We will be worse off again. Advertisers will pay more, we will get less Google will get fatter.

Don't be so negative thinking, we still don't know the result yet.
So far GA has done good job to eliminate MFA for us.
:)

Something is up already before the Xmas Bonus update.

There was some kind of a fluke yesterday (Friday ) where EPC was running at 4 times normal for many hours in the beginning of the Google day, but somebody flipped the switch off again and the day ended within normal metrics (with a little aftertaste of high epc and ecpm)

I am guessing we might be seeing more of this, good pages excellent pay, bad pages will drag your whole account down.

We are probably witnessing the birth of a new and improved rollercoaster with higher climbs and sharper bends, no wonder children are not allowed in this game.

well the wheels came off my rollercoaster cart this week, my reward for breaking the 20 million page impressions a month barrier was to see eCPM drop from 0.38 to 0.14 so i'm hoping this maintenance will include some maintenance on my account :P

Had the best all around good days from the first to the 10th that I have had for a year! Here's hoping this maintenance won't scr...errr foul things up.

Ann

Don't be so negative thinking, we still don't know the result yet. So far GA has done good job to eliminate MFA for us.

I'm only negative thinking because I've been here a long time, seen all the past "Upgrades" and always been worse off as a result.

have they done a good job with clearing out MFA's? Glad you think so. When you have been around here a little longer you may get to change your mind on that score.

So far GA has done good job to eliminate MFA for us.

That is the funniest thing I heard in a very long time! You are very funny! :-)

I finally managed to get in to check and wish I hadn't. :(

CTR down, EPC down, and earnings down....am I allowed to cry in this thread? Was doing so well.

Ann

I finally managed to get in to check and wish I hadn't.
CTR down, EPC down, and earnings down....am I allowed to cry in this thread? Was doing so well.

ditto. mebbe we should bust some martinis instead.... (ahem.... joke, MB, joke... notice the wink smiley ;) )

OK, things seem semi normal here, however, a bit sturdy for an ecmp with slow traffic (normal day for Saturday). I'm wondering what a day like Monday would bring... I'm guessing the update was a positive one (if you are in the right game in G's eyes). I will report back in the upcoming days how things play out for us.

It appears from my income decline that my sites and stats had 'maintanance' issues for a long time.

and yet curiously, my sites performance stats have leapt up back to what they were last month.
looks like the Google cherry pie has been redistributed again.

Ann - gutted for you - you were doing so well! My eCPM is up, my traffic from adwords is down - the two have balanced. What I have noticed, is that some of my adgroups in adwords that had large numbers of inactive keywords - are now active. Now I have done nothing to these pages so why has big G suddenly decided they have a better quality score and have re-activated the keywords? If this has happened to a lot of adwords publishers in your niche, perhaps a lot of previously inactive keywords have been activated again.....weird.

and yet curiously, my sites performance stats have leapt up back to what they were last month

Likewise, Saturday saw my biggest earning day of the month with everything, dare I say it, looking normal!

Maybe they've replaced the elastic band with something stronger?

Maybe they've replaced the elastic band with something stronger?

Gosh - things are in a bad way!

We always knew that RandomPricing was decided by waving wet seaweed three times anticlockwise and thinking of a random number, but elastic bands? What exactly would they use it for?