adsense questions

[edacsac]

1.) What happened to the the 60px tall link box? Now I can only choose a 15px tall one now. I liked the other one.

2.) I placed my first adsense units on my page april 11th, a week ago I got my first click. Wasn't much, but it was exciting, and not too bad of a price for my niche I guess. 2 days later I get my second click and I make 30 times less on the second click. ?

I didn't have much of any content during those two clicks, but as of right now I have lots of content after staying up all night last night and finishing things.

Have I been penalized or smart priced or something? Is my site now doomed?

[thegreatpretender]

If you didn't click on the ads yourself, don't worry. Price of ads per click varies so don't worry also.

[edacsac]

Thanks thegreatpretender,

I didn't click on my own.

Another question though. I look at yesterdays earnings and I show

23 page impressions, 28 clicks, a 121.74% page CTR, and $0.00 earnings.

?

That has to be a mistake. I can't imagine my page would get that much attention overnight. Does it take some time to calculate or something?

[zett]

that much attention

I would not call 23 page impressions "much attention" to start with. It's next to nothing, really. With Adsense you can start worrying when your traffic is at least 20x what you have today, and even then your results will be quite random.

And yes, 28 clicks from 23 page views might have triggered some kind of Smartpricing or maybe an "ignore while site grows" flag. Also, please look at the location of those clickers? Where is your site traffic coming from? This will probably answer a lot of questions.

[thegreatpretender]

With that kind of stat, you should be worried especially that you're account is so new. Your account is still on some kind of probation and once google notices that, they might ban you right away as they have no other basis to continue their relationship with you except that disproportionate numbers. If I were you, as Zett said, I would investigate where the traffic and clicks are coming from and while doing it, remove the ads for a while. It could be your friend or relative doing the clicking because they wanted to help you so check out also.

[edacsac]

I think its a mistake. When you look at the stats summary, it shows the goofy numbers, but when I expand my channels, it doesn't account for 28 clicks. It shows what it's supposed to; 2 clicks. So that summary number is way off. Thats weird.

Nobody knows I have this page up as far as friends or family.

[farmboy]

didn't have much of any content during those two clicks, but as of right now I have lots of content after staying up all night last night and finishing things.

With all due respect, I think you have the cart before the horse.

FarmBoy

[StoutFiles]

I'd would remove all Adsense until you're getting at least 1000 pageviews a day...you won't make it to 100 bucks in your lifetime until you get some actual traffic.

[purplecape]

eda, the problem is that the stats summary is correct, NOT the channel numbers. What you see in the channels may either leave something out (if you don't assign a channel to one or more adblocks) or may double or even triple report, if you assign more than one channel to an adblock (which people do for analysis purposes). The channels numbers are not real numbers.

Most likely you're getting clicks on a page that doesn't have a channel specified. You need to track it down.

[edacsac]

Thanks for all the replies! If I know how to do that fancy quote box I would, but...

@ Farmboy:

I agree, I added a couple of ads to goof with layout, and then became busy with other stuff. I just needed some time to add everything I've been writing.

@ StoutFiles:

Does it matter if I'm making 1000 pageviews or not?

@ purplecape:

On the summary page there is the odd number. When I do the advanced report for all time, the numbers are correct and those extra clicks do not show. All my ads that are displayed are attached to a channel - one ad per channel. I checked all my traffic logs and everything is accounted for.

[purplecape]

Then it sounds like you are just looking at the clicks for TODAY, and when you look at the advanced reports and the channels you are in both cases looking at all time. So that is why they match up and don't match with the summary.

[StoutFiles]

Does it matter if I'm making 1000 pageviews or not?

If you're looking to ever get a check, then yes. You shouldn't be worrying about Adsense and making money when you're getting barely any page impressions. The odds of you losing your Adsense account completely due to false clicks are greater than you ever getting to 100 bucks at this rate.

Take the ads off, work on your layout/content and when you have some traffic put the ads back on.

[Hobbs]

remove all Adsense until you're getting at least 1000..

That number is just the number of your fingers x 100, has nothing to do with AdSense or click fraud, some sites fly past that number in their first month, others never exceed half that. And yes, do work on traffic before agonizing over clicks.

[edited by: Hobbs at 9:00 pm (utc) on May 18, 2008]

[farmboy]

I agree, I added a couple of ads to goof with layout, and then became busy with other stuff. I just needed some time to add everything I've been writing.

I'm sorry, but I think you missed the point.

FarmBoy

[BillyS]

>>Does it matter if I'm making 1000 pageviews or not?

No. In fact, you could make $500 or more a month with 1,000 page views a day.

What I'd suggest is that you read the Adsense TOS. You really should have content on your pages. Write first, put up the page, then apply Adsense. (In that order, you seem to have gotten things backwards.)

[edacsac]

Don't misunderstand me, I have lots of content at this point. I don't have hundreds of pages, but I have several well developed pages. When I said I added ads to goof, I added them to an already established page to check layout. This already established page was product, and product information, but not so much content.

It seems I'm being labeled, or it is assumed that I'm throwing up an "adsense" page just for the sake of adsense, and it's starting to irk me a bit. I read the TOS several times, and I've spent quite a bit of time planning my change from a product/informational only to a more article/content based website with adsense. I'm not one of "those" guys.

I appreciate all the replies as I respect this community very much. Give me a break please.

Thanks for all the replies!

[StoutFiles]

No. In fact, you could make $500 or more a month with 1,000 page views a day.

...The point I was trying to make is that people come to the forums whining about Adsense when they just started a site and why they aren't making money. People need to setup some sort of user base first before they worry about Adsense.