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January 2016 AdSense Earnings and Observations

         

RedBar

2:56 pm on Jan 1, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Here we go again ... I'm actually quite surprised I'm still earning more than the minimum!

Az416

3:44 am on Jan 25, 2016 (gmt 0)



hi new guy here just trying to set up adsense on my site how long does it take for google to review live site?

Mentat

12:42 pm on Jan 25, 2016 (gmt 0)

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It's like snow has frozen the US and UK advertising, aldo UK has no snow...
US payment is incredible low now.

Peanut45

2:43 pm on Jan 25, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Seeing a new design today for small text ads with the arrow positioned to the right of the ad body text (instead of below), and a cleaner layout which doesn't obscure the ad headline.

Looks like a big improvement in CTR for these ad units, hope it stays that way for a while.

netmeg

1:00 am on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I'm definitely having ad serving issues; my backup pages I put in to measure have been getting hit a lot. And today I replaced a couple responsive ads with fixed sized ads, and the problem, while still there, was greatly reduced. Still testing and then I'm gonna send a mess of reports and screenshots in to G.

kireb

2:10 am on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Super Monday (?) for me with RPM through the roof. Some of the clicks had (again) off the chart values, so I am afraid that the earnings are a bit too good to be true.

Ebuzz

2:28 am on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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@Az416

Your question should be asked in the official Google Forum. You ought to be simply reading the posts here in the past weeks to get a very accurate idea of what your expectations should be like, and any basic technical questions are best asked at the proper channels. This is a very clean forum and the standards here are much better than elsewhere, which are frankly speaking, full of SPAM.

EditorialGuy

3:13 am on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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We've had another record day*, but netmeg's comments about ad-serving issues with responsive ad units are intriguing. Unlike netmeg, we have no responsive ads (our only ads are 300 x 600 on desktop pages).


* for the last six months or so, anyway. (2003 was better!)

radix

9:48 am on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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"The Google AdSense website is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later. We apologize for any inconvenience. " ATM

Whatagreatdayitis

10:18 am on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Yeah, I couldn't connect to Adsense at all and now it's back with very good numbers!

U.S. traffic is picking up a little as of the end of last week, but the RPM is still half of what it was last year. Even worse is that revenue from every other country around the world is way down compared to last year. Canadian RPM is extremely good right now.

Traffic coming to my site from Twitter is through the roof on some days, but only from certain countries, namely Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, and Morocco.

radix

10:25 am on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I'm not sure how long the outage lasted, 30+ mins for sure. Now the service is back.

KaseyM

12:43 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Off a cliff last the couple of days. CTR and Pageviews are consistent - CPC down the toilet.

RedBar

12:59 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Old school EPCs from the US and UK yesterday, I doubt this will last very long.

Londo

1:47 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I posted an issue with ads not showing on my website when I use a browser with interest ads turned off, I thought I had resolved the issue but unfortunately it seems that it only worked temporarily. Now there are virtually no ads showing on my website, usually I have lots of related ads but now nothing. With interest ads enabled in the browser all the ad blocks are filled.

netmeg

3:26 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Something's definitely weird. I've got a red bar on my reports today. I've got another set of massively inflated AdSense pageviews (on one site only) today that is not reflected in either StatCounter or Google Analytics. And I'm not seeing the ad serving issue nearly as much on the placements where I went back to non-responsive code. It's still having issues on the responsive code, and no issues on the Media.net code (but I'm not sure the backup for that works the same way - I have an email in to them but their support has massively slipped lately)

systemaddict

6:42 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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This is a huge announcement. The first serious Adsense competitor and it will surely bring more revenue (back) into web: [wsj.com...]

fearlessrick

7:04 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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That's interesting news from FB, and Google deserves the competition. They've hardly been innovative the past 5-6 years. For me, now running four different services, diversity is paying off pretty well, since Adsense earnings this month are the lowest I've seen in 10 years. Two places to look are Conversant and Infolinks. In particular, Infolinks is pretty easy to implement and, so far, revenues are solid. Will see as time progresses.

nubchai

7:55 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I started checking my Adsense PVs against analytics and statcounter too. They're inflated by 25%. I swapped out the responsive ads with non-responsive. Clicks and RPM have improved. I'm also not noticing the media.net backup ads popping up as frequently.

avalon37

8:08 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I've been talking about Facebook for months, yet no one seemed to believe me.

RedBar

9:08 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Of course we did, it was only a matter of when, not if:-)

breeks

10:29 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Looks like the Facebook Audience Network Mobile Web is live. I am able to create placements.

Select the categories

Display Format Banner or native

Optimize for CPMBalance CPM and FillOptimize for Fill


hmmm

nubchai

12:26 am on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Breeks did you have to submit your site for review?

frankleeceo

12:28 am on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Jumping on the bandwagon and through one of my test sites on there. I wonder how long " a few business days would be".

**Please note: At this stage, test ads will only be served to admins and developers of your app or mobile website. Once you generate five impressions (five successful calls to our servers that return an ad), we will confirm your app or mobile website meets our guidelines within a few business days. We'll then update you when Facebook Ads will be served to everyone from your app or mobile website.

EditorialGuy

12:53 am on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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It's interesting that Facebook won't disclose its revenue split. That may not matter in the end, since the publisher's net revenue is what ultimately counts, but still...

breeks

2:14 am on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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FB ad only shows on mobile - Good
On desktop, the ad slot just shows an empty space - Bad

Nice looking ads though

netmeg

12:47 pm on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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That's unfortunate. They should have a fallback.

RedBar

3:35 pm on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Tis Wednesday, like nearly all days recently I have a red bar again.

I suppose it would be more useful to others to advise when I do NOT have a red bar?

Mentat

4:39 pm on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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The thing is that I need a red bar, but I do not see it...
Since Monday it's a new sheriff in town, that is deleting a lot of clicks!

MrSavage

4:48 pm on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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F me and this Facebook. Best news I've heard in a very long time. A bit more exciting that those Amazon ads...

I continue to see incredibly bizarre behavior in Adsense. I've seen income from ad units that are from sites and ad units that have about 2 inches of dust on them from being dormant. Like literally from out of nowhere on a couple sites that are beyond nothingburger. So something to me is whacky. Yesterday was a bit more normal, but today there is a dead sort of feeling. So far from consistent, holy smokes.

nubchai

6:08 pm on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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It's a dismal day here too. I should have a red bar but don't. I'm beginning to doubt we'll see a recovery. Something seems seriously wrong with Adsense ad serving. Not to beat a dead horse, but my media.net ads are very topical. My Adsense ads are mostly unrelated.

MrSavage

10:34 pm on Jan 27, 2016 (gmt 0)

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This is easily the best month I've had with media.net. For the first time in a while, I can say that the stats appear stuck (Adsense).
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