two days ago, i had my best adsense day ever (over $10 bucks) then yesterday i had my worst day of the month. Just when things are looking up, it all comes crashing down. I can't stand the randomness of this. I wish I had some consistency. Anyone else go through this all the time?
Like you I often have crazy ups and downs. I have two sites that I watch carefully and often one will spike up and while the other crashes down... then they will switch the next day... it feels a little like Vegas It's all very confusing. I don't think I'll be quiting my day job anytime soon. Good luck.
Yesterday was my worst day too. Hmm. Then today I had to email adsense support...one of my channels got some clicks yet I was credited for ZERO for that channel. Wierd...we'll see what support says.
Your up's and down's are probably a result of gooles new "Fair Chance Policy" wich means that their results are all screwed up and has been fo months, so your sites show up one dat in the results and the next day your sites is nowhere to be found! Right now it seems that Google don't know what they are doing and should leave the BETA versions of their search algo where it belongs, in the garbage bag!!! If you have a statcounter on your pages, then you can check what people have been searching for to find you site and if you check the same search and compare them for a couple days you'll see that the serp's are all whacky!! Up and down and up and down, out and in! This is what makes me believe that they are trying "Fair Chance Policy", which means that "the heck with an algo, just give everybody a fair chance to show up on the first page! The heck with all SEO's that try to be smart, the heck with not showing spam sites.... who cares as long as we can get people to click on the ads GOOGLE shows on the result pages...
The only thing I could recommend to avoid the ups and downs of adsense, like any investment strategy - Diiversify. If you are running adsense on a couple of different sites you can weigh them against eachother, and I think you will find you have a lot more consistancy. Also increasing your traffic and keeping your traffic increasing or consistant should also help things jumping around too much. I personally normally fall within 20% of my average everyday. Two or three times a month I will fall outside that range but in general I can expect fairly consistant results.
I agree. Having many content pages (all with Adsense) on a single site can help buffer the wild swings. Some pages will do well on a particular day, some will not. The next day, it can change around completely, but the overall effect is more moderate.
I think every adsense user goes through this. If I remember correctly a few times we had our best day in the year and the next day we barly earned a penny. It made it hard at times but it's just the nature of the program
I agree 110%. I notice all the time how inconsistent my daily earnings are from site to site, but in general the total is often around my daily average. Example: Day 1: Site A = $5 Site B = $5 Site C = $2 Site D = $2 Site E = $1 Total = $15 Day 2: Site A = $2 Site B = $4 Site C = $3 Site D = $4 Site E = $2 Total = $15
I'm having an alarming day, myself. I usually average 50-60 clicks a day and today I've only had two all day. I'm really astonished. I've seen swings before but this is hard to take. And I've checked a number of my pages in the Adsense Preview tool to see if some wacky irrelevant ads were showing up. Caught a few but most of the pages had perfectly relevant ads available in the pool. I'm kind of wondering if ads aren't showing on my pages in the U.S. or something like that because this is really unusual.
Actually a lot of websites are feeling a bit of dip in March. I track traffic on really large sites (not because of AdSense, just as a tool for my own purposes) and I've seen a huge dip in some giant sites' traffic. There are numerous reasons for this -- new season, US tax day coming up, time crunch, who knows. My revenue has plateaued for the first time since I started in late November 05, but it is still consistent, so I'm not worried. The odd thing is that my page views are up almost double from what they were (versus actual unique hits). This means more people are reading deeper into my sites, which is a good thing in my opinion. Also my average user visit length is up almost double from January, which is again a good thing.
Maximum daily income in March 9.70, minimum 0.60 Never quite zero, never quite 10 In the sandbox and on the rollercoaster Exciting, huh...
As long the day's earnings are somewhere around the average for the month, it's good to go. Watch the average. That's really the best way to gauge how your earnings are going, rather they are increasing or decreasing. Everything else is just background noise, and will just drive you nuts.