June 2015 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[RedBar]

Here we go again!

[AlexB77]

Lets Start this one on the good note.

May was an amazing month, with some ups and downs, but in general, at least for us was 3+ times the May of last year.

June here started good, I hope it will remain good. It is generally really good time for us, starting from May till the end of year, so hopefully is not going to change or if it will then only towards better.

[RedBar]

I assume a red bar is required?

After six hours all I have are PVs, no clicks, no ctr, no cpc, an rpm of $0.40 and obviously hardly any earnings.

If this ain't stuck then nothing ever has been!

[netmeg]

Little slow this morning, yah, but it seems to be picking up a bit now.

[LuckyD]

Great earnings last month, but big fluctuations on a daily basis, with generally 10-15% increase in PRM on weekends.

[avalon37]

Off to a bad start. Last couple days of May were not great either, then a click dump on the last day of May. Pretty much WAY below normal CTR first 2 days of the month.

[RedBar]

I have to assume data loss other than PVs, nothing else is moving for me whatsoever.

[RedBar]

So far my lowest-ever day from India at 57.7% and zero clicks, UK also zero clicks, WTH is happening?

What I do have is mobile earnings stomping on desktop!

[MrSavage]

Hardly worth checking into reports the past 2 days. Dead as dead can be. Free Adwords $100 dried up already? I wonder.

[HymnSite]

Two days isn't much data, but the beginning of June is tracking the poor performance that I had during May. In the past week, though, I have had a couple of days that exceeded the same day the week before, so the bottom may be leveling out, although month-on-month performance is still down over 30%--ouch! The new, lower GoogleAd RPMs are still close to double the RPMs from Media.net which actually increased over the past year. Should be an interesting month. Hopefully the end will look better than the beginning.

[Ebuzz]

So, looks like the June thread is here :)

I believe last May, Google has increased their filtering of what it considers invalid clicks, in response to increasing bot activity and reduced revenue from Adwords. The April click bot attacks might have contributed in spurring them to tighten up everything. Even the amounts reduced to finalize the Payable Balance seem to be off the charts (some folks had a decrease of 50%)! If you are seeing a reduction in CTR, I think it's because of a more aggressive algo. Clicks are deducted on the spot now - I've seen it with my own eyes.

As much as we'd like to hope that things turn for the better in June, I think it's probably just a continuation of the trend started in May. What I did was refocus on my sites and slog hard again to make new pages and attempt to gain new visitors/pageviews just to regain lost income.

I've said before and I'll say it again, just to keep up with the reducing revenue from Adsense, everyone is going to have to dig deeper and deeper down the barrel to get more traffic. A lot of RPMs are just going down from year to year. Adsense is dying.

I think my efforts did help one way or the other in keeping May from being the worst month in 5 years for me; it only ended up being the worst month in 2 years, LOL.

[RedBar]

So, looks like the June thread is here :)

Yep, it'll get pinned to the top eventually:-)

What a bizarre Monday. Thanks to overnight clicks from the USA I came back to "normal" however neither the UK nor India still didn't register any clicks whatsoever BUT for the first time I had Greece in third and Ireland in fourth and both were ahead of Australia and Canada.

Don't ask me what's going on other than data loss, certainly yesterday's Indian rpm of 0.04 won't go very far!

[Whatagreatdayitis]

The vast majority of traffic outside of the U.S. is yielding poor results. This has been the case since late April, so now I'm concentrating on visitors inside the U.S. and Canada. That seems to be working.

Overall poor results are forcing me cut back on Adwords spending.

[netmeg]

My traffic across a dozen or so sites is up 40% or more. My earnings are up, but not by that amount. Increased earnings aren't always commensurate with increased traffic.

[nubchai]

For the beginning of June I'm down about 30%, although I'm getting used to slow starts to months these days.

[RedBar]

Bizarre, today the only two countries from which I have clicks are the UK and India, nowhere else as yet, and they're not catch-ups from yesterday.

[glitterball]

Looks pretty poor for me today. Targeting seems way off and CTR is 50% of last week's.

[Ironside]

Yesterday was the best day I've had in a week or two, although absolutely nothing in comparison to what I was doing a few months ago. Today is looking pretty awful again. Does anyone use Joomla! on here? I've heard people talking about a normal website and then a mobile website. I'm assuming that this only refers to a bog standard HTML CSS website? It seems that Joomla! templates are now fully responsive so I don't think there's any need to worry about creating a mobile website. What is the mobile Google AdSense unit for? Again, I use special modules that resize units depending on the screen size, so I don't think this mobile AdSense unit would really benefit me.

[Mentat]

Bad stats today, all figures are low!

[RedBar]

Abysmal stats so far today, hopefully they'll catch up at some point, IF they do then daily viewing is pointless, IF they don't then AdSense is facing some serious issues since my ads mostly seem to be ok.

[ember]

Adsense is dying.

Hardly. I'm doing as well as ever. RPM is actually up.

[jbayabas]

I blocked all Google certified ad networks yesterday. My second site's earning skyrocketed but my main site took a nose dive. Looks like there's a pro and cons with the certified networks. I unblocked it again 2 hours ago and my main site's earnings recovered.

[nubchai]

Jbayabas what's the reasoning behind blocking Google certified ad networks? I never heard of that approach before. Thanks.

[jbayabas]

@nubchai: [webmasterworld.com...]

[wa desert rat]

My traffic typically goes up about 90% between winter and summer but the earnings, oddly enough, don't change much. In fact, month-after-month my earnings vary less than 10% (although day-to-day earnings can vary quite a lot).

Earnings are nothing like they were 4 years ago but I am more than ever convinced that is due to Google finding and blocking click-fraud.

[nubchai]

Thank you Jbayabas.

[whyohwhy]

Usually I don't pay much attention to my earnings for the first 7 days of a month as it isn't until day 8 things tend to pick up with fresh adverts appearing. But the first 3 days of June have been my worst in over 2 years and are coming in at just 30% of what I would expect it to be despite traffic being the same and showing a typical variation of sources and countries. Now logically I could say it is down to the lack of decent adverts at the moment but looking at how the number of clicks have dramatically swayed over the first 3 days make me think that there is a delay from some data centers, or at least I hope so.

[Ebuzz]

So it's clear CTR is falling for many? You better hope Google does not increase the filtering, otherwise, you will all be earning peanuts next.

Wait, some are already earning peanuts :)

[RedBar]

What a diabolical Wednesday with easily my lowest weekday earnings in months, EPC fine, CTR well down.

[trebuchet]

CTR is definitely down but the way it has fallen on my sites is strange. I've been studying it for a couple of weeks. There no longer seem to be any upward spikes in CTR. It remains constant (and constantly low) through the day. Last year CTR used to jump up at various times of the day, then even out as the day progressed. Now it seems to hold within about 0.25% of the average. It's like a ceiling has been placed on CTR.