I usually get good sundays. Mostly lower traffic but a lot of high payed clicks.... Usually about 30% more average per click on sundays....

Don't ask me why, but I don't complain ;)

Very slow sunday.

Rex, I'm on track for my lowest earning day of the year.

Nice solid Sunday here. This is on the back of the worst week in 3 months so I'm happy as a pig in **** to see it get back to normality.

OPTIREX: unfortunately, the Grand Prix was at the same hour when I can watch "TOP GEAR XTRA" on BBC Prime. It's sooooo difficult not to watch that show! But I have to admit that "action packed" is a very good definition for today's F1 GP :-)
Getting back to earnings: a rollercoaster is the best definition I can find for this week. But the comparison to just one year ago is... ugly: 30% more uniques, 90% less earnings.

Terrible day; probably the worst of the year. However, typically when I have a bad day, it's immediately followed by an unusually good one - I don't know why that is, unless some of the previous days's stats are mysteriously being accounted to the next.

CONGRATULATIONS JENSON BUTTON - at long last:-)

ditto... good to see a different face on the podium... and jenson's at that. he's been a real solid performer, but sometimes luck is the crucial factor. Which got me thinking...

smart pricing is like Schumacher's race at Hungaroring... you're zooming, you're expecting to win and zzzppppllllttt...

oh and yes... today's earnings are moving like a midlands F1 car in neutral.

Checking my stats vs. Google's stats, I think Google has only counted about 1/3 of page views for today. I just hope they get brought current soon because it shouldn't be as bad as it looks right now.

As with virtually every time I have checked my stats after seeing a post like this, my stats are exactly and boringly in line with expectations. Whatever is happening, I don't believe it's related to AdSense. Maybe you should be looking at your raw logs or posting in the Google Search forum if you're having a continuing problem.

Impressions look okay here. EPC, CTR, and eCPM all look strong today--at least so far. (It's only 7:25 p.m. Google time.)

That's about what I'd expect, based on past years: a nice uptick in August, with good traffic and earnings until the usual November-December lull.

A pretty good day, the trend is still upward and I also noticed the impressions are lagging by about 2000.

Ann

Normal.

Bad bad bad, made $-. on sunday a normal day is $---.-- cant believe it feeling really sorry for myself! much much worse than even a few years ago when I first started adsense.

Top Gear Xtra is the only thing that distracts me from working on my site.

And Sunday ending in 5 minutes was a normal earnings & trffic day.

Lower CTR & eCPM but I am testing a 5K ad impessions/day section previously non AdSensed.

I had one of my best days in a long time on Sunday. But then again we are talking a lot of money here.

I don't know if this might be of interest to you, but three days ago my EPC almost doubled. Normalized figures are:
- 1.00$ early June
- 0.50$ late June
- 0.35$ July
- 0.90$ now
I'm currently getting 1K clicks per day.

It's my normal Sunday page views volume, except a little bit higher on eCPM.

At the end of the day it was one of my worst Sundays of the year for traffic, all Google metrics were normal.

And here we are on Monday afternoon UK time and I have already exceeded Sunday's earnings!

Something exciting was happening somewhere yesterday and I didn't get an invite:-(

After a strange Friday I had a solid Saturday, the type of Saturday I had all year until the beginning of June.
Today is painful, it's worse than watching paint dry!
All my metrics are ok, my traffic seems to have come to a grinding halt.

For me:
Friday bad
Saturday worse
Sunday - best day all month!

Really WILD fluctuations from one day to another. Very strange goings on from the Googleplex.

Worst Sunday of this year for me, and 2nd worst day of the year overall, earnings-wise.

Today, Monday, started out slowly, but all of a sudden (just after 2:00 ET), CTR, eCPM and epc all leapt up like they were hit with lightning. Will easily outpace Sunday and maybe Sat and Sun combined.

This leaves the question: Seasonality, or a twist in the algo? Judging by some of the recent AdWords discussions, I'm going with the latter, with a little seasonality, just for taste ;).

The people who use AdWords have been somewhat annoyed by what they call the "new" algo and $10 minimum bids, since Mid-July. As usual, it takes a couple, three, four weeks for one of G's algos to propagate, pan out, whatever you want to call it.

Also, Matt Cutts and others have said to wait until summer's over. Maybe we're seeing the beginning of the end?

I hope so, but I think I'm going to take humblebeginning's advice and not monitor stats so frequently, stay away from these boards (and certain annoying posters who shall remain unnamed*) and concentrate on improving my sites (added one a couple of months ago, now have two).

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At the end of the day it was one of my worst Sundays of the year for traffic, all Google metrics were normal.

At the end of the day it was a pretty good summer Sunday for me: impressions down 10-12% from my highest-traffic Sundays since June 1, but with a significantly higher eCPM. It was also the third-highest Sunday for "Earnings" during the same period. I credit the boost to normal seasonal increases in advertiser and user demand.

50 minutes of good results and you're bouncing off the ceiling? Rick, I agree you really need to take a long term view of things. Think months, not days.

jomaxx, are you and EFV joined at the hip?

Besides the fact that you cannot see my stats, you have no clue how these things work. There are definite peaks and valleys, but I'm afraid you're too busy criticizing everyone else's ideas that you'd likely never know.

I'm simply reporting what I am seeing, and it is a definite change. In fact, it's still improving.

Let me put it this way: with nearly 12 hours left in the day, I've already surpassed yesterday's earnings with half the PVs and less than half the clicks. Now, I call that significant, but all you can do is tell me to take a longer view.

I'm probably going to get slapped down by the mods for saying this, but there are some people around here whose minds are so closed and vision so narrow as to disallow any kind of rational enquiry into the what, why and how Google works. Excuse me for being inquisitive, but what have you added to any thread around here lately beside dismissive remarks?

Please post something meaningful instead of attacking the thoughts and ideas of others.

Good riddance, hopefully.

It's not the mods you have to worry about.

It's the rockers.

Rock on!

fearlessrick,
While I disagree with EFV on many occasions, I keep to myself personal views of members out of respect to the forum that is hosting this exchange.

If you have a grievance take it with him somewhere else please as it is taking any thread you participate in into a tangent, and to say the least distracts us from benefiting and helping others.

Keep WW civil, non personal and on topic as we like it. Think of the rest of us please.
Thanks
Hobbs

Wise man once said "No two cheeseburgers are exactly alike"...

Likewise, no two websites are exactly alike. Proven everytime someone posts an "earnings down" thread like this. The good thing about no two websites being alike is that I can work on my OWN theories and strategies. What works for me may not work for others, so nowadays when I read a negative comment, I think "OK that's your opinion... but it may or may not apply to me..."

Just my 2 cents...

traffic down 1/3
ecpm down 1/3

I can still live on it but no painting the town red.

Boys and girls I think we hit the bottom of the summer (except for selected lucky people).

The question is how long will it last?

OptiRex, for what it's worth, what you experienced on sunday happened to me on monday.