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]

@deriklogov. Years ago (2011-12), I got kicked out of adsense for promoting gambling, even though what I was doing - picking NFL and college football games against the spread - I'd been doing since 2000 and with Adsense on site since 2003. After about 14 months, I applied for reinstatement and was granted, even though I was still doing to football picks. Google's rules and regs change like the wind.

Anyhow, I had two other adserving companies, and replaced most of the adsense code with theirs and made about the same money for a while, but then it dwindled. Point is, alternatives are there if one doesn't mind a 20-30% drop in revenue (as compared to a 70-80% drop if one stays with adsense for too long).

[gatormark]

@fearlessrick I’d rather live on my knees and make more money. :-)

[JorgeV]

I see plenty of javascript errors (in the console window)

The PerformanceObserver does not support buffered flag with the entryTypes argument.
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[e-mail]:49
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(anonymous)@adsbygoogle.js:199
(anonymous)@adsbygoogle.js:199

When this error occurs, all ad slots are empty. I don't know if this is because there is no ads, that the script produces this error, or if this is the error which prevents ads from being displayed.

[fearlessrick]

@ gatormark, never gonna happen. Stand up. Eventually you may or may not make more money, but you will live a life worthy of respect. In the end, money is meaningless. It is not the thing by which we are measured.

[gatormark]

One thing that I have noticed, not sure if this is a coincidence, but when I keep my Policy Violations "clean" I seem to have better ads overall from Adsense.

[gatormark]

For the first time ever, yesterday I had more Exponential advertising revenue than Adsense.

[gatormark]

@fearlessrick, well, I've been living off Adsense revenue for the past 7 years and even with the decreases, I'm still living off of it. It's much better than having a REAL job...so...I'll stay on my knees until I need to stand up or sit down in a cubicle. ;-)

[ember]

In the end, money is meaningless.

That is a nice sentiment. The truth is that EVERYTHING is about money. See a problem and can't understand why it never gets solved? Because someone is making money off of it. Why is the world such a mess? Look for the money trails. They might not go in a straight line, but they are there. Once I figured out that money is behind everything people do (or do NOT do), the world made perfect sense.

[Dimitri]

I see plenty of javascript errors

Nothing new either. I saw js errors/warning produced by the adsense code since as long as I can remember.

[Kendo]

I see plenty of javascript errors

More so of late. I had to install uBlock just to load my favorite news pages without them crashing/hanging due to script failure.

[Sissi]

It looks that they are some improvements in terms of revenues following some fine tuning.
As long as we only complain and not address the real issues in Adsense we won t progress.
At the end I haven t seen an easier way to make money as with this company.
Have fun in addressing challenges or close your account.
It s time to have some constructive inputs for this forum.

[Sissi]

In the same constructive context:
Where do you figure out the revenues generated through the automatic ads?

[Wildchild00]

AdSense is becoming something else thisdays.

[riccarbi]

Despite 30% more pageviews, my Adsense earnings are 45% down compared to Feb 2019. For the first time in years, this month my (once marginal) stock photo earnings will exceed my Adsense's ones, despite my over 3000 well-ranking pages are featuring those (original) photos only as complementary content. It's like a restaurant owner discovering than selling his paper menus to customers earns him more than serving food. What does it mean? It means that writing thousands of lines of text, coding mobile-friendly themes, enabling AMP, going https, making my website three times faster than one year ago by paying for a multi-core VPS, trying to comply with all the absurd haphazard rules "almighty Google" dictated me in the last years didn't simply worth the effort. I have to admit I had been a moron believing in what Google was saying. I've enough of Google, period. Today, I disabled auto ads altogether, I prefer to provide my users with a good experience than to earn those few more dirty bucks a month Google promises me if I clutter my pages with all its junk advertising stuff...
I've just discovered that Google doesn't give a damn about me and that I can live without Google as well.

[IanCP]

Whilst this isn't a thread I normally participate in these days - and my AdSense revenues over recent years are nowhere near the halcyon days of June, 2003 forward - I have noticed steadily increasing revenue each and every month since last November.

No, I haven't changed anything. Haven't really done anything at all since about January, 2001 - that isn't a typo either.

[Lisa01]

I've noticed that Adsense CPC goes down every weekend. Does it happen with you all as well?

[Pistoche]

For the first time ever, today my Adsense earnings are lower than the earnings displayed on Google Analytics. I wonder what all of this means, probably nothing much.

[martinibuster]

March 2020 discussion continued here:
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[Still Not Shiny]

Just a quick note of non-joy that even though there were corrections all along - Google has taken back 85% of the earnings we were showing for February. I wrote to ask them to confirm but of course, there's no real chance. I am heartbroken over here as I was stupid enough to hope that the corrections all along were accurate and enough. Not.

[gatormark]

Adsense took back 11% of my earnings for February (hundreds of dollars). That's almost the highest percentage ever. It's the highest percentage in 3 years, but I was making 2.5 times the amount then.

[Still Not Shiny]

Sorry to hear that Gator. Yes, it's the highest percentage ever for us, and we were making at least 2.5 times as much back then too. Yeah, times and systems and stuff change - but this is just cruel. Those earnings for Feb. showed for THREE weeks and then went poof on 3/1. Ah well. I don't know of anything that can be done. Google holds all of the cards at this point.

[azlinda]

Google took back 11% of February's earnings for me also. There were no invalid clicks as far as I'm concerned. CPC and RPM were both extremely low (an all-time low) all of February, and I could find no explanation for the clawback in the raw logs. I'm removing Google. It isn't worth the hassle. No wonder they continue to increase their earnings each quarter.

[allhearts]

Horrible day so far.