Clicks, Money and Impressions

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[Hobbs]

The Ultimate Guide
when clicks and money hide

1-Money with no impressions
Count your blessing, stop complaining, check again at the end of the day, if still the same double count your blessings, but contact support if guilty.

2-Money with no clicks
See Pay Per Impression [google.com] CPM ads

3-Money with neither impressions nor clicks
See #1

4-Impressions with no clicks
Some of your visitors actually did not click any ads!

5-Impressions with no money
Welcome to AdSense where you mostly get paid by the click, and sometimes by CPM (see #2)

6-Clicks with no money
CPM (see #2) ads were clicked, or check again later.

7-Clicks with no impressions
Now that's a tricky one: You pages were saved on someone's computer who clicked on an ad, or you need to check again later.

8-Clicks and impressions but no money
Even trickier, either you need to check again later or something really wrong is happening to your account, if this goes on for days contact support.

Perhaps also a couple of fun ones:

a-Impressions or clicks with no website
Wake up, stop drinking, no hanging up side down, put down whatever you're smoking.

b-Money with no AdSense account
You are looking at your bank account, where a click is a sound, and an impression is an idea in your head.

[successlieswithme]

good one LOL,
helps lot of newbies

[joelgreen]

worth being a sticky thread (along with "i've been banned"). Would eliminate a lot of new threads :)

[jchampliaud]

"Would eliminate a lot of new threads :)"

One of the (good) problems with WW is that there are so many threads that stuff like this gets buried very fast.

[humblebeginnings]

Hobbs, you have outshined yourself this time!
A really, really good post!

[ann]

Applause!

The only bright spot in my day.

Ann

[Hobbs]

thanks guys, it's a collection of your repeated answers not mine, I'm the one that happened to be bored and with a little time to waste, pondering on how to waste less time ;-)

[trannack]

Well done. We want more....We want more...... :) LOL

[sailorjwd]

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

I'm getting impressions/clicks on an adsense account that hasn't been used since May, 2005. Made a nickle this monday.

Perhaps someone took the pages and code back then?

[humblebeginnings]

Well eh... this is ever weirder:

I am getting no clicks on an account I don't even have.

That was a darn good Bordeaux BTW.
Next time I'll save the other have of the bottle for the lady...

[Hobbs]

> getting no clicks on an account I don't even have

lol HB,
Perhaps it will get EFT'd into a nonexistent bank account, we've recently heard here of negative earnings, welcome to the twilight zone!

[Pengi]

Nice post Hobbs - they seem in short supply at the moment!

[Hobbs]

T'is the season Pengi
V <-- Live long & prosper

sailorjwd,
at least you're a nickle richer, right?

[piatkow]

Just read a post in a different forum where a guy is blaming his web host because he hasn't made any money out of adsense. If I had seen this first I would have copied it as the reply (with credit to the author of course!)

[humblebeginnings]

Oh deer, if I read back my own post of yes their day evening I sea men e errors. That reel e was a good whine!

[andrewshim]

LOL!

Might I add...

Clicks with sound and pictures but no money... stop messing with the TV remote ;)

[noodlebox]

I might add.

High impressions - Low CTR %
Not enough clicks, sort out targeting your audiance not your favourite keywords (doh!), filter mfa's and poor ads.

Low impressions - High CTR %
Get more impressions, nice one for targetting your visitors with great ads.. but they probably wont come back tomorrow (doh!)

High Impressions - High CTR %
if your bid minimum rocks, your impressions are 500k a day.. and your click rate is higher than 1%... you can quit your job and live life humble... (estimate you could be on 10,000$ month easily)

Low impressions - Low CTR %
Your nobody, try harder.