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November 2015 AdSense Earnings and Observations

         

RedBar

10:38 am on Nov 1, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Good luck!

Ironside

10:55 am on Nov 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Approaching a third party in order to optimise my Google AdSense is something I've never considered. Do they charge upfront? You don't normally pay for services before they have been done. Surely they would want you to be satisfied before you handed over payment? I don't think it would take very long for you to see results starting to happen. If a company is able to do what you aren't able to do & increase your earnings considerably then they are worth using. Maybe I will look into it and find out exactly how they operate, I don't suppose it can hurt.

Kaszinky

11:17 am on Nov 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

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This doesn't necessarily mean that the 300x600 works better than a 300x250, IMO. Most changes are good changes since users become blind over time to the ads so when you make a change you will see a positive spike in CTR. However, this usually lasts for a short amount of time (anywhere between 2 weeks to 2 months) depending on a few things like if you have a lot of return traffic. Then you need to change it up again and so on.


With due respect to your experience, I do not agree. Yes, people can become blind at ads, but changing the size only* won't change anything, an ad, will always look like an ad, and people will still consider/irgnore it the exact same way. In my case, switching to 300x600 has a positive impact because:

- There is a much larger ad inventory. It displays: 200x200, 250x250, 300x250, 300x600, 120x600 and 160x600.

- I also noticed a significant increase of earnings from third party ad networks. I explains this by the fact, that several networks are displaying TWO banners (300x250) in one 300x600 bloc.

- There are often several text ads. With the 300x250, 90% of the time, there is only one advertiser. With the 300x600, according to my observations, 75% of the time, several ads are showing. Several advertisers means more chance than one can be of interest for a visitor. Like it was in the old times, when Google was displaying list of text ads.


* I am talking about changing the size from 300x250 to 300x600, not changing the colors or placement, which is different.

Yayabobi

11:27 am on Nov 9, 2015 (gmt 0)



I agree with everything you said. But, I still think you will see reduced earnings over time regardless. Maybe not as drastic since some of the things you mention have an affect as well but you will still see it. If you'd like, I'd be interested to hear where you are in a month's time.

Ironside

11:27 am on Nov 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Surely you are relying on new visitors to your website who will click on your AdSense units? I've got members who have been with me for many years, I don't suppose they will even bother looking at my articles any more, they will be sitting on the forum most of the time. I have got AdSense on my forum so regular members probably would click on an AdSense unit if it interests them. But if you only have articles then I think it's going to be new visitors who are more likely to click. Therefore unless they are used to seeing AdSense on different sites they visit, I don't think it really matters whether you change them on a regular basis. I don't change my AdSense units much & my earnings are basically staying on an even keel.

Yayabobi

11:42 am on Nov 9, 2015 (gmt 0)



I have got AdSense on my forum so regular members probably would click on an AdSense unit if it interests them. But if you only have articles then I think it's going to be new visitors who are more likely to click. Therefore unless they are used to seeing AdSense on different sites they visit, I don't think it really matters whether you change them on a regular basis.


You can easily check this by using the publisher report in Google Analytics. As I mentioned, it's hard to attribute clicks to a single action your perform on your website unless you isolate for it. If you really want to learn what makes your visitors click then you need to test only one change every time and reduce the number of advertisers you display. However, such a test would probably generate reduced revenue in the short term so I wouldn't recommend it. If you want to accelerate results you need to use a multi-arm bandit algorithm that is capable of learning very quickly which setup variation works better.

RedBar

2:26 pm on Nov 10, 2015 (gmt 0)

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What a strange Monday, one of my .eu sites easily out-performed all my other sites with several well-above average EPCs from the USA on a tablet!

They were IBAs, I'd love to know what ads they were.

Kaszinky

3:00 pm on Nov 10, 2015 (gmt 0)

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The pre-holidays period is very good for IBA. People are searching for gifts, and it's a good opportunity to benefit form IBA. I am sure that advertisers are increasing their bids on this kind of ads.

RedBar

3:38 pm on Nov 10, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Knock knock AdSense, anyone there today?

Two clicks so far, 1 from USA, 1 from India, both 1.5 Cents each ... WTF?

Ironside

6:39 pm on Nov 10, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Normal day for me, 22 clicks so far, just gone 6:30 PM here in the UK. Most of my traffic comes from the USA so I've still got a good 12 hours. Page RPM £2.74 & impression RPM £1.04. Mind you, those last two figures don't make an awful lot of sense to me, because they will change.

Just checked and I've got the red bar at the moment, things are delayed.

MrSavage

11:44 pm on Nov 10, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I have a couple more ponies in the race it appears. The maturation process has evidently progressed to the point where I'm not relying on a one trick pony. Pennies to nickels. It's progress!

avalon37

12:55 pm on Nov 11, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Triple ad serving on the same page...congrats Google! Wonder if we could have 100 ads on a page you'd serve 100 of the same ads?

RedBar

2:22 pm on Nov 11, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Triple ad serving on the same page


I've been seeing that for ages and it is precisely why all my responsive sites only carry one ad and the other sites a top and bottom ad plus an AdLink.

Yayabobi

2:37 pm on Nov 11, 2015 (gmt 0)



That is probably not what most of your visitors are seeing. It also could mean that your ad inventory is not that attractive.

User

5:45 pm on Nov 11, 2015 (gmt 0)

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A lot of hiccups lately. I'm sure there is a reporting delay right now, just like yesterday and the day before. Only yesterday Google acknowledged it with a red bar though.

The day before yesterday stats were just updated at the end of the day and i'm sure the same thing will happen today.

RedBar

5:54 pm on Nov 11, 2015 (gmt 0)

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The more I saw double and triple ad serving the lower my earnings went however I must agree my ad inventory has been of very low widget quality the more this year has gone on...double whammy.

Ironside

6:21 pm on Nov 11, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I stopped using responsive ads ages ago, I just don't see any need for them. Let's say you put a responsive ad at the top of your content. On a desktop it will normally display as a 728 x 90 banner. However, a mobile phone it will normally display as a rectangular unit around 300 x 250. So you might as well use an unresponsive 300 x 250 unit which gives you more control. I don't actually think the banners work very well at the top of your content, you are much better off using either a 300 x 250, or a 300 x 600 unit amongst the content.

eek2121

7:02 pm on Nov 11, 2015 (gmt 0)

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My traffic is down by a good 15% today and was down by a similar amount yesterday. Upon further investigation, looks like India is waaay down and other countries were slightly off as well so I decided to investigate. Turns out today is a Hindu holiday known as Diwali. I didn't even notice it last year because I was experiencing rapid growth and US traffic was up by more than 30% to 'hide' the loss. This year I have such a large user base in india (along with far less growth) the drop showed up in Google Analytics. So if you happen to notice any traffic oddities, that's likely it.

More info at [en.wikipedia.org...]

RedBar

10:19 pm on Nov 11, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Responsive ads work well on my sites since I only have one ad at the end of each article and they also happen to be my best performing.

Diwali, yay, all week, my many Indian sites have been surprisingly busy this year however courier services have been unbelievably atrocious at shipping documents causing me a serious amount of problems.

Yayabobi

7:28 am on Nov 12, 2015 (gmt 0)



I stopped using responsive ads ages ago, I just don't see any need for them. Let's say you put a responsive ad at the top of your content. On a desktop it will normally display as a 728 x 90 banner. However, a mobile phone it will normally display as a rectangular unit around 300 x 250. So you might as well use an unresponsive 300 x 250 unit which gives you more control. I don't actually think the banners work very well at the top of your content, you are much better off using either a 300 x 250, or a 300 x 600 unit amongst the content.


From what I've seem, responsive ads are great for user experience but bad for monetization. Just create different setups for mobile users.

Ironside

3:56 pm on Nov 12, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I've just been checking one of my websites on Google's "mobile friendly" webpage that tells you whether your site is mobile friendly or not. It's telling me that some of my ads are being blocked by the robot.txt file. How is this happening? I have asked it to do this? I've also had a look, and I can't see anything that relates to Google AdSense. Maybe this is one of the reasons why earnings have dropped slightly?

koan

6:24 pm on Nov 12, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Ironside, the ads use iframes to other domains where the resources may be blocked by their robots.txt, it has nothing to do with your site, just the ability for Google to crawl all resources in order to display a preview of your page. It's common, don't worry about it.

nubchai

9:08 pm on Nov 12, 2015 (gmt 0)

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The dreaded red bar :(

RedBar

9:52 pm on Nov 12, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Now what have I done? :-)

Ironside

10:13 pm on Nov 12, 2015 (gmt 0)

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And me

nubchai

12:54 am on Nov 13, 2015 (gmt 0)

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LOL @ Redbar :)

jbayabas

1:04 am on Nov 15, 2015 (gmt 0)

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are you guys experiencing slow ad load time?

Maleda

4:36 pm on Nov 15, 2015 (gmt 0)

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@jbayabas yes! It's getting progressively worse too! I posted about this the other day... [webmasterworld.com ]

super70s

9:38 pm on Nov 15, 2015 (gmt 0)

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And something as annoying as slow loading -- why is it that the scrolling slows down in the same area that a "VMWare" ad is displayed? Not on the whole page, just when a VMWare ad is visible. Other Adsense ads seem to be OK.

trebuchet

3:14 am on Nov 16, 2015 (gmt 0)

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My load times are fluctuating quite a lot. At some times of the day they're quite fast loading. At other times they're slow, 5-7 seconds after the content. I've received quite a lot of slow pageload warnings because of it.

Earnings are - you guessed it - average. The first half of Sunday was miserable but it's scooting along now.

RedBar

11:42 am on Nov 16, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Very low PVs on Sunday, third-lowest of the year however I'm guessing Friday night's atrocities may have a lot to do with it, European PVs were well down.
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