May 2019 AdSense Earnings & Observations

[Mentat]

April 2019 was a kick in the teeth for most /some of us.

Easter (Catholic and Orthodox) and very low payment made April a very bad surprise.

May is here and it's starting with a non-working day (1st of May - International Workers' Day) in many countries.

Hope the best, expect the worst...

[broccoli]

I've woken up to frozen stats too. Nearly gave me a heart attack.

[shailan]

Adsense stuck at 0 earnings. What's going on there?

[simone_055]

After having closed April with the lowest performance since 15 years, today reporting is frozen!

[Sissi]

Reports are back now

[Niresh12495]

Reports now started to show slowly, but the actual clicks are not listed sofar, earnings are slowly increasing.

[Dmajer]

My clawback for April is 1,2%... CPC and RPM continues to be a crap... No inprovments whatsoever.

[trebuchet]

I don't really care about reporting and stats freezing for a few hours. The problem is that when they recover, the correction is almost always abysmal. Yesterday's stats have since returned but the total amount added is a whopping $US3. No way my sites generated only $3 in six hours (and more than 70k pageviews in that time).

[Niresh12495]

@trebuchet i agree with you, same problem goes here.

[Runfun]

Earnings are also increasing here slowly... Almost €6 at 60K pageviews but guys this is the biggest problem:

Paid clicks took a hit by slowing 9% in the quarter, with cost per click down 19% Year-on-Year.

Adsense is losing it's dominance and somehow we need to recover from that. I could try Ezoic but I've to ask few questions at that topic.

[Yudee]

Finally this article shows a reply on google as to why reports ain't accurate at the moment see here [seroundtable.com...]

[edited by: not2easy at 4:08 pm (utc) on May 2, 2019]
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[Dmajer]

Adsense is dead. Im using it since 2011. And 2019. Is probabbly the worst so far.

[Matador86]

Its running again but I see no correction from this morning... Hopefully Google will correct it later today, but I am not sure if they will ?

[dethfire]

CPC even lower than April. This is getting dire.

[riccarbi]

My Adsense earnings are now slowly increasing, after the report bug; yet, they are still way lower than usual (page RPM is 70% down, so far; though slowly increasing). I dunno whether they will eventually converge to the real amount or if simply a part of my earnings for today is lost forever.

April was not a bad month, despite a 4% clawback (which is huge, in my case. I've never had a clawback higher than 2%). May is starting very slow but it's just too early to say whether it will be good or bad, finally.

[engine]

Just making sure those of you monitoring this have all seen the problems with reporting.

Delay In AdSense Reporting [webmasterworld.com]
Google Ads Reporting Issue [webmasterworld.com]
Search Console data outage April 9-25 [webmasterworld.com]
April 2019 Google indexing & reporting bugs continue. It's not you! [webmasterworld.com]

[Gracie]

I have stayed at a fairly consistent earnings rate for around 6 weeks and no more click penalties, touch wood. The CPC and CTR go up and down a lot though, more clicks is less cash. More cash is less clicks.

[Selen]

By "reduction" do you mean reduction at the end of the month or real-time reduction (it happens within a couple of minutes or seconds from clicks) that decreases earnings much more?

[Niresh12495]

@selen whom are you referring to?

[Selen]

All of those who experience "clawback" or whatever it's called.

[Niresh12495]

@selen
For me reduction i was referring is at the end of the month, invalid traffic, that spike up to 6 times.
Today my earnings are 50% lower due to google's bug.

[Selen]

From what I noticed (in the past too when the clicks were being reduced in almost real time), you can have 10 clicks, but only 2 are really reported / counted. The stats are not in real time.

[gatormark]

Well, looks like I may have to get a real job now. LOL 😝. Traffic increasing, revenue plummeting. The good ole days are gone.

[gatormark]

I know something strange is going on today. I started off, after a few hours, with 33,000 page views and zero revenue. Finally, revenue started accumulating but I don’t know what happened to my early lost revenue because Google hasn’t made up the difference.

[broccoli]

What I want to know is, where have all the contextual ads gone? They have always made me better money than personalised ads. I switched off ad personalisation on my personal Google account last year because they were getting downright creepy. So I should see contextual ads on the websites I visit, right? So when I visit a page on my site relating to baby names, I should expect to see baby related adverts. No. What I see is, 1. a blank space, 2. an ad for horoscopes, 3. an ad for an instant grammar checker that looks dubious. Where are the ads for prams and cots?

[riccarbi]

Just to give an update on my situation. I didn't see my Adsense earning back in my report. Today's earnings are less than a third than yesterday's. It seems that half a day of Google Ads shown on my site has gone away without bringing to me a single penny. What do you think? Is this a fair business relationship? Google is big, I admit, but we are millions, and it's time to make our voice heard. Where did all the money go? Google, give us an answer.

[Runfun]

I just opened my Adsense dashboard and it showed a message that they apologized for the bug earlier today and because of the partnership that already lasts more than 7 years they will compensate me with an increase of 5% at the end of the month. Sounds fair doesn't it? Well guess what it was just a dream and we are just puppets for this techgiant.

Instead of only complaining we should look for a solution and it's not within Adsense. When does a serieus adnetwork start to team up with publishers?

[AlexB77]

My number 2 add network is MediaNet, but I am currently using Ezoic with 50/50 Split with Adsense and so far can only complain about a few minor things, but nothing ad-wise.

[riccarbi]

I just opened my Adsense dashboard and it showed a message that they apologized for the bug earlier today and because of the partnership that already lasts more than 7 years they will compensate me with an increase of 5% at the end of the month

OK, just realized it was just a joke...
Comment erased :)

[Sissi]

Despite a long take off today s revenues look acceptable and are at Feb 2019 level.

A light in the tunnel.....or is it a train

[Mentat]

My clawback was insignificant, but I don't use ad links.
Yesterday revenue seems to be finished and it's ~ 30% lower than "usual".
Today partial earning seems also ~ 20% lower.