Ad/Page Impression Count Wrong?

[sailorjwd]

I just noticed that within the last hour Adsense shows 4 days worth of page or ad impressions counted.

My site logs show no increase in traffic.

Anyone notice wrong counts in Adsense?

[freedata]

My earnings seems to be out of whack (read low) for today. EPC is showing 30% less than average for a Friday. Hoping it is a reporting error and will catch up later and be normal by the end of the day.

[sailorjwd]

I believe I figured out what it was. I complained to a couple of websites earlier in the week about copying some of my content.

I believe they subsequently copied my page, or adsense code, and caused it to get run 50,000 times in 1.5 hours (that is 500x more than usual).

As a result Google lowered my EPC by 50% even though they weren't clicking - just racking up ad views.