Higher or Lower? What are your stats like this week

A quick survey for comparison to other publishers

[Jenstar]

Well, publishers seem to have a lot to say the past few days about what their stats are doing and what their earnings look like. It is sometimes hard to get a true picture when there are so many complaints (classic can't see the forest for all the trees situation), although I have seen a few "best day ever" posts here and there (and probably more who don't want to admit it!)

This is a simple survey to kind of see what all publishers are seeing, please keep all commentary about what you see in one of the other (many!) threads. For this thread, just comment on the last three days, choosing one of these for each day Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday:

Record High
Higher than average
Average
Lower than Average
Record Low

And yes, I'll start :)

...
Monday: Lower than average (albiet slightly lower)
Tuesday: Lower than average
Wednesday: Lower than average (although might sneak up to Average once it finishes updating).
...

Remember, please keep commentary to another thread :) Hopefully we will see some sort of a trend emerging.

[Jon_King]

Monday: Highest revenue day in 3 months
Tuesday: Average
Wednesday: Lower than average

[indias next no1]

below average in earnings and eCPM for third consecutive day.

I think Adwords minimum bid policy affected adsense publishers

Is it right?

[anks106]

Monday - Record High
Tuesday - Record Low
Wednesday - New Record Low
Thursday - shaping up to tie Wednesdays Record Low of a big fat 0 dollars.

[miedmark]

Mine keeps going up and up last few months, hopefully it stays that way.

[foxtrot3]

Monday - below avg.
Tuesday - zero CTR
Wednesday - a little better, but still below avg.

I'm off about 40% in July vs. June

[kartiksh]

Thursday - Higher than Avg.

[trader]

Monday = little lower than normal
Tuesday = much lower than normal
Wednesday = little lower than normal
Thursday = much lower than normal

Is there a pattern with other posts?

[driris]

Monday: Higher than average
Tuesday: average

Wednesday: Lower than average

thursday == Record High

[indias next no1]

most of the people saying below average earnings for the past 4 days, why and what would be the reason?

[web_sense]

Monday Was High
Tuesday was average
Wednesday all time low

Day by day my earnings have decreased this week. Anyone else is experiencing the same.

[oddsod]

Average is a funny creature. With all the above replies I've no idea whether it's average over the last year, last month, or adjusted for day of week/seasonal fluctuations/other factors. My Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday figures are always higher than my average for the week as my eanings do drop sharply on weekends.

However, since we are throwing these figures out, my figures over more than one Adsense account are slightly higher than last month's unadjusted average for equivalent days of the week.

[JoaoJose]

Monday: record high
Tuesday: below average
Wednesday : record high
Thursday : above average

[JohnKelly]

Monday - Higher than average
Tuesday - Higher than average
Wednesday - Much higher than average
Thursday - Slightly higher than average
Friday - Looks like lower than average so far

[JohnKelly]

I should have mentioned the above averages are compared to the prior 7-day rolling average (last Monday through Sunday).

[clearvision]

Okay, I was so discouraged Wednesday I was setting new opportunities in place to replace adsense. I left the ads up until things were secured and wouldn't you know it...the day I go to change over everything revenue shoots sky high again. It has been MONTHS since I have seen numbers this high.

Well, I can humbly say....I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING about Adsense, even though I have been around the block with it since a month after its release.

No more rants from me....I don't know what the heck I am talking about ;)

[Hop_Hop]

This week i had worst rates. Are normaly those fluctuations from week to week? one week good, one week bad

[trader]

Continuing from my post #67. Friday was much below average and Saturday July 23 down the tube with the worst earnings since April. Sat was a disaster day vs our daily average and vs other weekend days too. Anyone else notice this?

We normally have steady and reliable earnings all days and every week as we have a large mumber of sites and quite diverse traffic from various sources and diverse subject sites, including good typein traffic.

A change and decline was fairly evident starting July 19 and ongoing thru today. Traffic and clicks remain good. In fact, impressions and clicks were higher than normal this week. It's EPC which has taken the big tumble.

This is based on equivalent days of the week and also on averages over the past couple months. We suspect G has made some major negative changes this week.

[jetteroheller]

Monday: close to highest ever
Tuesday: 25% below normal weekday
Wednesday: around weekday average

[ann]

Saturday was awful. I notice that when you earn over a $1000.00
The price of clicks seem to go down. Anyone else notice that too?

Ann

[oddsod]

ann, I believe we read too much into individual day reports. Considering smart pricing adjustments which may be applied retrospectively today's earnings could reflect an adjustment (+ or -) to your earnings over the last few days. Clicks held back routinely/randomly for fraud checking or more detailed analysis could further skew figures for a particular day.

Some using a rolling average. I haven't bothered to experiment with ideal number of days to base a rolling average on.

[ann]

Thanks Oddsod,

I guess I am just a worry wart. :-)

I redid my entire main site and added more content now I am in the process of remaking, entirely, my smaller site which has been scraped to death; rewrite redesign, etc., giving it the complete works.

Plus, I have a wonderful idea completely unrelated to what I have now that I feel will be wildly successful and can hardly wait to get started on that! I guess I tend to worry needlessly.

A friend who is in what he calls the Fedex club (the ups club) has been giving me some useful tips on types of ads to try, etc, and I have picked up quite a few suggestions here which have all been a big help to me.

Ann

[YesMom]

I'm pretty sure now that my spike-up days with higher EPC are due to just one new advertiser jumping in and trying things out for a day or two.

For instance, if my highest paying "regular" advertiser is bidding a top bid of $5.00 a click, but the next highest is only bidding a top of say, 50 cents -- and settling for 2nd position -- then most of my clicks will yield about 30 cents down to 3 cents.

BUT -- if another advertiser jumps in and bids a max of $3.00, for example, I can see a lot of higher paying clicks. My CTR (coincidentally) goes up a bit, too, since visitors are seeing a "new" company's ad.

Seems to me that my top advertiser either finds out they are suddenly paying MUCH more to be in top position and just bails out... or the new advertiser who is experimenting gets cold feet.

I think it would be more stable for the top bidders to settle for 2nd or 3rd position, but maybe they see a huge drop-off in traffic when they do so.