My ads came back shortly after I posted and I haven't seen a problem the past couple days. I use AdRotate to serve them, and it wasn't just AdSense, my other network ads (like Media.net and SOVRN) weren't showing either, so my problem at least wasn't with just AdSense.

Oh, and all my ads are responsive.

And SEOPTI, if you aren't happy with AdSense you don't need to run it. But this is the AdSense forum and you seem to be on a mission to convince everyone else to dump it. That's an opinion you're entitled to, but this is probably not the place.

Slight uptick today in an unusual way. Low cpc but high ctr

The hysterics and the Chicken Littles here really make me laugh. Adsense won't last forever - nothing ever does - and you should always have one eye on alternatives and revenue diversity. But if you have a busy site or two, there's still a decent amount of gold to be mined from it.

AdSense was down a bit for us yesterday (compared to the previous Tuesday), but not enough to make me wonder about ad serving. And in general, January has been strong for us--as it is every year at this time (in terms of traffic, AdSense revenue, and affiliate commissions).

As for affiliate income vs. AdSense income, it doesn't have to be "either/or." Our editorial site earns more from affiliate commissions than from AdSense, but AdSense revenue is a tasty layer of icing on the cake.

... AdSense is doing better than ever, we publishers just don't experience that, it's not a dead horse, it just got a lot harder to compete and earn.
And eventually low quality publishers will be abondened by Google AdSense completely. But AdSense dying? No, they are getting started.

SEOPTI's post is quite provocative.

I'm based in San Jose, Costa Rica and I don't accept pennies to manage my Adsense account. That's why I removed Adsense ads from a site quite popular in its niche.

I'm happier today and I can live without those pennies!

Some sites work well with AdSense, and some don't--just as some sites work well with affiliate programs, and some don't.

If AdSense is a bad fit for your site, that doesn't mean AdSense is a bust for other publishers or that Google is evil. It just means you need to experiment and see what (if anything) works for you.

Some sites work well with AdSense ...

I agree as I once run Adsense on a RE website and I was quite happy about it.

Now that my Adsense account is quite optimized to get rid of unwanted ads, I expect to test Adsense on that site again. I assume I'll get paid at least quarters instead of pennies then.

It's a shame good and trustworthy ad publishers didn't get to display their ads on the other site.

Incidentally, where did the 'Google is evil' come from?

The only thing you have said that I would probably agree with is that AdSense probably will die a death at some stage in the next few years.

I read this kind of sentence many times since I joined adsense. I'm already ten years in adsense but adsense is still there. I've spend more years in adsense than working in my previous employment. My sister-in-law lost her job last year and she is just 5 years on her job abroad. The point is, there is no security in everything. Even your precious job might be lost when your ass*ole boss kicks you out. I just remember when I was still employed. I thought the company I was working with is struggling because they always have job cuts and retrenchments. I'm always afraid that time that the company might close down. The management always said that the company needs to slim down to cut cost. I also lost my job that time. But you know what? that company just moved to a better and bigger location for expansion in 2013.

Adsense is still alive but it looks like Google is not caring too much about it now, and also how to address mobile traffic on traditional websites. Most likely, they have given up on it, although they (we) still collect the increasingly decreasing pennies coming in.

They are more focused on YouTube and Android (mobile ads) because they feel this is the future.

I'm having ad serving issues again; I put some blank HTML pages in as the backup (with analytics on the so I could track them) and I'm seeing pageviews for the the blanks. Once I get enough in a log file, Imma send it in to AdSense and ask WTF.

Netmeg please let us know what they say. My pageviews were slightly down yesterday with the same number of clicks as the previous day. RPM was up as were earnings. But still much lower than usual. We've had a variety of people test access to our main site and whether the ads were visible and they are. Not sure what's going on :(

Adsense is for lazy people who are not mentally able to write a sales copy or create a unique product.

This only comes from someone who does not know how to make Adsense work. I do quite well with it. Somehow my feeble, lazy little brain has managed to figure it out.

And now I have a red bar :(

RedBar has a red bar and RedBar has had that red bar for hours now ... it'll not make any difference to my earnings once the red bar disappears!

I've also got the red bar, but my earnings don't seem to be affected at the moment

Earnings? What is this strange word called earnings?

I have no clue as to what it may mean!

No "red bar" here and I wish I had one...

CPC @ peanuts level since 1st of January.

Because nobody really talks about what they earn from AdSense I really don't know what is considered to be a good day from other members. However, £10 a day is pretty good for me. That's probably absolutely nothing compared to what other people make, but I'm happy with it.

To be honest, I don't know why AdSense don't let people talk about what they earn, it seems rather petty to me. It's not as if your employer at work forbids you to disclose your earnings. What we earn is our business, I don't see why we should be told not to tell other people.

It's not a very good idea, if for no other reason than it might encourage people to try to invade your niche (or miscreants to break into your empire) Some of my sites are public knowledge, and some aren't. I wouldn't disclose earnings specifics even if it were allowed.

Straight from the Terms and Conditions...

"you may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments resulting from your use of the Services."

You cannot legally be banned from telling others how much you make. That said, it is foolish and I believe if you caught attention somehow...Google would ban you in a second even though it technically allowed. But is allowed.

I've been to numerous Premium Publishers events at Google's NYC offices where subject of earnings were openly discussed among other publishers with AdSense product managers present. In fact, based on discussions about earnings and pageviews they would recommend different tools and services like DFP and waiving costs/fees, etc.

You probably do not want to disclose your earnings if you earn over a certain amount. Competition comes in mind.

You can always kinda tell a good day from your own personal relative earning history.

For example...holiday was great for me and now it sucks since it's about 60% of the holiday high.

As far as weather goes, Rpm turned sour for me again hitting this months lows

I also have a relatively low RPM since January 1st, as was the same as last year in the first weeks of January.
Things will go up again (fingers crossed).

It's never a good idea to talk about how much money you are earning, whether as an employee or as a business owner. It invites all sorts of trouble.

Yay, that good old red bar did it for me yesterday producing new record lows all round but for one.

Belgium was my highest earning country!

Zero earnings from UK, India, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, awesome.

Your earnings will not be affected by the red bar, what a load of crock, AdSense is broken, they know it yet either can't or won't do a darned thing about it.

I've been noticing an outage (didn't see any red bar) since day before yesterday. The income and page views are not moving, I have statcounter script to verify and always the numbers of page views between Statcounter and Google Adsense page views are quiet similar, Once the page views and clicks and revenue start moving, it drops back to the first number later. Yesterday was totally disastrous. From XX.XX to less than 2 bucks. !
I've tried to find an answer on the Google support forum, I could not find even a question about this issue. Who programmed that forum?

Another thing that I just noticed is that yesterday my Active View Viewable on Google Adsense stats that's usually around 50% was "-" that's even not a zero !
Of course that the websites are working ok as the traffic on them is checked also by Statcounter.

Something happened on Tuesday. It was then that clicks, rpm and revenue declined dramatically. Page views declined a bit. The main website is accessible, we have a flow of people we can see through analytics. It's like clicks are either being taken back (which I haven't seen), ads are maybe not being displayed to all visitors, or clicks are not being recorded.

Because there are not other threads discussing this, I'm assuming it affects only a small number of people.

nubchai.
I'm in a XX.XX daily average, I see that my websites in the last 2 days shows USD 1.xx, once it starts to move up it goes back to USD 1.XX and also the numbers of page views drop back. It started day before yesterday late afternoon US Pacific Time when the numbers got frozen.
I emailed Adsense Support. now I'm waiting for a response, In the meantime I don't have anymore nails to bite. :)

Today is very slow