$3.23 in a week or $5551.87 in the last 24 hours?

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   Solarasposted 2 years ago

   When they are too embarrassed, unconcerned or ignorant to tell us how we are paid, then it is time to consider alternatives.
   
   It leaves one to wonder, are the pageviews and impressions being reported legitimate.
   
   Sad.

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   Kierstin Gunsbergposted 2 years ago

   Agree that earnings here are dismal at the moment but that's amazing to hear you're earning well as a writer! If you don't mind me asking, can you share what avenues are earning you so much elsewhere?

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      TessSchlesingerposted 2 years agoin reply to this

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         How to - Answersposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you for sharing your experiences of writing on different platforms.  It is an eye opener and has given me the wake up call to spend less time writing articles and more time researching the best places to write them on.

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         Amara Hassanposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Wow thats mean even medium is paying its writers well than HP. I dont know why HP is doing this. My earnings are getting lesser and lesser with each month. I think its the time to think for medium.

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            eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Remember you need to write regularly on Medium to earn (depending on topic, if it's popular it may be re-read/shared). Also you don't earn from external, non-member traffic.

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         Kierstin Gunsbergposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you so much for taking the time to share, Tess. It sounds like you've worked very hard to build your base.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Interestingly, GA shows no drop in views from UK readers visiting my articles, even though they haven't been shown ads for the last 4 days or so. Possibly though GA still registers views for readers that back out within the first few seconds. I think slow image loading on mobile devices and page responsiveness might be more of an issue. The orange line in the graph below is the UK traffic. Most people probably use ad blockers too. Impressions should be several times higher than views because as I understand it, an impression is when someone sees an ad. If there's lots of ads on a page, there should be multiple impressions per view. For me however, impressions are about 60% to 80% of views.
   
   
   

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         I don't know. Chrome has a blocker built in I think. I don't know whether it's on by default.

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            Solarasposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Its not on by default. 2021 they estimated that 27% of users have ad blocking software turned on. 50% of those users are in the 16-24 year old age group. So if you write on mature subjects up to senior topics you should have a 15% of your pageviews as an ad blocking user group. Your earlier comment about impressions is a good question.  My impressions are half of my pageviews. That is impossible, unless slow ad load speed means no impressions.

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               eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Ads can be very slow to load. On my phone it can take 10 seconds or more. So if I user doesn't stay on a page for long, the view may be registered, but there could be no impressions and that would bring down the overall average impression/view ratio to less than 100%.

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                  Solarasposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  Over on the post i made about what is our share of ad $$$  i made a formula. Take a look at it. It assumes only 25% of readers make it 3/4 of the way through the article. With all the ads and vudeo crammed in there we should still make double the impressions sfter the old split. Try putting your numbers in there. I  believe i am earning the 34% of impressions they bragged about in the press release about reducing partner revenue share.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Here's another stat, time on page versus date for UK readers. No ads, but they're not staying any longer.
   
   
   

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   This is odd.
   
   The same parameters, but extending back further in time. Maybe these are just anomalies? Or is it due to someone viewing a page and leaving their browser open on an article for hours at a time and then eventually leaving the page?
   
   
   

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