March 2020 AdSense Earnings and Observations

And so it begins... Again!

[martinibuster]

Ha! Got the thread started on time! :)

[deriklogov]

today its about same as yesterday -30% drop

[Web01]

@kireb wow you're in a good niche no matter what your revenue will be good and somehow high sometimes for AdSense loves education niche and am pretty sure your CPC and RPM will be high enjoy bro you have no issues :)

[SebMP]

today not finished yet fro my timezone but it's seems that will be a 55% to 70% down of revenue, impressions are down by over 60%. and users only about 5%, but page-views are normal.

it's seems that the problem at least for me: is that somehow there is a low amount of Ads are showed in my website which leads to this drop.
is this lack of Ads impressions because of google or something I did? that what I don't really know...

But looking to all of you guys I think is something from google or an effect of covid19...

[Kipana]

There is a good article on search engine land on what's happening in PPC right now, sheds some light onto what many of us are seeing nowadays - [searchengineland.com...]

[MayankParmar]

Traffic is normal, but ad revenue is low. Thanks Corona.

[KaseyM]

Just to share my stats with you.

March '19 CPM: £1.65
March '20 CPM: £1.05

[Kipana]

Our drop in RPM is not as drastic as yours, KaseyM, we're down by 16% year-over-year if you take the entire month of March. The last 7 days were the worst - RMP has been reduced by 22%, compared to last year. We are also seeing a large dip in traffic, starting right about the time when the US has started introducing quarantine measures.

Everyone's cutting costs, since no one knows how long the quarantine will last. Nothing to do about this but wait.

[jabooka]

I was thinking of buying a business that is 50% supported by Adsense. It's an online tool that lets you work with media files, used by consumers and also some businesses. Can someone give me a bit of an overview of what is going on in layperson's terms? Like, are there permanent threats to Adsense revenue, not including Corona? And, with CoronaVirus, how bad do people think this will get? I see people are reporting 16% to 60% or more.

[gatormark]

@jabooka

No one can answer those questions with certainty.

[gatormark]

Down 50% from last week if you combine all of my ad revenue, not just Adsense.

[BoredMeteor]

It's like a perfect storm. I can't help but laugh.

January Algo update + off season + global pandemic = things aren't so hot right now.

Revenue's improved a little, but I really wish Google would lay off the updates and inane policy violations(just got a new one last night for smexual content on a page containing nothing of the sort).

[glitterball]

Tourism sector - as you might guess, down 94% on one month ago.

[Runfun]

Lots of blanks here despite Google Ad Manager should fill the blanks. Only thing I can imagine is a huge collapse of advertisers stopping with advertising.

[Matador86]

damn, im going to get around 40/50% of revenue compared with same month last year.

[Web01]

I got 21% drop in my revenue for last month let's be sincere AdSense has been bad since January till date hopefully things will get better using other ads is the same thing using AdSense in 2020 no different

[Sissi]

There will be a world before corona and one after corona
Forget Adsense Boeing Facebook or Tesla

[gatormark]

Adsense is still paying my bills, but barely. I’m at point break.

[kegnum]

Hey guys, I'm a little late to the party but this might answer the questions about the massive crawl backs some had suffered from in Feb. I noticed an increase in RPM (a mix of CPC and CTR) mid Feb. Since I am naturally paranoid about anything Google related, I immediately thought click bomb. Sure enough, I was getting traffic to older posts and the CTR for those pages were MASSIVE. I was getting click bombed on several of my sites. Over the next few weeks I managed to block them all (at least I hope I got them all). After that RPM went back to normal.

I ad about a 30% crawl back.. From what I can tell they took back invalid clicks and a little extra (of course). This might be the reason why you all had issues. Just be careful. As of this day, if I removed the block, the clicking restarts.

[KaseyM]

I'm taking the long term view. Moved down one of my units and pushed up the subscription box. Focus on long term growth and retention when the RPM's are rock bottom.

[MayankParmar]

AdSense payment not yet released for anyone?

[deriklogov]

Not, i think monday ?

[thetitan72]

So this weekend has been abysmal for me despite usual traffic. 65% less earnings than usual between Saturday and Sunday. Anyone having the same experience?

[ubound]

So this weekend has been abysmal for me despite usual traffic. 65% less earnings than usual between Saturday and Sunday. Anyone having the same experience?

Yes, -53% when comparing last Sunday and yesterday. It was already very bad, and now this.

[Sissi]

All revenues are down
No wonder given the global situation
Million of people will lose their jobs and the last thing for them will be to order online anything.
The economies will be under control of the respective states like in China.
All business models will be made down.
Wake up and see what s going on
The whole system will change

[Sissi]

Pure Chaos

I ve got this message from Adsense
„Explore opportunities that could boost your income“

When I go to Opportunities it s empty

[CommandDork]

My automatic payment shows as "pending" but a colleague received theirs this morning.

My guess it's a skeleton crew in accounting this month.

[BoredMeteor]

"When I go to Opportunities it's empty"

Seems about right!

After multiple beat downs from Google, including algorithm updates, policy violations, etc., I'm down about 60% from March last year.

Quick question: Has anyone ever put ads back onto a page that once had a policy violation (after "fixing" whatever the violation was, of course). I don't have any outstanding violations at the moment, as they all fell off on their own after removing ads, but I'm wondering how that works. I obviously can't ask for a review now because they're no longer listed.

[gatormark]

Coronavirus is pushing the depression (not recession) sooner than predicted. Strap in for a long ride (sigh). Cut personal costs immediately.

[ember]

Payment in the bank this AM.

[UpOnOne]

Mine is not even showing as pending. The first time in 16+ years it has been late. A friend has theirs in the bank this morning. Not even the usual email on the 21st.