March 2015 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[Mentat]

February had only 28 days, but for me was pretty good in the end, but I do not think it will last, because I see less traffic and clicks each day.

We had President Day, Valentines Day and Freezing temperatures in US.

Let's hope that March 2015 will be better; there are no major holidays.

[RedBar]

Arghhh, Saturday's EPC back in the pan again, these massive fluctuations are ridiculous.

[MrSavage]

Spring showers, but in my case right now, it's raining money. Is this three normal days? Pinch me. I'm not going to be buying a new home or anything, but at the very least I will be buying bread and milk with this.

[avalon37]

Today is an absolute joke so far. Oh wait...it's been 3 good days. According to the AdSense rollercoaster I should have expected this.

[RedBar]

A very low CTR today on some of my biggest .com sites whereas specific regional sites are seemingly ok...are they having ad serving problems again?

[Mentat]

RedBar, same problem here, very low CTR - .com site.
Same # of clicks as week-end, 20% lower than usual + low payment = perfect storm :(

[dethfire]

Best CPC I've had all year, traffic is so-so.

[MrSavage]

I see yesterday was up by 111% vs the same day last week. Can anyone verify that this is NOT nirvana?

[RedBar]

Tis not nirvana nor any other "Indian" belief, yes I know it exists in other cultures:-)

I see AdSense these days more like a university student, when it's feeling good and gets its head down generally we all have a reasonably calm but steady time however, like most students, it's liable to fall off the rails and go completely ape as it tosses its "new-found" ideas into the melting pot and insists on many of us trying out these tests even though we don't want to.

After all, these are the people the Gorg are employing!

[Bobb11]

Hi, do you have also problem with theme? I have own color for font etc.. in adsense, but today i have some other theme. White background. Gray font.

[Peanut45]

Yep, my text ad backgrounds have changed to this too, looks terrible on dark themed sites. Lets hope they fix it soon.

[MrSavage]

In the toilet again.

[RedBar]

My PVs are way down today, they're following my EPC to your pan!

[breeks]

Decent day for me. Have been seeing 728x90 text ad with three links that fits well with my site template.

Could be part of the reason for a good day. Way better than the giant arrow.

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[RedBar]

I've been seeing that ad for quite some time now on my sites. I've also seen it with 5 ads and one day, I'm sure it was an experiment gone wrong, it had about 10-12 ads and they were crammed-up and overlapping each other, what a mess!

Tuesday was almost average with USA EPC letting things down. This month, so far, the US has varied from average by 64.3% as a low and 142.9% as a high...that's one heck of a spread.

[Mentat]

Today eCPM is droppin' like a rock.

Full of download buttons in the last week.

Ironsource (toolbar adware company) is on a battle against Adwords and they seems to be too big to be terminated!

Tons of adware ads each day!

[RedBar]

Full of download buttons in the last week.

I've noticed that as well even on sites that normally have relevant, clean ads.

[Mentat]

Praying for a "red bar"; PV lower than week-end, so... processing delay or brutal google update :(

[trebuchet]

I open my sites once a day, from different IPs and in scrubbed browsers. And when I see download buttons and Google advertising its own products, I know it won't be a great day.

[netmeg]

PIcking up.

[RedBar]

And when I see download buttons and Google advertising its own products, I know it won't be a great day.

I tend to see this a lot on my less-trafficked sites however saying that their CTRs and EPCs compare well with my busier sites therefore I have simply assumed that someone, somewhere, is seeing fairly relevant ads.

[breeks]

I see lots of coupon sites advertising. They seem to work off keywords. So it looks like they have coupons for everything even if there are no coupons for the product or place.

Search for dog poop and see ads "coupons for dog poop" :)

[woody midrib]

My US site is doing great in March. Tablet RPM is through the roof. Desktop RPM on record levels since January. Mobile RPM back to previous record levels. Unfortunately, since I've been hit by Panda last October, my US traffic comes only from Bing and Yahoo.

[Mentat]

Red bar for me.

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[dethfire]

Good RPM but really really low traffic

[RedBar]

Friday's earnings were ok for however for the last 10 hours I only got more PVs, earnings did not increase by one penny...10 hours and no clicks?

And as for today I may as well switch everything off, unbelievably low traffic across my biggest sites, all the widget specialists look "normal" at the moment.

[RedBar]

Red bar for me.

Me too now, lowest traffic of the year so far.

[Mentat]

horrible payment, lowest day of the month...

I hope for a miracle dump!

[trebuchet]

Not even a miracle dump could rescue my earnings today. Saturdays are always my lowest earning day. Bob Geldof should write me a song, "I Don't Like Saturdays". However this one is the worst of the year so far.

[RedBar]

My Saturday was saved by a super click on an AdLink otherwise, apart from January 1st and 2nd, it was my lowest PVs of the year at 62.6% of 2015 average.

That's the third consecutive day of below March average PVs, something's rolled through in the past few days which has affected my larger sites.

[Mentat]

The dump never came, so the lowest day of the year :(
Today (Sunday) seems to be even worse.