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[hogie]

I’ve taken all ads off my website over two weeks ago and when I check my stats, some days have – no data- and others have 5 to 20 impressions with 3 to 5 clicks.

I though maybe this was from Google’s cache, but they simply display non-profit ads.

All adsense code has been removed from the site.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Monus]

Maybe is that from the cache from some proxy servers that your visitors are using.

[shasan]

Maybe is that from the cache from some proxy servers that your visitors are using.

Is that even possible? scary.

[Jenstar]

If you view a page in Google cache that runs AdSense, it will serve up ads. If someone has viewed that page in the cache previously, it will display targeted ads for your account. This would cause impressions (both PSAs and targeted ads count towards impressions) and even clicks, if someone clicks an ad.

[wonderboy]

lol - bonus =)

[Sense_able]

Also

People save pages to their PC for ofline viewing. It is an old habit of mine. Especially if the content of the site is always changing.

[hogie]

I thought about the above ideas and tried it (without clicking on the ad) and they show as non-profit ads. This holds true for Google’s cache and saving a copy of the page to my local hard drive.

So the question remains: how is this possible? Something on Google’s end?

[jomaxx]

I think Monus basically had it correct. After making changes to my sites, I've seen obsolete links followed and graphics requested for up to a couple of weeks afterward. Not with a blank referrer, but with the actual deleted page as the referring page.

It could either be a proxy cache or the user's local browser cache. My gut feeling is that it's usually the former.

P.S. It could be you missed removing the code from a page somewhere. I've done that on occasion and not discovered it until many months later.

[hogie]

Didn't miss any code, that I am sure of.

As for cached pages, any adsense code that is captured and saved to a local page will either not display or display not for profit. So a proxy server or local computer caching the page would not generate clicks.

Any other ideas?

[jomaxx]

We're not talking about pages explicitly saved to a local HD. Cacheing is transparent - with a cache like AOL and some other large ISP's use, neither the user nor Google would be aware whether a request was coming from a fresh page or a cached page.

[hogie]

Transparent or not, proxies still deliver non-profit ads, but thanks for the suggestion. Any other ideas?

[hogie]

Also - they must be aware or the ad would not change to non-profit when not hosted on the site.

Thanks!

[Monus]

Also - they must be aware or the ad would not change to non-profit when not hosted on the site.

I get target ads on cached pages from my ISP.

[jomaxx]

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