I think I am not getting credit for clicks

Need some advice

[JoeHouse]

Hi

I have been a long time user of google adsense. I have been doing some AB testing so a couple of months ago I pulled my google adsense code from my site.

I just added it back on 06/16/2006. I receive about 600 unique visitors a day. My personal stats show many of my customers exiting my site via google adsense, which means a click thru and should get credit or earnings for those clicks.

When I go to review my google adsense reports, even though it shows high amounts of impressions it indicates there were no (Zero) clicks thru's.

How is this possible? Am I being cheated?

[joaquin112]

First of all, how do you see how many visitors click on your Adsense ADS through your personal logs? As far as I am concerned, there is no way to know that - though I could be wrong.

I don't think Adsense 'tricks' publishers. It may be that your ADS are not targetted or visitors are not interested in clicking. My advice is to improve your page as to increase CTR.

[JoeHouse]

Actually it can be tracked. If you have good tracking information when you review your reports that state where your customers exit from the customers that exit from google adsense will show google syndication.

[BigDave]

How long have you been watching it? Sometimes clicks take a day or more to show up in the stats for me. Some of them soulc also be clicking on the public service ads.

[ronburk]

How is this possible? Am I being cheated?

One possibility is that Google deems some of the clicks invalid and simply discards them.

[david_uk]

I think I'm still thinking straight, but if the visitor left by a cpm ad, then the click will not count towards income as the ad is not shown on a cpc basis. So maybe they are leaving via cpm not cpc ads?

Or am I alseep already / missing something?

[jomaxx]

If you have good tracking information when you review your reports that state where your customers exit from the customers that exit from google adsense will show google syndication.

Actually there is such a thing as a click tracking script, but from this description I don't think that's what you're using. You need to use a proper click tracker that records what ad each person clicks on if you're going to try to make your stats even remotely match Google's.

P.S. If you've only been running AdSense for one day, I suggest you stick to asking questions about what you don't understand yet rather than accusing Google of cheating you. They're not.

[blairsp]

Actually it can be tracked. If you have good tracking information when you review your reports that state where your customers exit from the customers that exit from google adsense will show google syndication.

Not only that but one of the free stats programmes will even tell you what adsense ad was clicked on and what the destination url was.