£0 earnings for days and traffic drop
Hi there,
I had a post yesterday, someone replied and closed my post without allowing me to reply.
I signed up to journey on the 10th. I had no income for 4 days. Then I wrote the post to enquire what was happening.
After a few hours I noticed that since the ads were installed I had a drop in my traffic of +60% which has never happened before!
So I took down the ads as my traffic drop and I was getting literally no money for it. Hence why the person who rushed to close my post told me he couldn't see ads on my site. My blog was literally being killed after years of hard work.
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Hi Silvia Gentile Polese! Traffic drops like you're describing are not anything that we typically associate with adding the Journey script and placing ads on the site. There certainly could've been a temporary drop or even something with your analytics tag (if you were checking sessions via GA4 analytics), but you would want to monitor the site with ads displaying for a period of time to get an idea of how everything is working.
If you add the Journey and Grow scripts back to the site along with the ads.txt, you can keep an eye on things with live ads for a period to see how everything is working. Thanks!!
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Hi John thanks for your help! I brought the script back on. How long do you think I should keep it for to see what happens? and how long is the rump-up period in terms of earnings? Was it normal to have it on $0 for days or the script was wrong?
Thanks again,
Silvia
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Silvia Gentile Polese - We don't have a ‘one size fits all’ approach to this type of troubleshooting, but it can take 3-4 weeks for a site to ‘ramp up’ regarding it's earnings.
Without knowing how the Grow and Journey scripts were set up on your site, we can't provide an accurate picture as to why you were seeing no earnings over that time. That said, I checked this morning and we're beginning to see earnings populate for your site.
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Hi Support,
Could you please let me know why the page views are a lot lower on Journey than on GA?
On GA I have 7,670, on Journey I have 2,825.
Here below the screenshots :)
Thanks a lot in advance!
Silvia
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Hey Sylvia Hofer - we have a help doc on this question here
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Hi Support :) you tagged the wrong Silvia haha
Thank you for your help. From the article, it looks like the discrepancy should be around 5 or 10%, while what I'm experiencing is 63%.
Does this mean that publishers think my site is only 37% monetisable?
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Silvia Gentile Polese You're paid through impressions - not sessions. Your earnings and impressions are tracked separately by the ad server, and they're not based on analytics. This means that your earnings will still be accurate and unaffected by sessions.
It looks like you connected a GA4 account though, so the dashboard is using that instead of Grow analytics and the sessions should be about accurate. If you're seeing very different numbers from the same GA4 account that's connected to your Grow dashboard, here's an article that can help you troubleshoot your GA4 connection. I would make sure your GA4 script isn't being optimized/is installed with the standard implementation in the <head> area of your site as well. If you have multiple GA4 properties, I'd also doublecheck that the property connected to the Grow dashboard is pulling in data in your GA4 dashboard and that you're looking at the same GA4 property in Google Analytics that's connected to your Grow dashboard.
Thanks!
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