January 2016 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[RedBar]

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

[koan]

January has not given me any signs that 2016 will be a better year than 2015 so far.

[EditorialGuy]

This has been a great month for us, but we don't use AdSense on mobile pages. (Whenever we've tried, it's been a bust.)

[RedBar]

The last five days have been the best of the month, hopefully it may continue into February.

[nubchai]

What I see is erratic performance. One day it's very good, the next day it's not. Ad relevancy has improved though.

[RyuUK]

Much better today. A nice finish to Jan!:D

[C0DeZeR0]

No Updates .. as normal bad earnings ..

[Ironside]

Page RPM which is reflected in earnings. Hopefully should finish off January fairly good. Got the red bar at the moment though. Doesn't seem to be having much effect on earnings as far as I can see.

[LuckyD]

Red bar, but nice end-of-the-month stats. Agencies are spending their remaining January budgets, and I'm glad they do.

[nubchai]

Yesterday was a very good day and today was off to a great start. Then the red bar popped up. I've never seen as many red bars as we've had in January.

[mydino]

January was so high for Unbillable bid type with zero earning .. 60 % impression .. :(

[RedBar]

i've been stuck on 6 clicks and 50 cents for at least 8 hours, PVs are going up, easily my worst day ever so far.

[Ironside]

I am 38 clicks so far, however my impression RPM is £3.43 and my impression RPM is £.99, so that's reflected in my earnings so far today, let's hope this carries on because it's been improving in the last couple of months and in fact my impression RPM is almost back to where it was 2 1/2 years ago when I was earning really good money.

[Ebuzz]

My earnings have turned to crap after my webhost decided to "upgrade" my server to a supposedly newer and better one. I am speculating that the change of IP address for the domain has affected my Adsense in some way or another.

Any thoughts? Thinking of quitting the webhost for good even though they did offer me 2 months free rebate (which doesn't even cover all the losses so far, and it's still going on. The new server is also having problems with Litespeed software.

If your webhost decides to "upgrade" your server, this may indeed be bad news for you, as an Adsense publisher. At no point in history has Adsense applied as many filters as they do now. Change of IP could trigger one of their numerous filters.

[frankleeceo]

I have migrated servers a couple of times throughout the years. Usually problem does not lie with adsense itself.

Probably check server configurations to see if there is any error loading codes or any of the pages. Or it could even be a poorly configured site bringing down the whole server at certain times if your not on dedicated server.

During the server upgrades, sometimes host can patch things and upgrade different coding languages (albeit some can do a poor job if they are inexperienced or simple mistakes) if they are far too outdated, and that can break things with scripts.

I would double check and check again to make sure all scripts function, all pages load, error logs, and all.

I once had a popular page hit memory fail for over 2 weeks without noticing it after some configuration change / upgrade. Learned my lesson to always keep a really close tab on my most popular stuff.

[nubchai]

It was another good day. The only change I made was to swap out my responsive ads for non-responsive. The ads still look good on mobile and tablets. But then the improvement could be unrelated to that.

[Dhillon]

The last week of the month is always good and then back to crap earning, (at least that's the pattern for me ).

[RedBar]

What a horrible final day of the month EPC for me. Click volume ended up at the month's average however earnings were at 57.5%.

[Ironside]

I had a glitch in the middle of last month where my host took my websites down because they were using too many resources. I then had to get them to perform an upgrade. I think the website was down for about 36 hours. Things have definitely deteriorated in the last couple of years, but I'm actually improving slowly so it can't be all bad. AdSense units that were performing while a couple of years ago don't seem to do anything now. Best performing ads are the 200 x 90 link unit located above the left-hand menu. The next best performing ads other 300 x 600 unit which I have located in the left hand portion of my article. And then I have a responsive unit above my menu on the left-hand column which also does very well. The ones that don't do anything any more are the ones that are located between the first paragraph of text and underneath the heading, they're absolutely useless and I don't use them anymore.

[darthtoon]

After 3 years of steady decline this January was the first month in ages I've had earnings go up against the same month in the previous year. Not by much, but I had become resigned to ever-decreasing income so this is a very welcome development.

Just hope it continues throughout 2016...

[vdR7]

today + 300k page views +7k clicks on ads page ctr ok...but rpm like always low and cpc is just 1 cent...i never had 1 cent but last 3 days CPC 1 cent only...But its good very good i hope this month goes like it start :) just cpc i hope will be better

[MrSavage]

Words can be expressive, or not. I've contributed a lot to these reports threads over the past while. For what it's worth...

Never have a seen such a kick in the nuts type of earnings. I cannot say this is a trend, nor can I say whether this is a temporary glitch. Something is, simply said, F up in a big way. In my neck of the woods, this is how it goes.

There has been bad, terrible, even some hope in the recent past. However at some point in January this has gone so far south, it's simply some kind of joke earnings to me. I would likely take more pride in collecting bottles from bins at this point. However, the nickles and dimes is still better than receiving no nickles and dimes.

I've come to the conclusion that there are enough layers to how Adsense works that it will only be pockets of pain. Not one size fits all. There just has to be layers to this so that it's a few, rather than a vast majority asking WTF.

I would kindly suggest those who love piping up with comments like, "if it's that bad then why are you still using Adsense", I would say back away slowly from me. We can't tango here in the text exchanges that you might receive for being blind to other peoples reality. I make money from other programs now on the same sites that I run Adsense. Just keep the holier than thou to yourself. If you are doing great, then report it. It's great to hear about success.

For me it's one of two things. I'm in some trap, or my account is compromised in some way. Either which way, I'm in the dark. Please don't take my words lightly. This can be a reality for you too so watch it.

[magician]

I would say back away slowly from me.

:) +1 to your post

[Mentat]

For me it's one of two things. I'm in some trap, or my account is compromised in some way. Either which way, I'm in the dark. Please don't take my words lightly. This can be a reality for you too so watch it.

+1

I feel exactly the same. It's like google is trying really hard to get rid of us.
On the other note, I have six unresponded emails to my Adsense Rep.
It's very busy hiding or is fired.

[MrSavage]

Yesterday I had 4,536 impressions, 1,692 page views and a total of 13 clicks. I won't say how much money that totaled but I'm sure most can figure that out.