Channels dont add up

where the money coming from?

[Fugazi]

I have every one one my domains set as a channel in the reports section of adsense, theres obviously money coming from somewhere else, but I cant find out where, any ideas?

Probably someone has copied a site and kept my adsense code in it, but that seems a bit dangerous to getting baned, any idea how to find the sites?

[Tropical Island]

If you are using the URL channel then make sure that you don't have the www in front of it.

Just use mysite.com. I originally set mine up with the www and found that there was a difference in the total reported clicks and what the channels were telling me.

There is still a difference but it is very small.

[r3nz0]

Are you sure you added your pub-code to every block?

Last week i was lost in my own channel system, ;)

[AdSenseAdvisor]

Also, if a user found a cached version of your page by using a search engine, or if someone is framing your page and the click generated from their site, URL channels might not capture the click.

To solve this problem, I recommend setting up custom channels for all of your ad units. For more information, see:

[google.com...]

[gendude]

^^^ What ASA said, plus if you have ads on older pages with static content (i.e. you have a page about some older information about whatever widget, and it's not updated very often or the widget is considered obsolete), I would create a seperate channel, call it sitename-archives for instance. You'd be surprised how much your archives can generate, and I don't think most people realize it until they start tracking it.