Well with the penguin update, I am sure a bunch of people got slapped. However, my sites all seemed to raise in rankings, with the competition out of the way. Problem is, in the last few days I have noticed my adsense earnings being really random. It will say a certain amount, lets say $25 for 20 clicks, with a CTR of 2% - I check back an hour later and now have 21 clicks and a total of $2.35 in earnings. I check the individual ad units and it made all those clicks count as ZERO. The number of clicks and my CTR have been pretty much the same for the past 6 months, but after all this penguin update i notice my earnings jump all over the place all day long and often times I am getting $0.00 cpc clicks by the end of the day. Anyone else have a problem like this? Again, all my sites still rank normally and are serving related ads, so its got nothing to do with my account.
generally , Invalid clicks are tracked after a while and the money is reduced. So suppose if you have 21 clicks and $15 , after a while it can reduce down to even $2... google algorithm automatically checks for invalid clicks and then reduces the earning!
And the worst part about it is that we have 0 idea of all what is considered INVALID CLICKS. We just have to assume that is what is happening and take their word for it. I mean really what constitutes and INVALID CLICK other than the same persons clicking on ads over and over again. Or maybe clicking on 1 ad and then clicking on another add within seconds of the fist ad....I mean really, how can we know?
Actually I had the biggest increase in earnings today. I went from getting maybe .50$ a day to making over $50 in the last day. I started to do some advertising, but I did not spend that much on it by any means.
Actually today I did notice that my CTR started around 1.72% and now at the end of the day it is around .89%. It kinda sucks, because it seems like I am getting more traffic now than I was earlier with less clicks.
Haven't changed noticed any drop the last weeks. My average CPC is even getting a bit higher on some days but thats all that is changing.
NEVER talk about today's earnings as they are always changing and not reliable. That's a rule and you broke it
Invalid clicks really are just when users don't stay long on the ad landing page or didn't signed-up to the service provided by the advertisement.
If your traffic was from search engines especially from Google, and if you dependent on SEO then you should aware to the penguin update in Google's algorithm. This update is effecting sites rankings, some got hit in the start and others are facing it now.
lucky me, i got my 10 website didn't effect that much by pinguin, and it's earning normally days by days. hopefully you'll not get effect by fixing some ads place and ur main content too.
My sites weren't hit very hard by Penguin luckily so I'm pretty happy about that. My earnings haven't really went down as I'm still getting the same amount of traffic as I did before Penguin was released. I know a few people who's earnings have hit rock bottom because of Penguin though.