AdSense Earnings and Observations - December 2023

[allhearts]

Just a horrible day today, really, really bad.

[edited by: not2easy at 11:48 am (utc) on Dec 1, 2023]
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[Soulofmonk]

I will retire in 35 years. Lol I am 24, started blogging when I was 14. Definitely have to look for another career because this one is very volatile.

[Milanex]

"Is anyone else receiving Email Notifications from this topic every 10 minutes? I have received about 100 new reply post notifications to my email since last night from this topic along."

Me too. Its annoying...

[allhearts]

@Milanex,

still happening to me, well over 200 by now, they are trying to fix it but don't think they know what's even causing it yet.

[not2easy]

Mods note: The Email Notifications situation is being investigated. One quick solution is to go to your Control Panel (where you go to send a sticky) and on the left menu, go to Stickymail Prefs > Auto Notification? and if it is turned on, turn it off until it can be fixed.

We apologize, but without feedback it is much harder to track down.

[allhearts]

@not2easy,

Did that almost 2 hours ago, but unfortunately it has not stopped it.

[MMedi26]

RPM in the gutter today lol

[itek]

Worst RPM I've ever seen was today. Been doing this for 11 years now and have never seen it this low before. $1.78 RPM. Absolutely 100% pathetic.

But yet again record numbers for Google...

"Alphabet revenue for the quarter ending September 30, 2023 was $76.693B, a 11% increase year-over-year. Alphabet revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $297.132B, a 5.32% increase year-over-year. Alphabet annual revenue for 2022 was $282.836B, a 9.78% increase from 2021."

I am currently transitioning from web development to a cybersecurity role and will be getting out of Google Adsense in the next 6 months and CAN NOT WAIT.

[CommandDork]

I wonder if the CPM switch was done in mid-Dec as a soft-launch and this is the new normal.

[ember]

I really think the USA is in a world of economic hurt for 2024. Things are not adding up and I believe we are on the verge of one of the worst economic disasters we have ever seen. The US Govt has absolutely destroyed a great country.

No.

[MMedi26]

@itek $1.78 RPM? Ouch! Mines dropped hit around $5 today. Which is very low compared to the usual.

[gatormark]

@itek

The USA government has done a very good job of staving off the inevitable. I wonder how much longer they can do it.

[gatormark]

Unusually good numbers today for a post Christmas week.

[Breathofair33]

Embarrassed to talk about my business now, AdSense was it. Ads just suck

[MMedi26]

@gatormark I’ve seen a rise in clicks but my rpm is still kind of low. Revenue isn’t matching the clicks/views.

[DarkSide83]

Yes, my biggest problem is still the low fill rate. That‘s why my revenue is so low.

Have you ever thought about the fact that our revenue is so low because there has been a shift to other Google products? For example, if revenue has been shifted away from AdSense to YouTube or other Google products, this would explain why our revenue is so low for us and Google's overall revenue continues to increase year on year.

[MMedi26]

@DarkSide83 I try to think that blogging will become very huge again soon when it comes to revenue. This seems like a job that’s perfect for what direction the world is going in tbh. Hopefully things change for the better. Seems like we’re still just dealing with the pandemic slump and trying to get back on our feet? I don’t think it has much to do with YouTube and other Google products, I still believe we’re very useful because of the amount of views we get on our sites.

[MMedi26]

Today is the best day I’ve had since before Christmas, I’ll take it.

[Milanex]

@not2easy

The email notifications bug isn't yet fixed for me...

[not2easy]

I regret there is nothing new to report on that situation. The best I can offer is that the month is nearly over. Apologies to all those affected. ¯\_(:\ )_/¯ :(

[LucasPerez]

Hello colleagues, as some of you know, I deactivated Adsense a month ago in November, I must say that since I did it the visits to my pages rose to 8000-10000 daily visits just as they were before the drop of Adsense in July 2023 , with Google updates, everything began to fall, including visits to my pages with only 1900-2000 /daily from August to November 2023.

Now I think that the Adsense bot is playing suspicious games with editors and websites, I don't know how, but it seems that it is trying to prevent visits so that the Adsense RPM does not increase or something similar, I don't know why they are doing this sabotage.

Like the Search Console that works worse and worse, and so many strange things that are happening.

In case my experience helps at all.

It was just this and something else. Merry Christmas everyone! with best wishes.

I keep reading the forum, it's the best!

[allhearts]

@not2easy,

I would like to report that the last email notification I received was at 8:10am today, so the issue has been fixed. Thank you for your efforts and a job well done by the team.

[not2easy]

I believe Brett was working on it earlier and they thought it had been fixed. It is very good news to hear it was fixed from the people who were affected. Thank you for your patience.

[Milanex]

@not2easy

For me it's fixed since yesterday. Thank you and the very best wishes for 2024!

Greetings
Milanex

[Sissi]

Interesting statement

Dan Taylor, vice president of global ads at Google, in a post wrote that publishers, based on tests, should see a change in earnings as a result of these updates.

[mediapost.com...]

[not2easy]

That is the same information that Google announced on November 2, 2023: https://blog.google/products/adsense/evolving-how-publishers-monetize-with-adsense/

You can read it here: [webmasterworld.com...]

[Sissi]

Thanks Not2easy but in the one I mention it says revenues will change

[not2easy]

It says exactly the same thing as Dan Taylor posted 11/2/23 on the Google blog site, or I would not have mentioned it. They moved a few words around, but nothing new in Laurie Sullivan's 11/3/23 article.

[MMedi26]

Let’s hope this is a good thing and not a bad thing because that’s a major change.

[MMedi26]

Last day of 2023 numbers are kind of bad.

[Soulofmonk]

This year will likely end with an 18% decline compared to last year. We were doing quite well until August but got massacred by HCU and following updates. December was the lowest month of the year. August was the best and all-time high.

I wish everyone good luck for the next year. Happy New Year.