Channels question

[Xartan]

I started using AdSense about 3 weeks ago, mostly out of curiosity. And like many others, I suspect, the return was more than I expected and I've become more intersted in AdSense as a minor source of income. I started using URL channels a few days ago (just in time for real-time stats :) and I have some questions about it.

I added most of my URLs to the list (all the ones I *thought* would get the adclicks), but I'm only seeing about half of all the clicks coming from my channels. I have two theories on this, and was wondering if anybody else can support them:

1) I added [www]/index.php, but it gets substantially less impressions than I would expect. As far as the channel is concerned, is there a difference if a user visits [www]/ vs [www]/index.php?

2) I have a language selection so that users from other countries can use google to translate my website automatically. According to my referer stats, this seems to get a lot of use. Would this prevent the channel url's from working accurately?

I realize that using custom channels would probably solve either of these problems, but url channels are much more convenient for me. Any thoughts?

[frox]

Not an expert on this, but I think:

1) [www]/ vs [www]/index.php
yes, they are two different URLs, you need to track them both with channels
(In many cases, they would give different results too)

2) Google translate:
yes, the URL of your translated pages will be COMPLETELY different and will not be logged in channels

I am afraid you will have to switch to custom channels...

[petra]

It seems like you're talking about a forum. If so and if it has a lofi-option and if you've placed ads there, it could be where the rest of the clicks are

[Xartan]

How can I track [www]/ -- adding that to the channel list would just track everything, right? I find it hard to believe that they're different, but the channel stats are so disproportional it makes me wonder. My webstats indicate index.php has the highest hitcount, yet adsense claims the lowest impressions of all.

I am fairly convinced that google translator is causing most of the missing adclicks, I guess I will give more consideration to using them.

Thanks for replying.

[Xartan]

Nope, the forum is the only place on my website you *won't* find the ads. And besides, I think the easy solution to a forum would be to use a /Forums/ channel url.

[TheDonster]

I've noticed a discrepency in the channels reporting also. I've created url channels for the approx. 10 highest traffic pages I'm testing on my site. If I request the aggregate report, I get a lower total than if I run the channels report. Someone mentioned if you have www.@##@.com in your channel url, this could result in a double count. However, I've created both www.@##@.com as well as www.@##@.com/index for url channels. If I subtract the index page from the reports, I still get a discrepency, upwards of 40% as another member previously mentioned here. I'm guessing that the real-time stats are still not real time as the next day, my total numbers always seem to shift slightly upwards. Any other ideas?

Don