How does it help anyone to obfuscate?

We are not supposed to talk specifics, just generalities.

Discussion of specific companies or advertisers is prohibited here. Which is fair enough: nobody wants to be sued by the mouse company.

Earnings are healthy today. EPC and CTR are both back where they should be. My traffic is also starting to trickle back.

No names were mentioned, only loosely described. I guess that is too specific. I am glad clouds are allowed as a non specific. ;)

Anyway, glad I found out about the clouds myself and it helped others understand why they show up.

My ads request are higher and higher, but in the last days, the matched request is going down each day.
Bot attack? I have protection for those, but who really knows...

The result is the same old glass ceiling for a specific period.

Bot attack? I have protection for those, but who really knows...

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Is there any way to show unique ads on all blocks?

I see same ads on 2 ad blocks. If all blocks show unique ads, then we can increase the earnings.

Is there any way to show unique ads on all blocks?

No you can't, as far as I know. The only time this was avoidable, was when the Ad Balance tool was available. Now, it can also be the expression of a lack of inventory at that time.

Unrelated, today, while checking the Ad review center, on the first page, I have a video ad, auto playing, with sound. this is an adwords advertiser, but I thought advertisers didn't have the right to have auto play video, and worse with sound. Isn't it ? I also thought it was among the things which would cause Chrome to block ALL ads on a site, in a future version (next year).

mod pls delete posted in wrong thread!

It's been 7 days and I'm -14%.

Still -30% if I compare to June. I don't know what's wrong, it's pathetic. Views up, earnings down is so damn demotivating. August was bad due to season but the trend is continuing in September.

For the first time, I saw the non-clickable-loan-ad-with-an-url-unrelated-to-the-target that you were all talking about some weeks ago. a couple hundreds of impressions today. I never had it before.

Yesterday was wonderful and today is dismal. What's with this yo-yo effect? Sheesh.

@Peter_S I do not see them anymore, well, I have not seen them for over a week. Knock on wood. Now you will make me go look :D

non-clickable-loan-ad-with-an-url-unrelated-to-the-target

It's back, here, too. I blocked it a month ago and re-blocked it again today.

How do you protect against bots?

Nooo. I got a new non-clickable same as you Peter_S. Thank you for making me go look. Another 5k wasted impressions :(

Nooo. I got a new non-clickable same as you Peter_S. Thank you for making me go look. Another 5k wasted impressions :(

Sorry @Maximum44, I feel a bit guilty now.

How do you protect against bots?

That's a vast subject, and may be it should be a topic on its own, or it might has been already covered. Personally, I am filtering the access to my site, based on plenty of criteria I developed along the years (IP, hostname, etc...) I am certainly banning legitimate traffic too...

It is all about new features at Google today! I just got access to new ad-review center. I'm checking out now I will let you know what I think.
@Maximum and @Peter_S I'll be checking for those loan ads.

I have those damn zloan ads, but something is wrong with Adsense's block system.

I have blocked it under Adwords publisher, by the ad creative, by the ad URL - and I see it as a blocked ad in the blocked section - and yet the damn thing came back an hour later and wont go away.

Thanks @Peter. Makes sense.

@vegasrick, the advertiser makes small changes to the ad, making them appear as different ads to AdWords filters, making it very difficult if not impossible to block them.

Seeing a new ad review center. It gives a better count of how many ads have shown but I can't find the impression count. Or how to block an account.

@nickmns, I think when Adsense switched over to the new ad review center, it momentarily unblocked the blocked ads because they are once again gone.

@vegasrick that could be.

@ember if you click on the card it will pop-up the window as it did in the past, where you see the impressions and the accounts.

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@NickMNS, thanks. I never think to click on anything.

Today's start is pathetic.

Stats are stuck ?

Stats not stuck but it is a bad day.

It's not stuck, it's afraid, as Irma is coming!

Can I blame Irma for drop in CPC as the advertisers are running away from Florida as well? :D

Just when I thought this month was going really well. Yesterday was about 30% down on what I've been getting, today has started off extremely slowly CPC slightly higher today, we just need a few more clicks.