day after a dismal day yesterday.

eek2121 AdSense is so weird because Google thinks they are smarter than everyone else. They are trying to guess what people want to see in terms of ads versus what actually results in the highest CTR. Also, there are ad serving issues frequently with AdSense. If they ever shared any communication like "yesterday we have ad serving issues" we could all understand better why some days are better than others'. But as you know, there is very little transparency from AdSense when it comes to what they are testing/tech issues. Every now and then they will throw up the famous red bar "reports delayed" message. But frankly I've never seen proof that those days stats are any more delayed than most.

[Mentat]

It's very strange, that my eCPM is 50% lower and now I have 2 days in the middle of the week, with less money than Week-end.
Traffic relatively stable!

All started Saturday and I have a feeling it has to do with the new Adwords Editor. If so, then I should not be the only one affected!

When Europe is active, the eCPM is plummeting in 2-3 hours!

[RedBar]

Does anyone else feel we should be having a red bar? My CTR is almost non-existent.

[netmeg]

Yea, pretty slow today.

[Play_Bach]

Click count hasn't budged in over twelve hours.