PSA on Adsense and PSA Clicks

a great clarification for me and maybe for others too

[dhaliwal]

This is a great clarification that i got about PSA and PSA clicks from Google Adsense Team.

I think i should share it with people out there who have still some confusions about adsense PSA

Follow the Reply from Google

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I hope now people would better know about Adsense, WEll i think i am not repeating this thing

Dhaliwal

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 12:26 pm (utc) on June 30, 2004]
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[Brett_Tabke]

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The rest of this thread doesn't make sense after that.

[Sally Stitts]

I think that many of us would love to see the clarification you mention.

Why not take the advice of the thread that Brett mentions above, and "paraphrase". Simply reword the clarification, while keeping the meaning. Should be OK, right? It's recommended.
Then we can all share.

Whatcha got?

[richmondsteve]

I read it and replied to it before it was wiped. In a nutshell it said that the AdSense reports show PSA impressions, but don't show PSA clicks. Nothing new - heck, I've pointed that out at least 10 times myself in this forum.

It also said something to the effect that if a date includes nothing, but PSA impressions no data will appear in the reports. I replied earlier b/c I'm skeptical of that. I've had a number of 4-figure impression days this year and last year that appeared to be only PSAs (last year) and AAs (this year), but still showed data even though the days had 0 clicks. On those dates changes in the negative content filters or inclusion of negative content text in a box appearing on all of my pages was the culprit. And that compares to average daily figures of 4-figure impressions and 3-figure clicks. If what was quoted is true it implies that at least one impression each of those days was in fact an ad unit containing AdWords ads. Obviously this is a rather minor point, but I'm curious whether others can confirm or negate the statement that data doesn't appear in the reports if it consists solely of PSAs.