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How would you recommend checking on what ads are displaying?
You can find the destination URL by right clicking and looking at the properties, or by using tracking software.
Viewing your own site is ok, but will lower your eCPM as I think your own page impressions are counted. It won't have any effect on the CTR, because you're not the one clicking the ads, are you. :)
Clicking your own ads, as abbeyvet said, is a big no-no.
If the site is not live yet, or if you're contributing a large proportion of the total pageviews, I'd block the ads or remove them altogether, and use the preview tool instead.
Yes, viewing your own ads DOES affect your CTR- do the math. If you have 5 page views and 1 click, your CTR is 1/5 = 20%. If you also view the page 5 times yourself, you now have 10 page views and your CTR is 1/10 = 10%.
For most people, their own page views will be such a small proportion of the total page views that it won't make any real difference.
For most people, their own page views will be such a small proportion of the total page views that it won't make any real difference.
maybe for most people in this forum, but for the mass of publishers i'd say it does matter (assumed they visit their own site) as most people don't have much traffic.
[edited by: moTi at 12:19 am (utc) on Mar. 30, 2007]
For some reason, I was thinking about the total clicks column not percentages and about not trying to push up your own click count to compensate for page impressions created by viewing your own site.
How would you recommend checking on what ads are displaying?
Once or twice a week, I'll do a look-through of my site, copy the URLs displayed in the ads, and then visit those URLs directly by typing them in (i.e. just the straight URL with no adsense code whatsoever).
If they are spammy/arbitrage, I block them (and if they are arbitrage, I report them).
