ctr dip

[typist]

my aggregate ctr took a plunge, from a three day average of 14% to a two day average of 8.5% for the last two days of August.

I see two possible explanations: I've been focussing a lot on banking typos recently - people looking to log in to their online bank to pay their bills at the end of the month are less likely to click on related ads (desperate to pay their bills...?).

The other explanations would be that some popular ad somewhere might have run out of (monthly) budget.

I've never seen such a clear end-of-the month dip (I almost wrote fin-de-siècle, which would adequately describe my mood).

I know, this kind of speculation isn't really productive - I'm probably just writing this to pretend that I can do something to affect the fluctuations in ctr here...

cheers,
mathias

 

[remf]

Things seem to be bouncing about a bit here, but nothing quite as drastic as your account. I largely have .fr typos which aren't always reliable in terms of CTR, and I haven't optimised in a few days, so it could be that I just haven't paid my account as much attention but it did dip from 19% on Saturday, down to 14% yesterday, but at the same time I had 200 less clicks yesterday, so could just be normal activities...

 

[typist]

so could just be normal activities...

normal variations in ctr and my normal paranoia ;-)

 

[NameDriver]

Hi Tpyo,

You may have read yesterday that we had server troubles which led to lower CTR than normal. This is certainly the explanation for the lower CTR yesterday, we working to rectify that today so that nobody loses out on any earnings yesterday.
Otherwise, I'd hope it is just seasonal fluctuation. If it continues, let me know and we can look into it for you.

Ed

 

[remf]

Ah might explain some stuff. I thought there seemed to be a few delays in the stats updating. Thanks for keeping us informed Ed.

Keep up the good work as ever

 

[typist]

Hi Tpyo,

You may have read yesterday that we had server troubles which led to lower CTR than normal. This is certainly the explanation for the lower CTR yesterday, we working to rectify that today so that nobody loses out on any earnings yesterday.
Otherwise, I'd hope it is just seasonal fluctuation. If it continues, let me know and we can look into it for you.

Ed

thanks Ed.

cheers


PS maybe tpyo wasn't such a brilliant choice after all. Anyway, my name is Mathias :yo: - derived from the Greek form Ματθαιος (Matthaios) of Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattityahu), meaning "god's gift" :flypig: (to women, of course). Another obvious name.

 

[wolfis.com]

Hi Tpyo,

You may have read yesterday that we had server troubles which led to lower CTR than normal. This is certainly the explanation for the lower CTR yesterday, we working to rectify that today so that nobody loses out on any earnings yesterday.
Otherwise, I'd hope it is just seasonal fluctuation. If it continues, let me know and we can look into it for you.

Ed

'nobody loses' does not apply to my account - my earning are WELL BELOW the average ( this does not even account for the names WITH REVENUE i added yesterday !!!)

:greenupset:

 

[NameDriver]

We clearly couldn't run the compensation before seeing the stats for yesterday. We will run it some time in the next 24 hours. I informed you of this by email 30 seconds after you wrote to me.
We obviously can't judge exactly what you would have earned for new names you added, so plesae feel free to tell us what you normally earn per day and we'll naturally add that on.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Ed