May 2021 AdSense Earnings and Observations

May the Force be with you.

[JorgeV]

Hello,

Sunny days are coming (in the northern hemisphere), may your income shine too.

[gatormark]

@SweetPotato

What bothers me even more is that I use Google Ads to promote my websites and I never get an account credit at the end of the month.

[adsenseuser]

May isn’t looking as good as April for me.

[SweetPotato]

QUESTION: On Account > Settings > Account Information > Seller information visibility

Do you have it on Confidential or Transparent?
And what domain do you put on: Business domain

Does this affect anything? If not why do it?

[CommandDork]

I have it set to Transparent with the Business Domain blank. I cant tell whether or not it does / has done anything.

[Runfun]

Anyone who uses Ad Manager with Adsense? Since few weeks it looks broke, revenue with Adsense ridiculous low. I'm not even trying to get in contact with Google because 99 of 100 publishers can't.

I messaged Mentat but I guess my message was deleted.

[Niresh12495]

@RunFun as you said Contact by email option has been disabled for me, There is no reason for it to be disabled.

[Runfun]

I'm confused, you changed the name here and was Mentat before?

[Niresh12495]

No, i was responding to your comment.

"I'm not even trying to get in contact with Google because 99 of 100 publishers can't."

[Runfun]

Thanks and true there's no reason to disable it or as mentioned before why can't Google/Alphabet use few employees to answer questions on a publisher forum to answer questions.

It's so obvious Google cares about the few percent of the big publisher and don't care about the 95% of the smaller publishers. Their products have more potential when the service would be better.

[primax]

Mai has a pretty low RPM for me but the last 2 months went pretty good. I hope we can see some more improvements over the next few weeks.

[ember]

May has been an abysmal failure so far. EPC and CTR both down for no apparent reason. And I was finally forced into using the new reports interface, and I don't like it at all! Looking forward to June.

[azlinda]

ember, I agree 100%. April is a complete fail. Such a huge waste of advertising space.

[NickMNS]

And I was finally forced into using the new reports interface, and I don't like it at all!

The new reports probably looks really nice on a mobile phone, you know for the one person that use their phone to drill down in their AdSense reports.

I still have the ability to switch back to the old report, and I always do. But event that version is pretty bad, and the new version doesn't fix any of the bad point, it just adds more bad UI on top of it. What was wrong with tabs, it's clean, clear and precise.

[Niresh12495]

I don't like the new adsense report at all.

My earning has been worst this month.

[scottb]

I had 3 great months from February through April. May numbers are plunging fast for no apparent reason.

Bu after working with AdSense for 15 years, I've seen it do this plenty of times before. Getting complacent with AdSense is not an option.

[fearlessrick]

Earnings straight into the toilet for May. April was solid, but G clawed back 30% of my "estimated" revenue, so it was almost exactly the same as March. With G, making improvements is considered a penalty.

That's OK, though, because here in the USA, up is down, war is peace, and everybody makes more money staying home then they did at work. Kind of funny. I figured out the work bit 22 years ago. Stopped, stayed home, ran online biz and enjoyed life instead of the grind. Now G is making my dreams fall apart. Good thing I bought some bitcoin.

[scottb]

"Earnings straight into the toilet for May."

May I ask what content category you do? Mine is travel.

If it's not travel, then I wonder if the end of government stimulus payments is starting to hit the economy.

[fearlessrick]

Scott, finance, collectibles, sports.

US economy, like G earnings, is headed down the drain. All part of the plan.

You must have been hit pretty hard in travel over the past year. It's been painful for many.

[scottb]

Rick, I agree the U.S. economy is heading down. Too much stimulus too quickly. Hard to see how they can pump it up much more. The overvalued stock market will head down with it.

Yeah, I got hammered. Had a 90% decline in revenue but have bounced back in a big way. Many of my competitors closed shop, so I think my numbers are better in part because so many of them are gone.

[ember]

Oh dear God. Now I am seeing an ad with explicit directions about how to use toilet paper. Seriously?

[Niresh12495]

This month is getting worse.

[tonyj13]

How do you check minute-by-minute updated earnings in the new Google AdSense reporting page? In the old one, we used to be able to see exactly how much we are earning every minute or two, but now I cannot seem to find where to get that same information. It keeps telling me to check my YouTube analytics, but they take 2 days to update. I appreciate your help.

[Mentat]

Someone used the handbrake yesterday!

[azlinda]

It can't get much worse than a 0.06% CTR!

[Niresh12495]

Yes because low ad competition so low quality ads.

[JorgeV]

Hello,

I didn't notice this on my own sites, but I am now frequently visiting sites, with vignette ads , on desktop, which are not working. The page is blurred, but the ad is not popping.

[adsenseuser]

My forecast (based on daily averages) for May total is showing down on March and April but better than January and February.

[MayankParmar]

ShiitSense is not doing good this month.

[gatormark]

I am just working on the speed and performance of my websites. I am seeing minor SERP increases. Hopefully this will impact my Adsense revenue.

[tonyj13]

what do you mean by handbrake?