February 2020 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[NickMNS]

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It's not a fix-all, but try adjusting Ad Balance or manually reviewing the ads/accounts in the Ad Review Center to try and flush them out. You wont get all of them but you will at least feel better for trying : /

I've given up. I still have the ad-balance adjusted, but I stopped reviewing ads. I took up too much time and in the end was futile. Nobody seems to care either way.

This month has been my best January ever, I even earned more than last month. But the gain is entirely due to an increase in traffic. RPM was down significantly from December but it is January and thus expected. Let's see if the traffic sticks around long enough to get to a decent RPM month.

[fearlessrick]

Still no clicks for the whole day. Now 4:00 ET. Never seen this, so bad. Depressing. No email from G, no policy violations, no clicks, no revenue.

This really sucks...

[fearlessrick]

6:19 pm 2 clicks. Better than 0.

[Still Not Shiny]

.. Hi everyone, just wanted to add that FWIW we have had an uptick for a few days now. No idea why... just like no clear idea why our income got cut by 80% in Jan. 2018.... the general consensus of weeks and months past round here that we all need to find additional income streams besides the big G still makes sense to me. Hope everyone is doing well despite the vagaries of - well - everything.

NotShiny

[scottb]

Coronavirus is having a major impact on advertising, especially travel advertising. After a great January, all of my travel numbers (websites and books) are dropping like a rock.

Major travel businesses like Expedia and cruise lines are reporting the same thing. Other businesses not in travel are also reporting an impact.

[Whatagreatdayitis]

I'm seeing an increase in RPM and a slight increase in traffic to my site. This is just within the last few days.

[worker]

Anyone noticing Adsense reporting stuck?

[Bobb11]

Yes something wrong. I think its stuck

[deriklogov]

Probably stuck

[gatormark]

Looks like there was an algorithm update. My search rankings are all over the place.

[Pistoche]

My Google Analytics and Adsense dropped like a brick but they don't seem to be stuck. Did I lose all my readers overnight? Moment of silence please lol

[deriklogov]

Check if your site is live and accessible from multiple locations, check also that all pages in place

[immrrobot]

Organic search seems all over the place but there is spike in RPM and CTR here lol

[fearlessrick]

The 16th and 17th were the two best days of this year for me. I need more than 2 days to believe G is on a more righteous path, however.

[Sissi]

@fearlessrick

Same here
Coincidence

[Lisa01]

How do I check my Adsense ads from different countries?

[Dimitri]

How do I check my Adsense ads from different countries?

Use VPN, Proxy, TOR, etc... but Adsense will detect that this is not a direct viewing, and will not necessarily serve "real" ads.

[Lisa01]

They don't show Adsense ads in proxy servers

[adsenseuser]

I've noticed a significant drop in Page RPM since Saturday 8th Feb which dropped again even lower from Friday 14th Feb - does anyone have an idea why this could be?

January was a record month for me and February started just as strong, if not stronger. But since the dates above things haven't looked so great.

[deriklogov]

>>>How do I check my Adsense ads from different countries?

If you need to do this on daily basis i would suggest to get VPS in that country.

[Lisa01]

Thanks @deriklogov.
For me, Adsense revenue has been going down since last year June. A drop in CTR is the main issue for me. The average CTR has come down from 8 percent to 5 percent. CPC has been down since January. To top it all, there are regular algorithm updates, which keepa throwing the keywords from one place to another. I don't expect anything from Google now.

[Sissi]

It looks like Adsense is using a kind of filter some days or at some hours of the day to block clicks.

[deriklogov]

>>For me, Adsense revenue has been going down since last year June. A drop in CTR is the main issue for me. The average CTR has come down from 8 percent to 5 percent. CPC has >>been down since January. To top it all, there are regular algorithm updates, which keepa throwing the keywords from one place to another. I don't expect anything from Google now.

This happens to everyone, if you having same visitors over and over again they will get ad blind , so you need to change location of your banners. I would even suggest to make it dynamic if you can.

I can not advice on google updates since its Adsense related thread, so I dont want to get banned, BUT you can PM me and i will give you few things to look at that might be interested.

[Lisa01]

I get around 15 percent returning visitors. The problem is that the drop in CTR happened all of a sudden. It wasn't gradual. So that makes me a bit suspicious.
How do I make it dynamic?

[nmbrsk]

Google f**king around with the SERPs and removing us from the Top Stories section has decimated all our earnings on our news website.

"December report: Your revenue dropped by 3%. Let's improve it."
"January report: Your revenue dropped by 55%. Let's improve it."

This month is on course for another 30% drop. From the highs of making over £5k (this time last year) to struggling to reach the £1k barrier. Awful. I won't even get started on the quality of ads and the CPC being offered of late.

[Sissi]

@nmbrsk

Same here 18 months ago £8k now peanuts
Looks like AI is active combiningg SERP and Ads remuneration

[Lisa01]

Same thing happening with me. In 2018 and early 2019, I had an average RPM of 14. Now it has come down to 7 and I believe it's going to get worse in the coming months.

[azlinda]

Don't you just love that "Your revenue dropped....let's improve it." They are the ones RESPONSIBLE for it!

[PickWick]

January was just like every other January except for the 5x increase in ad revenue due to bogus traffic. Only now getting a handle on it after 3 months, but Jan was the worst of the 3.

[kegnum]

I have had a massive increase in revenue due to increase in both CTR and CPC. This started back on the 12th of feb. It happened across all sites (5 sites in the same niche). How did you figure out it was bogus traffic. I'm checking exit links and they all look "legit".

[dolcevita]

I have a massive increase in revenue too.It started 3 days a go.GAnalytics show that traffic goes up along with CTR, CPC, Impression..Everything...Traffic from all countries (mostly from USA), organic traffic, direct traffic etc...

SERP show better position for most top keywords (tested only for USA) but i have not expected such a huge impact in revenue.

Earnings are 2x-3x higher daily than usually.

To be sure that traffic is not bogus i have set by Cloudflare almost all available option for detection of suspicious IP (set to high. Next step is im.under attack and that is.to.use only if your website is under DDOS), Bad BOT detection is on, Firewall CF specials is on with manually setting to challenge empty User Agent, proxy detection...

And if someone can do good job with filtering then is it Cloudflare.

After 3 days of monitoring traffic and increasing of revenue remain same. It is excellent news but im still suspicious.I did not expected at all.