Good paying clicks from a mysterious source.

Getting good clicks but no idea where from!

[pldaniels]

On my site I am running various channels for almost every conceivable page (clearly I don't have a big site ;) ) and I also have in addition some directory/path based channels to give me an overview of the entire server.

Now, what's confusing is that I am getting some good clicks showing up but there's no channel designated to that click. It's very confusing - while the money is nice, I'd rather know exactly where and why I'm getting them.

... ideas?

[mikeybee]

not sure how long your site has been online? have you just recently made all these channels?

is is possible the clicks come from an old , generic channel?

just a few thoughts given my own experience

cheers
mike

[wildbest]

Money may be from CPM (impressions), not from clicks (CPC).

[blairsp]

why don't you put one of the ad free stats counters on all your pages. It will tell you what page is generating the click and what url it is going to. Also has the obvious benefit of giving you some free stats info

[rden17]

google has been re-indexing a lot of old pages lately, maybey there is an old page with code without any channel being brought up from google's cached page

[netmeg]

I have noticed a couple of pretty large site campaigns (CPM) in the past couple of weeks that have hit my site - possible that's what's hitting you? Have you run a report by Ad Unit, that shows Contextual vs. Site?

[pldaniels]

netmeg,

I'll try that to see what comes up.

Thanks everyone.

[ocbchgal]

where can i find the "ad free stats counters" you mentioned?

[webdreamer]

<removed> is a great free stat site. Try that one if you want to see how many clicks you're getting, where your visitors are coming from, what keywords are working, etc.

[edited by: jatar_k at 1:15 am (utc) on July 12, 2006]
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[bumpski]

It used to be that the only way you could see clicks for your home page was to subtract clicks from all other pages on your site from the total clicks. Now it appears you can use "index.html" (or appropriate) for your actual home or "default" page. (This did not use to work, you were forced to use a custom channel, not a URL channel, for your home page)

Could the click have come from your home page?

How were you accounting for clicks on your homepage?

Clicks could conceivably come from the Google cache also. Usually the cache has poorly targeted ads though.

[Ganceann]

My thoughts were it likely would be from the home page itself.

And ads appearing in the cache are more often than not associated with the domain name and not the site content - so if your site name and content were related, the ads in the cache would still be targeted and relevant - otherwise it would be poorly targeted ads.