May 17, 2006 - Are my stats stuck?

0 clicks

[miki99]

198 page impressions and 0 clicks? If I got booted, I wouldn't be able to get into my account, right?

miki

[Ganceann]

I am also a new publisher and I am almost afraid to check my pages. I honestly dont know what would happen if you were banned - I would tink it would prevent you accessing the account.

I used to thoroughly check all pages that all links where working and now I dont as I have placed adsense on some of the pages.

I guess the impessions that come from your IP may not count (I would hope they dont) so that the 198 impressions would be of any other visitors to your site.

Obviously I am not 100% sure on how everything works yet as I am just trying to get some reports on my site how things are going and I need to look at the actual ads showing ( with previewads by google) - to try and increase the relevancy of them to my site.

[miki99]

I'm not sure if the page impressions from my IP count, but I've barely been to my site today, been working offline mostly. Granted, I haven't been getting many clicks lately, after removing ads from the majority of my pages. The ploy seemed to work dramatically to increase the value of my clicks, and I had my highest-paying click by far the day before yesterday.

But 0 clicks for that many page impressions? Just wondering how unusual that is.

miki

[Ganceann]

It could be ad-placement, ad relevancy and ad type that is not appealing to visitors.

I know some of my friends looked at my site and made sure they never clicked any adverts - I dont want incur any penalties so have advised my friends not to click but instead let me know if they see any adverts that shouldn't be there so I could look at filtering them out etc.

So my CTR is low as expected since my site is new and poorly ranked on google at the minute, I also do not have any relevant inbound links as the communities dont really know about my site yet - though am planning to advertise once I customise the ads a bit and ensure they are more relevant.

I still get some random visitors - mainly from msn searches on keywords with 1000 or so searchs a month (obviously I am not getting all those people yet who search for that, but I gotta start somewhere) :P

[Tearabite]

G does count impressions when you look at your own pages..

[miki99]

Ganceann, I've never had even close to 0 clicks before.

[frostw]

Hmmm. My clicks have dropped through the floor too over the past couple of days. Content unchanged, impressions normal and relevant ads being delivered.

Bit of a worry really.

[PowerUp]

I've had 0 clicks for 2 days in a row. And both days impressions were between 150 and 200. So disappointing.

[Hobbs]

One publisher gets banned and everybody becomes paranoid.
A PHD on human nature could be drawn from all this.

[rj87uk]

Whats the point in these threads? I know I know, don't like them don't read them. But really every day you get someone asking the same question getting the same answers, is there a point?

PS. I do read these threads incase I can offer some help.

[crick]

I have had these things happen recently but then a click dump. Don't worry, if people click, Google will credit your account with all valid clciks.

[piatkow]

Too small a sample to have any statistical validity.

[Paris]

No clicks through 200 or so page views is probably normal if you're running a community-based site and too small a sample to jump to any conclusions if you have an original content site.

You may want to check the pages to make sure that relevant ads are being served but don't sweat the lulls. Just work on growing your traffic, keeping the content flowing, and optimizing ad placement.

Like most ad formats, I think few will argue that clickthrough rates won't fall over time. I look back at the clickthrough rates and earnings per click back in 2003 and it was amazing considering I was just throwing up a leaderboard ad in less-than-optimal places.

I think a few things have happened to blur that inevitable slide. Google has been amazing in winning over a wider depth of advertisers. More optimization tips and the gradual addition of more ad opportunities (link units, allowing more than one ad block, etc.) have probably led some to believe that it is sustainable but there are just way too many AdSense sites out there these days and a growing group of jaded Web users.

[miki99]

Thanks for the informed answer, Paris. No, it's not a community-based site, but not on a subject that will ever get a huge amount of traffic either. However, my traffic has increased in the last few months. The ads seem as relevant to me as they've ever been. Maybe I should just assume visitors are so vitally interested in my content, they don't want to leave! Well, it's possible, isn't it? :-)

And I do hear you about the jaded Web users....

I did end up with one click yesterday, which was a bit of a reassurance. At least my clicks are worth a lot more than they used to be since I removed the ads from my poor-performing pages (which are also my highest traffic pages, so that does in part explain the lack of clicks.)

What can I say, I panicked. Thanks again for all your responses, and in future I will TRY to refrain from cluttering this forum with pointless newbie questions. ;-)

[PowerUp]

Hurray! I finally got 1 click after 66 hours.