Does Googles Impression Numbers Count Your Own Visits?

[pigsinpink]

Does Google adsense count your visit to your own site? For example if I visit my site, does that get counted or do they have some way of identifying the site owners ip address so that your visit doesn't counted?

[makes a little sense]

They disregard your IP. I think it takes them a few days or so but after your IP showing up every few minutes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to check stats, they get the idea this is probably you. :)

[david_uk]

I'm not sure this is true, so I'd very much like to know where on the Adsense website it says this. Any clicks you do from your computer count as fraudulent and can get you booted out, so clearly they don't use your IP for that purpose. Hence I'm not sure that the statement you make is true.

[pigsinpink]

There must be a way of telling Google that your visit shouldn't count as a stat. But so far I seem to find anything written about it in the adsense site.

Anyone have any idea?

[billcale]

There is a post here somewhere on WW from the AdSense Advisor stating that viewing of one's own pages will alter the AdSense statistics for those pages. I think most interpreted this to mean that Google WAS counting and recording the visits as ad impressions.

[imstillatwork]

on days i heavily work on my site, my impressions go through the roof. yes your own are counted.

[rkhare]

yes google counts, i normaly prefer heavy working towards end of the day, so that by that time i have clear picture of CTR and eCPM. after my visits the imp count is heavily bloated

[toldan]

They disregard your IP. I think it takes them a few days or so but after your IP showing up every few minutes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to check stats, they get the idea this is probably you. :)

I don't think so. All impressions and all clicks are counted. I know this heavily from my personal experience, so trust me - wemasters' impressions are also counted.

[Sally Stitts]

Absolutely counted.
I notice everytime I put up a new page.
If I visit 14 times (for checking purposes), I get 14 impressions.

Also, since there is no link to the page yet, all 14 had to have come from me.

[pigsinpink]

A few days ago I signed up with a service which allows me to track the number of visitors to my blogs. It places a counter on your pages and gives you statistics by referrals and country visits.
The good thing about it is that you can choose not to include your own IP address in your stats. I've used it for about three days now and it seems to be working just fine.

[edited by: jatar_k at 7:44 am (utc) on April 6, 2006]
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[makes a little sense]

Soooo, Google is paying us for visiting our own website?

[Rodney]

Soooo, Google is paying us for visiting our own website?

Google Adsense is mainly a Pay Per *Click* program, so the majority of the time you won't inflate your earnings any by visiting your website.

On the off chance that your site is site targeted by an advertiser for a CPM based ad, there's probably a good chance that your site is already a high enough quality site and gets enough traffic on its own, that your few visits for development purposes aren't going to skew the stats that much.

There are many Cost Per Impressions (CPM) based ad networks out there, and I the ones I've worked with don't ask you to enter your IP address to filter it out of the stats, since many people's IP address can and does change often.

I think the idea is that if you have enough traffic to get accepted into a CPM based ad network (or in the case of Google Adsense -- enough traffic and enough quality to attract a CPM based advertiser), then your few development visits to your site aren't going to matter much.

[Opera14]

Ahhhh....so that's where all my impressions came from!