Slowly getting back to normal but in all honesty not expecting it to last, that August crash is coming!

And yet another horrible day comes to an end. AdSense is so pathetic these days :(

This is new on Adx.
I have 0$ in dashboard and 0$ in reports for all the time...

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I am seeing increasing RPM's as the month is rolling to the end. I think on average this month will be weaker than the last.

@Mentat, which partner are you using to get AdX?

No partner, I'm using ADX directly since the beginning.

Yesterday was okay. Way better than previous Saturday. And so far today looks good too.

People are coming but adsense is dead. #BADSUNDAY

The start was good but looks bad now.

Yesterday was quite a good day, hopefully, today will be fairly decent as well.

Yesterday was saved by a couple of decent clicks on one of my responsive banners that I only locate above the first paragraph of text and under the heading. It's a shame, if I could get 20 or 30 clicks on this banner earning that kind of money I would be really happy. I suppose it depends on what country you are in and what advert showing. I can imagine that an ad showing for UK visitors may only make a couple of pennies, whereas the same ad in the US may earn a £1.

Yep. US makes a lot. But I noticed the CPC of Israel more than of US.

One of my websites is banned from having AdSense on it. Basically, Google didn't like a few rude jokes that were on the website. I think the rest of the content could make me a bit of money so I have created a new domain which will be the new home for all my content, minus the jokes. I normally use Joomla! for my website. However, I'm contemplating using WordPress and was wondering if anybody else on here users. it seems that WordPress is a little bit more geared up for AdSense and they actually make AdSense ready templates.

Knock, knock, hello USA, anyone there?

WTF is going on, my worst-ever weekend with very, very few USA users.

I normally use Joomla! for my website. However, I'm contemplating using WordPress

Why not use a decent html5 template, faster, cleaner and a darned site easier to use ONCE you understand the language. Joomla and WP are SO code bloaty .!.!.! and I'll not even mention the obvious:-)

Does anyone use ezoic? I read good things and not so good things about them.

I used Dreamweaver many moons ago. However, I don't really want to go back to using an editor when CMS is so much more convenient.

Had the best Sunday! :D Though, today looks bit dull so far.

Ezoic seems to be okay. What I don't like about it is that you won't see the earning on AdSense, it will be 0. Everything will be on Ezoic and they will send the payment not Google.

It has automatic ad placement and it actually ruins the user experience.

Rocking weekend on Adsense!

I used Dreamweaver many moons ago.

Believe it or not I learnt coding by using DW. I used to build pages with the editor window half page and half code and I used to watch and learn what happened, after a while I then started editing my pages through the code window, that was agreat way to learn since mistakes could easily be rectified.

I still have DW working on a 17 year old, perfectly working Acer laptop running XP.

However, I'm contemplating using WordPress and was wondering if anybody else on here users

Most of my sites are hand coded but I do have two WP sites that I acquired from someone else. The upside is that they're easy to manage, customise and publishing content is a breeze. The downside is that with all their code and plugins they're bloaty and slow (about 15% slower than my non-WP sites running on the same server). Make of that what you will.

If I thought joomla slowed a site down to a degree it affected user experience or adsense earnings I would not use it, but I have not found this to be the case - especially when used with a cache system, which is extremely beneficial in joomla.
I suspect any remaining small time difference in site loading is immaterial when compared with the time it takes adsense to load...

I have an ad unit on above fold. However, it hardly makes any revenue.

What if I remove the ad? The overall CPC, RPM and earning would go down or up? :/

I have an ad unit on above fold. However, it hardly makes any revenue.

What if I remove the ad? The overall CPC, RPM and earning would go down or up? :/

Your active viewability will go down and likely RPM too. How much do CPM bids make up your total revenue?

Rocking weekend on Adsense!

Not exactly the word I was thinking of. But it kind of sounds like "rocking".

Rocking weekend on Adsense!

Not exactly the word I was thinking of. But it kind of sounds like "rocking".

Ha - I know that pain! We're an entertainment site so had a big boost from comic-con which will probably explain it.

The downside is that with all their code and plugins they're bloaty and slow (about 15% slower than my non-WP sites running on the same server). Make of that what you will.

Properly run CMS is really all about cache to make hardcoded HTML instead of all the bell and whistles along with all the plugins (that get generated each time user visits).

The "page generation" time is what slows the server responses and create the majority of the wait time. Just simple cache plugin should suffice for the majority of webmaster without needing custom codes. Properly powered servers can really help with the generation time as well.

The "code bloat" arises is really just a tiny speck in comparison to some of the ad units / redirection calls / or even videos that get served. 10kb of CMS HTML bloat vs a 1 MB video ad? I ain't going to spend many hours more for that extra 0.1% of bloat.

In the business, it definitely helps to know HTML, CSS, and even PHP. Utilizing old school editors may help with that learning process. But I think going back to work on production sites via HTML editor is backwards (at least for sites that are already on CMS). Sometimes it's also the ease of ability to be able to update sites forward to address future changes. CMS does that perfectly with minimal coding knowledge.

I am a little younger in my 30's and I did use editors back in school on hobby sites before I entered the "real world". I always thought it was a huge pain in the ass. I am happy how tech has advanced this past 10 years. WP has really matured along the way too with so many stronger and powerful plugins that get things done.

I am seeing higher RPM this past couple of days! Pretty happy about that.

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@Redbar I did have every intention of learning PHP and SQL, however, nowadays there is little point unless you want to start from absolute scratch. the beauty of using something like Joomla! is I can literally edit my website from any computer, even if it's not my computer. Nine times out of 10 I also added my articles in code view so that I can get all the HTML right.

Yesterday was quite good, today is looking good if it carries on as it is. I think I will almost certainly be last month earnings which is encouraging, at least I am not going the other way.

@KaseyM, my CPM bid is just around $5. The site makes all of the revenue from the clicks.

Yesterday was okay. Today seems little bad so far. Still, June was far better than July.

Damn, I'm full of this!

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Really google? Soft Pr0n ads for a chat extension?

block this:

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