January 2016 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[RedBar]

Here we go again ... I'm actually quite surprised I'm still earning more than the minimum!

[Broadway]

It's 11AM on Friday where I am.
My reports say I've already served about 10% more "pageviews" today than I usually do for the whole day.
Of course I've looked at GA and this is not true.
And yes, the Adsense Red Bar is showing.
I mention this just because I've seen reports lag before, but not report inflated stats.

[RedBar]

UK, red bar again, I'm beginning to think that this is a permanent feature at this time of day!

[frankleeceo]

Yeah "RedBar" appears every day this month o.o?

My shot in the dark guesses, as Adsense is pulling in other networks for the new year contracts and their own soup of passbacks and auctions, those stats get lagged out. Or it could be they are battling a new group of bots as some people reported earlier, and they are delaying those stats to sort out and process the bots. Instead of letting those new bots impression gain money on the report, and then taking it away would produce some sort of outcry like before.

Not seeing inflated stats here but the stat is not far off from the usual at this time for me.

A not so gentle reminder from Google to stop checking stats? ha.

In terms of RPM goes, has not bounced back like I expected at the beginning of month. Still hovering at low of the month and vary by the usual fluctuation.

My January is not so disastrous compared to last year because I have expanded into a few more properties that actually do decent. At least it's a livable income and not sub minimum wage last year.

[nubchai]

Yes I had the red bar with my morning coffee :)

[avalon37]

Google is so non-transparent about the red bar data delayed message. It's buried 3 clicks deep - on purpose so that 99% of publishers never see it. Google's always trying to "cover" something up. They're never just normal about anything they do - so robotic.

[ember]

Google's always trying to "cover" something up.

If that is true, then I assume that you no longer have Adsense on your sites? I know that I'd never keep an advertising network that I thought was so nefarious on my sites.

[Az416]

Hello everyone

[MrSavage]

Hi!

[trebuchet]

The Adsense dam gates (or damn gates...) seem to have broken for me today. The first four hours saw a pile of jumbo clicks with RPM well into double figures. It'll settle and equalise, no doubt, but let's hope it settles at a more reasonable RPM than the first three weeks.

[LuckyD]

@trebuchet, can you elaborate on the dam gates?

[netmeg]

I've had the inflated pageview stats for several days now - sent a bunch of screenshots in to support, and supposedly they're "escalating" it.

[Ironside]

I feel my hosting company have put the spanner in the works for me at the moment. This month was going really well, I was ahead of where I normally am and then all my websites went down. Apparently I was using too many resources for my shared server server hosting company closed everything down. Thankfully, we are back online now with much more powerful hosting so hopefully it shouldn't happen again. However, earnings are really slow at the moment, can't help thinking that has got something to do with what happened in the last couple of days.

[jbayabas]

Looking like it's going to be the worst day in years. I'm hoping it's just a reporting delay. Adsense is really dead. There's no hope in sight. So heartbreaking.

[RedBar]

Much lower than average Saturday PVs so far today, clicks are even rarer.

[Ironside]

Not too bad here, certainly not dead. Try rearranging your ad units, or try different sizes. Alternate before, the small 90 x 200 link units placed in the left-hand column above the menu work well. The 300 x 600 units are performing extremely well for me as of late, put them amongst the text. I removed any ad unit between the heading on the first paragraph of text because they don't get any attention any more.

[ember]

Thankfully, we are back online now with much more powerful hosting so hopefully it shouldn't happen again.

My host switched us to more powerful servers a few months ago without letting us know ahead of time. We went offline for a day and I wasn't happy. At that exact same time, however, our epc went up and has stayed up (until this month when it normally drops). So I attribute our now better RPM to better hosting, although I'm not sure how hosting and epc are actually related.

[nubchai]

One thing I'm still seeing is no ad relevancy from my Adsense ads. However, I'm seeing very good relevancy for my Media.net ads. My PVs are increasing, I can see visitors on real time analytics, but Adsense clicks and page RPM are down.

[MrSavage]

Not sure if anyone is experience abnormal lows right now. I'm seeing this today, big time. Yesterday also. There's low, then really low, then this. It's not normal so is Adsense experiencing issues?

[Maleda]

OT: What are the chances of getting a specific forum for Media.net?

[Mentat]

The low is the new normal. Since Friday, I've hit bottom again.
From 0.24 in December, to 0.13 now it's a huge difference for a bussines.

[RedBar]

A red bar at this time on a Sunday? Wtf!

According to Google's stats yesterday I had my 4th lowest-ever PVs, nooo I did not G, however I did have one of my lowest-ever earning's day, certainly the level where anyone would remove AdSense, and I mean anyone, not even close to the daily minimum required.

I've made it this month but this is pointless, my EPC was 45.4% of December's, utterly ridiculous.

[Calum_Jones]

I think all of this is because Google just got fined for £130,000,000! I'm also down to 0.13 CPC. I'm done with this system, from now on all my new sites will use Amazon and ClickBank, I might rebuild my AdSense site if it gets hit until those new sources are generating income though.

[ember]

Excellent last two days. EPC back up and RPM is increasing.

[nubchai]

Yesterday was excellent. Let's hope it continues.

[EditorialGuy]

Yesterday was our highest day in months. We're also up for "past 7 days" and "past 28 days," which is normal for this time of year. (Sometimes it isn't about AdSense per se; it's about the calendar, advertiser behavior, and user behavior.)

[Mentat]

Then you have our money :)

[C0DeZeR0]

Seem to be for some accounts .. today is normal (same decrease ) today 24/1 is worse !

[frankleeceo]

RPM going lower for me, 20% lower than the average of the month -.-

[RedBar]

Awesome G, 3 cent clicks from the UK on a UK site for visiting massage services!

If I told you what the site was about you would die laughing:-)

[kireb]

Weekend was good. Good RPM and earnings. Hope this is the turnaround.