AdSense Earnings and Observations - March 2024

[gatormark]

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1.7 million page views in a month used to get me a lot more money back in the day. I’ll finish February down 8% from 2023.

[allhearts]

@gatormark,

Me neither, but things are just weird right now.

[MMedi26]

Based on the email I just got from Adsense, they’re definitely turning into a scam company.

[Irka]

Hey Mmedia26 can we see the mail ? I'm interested

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[Sissi]

@allhearts
I have no experience with this constellation but could be an issue

[daniel1213]

Some publishers have received this message. Do you have any idea what it is?

ex 1. Your March earnings deductions and how to avoid them
ex 2. Information about revenue reduction in March. Pilot program.

[allhearts]

@daniel1213,

I never got anything.

[daniel1213]

There are already 2 editors who said they received such messages. Details in the link below

[support.google.com...]

[Sissi]

No message

[allhearts]

Whats everyone's experience with "Vignette Ads"?

I'm finally trying this as it is less intrusive then offerwall and so far the numbers look really good, I have it set at 30 minutes by the way.

[daniel1213]

@allhearts @sissi , here is the message: [imgur.com...]

[Sissi]

@allhearts Try 1 minute
@daniel1213 Thanks this is what I was fearing Adsense will remunerate natural traffic most probably
If a user looks for holidays in Maledives while in Facebook why shall he land in a website about garden equipment , for the advertiser and G useless

[daniel1213]

@Sissi this reason means that general websites, online newspapers and other informational websites will be losers.

If Google only pays based on the logic presented by you, then it means that any related visit to the beneficiary's website will be charged exclusively by Google. Is it our fault that Google displays the wrong ads? These are just reasons..

[Sissi]

@Daniel you are right
I m at the same page
Adsense will look at qualitative traffic not quantitative

[adrianTNT]

My earnings dropped 90% in last week or so. Adsense sent me an email:

>>> Your March earnings were subject to a deduction for invalid activity that was detected by our systems. This system enables us to filter out most invalid traffic, and our advertisers are not charged for this traffic

90% of my traffic cannot be click fraud, they now pay me $3 a day (used to be ~$45-$55 /day) for 12 000 uniques and 90% of them come from Google oraganic search.

They are eider pocketing the difference or their latest click fraud prevention system fails miserably.

[Sissi]

CTR remains high even if doesnt count for revenues
I can imagine if it s still measured it means that it has an influcence on the revenues indirectly.
At least if an advertiser sees some leads and not only views
A new adsense algorithm ?

[Sissi]

I know how frustrating it can be for those who have received G message about revenues reduction.
May be you should try to take out the old ads for a one hour or two and create new ads.
But eventually analyse your traffic
G used to sanction invalid clicks now they do with traffic which a higher impact on more publishers

[Breathofair33]

Everyone - read this ongoing thread regarding the messages and frustrations in Ad reduction: [support.google.com...]

In summary, Google may be rolling out AI technology within AdSense to combat click fraud which may be backfiring - in particular with AutoAds. It's not as simple anymore with just "enabling auto ads" and taking Google's auto recommendations. It also suggest Google is using more AI for Google search recommendations for content. Some of my sites are suffering severely in traffic.

[Sissi]

With all my respect
protesting is good however if Google doesn t want to accept some traffic just leave this platform
Google is a client and not the reversed
Question your own business model not the one of google
This is a storm in a cup of tea
100 000s of publishers are happy

[MMedi26]

“Question your own business model not the one of Google” girl if you work for Google just say that

[MMedi26]

Literally this group is to discuss everyone’s personal experience with Adsense, just because 100k publishers are happy doesn’t mean the other publishers business models are bad. They weren’t bad prior to the switch…..

[adrianTNT]

> Question your own business model not the one of google

I have an AdSense account for 15-20 years (I think from around 2004), and now I should leave because some stupid AI implementation flagged my account ? I think it is Google who should question their recent practices.

In a recent email (automated I think) they said deductions can also be if a client paid for ads with FAKE CARDS, first time I consider this scenario, so we are to blame for that too, and might be the case that they took a huge hit related to this (reversed payments maybe) and now they are trying to receover by paying us ... nothing.

[Sissi]

@adrianTNT
AI is not to blame. I have changed my way to deal with Adsense probably 8 times . My account has been closed 3 times but managed to address the issues.
Change your model time will tell you.
@blabla There is a say in my country:
„When the sage points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger"
Conspiracy theories are the food of the losers.

[System]

April's new thread is here ---> [webmasterworld.com...]

[edited by: not2easy at 12:55 pm (utc) on Apr 1, 2024]
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