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My daily averages for July and August are exactly the same, while the daily average earnings for September started way below the previous two months, but now it is catching up to the same level.
Guys, I am not lying the daily average is to the penny... And I got less visitors to the site on August when compared to July. However, this was compensated by a higher CTR. It couldn't have worked better if I had planned it.... Hmmm now that I think about it, it would have worked better if traffic had doubled LOL.
I guess is time to write more content and actually promote the site. I might do it for a couple of days while I am on vacation next week. Althoug, I always say that and I always slack. Making money might be just the right incentive to do it for real this time.
My initial reaction was: hang on a sec, does this mean as I get more visitors to the site, AdSense starts displaying more generic adverts from higher paying companies so that the CTR drops but when people do click the CPC is higher?
'Cuz if that's the case, I've got a lot of work on my hands to get past the inertia of the relative lack of interest in generic ads compared to specific ads.
I hate the weekends. Give me my office workers surfing from work anyday.
Still down for September when it comes to daily earnings average, not by much, but still down.
wat is it with weekends any way? i have the misfortune of not only loosing out on traffic but also CTR!
I am only theorising but I would imagine people who work with computers all day and are not computer nerds like those who frequent WW (myself included) choose not to go near a PC at the weekend :)
Also, weekend (aka home) surfers will be more 56k based compared to weekday (aka office) surfers and are probably a little more choosey about their clicks. Especially if they're paying for internet call charges still.
I have to wonder if this is because of the volume that my site has. One would think there would be even more stability on a larger site where spikes in ctr and traffic would be smoothed out by the sheer amount of data. But my little site continues to show consistency.
Who knows?
It might be interesting to do a similar analysis on your data - is this a one-off coincidence or when you look at a large quantity of data, is there a bias towards numbers that are close together?
It might be interesting to do a similar analysis on your data - is this a one-off coincidence or when you look at a large quantity of data, is there a bias towards numbers that are close together?
Dude, go outside and get some fresh air. Trust me on this one, I've been right where you are in the past.
Dude, go outside and get some fresh air. Trust me on this one, I've been right where you are in the past.
Dude, go outside and get some fresh air. Trust me on this one, I've been right where you are in the past.
Trust you on what? What on earth is wrong with analyzing revenue data? Or any data at all? Bring it on, I say! The alternative is ignorance.
(And don't believe the hype -- it's not so blissful)
Therefore, earnings stability continues.
Isn't that of concern to you? I would have thought the aim would be to increase daily earnings each month, where possible.
By tweaking the ad size, position, and colour, plus some increase in traffic, plus presumably better ad targeting, my daily average revenue in Sept was slightly more than 3 times that of August (I started Adsense Aug 1st).
Looker closer, most of this was due to doubling the average CTR Aug to Sep plus a 10% gain in EPC. The rest was due to increased impressions.
So, to get back to some comments earlier in the thread, increasing impressions (Sep was 54% above Aug) doesn't seem to have hurt the CTR or even the EPC at all.
So is there a cap? or have I extrapolated this data too far? <really hate myself for jumping to this conclusion> but is that what is being implied here?
Isn't that of concern to you? I would have thought the aim would be to increase daily earnings each month, where possible.
The funny thing about the observation is how predictable return can be. I am not going to talk about specific CTR, but that also bounces around in a very, very narrow range. This tells me that fraud detection can not really be that hard to work out.
Interesting that your basic data and results tracks so close to others that have posted, including the ups and downs in impressions, effective CPC and relativly flat earnings. That is why we asked the question as to is there another calculation going on in the algo, to generate this?
Would expect that as page views go up that so would revenue (based on <somewhat> predictable click through rates). The balancing off of CPC seems to offset this effect, is what you have seen.
This could be due to ad blindness (same ads on multiple pages), but in looking at earnings/visitor ratios it is also following the same trends, so don't account it to that.
Still think the % of psa's served over a period of time comes into all of the above.
This is way more fun trying to figure out this than the search engine algo....lol.
