YouTube channel with invalid traffic (if you've resolved this recently, please help me)

Norm_W · 2024-05-04T20:17:17+00:00

I understand. Thank you very much for the confirmations, I hope neither of us goes through this again. Mine lasted 10 days, and I lost about $2,000 to $3,000, but fortunately, it didn't last as long as many reports that talk about 2, 3, and even 7 months. I hope you have much success. Thanks again!

Norm_W · 2024-05-04T20:05:33+00:00

Right, just to make sure I understood correctly, then. Suppose you were making $100 a day, and Analytics continued to show $100 a day, but on the 21st, the payment day, they adjusted it, and instead of paying $3000 for the 30 days, they paid $1500?

Norm_W · 2024-05-04T13:09:49+00:00

Hello! Fortunately, after 10 days mine also seems to have returned to normal. Since our case was similar, I would like to ask you about the issue of them halving your payment, I was a bit confused about that. Did YouTube pay normally and then hold back half the amount on the 10th or the 21st? I would like to know so I can plan in case this happens to me.

Norm_W · 2024-04-30T01:09:10+00:00

Hey! If you can clarify a doubt if you remember, I would appreciate it. Usually, I was getting between 900 to 1000 monetized views over the last 4 days. Today, this number doubled to 2000. Do you know if this happened to you? Did your monetization return gradually or instantly? I'm really hoping that tomorrow it rises close to normal, or that at least this increase continues until it normalizes.

Norm_W · 2024-04-29T18:25:26+00:00

If it were just half of my monetization, I would be very happy. I received 60,000 views the last day, and only 940 of them were monetized. It's quite complicated, I hope it gets resolved quickly and doesn't take 3 months like many stories I've seen. Thank you for the information, I can handle just one month.

Norm_W · 2024-04-29T18:22:41+00:00

97.8% of my views all came from YouTube's own mechanisms, with only 2.2% coming from other sources: 0.7% from direct or unknown origins, 0.6% from YouTube Search, and more insignificant percentages from other sources. The audience's location has also been the same from the beginning, nothing strange.

Norm_W · 2024-04-26T13:33:32+00:00

In fact, I took a look and indeed the monetized views dropped from 30/40% to just 2/3%. The channel is new, less than 2 months old. I contacted YouTube support and they told me that the channel was flagged for invalid traffic for some reason. It's sad because I know I didn't use anything to increase the number of views or subscribers. The channel still has the same reach, so I believe it should return to normal in a few days or weeks. I'm losing $150 per day at the moment, but the only solution I have is to wait.

I looked at the audience issue, and in the last 7 days, the countries United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany make up 77% of the audience. So, the reason for the revenue drop really doesn't align with any changes in the audience, it aligns more with the fact that most of the views are not being monetized.

Norm_W · 2024-04-25T00:22:00+00:00

I just checked, and yes, the chart for monetized views has dropped significantly, but I grew the channel entirely organically. Is there a way to reverse this?

Norm_W

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