mrSEman - 3:51 am on Oct 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

Here's a real DUMB one that not only resulted in the loss of revenue but also cost me Cold Hard Cash!

One of my sites was doing really well CTR wise, so I obviously bought extra traffic for it. One fine day, I created, tested, and uploaded a new page to that site. A couple hours later I noticed my stats had stopped dead on the clicks and earnings side of things while the impressions kept rising. I of course came to WW to see if similar problems with Google stats were being reported and it was only 6 hours and $26 worth of paid traffic later that I decided to go check out my site and to my suprise instead of the usual well targetted ads, I was getting ads about "Meade and Celestron Telescopes".

As I may have mentionned before, to prevent clicking my own ads, I use replacement GIF images taken from the AS Ad format page [google.com], while I work on my sites offline. I may have forgot to flick the switch. DUUHHHHHHHH!