Thought I'd show you this to see what you all thought. One of the sites that my wife and I run (a lifestyle/DIY/Printables site) has been on the Monumetric ad platform for over 6-8 months now, and just recently, we moved over to the new Journey by Mediavine ad plaftorm, and I wanted to share the differences so far.
So here goes:
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This is the last 10 days of when I was on Monumetric. Remember - this is after several months of being there, so the ads have been optimized to the best of their ability.
Our Session RPM for those 10 days was $12.11, and we made $135.89. Pretty typical for what we were making with them all those months.
Now below is Journey's stats:
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As you can see, these are the stats of our first 10 days with them, and we're already outperforming Monumetric.
Our Session RPM for those 10 days was $17.36 and we made $128.49. And this is all without having any optimization done yet and just starting.
Actually, if we take the last 7 days of both platforms, Journey is already beating out Monumetric:
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If you haven't already (and if you have 10K sessions on your site), then I'd encourage you to think about applying to Journey.
How is it going with Journey now? I just got accepted and deactivated Monumetrics, just in time for the 72 hours before getting 'reactivated" on Monu. (what the heck is that rule even lol). Was it easy to set up?
@ohnoo_not_her Still doing great! I actually just wrote an article on this on my site, but it looks like my writer hasn't published it quite yet. But we're do way better than when we were on Monumetric.
It's pretty easy to set up - all I needed to do was I think just click a Grow button, and it automatically placed them. Like I said earlier, I haven't tried to see if I can limit it on certain pages. But the actual process of getting the ads onto your site / in your articles is very easy.
@ohnoo_not_her Still doing great! I actually just wrote an article on this on my site, but it looks like my writer hasn't published it quite yet. But we're do way better than when we were on Monumetric.
It's pretty easy to set up - all I needed to do was I think just click a Grow button, and it automatically placed them. Like I said earlier, I haven't tried to see if I can limit it on certain pages. But the actual process of getting the ads onto your site / in your articles is very easy.
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Great! Could easily process it as well, I guess they will be live tomorrow. Looking forward to your article! Also quickly noticed that I can exclude some articles very easy, much easier than with Monumetrics.
@ohnoo_not_her You can find my recent write up about the two platforms here - I actually forgot to add about the process of adding it. I'm experimenting with a slightly different writing style, so let me know what you think about the article.
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Great summarization of the differences between the 2 and I agree with the arguments pro and con.
I do think that this is the way to go from now on, not talking about what it all is, but just directly to your review.
(it sure was enjoying to first pay for it, before gaining from it). Journey apparently already got better then at the start, as you had to wait 2 months, for me it was just a month and 2 days, so no worries about a short time of no ads income during the transfer.
Just one question, I was placing old blog posts on FB, and I noticed on one there are no adds yet, do they place them post by post? My more recent ones already have the ads, and yes, the user experience is so much better already! I had to beg monumetrics to remove the video ads (horrible user exp), a bloody large sticky add on the sidebar (which they put back again grrr) , double adds (horrible on mobile), that doesn't exist anymore.
Do keep us informed please if you decide to take a closer look at the settings and what works the best even more, thanks!
@ohnoo_not_her If I remember correctly, it may have taken a while to have everything auto-populate with ads. I’ll add to my todo-list to look into what you can or can’t optimize within Journey
so far, after a week already, I earn more than Monumetrics, for sure. And I assume it will only grow more because there are lots of articles to go with ads still. Glad I have changed!
What I also like about Journey is that you can see straight up (you could do this with monumetrics as well, but it was complicated), which articles are gaining you the most money so far, with the heading picture in the stats. For me, that's interesting to see, because when I used AI pictures in Pinterest and then outbound clicks to the post, those show up the most (besides the usual suspects blog posts that were always doing better in the serps).
So although my 'community' doesn't really appreciate AI pictures, those make the most money hahaha! It's a new world people, and we adapt hahahaha!
Today, I got a message from someone on WA, checking my website about miniatures, and she claimed that her virus scanner warned her for my site as a 'dangerous' one.
So I had WPX.net check it out (yeah, I don't host on WA lol), and I got this answer:
" Hi Lizzy,
We have scanned the site and no infections were located in the files or database.
It seems that Avast has been triggered by the Mediavine ads placed on the site.
" The report you're seeing from Avast is a false flag - we've been in contact with them and hope to have a resolution soon. Here's a link to a previous thread where this has come up if you're interested in more information. "
In the thread they refer to:
" Hi Amber! This pop up will only happen for readers using Avast Web Shield, and it looks like it's just a false flag from Avast since no scripts will actually download. It's very common to see this type of warning on pages running ad scripts when using a blocker like this. This ultimately should be a very low percentage of users, though, and likely only for those with an aggressive level of security configured."
So basically, they are working on it , because it is a false flag
How's your Yourney going? I'm still quite happy with the results, and expecting first payment from them in October.
Just one thing though, their stats aren't going deep or expanded enough, I know that I could try and figure on GA4 from where people come from, but I hate GA4 lol, and I'm all over places with my site.
Also, I noticed today, that there is a huge difference to what the 'views' show on my dollhouse forum and what Journey picks up.
For example, I got these 2 posts on my forum, which I promoted on my Facebook group last week, and on journey they got these numbers:
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But, on my forum itself, they are supposed to have had more views:
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(these are the same 2 posts)
So I was wondering if either Journey isn't always correct or the forum software is incorrect, not sure lol
@ohnoo_not_her My journey is going great! I think we made a little less than $800 from ad revenue alone last month (almost double what we were making, though our traffic has picked up a little bit).
In regards to traffic, I would have to ask what exactly are both measuring - is one pageviews and the other unique pageviews? And is there something that the forum is considering as a 'pageview', but GA4 isn't? I'm not sure.
In situations like this, I would generally choose the lower number. Though I may also default to GA4's data over others (not that I trust the data perse, but most have been using GA for so long, it's almost just the default number to go with).
@ohnoo_not_her My journey is going great! I think we made a little less than $800 from ad revenue alone last month (almost double what we were making, though our traffic has picked up a little bit).
In regards to traffic, I would have to ask what exactly are both measuring - is one pageviews and the other unique pageviews? And is there something that the forum is considering as a 'pageview', but GA4 isn't? I'm not sure.
In situations like this, I would generally choose the lower number. Though I may also default to GA4's data over others (not that I trust the data perse, but most have been using GA for so long, it's almost just the default number to go with).
Not sure if that helped or not.
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thanks, that helped :-)
Yes indeed, probably the forum counts: 1: seeing the post link, and 2: clicking on the post. Absolutely, I think it is that too and Journey probably just counts the link or so.
Oh yeah, GA4, should be heading back and figuring it out, but hate it LOL
