URGENT: Huge drop of Adsense pageviews by 500% but traffic has not dropped!

jl255 · 01-20-2012, 06:06 AM

One of my sites' ad units (not all but just 2) saw a massive drop in pageviews and thus revenue too. BUt when i check traffic to my site, nothing has changed significantly. Sources of traffic, impressions, time on site all have remained constant.

This happened about 4 days ago and has remained like that. What could be wrong???

I really out of ideas.... pls help urgently!

jl255 · 01-20-2012, 06:49 AM

unfortunately i can't PM till i hit 50 posts

paulgl · 01-20-2012, 06:59 AM

You may have had some pages banned by google,
so now the adsense is not showing. They do
that from time to time, and probably a lot of people
don't realize some of their pages have been disabled
for adsense. It happens quite frequently, actually.

Paul

jl255 · 01-20-2012, 07:09 AM

tks for the idea. but i don't think so.

note that this happens to only 2 of the ads on my site. the rest of the ads, including sitewide ones have not dropped in pageviews. so if some pages were banned, all ads shld see a drop.

besides, mine is a tech blog, really no good reason to ban.

jl255 · 01-20-2012, 07:13 AM

as mentioned traffic looks all normal but ONE thing. my bounce rate plunged from 90% to 20% on the SAME day that my adsense pageviews plunged. But the bouncerate recovered back to 90% after 2 days.

Adsense remained low till now.

Talen · 01-20-2012, 07:18 AM

Check your adsense code...you may have been hacked and they inserted their code in those positions.

SuzanneH · 01-20-2012, 07:24 AM

When you go to your site do you see the ads? If you do, then do as Talen suggested and check the code; you may have been hacked --- or it could be a malicious plugin that you installed (if you're using Wordpress).

Suzanne

jl255 · 01-20-2012, 07:46 AM

yeah i've checked that already. codes look right.

Talen · 01-20-2012, 08:00 AM

Are you using a plugin to insert the adsense code? some plugins insert their own ads at times...usually not as much as you mentioned but it's something else to look into.

SuzanneH · 01-20-2012, 08:07 PM

I just saw this article and thought of you:

Google Acknowledges AdSense Is Down For Some, Says It's Working On The Issue

Quote:

Publishers this morning began reporting problems with Google’s AdSense — no ads were showing on their sites — and now Google acknowledges the problem. A Google spokesperson told Marketing Land: “There is currently an issue with AdSense for Content ads not showing on a small number of publishers’ sites. Our engineers are working to investigate and resolve the issue as quickly as possible.”

Maybe this is your problem?

There's also a "Known Issues" page on Adsense Help: Known Issues - AdSense Help

Suzanne

jcbradley · 01-24-2012, 12:19 PM

im still seeing inconsistency of ads being shown. I have 3 ad slots and many times only 2 of the 3 are being showin ads, and down about 40% in CPM since the weekend. They claim in the thread issue has fixed and it has to be something else but too many people experiencing the same thing.

01-20-2012, 06:06 AM	#1
jl255 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	URGENT: Huge drop of Adsense pageviews by 500% but traffic has not dropped! One of my sites' ad units (not all but just 2) saw a massive drop in pageviews and thus revenue too. BUt when i check traffic to my site, nothing has changed significantly. Sources of traffic, impressions, time on site all have remained constant. This happened about 4 days ago and has remained like that. What could be wrong??? I really out of ideas.... pls help urgently!

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jl255 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: URGENT: Huge drop of Adsense pageviews by 500% but traffic has not dropped! tks for the idea. but i don't think so. note that this happens to only 2 of the ads on my site. the rest of the ads, including sitewide ones have not dropped in pageviews. so if some pages were banned, all ads shld see a drop. besides, mine is a tech blog, really no good reason to ban.

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jl255 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: URGENT: Huge drop of Adsense pageviews by 500% but traffic has not dropped! as mentioned traffic looks all normal but ONE thing. my bounce rate plunged from 90% to 20% on the SAME day that my adsense pageviews plunged. But the bouncerate recovered back to 90% after 2 days. Adsense remained low till now.

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jl255 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: URGENT: Huge drop of Adsense pageviews by 500% but traffic has not dropped! yeah i've checked that already. codes look right.

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