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at the begining of october i started using the new "Allowed Sites Feature". I have only one site so i inserted only that website in the list. Everything was going well till the 11th of the month when Google started showing impressions and clicks from an unknown source.
The next day i pulled adsense of that site to make sure that the source was external. Google continued registering clicks and impressions despite the fact that there was no adsense on my website's pages and there was only that site in the allowed sites list.
I decided to not use adsense till i get a response from
support. Their first answer was an automatic message telling me that they understand my worries but they can't give me more details due to the proprietary nature of Google's algorithm.
During 4 days of no adsense on the website Google was still registering clicks and impressions from the external source. I contacted support one more time. The response was surprising: They told me to visit this page:
[google.com...]
and follow the instructions...
Anyway, right now i'm using adsense and i still see these strange impressions and clicks.
Panos
Just another example of google's high handed attitude.
"Your impressions are coming from xyz site. Please confirm this is not yours". Would be a quick an easy way to sort the problem. Their algo excuse is the customer service equivalent of "we don't want to be bothered by you little man. Go away and don't bother us. We are great, we are google".
if you've set your page to expire a month from now, then a copy of it will be stored in your visitor's browser caches. depending on how you've set it up, it's possible that they could just keep revisiting the same old cached version for another month, without ever requesting the new version.
just another example of google's high handed attitude.
I don't think that's the case here. I never had problems with the Adsense support team. I just hope that they communicate the problem to the right people at Google.
it is possible for the clicks to carry on long after you've removed the ads. have you set an expiry date for your pages? either as a header or through the server?
Both html and server headers are set to expire at
Mon, 1 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Even if you took off AdSense, Google may have cached your page with AdSense on it. If people are going to that page, then they can view and click on the ads.
LifeinAsia, im talking about tens of thousands of impressions more than the normal impressions.
And even if they come from cached pages that's why the "Allowed Sites Feature" exists: to stop counting them since i only allow impressions and clicks from one domain.
Panos
And even if they come from cached pages that's why the "Allowed Sites Feature" exists: to stop counting them since i only allow impressions and clicks from one domain.
it's probably not this, but there's a problem that's been mentioned loads before where people have put
www.example.com
in the box, when it should be
example.com
(or maybe it's the other way round - www.example.com instead of example.com)
when you say the clicks are coming from an 'unknown source', what does that mean.. do you know the url? have you seen your ID included on that other site?
I mean that i dont' know the source. I've seen my Adsense ID included in many sites that display serps (usually .cn .ua and .ru domains). The only thing copied from my site is the Adsense code!
it's probably not this, but there's a problem that's been mentioned loads before where people have put
www.example.com
in the box, when it should be
example.com
My server redirects mydomain.com requests to www.mydomain.com so i don't think it's this.To be sure i have even created 2 url channels: mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com, both show the same value.
Today - magically - for the first time after 20 days these impressions are hundreds instead of thousands, i hope that they will go back to zero soon.
