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here is my issue: I have to edit about 4k pages of my site and I don't want to deactivate all the adsense ads while I am working. also, I am afraid not to inflate the impressions and lower the CTR if I work with the ads running on the site.
I installed adblock and blocked the ads but the code is still in the source of the page. it is just hidden. the question is: if I use adblock and edit all my 4k pages, do I inflate my views?
mihai
One suggestion, since you're visiting every page anyway, this might be a good time to implement a site wide AdSense control. With that many pages, your AdSense code could originate from include files, rather than embedding javascript code into each page. Also, it's handy to have an "on/off" switch that turns them all off at the same time. You can do both of these things using a combination of a scripting language (like .PHP) and a database (like MySQL).
I think you're over thinking this however as I've been in AdSense for years now and run a fairly large site and probably cause hundreds of page views per day just using the site myself.
AdSense knows who you are by cookie and/or IP and I'm pretty sure they discount the webmaster accessing the site but obviously I can't offer any proof other than webmasters would run up AdSense CPM ad impressions, which are charged by the impression, if they weren't discounted and that's never been a problem AFAIK.
@tim222, I have the adsense code in a included file, and I can switch it off but I preferred to let it online because I don't want to lose the income that is generated while I edit the pages. also, I think the best solution is to make those edits at night, when the traffic is low. that way I can turn off the adsense code and not lose much money.
@incrediBILL, thank you for sharing your experience.
