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But very promising right now.
But maybe it is just some statistical inaccuracy.
However, I agree that it is too early to say that this is all due to the Aff change, even though I have had lots of affiliate ads on my site in the past.
Otherwise this has been a great month this far.
Just looking at the posts in this thread, it seems to be pretty inconclusive. Some are way up, some are way down. Same thing we hear every day...;-)
Let's give it a few weeks, see how things are going then.
Cheers!
Don't know why, hopefully it fixes itself today.
my eCPM is up over 125% this morning - CTR is up only a little. I'd be extremely excited if this really meant anything but at least I can spend the afternoon daydreaming about Porsches...
I'm really happy to read this.
And I have now noticed that my direct-to-merchant-via-aff-net ads are still displaying together with others like it. On site I see pretty much the same ads as usual. So, I'm pretty much just hoping it's a matter of slow stats for me today. It has happened before that there has been over 12 hour delays in the updates, especially on high traffic days.
Today is the 'Big Day'
It isn't.
kz
No adwords changes have been implemented...
Right, and even when they are implemented, it will be a while before publishers can accurately gauge the consequences (which are likely to vary from publisher to publisher, depending on how many direct-to-merchant ads have been showing on the individual publishers' pages).
must be something in the offing - stats seem erratic today.
<rolls eyes>
So I shouldn't have hit the panic button without more time and facts.
One thing I might say is that the numbers seem to be fluctuating a little more crazy today then usual.
As I've said in point 6 here [webmasterworld.com] stats always go wonky before any major change. The fact that stats are a bit out of normal today was something to be expected!
Take a break from panic and relax a bit!
No adwords changes have been implemented...
Still, I fully agree with Macro about daily flux, and my eCPM seems to be bad today due to the fact that I have gained a lot of new visitors landing on a page full of stop words. They're probably dissapointed with their search, since it looks as if the vast majority of the back click to Google.
Words that will stop Google from showing ads on the page. I think it all started out with New York Post running a story on a coffert killing accompanied with ads for luggage. Hilariously fun, but not from the advertisers view.
Death, murder, rape are sure to be on the list. It's pretty hard to get AdSense ads on pages with rap lyrics...
I guess you could call them global negative keywords.
But if you have a totally innocent page which just happens to have one and it's getting only PSAs you can contact support give them the URL and they'll review and fix it on a individual basis. We did.
Tonys... a number of people have been seeing out of the ordinary eCPM (probably attributable to a stats update delay) and speculated it might be due to the new Adwords policy - although that doesn't appear to have happened yet.
