Adsense down on pay out?

[ratboy]

Anyone else noticed a bit of a dive downwards in the rate of pay coming out of Adsense this week?

A downturn? or is it just me?

 

[golddiggerguy]

Adsense

Nope it's defo down. Normally $5 - $10 a day $0.34 yesterday. Glad someone posted this
Picked up a bit today.

Suppose might as well start this then. Whats your daily/monthly Adsense amount and from how many sites? (and no showing off please - Scott)

• 3 Areas of business
• on 9 sites
• $5-$9 a day
• £60 - £80 a month

And with having around 200 domains I would like them all to have a mini site on them performing just like the above 9.

 

[ScottJ]

Its way down for me, but I have also been experimenting with other revenue streams, getting better returns contacting advertisers direct and trying other things out, CPM for Adsense is really poor at the mo'

 

[woopwoop]

Really strange but this is what happened to me:

Thursday (Today): We'll see
Wednesday: Normal payout
Tuesday: dropped to 1/3 of normal payout
Monday: Normal payout
Sunday: Double normal payout
Saturday: Normal payout


Weekends are generally better for my sites (I guess because of the weekend competition and CPC) but double payout was the first time that this had happened.

Then there was the drop on Tuesday. I think that this has something to do with the quality of ads showing because the visitors are the same but sometimes the CTR is way down.

 

[golddiggerguy]

I notice the weather making a difference. Wet cold more hits, warm and sunny everyone out less hits.
So might be a weather thing as we've waited so long for these nice days to come.

 

[ratboy]

I'd imagine it's common sense... summer low, winter high as people spend more time at the computer during the winter. But it's the cost per click that seems down for me not visitrs. Normal economic theory would suggest and from what I know about adsense and the way it works is that less competition/spend available down goes cost per click. I'm thinking this might just be the slow down in the economy coming through to adsense?

 

[Paullas]

better to build sites over the summer ready for the winter while its going to be a hot one

 

[woopwoop]

I'd imagine it's common sense... summer low, winter high as people spend more time at the computer during the winter. But it's the cost per click that seems down for me not visitrs. Normal economic theory would suggest and from what I know about adsense and the way it works is that less competition/spend available down goes cost per click. I'm thinking this might just be the slow down in the economy coming through to adsense?

This is true but I wonder if the CPC goes up in summer due to advertisers competing with each other to attract the fewer site visitors.

Plus there's the effect on 'summer related sites'. For example holiday sites event people looking to move home in the summer etc. will probably do better. So the summer/winter effect will not just mean fewer visits or clicks overall, but will mean the summer specific sites do better and the non-summer specific do worse on the warmer days.

There's probably 1000 ways to analyse this

 

[zijiji]

For me, visitor numbers are roughly the same, but $$ per day down significantly - one day less than half a dollar...

 

[Brassneck]

My stats for the last few days have been pretty near my average for the last 30 days with only Saturday markedly below par. Just had my first over 50 dollar day with my minisites as well!

Cheers
Stephen.

 

[woopwoop]

Just had my first over 50 dollar day with my minisites as well!

Congrats - that's really cool. Wish I was there! How many sites make up that? Do you have 1 top performer in there?

 

[Brassneck]

Congrats - that's really cool. Wish I was there! How many sites make up that? Do you have 1 top performer in there?

Cheers

Well, I have about 40 serious minisites.

Best ones include:

www.biofuel.org.uk
www.dublinireland.co.uk
www.cotswold-cottages.co.uk
www.working-holidays.co.uk
www.dolphinwatching.co.uk
www.theshutter.co.uk

I also have a couple of blogs earning -

www.gizmophobe.co.uk
www.plans2travel.co.uk

The templates and content I use are quite expensive but I think it is worth it in the end.

With decent looking sites, I've also managed to bring a few advertisers on board.

Cheers
Stephen.

 

[paul]

Anyone else noticed a bit of a dive downwards in the rate of pay coming out of Adsense this week?

A downturn? or is it just me?

Can't see much change here maybe 5-10% down but that's probably due to bank holiday and weather CPM is pretty steady for me. if you only do a few dollars a day then you can get pretty unpredictable results.

 

[ratboy]

I do up to $100 a day and it's dived way down.

 

[paul]

I do up to $100 a day and it's dived way down.

Out of interest what has gone down, page views, clicks, CPM or all of them?

 

[ratboy]

CPM way down. Traffic is same.

 

[paul]

My CPM is constant but the main site I use Adsense on covers a very wide list of subjects so is unaffected by one or two advertisers changing their bids.

I would guess either Google has recalculated your cut using smart pricing or if your site/s are very focused one of the main advertisers has changed their bids

 

[ratboy]

I would guess either Google has recalculated your cut using smart pricing

My fear exactly

 

[Brassneck]

cpm

Like Paul, my cpm has been pretty constant.


Stephen

 

[GreyWing]

I heard that it's nbow linked to their pagerank system aswell. The pagerank has updated in the last week or 2 aswell, so may be their is something in it.

GW