referral button no more added to page impressions

[sallam]

did anyone notice this?
Today, referral button impressions is no more counted in page impressions like it used to do before today.

[FrostyMug]

really? i might stick them both back on the site.

[bumpski]

I'd love to hear some confirmations. Being one of the first to note the problem I guess I'll be close to last to reimplement referrals.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[btas2]

Looks to me like this is true.

My impressions are way down but my clicks and earnings look normal.

This can easily be explained by not counting referral impressions since the numbers are now similar to those I got before adding referrals (why, by the way, have turned out to be totally useless as an earning tool, making me something on the order of $1 per month and with a click rate way under 0.1%).

[AdSenseAdvisor]

Yes, we heard the feedback that including stats in AFC stats was confusing and broke some publishers' calculations, so we have completed changes so that referral stats are no longer counted in AFC stats. This is not retroactive however, so only stats after 12/20 are broken out this way.

Hope that clarifies!

-ASA

[sallam]

Thanks ASA. This is much better now, where pages impressions are real figures, not double like before.

[Hobbs]

totally useless as an earning tool, making me something on the order of $1 per month

No way, I am making 3 to 5 dollars a month from referrals, now if only I could figure out where to spend that much money!
In another thread [webmasterworld.com] I proposed a solution.