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I'm really new to this and at times feel like a chicken with its head cut off trying to figure out what will bring the most click revenue.
The day adsense was off-line recently for servicing, when it came back, I showed my best day ever. I know a few other people saw this too. Don't know why that happened but I'm all in favour of days like that.
Here's another thing that brought an apparent dump of revenue or what I think (as an ignorant newbie) gathers up lost clicks:
I created a new channel for one of my urls in addition to having the individual ad location channels. This url channel has no ads connected to it. When I did this, a good number (for me) of clicks showed up attributed to the url channel within a couple of hours. That's what prompted me to do it for all my urls and the same thing happened again. It was as if there were clicks attributed to my account that had no where to report until I created the url umbrella channels.
I realize this could be nuts/wrong/coincidence. But AdSense does have a way of making a person superstitous.
Just thought I'd put it out there in case someone else doesn't have their url(s) as a separate channel(s) (with no ads using that channel), and wants to try it and see if a clump of extra clicks show up.
Since I've had all of my URLs on their own URL channels almost since adding AdSense, I can't comment on your theory.
AdSense does have a way of making a person superstitous.
My experience was that when I tried to fully understand that which was beyond my ability to comprehend, I experienced a corresponding decrease in appetite, sleep, energy, self-esteem, and will to survive.
The best advice I can offer is to take a dog hiking.
For exemple:
I have only two custom channels: right and bottom borders. They are in a shared border (in Frontpage), so these channels don't tell from which page the clicks come from, I added URL channels for each page with adsense. When I look at my stats, for every "real" click, the channels show two clicks, one from the custom channel (right or bottom border) and another from the URL channel.
But also, when the url channels were initially added, a bunch of clicks showed up (like a one-time only bonus): many more than I usually see in a day that had no mirrored stats in any of the individual channels. After that one time bonus for each url, it was back to business as usual.
I wondered if monkeying around with adding and deleting channels prior to that somehow left some unrecorded revenue floating around until I created the basic url channels and then things became reconciled again.
I'm hoping someone else who doesn't have url channels will test to see if this happens for them.
Channels are just an optional piece of information you can provide in order to categorize your earnings for reporting; they aren't an authoritative source for anything and they don't DRIVE anything. (With the remotely conceivable exception of smart pricing calculations, which is a topic for another thread.)
