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My adsense impressions have dropped 50%-70%

         

Automotive site

11:29 am on Aug 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

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This particular site gets around 2500 page views a day (traffic) but adsense impressions for the last 4 days has been around 500-700 a day.

I have had no problem whatsoever for the last 3 years or so as my adsense has matched my traffic, but just recently I had someone do some work on my site and without my realising, this idiot put their adsense code on some of the pages. I thought there was a problem with adsense not registering the impressions properly (due to some glitch) until I looked at the source code. And tehre it was, there was the code of that idiot.

When I removed the code belonging to that person, my adsense impressions returned back to normal. However, teh last 4 days have again seen my impressions drop greatly and not matching my traffic which I view through ANalytics and STatcounter.

Adsense is definately showing far fewer impressions than what it should be. My question is this, do you think that scam is managing to take my adsense impressions using some hidden technique? They no longer have access to my site though.

Broadway

7:28 pm on Aug 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

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I don't know. Just to make sure that somehow they still don't have access to your server, or somehow can otherwise manipulate things, you might just surf to your site and use your browser's "view the source" option just to make sure that the html that shows (making the page that site visitor's see) has your account/chanel number in it properly.

More importantly on the larger scale and for the community, I would email and ask Adsense if they can pass judgment on this. See if they can determine if your domain is associated with someone else's Adsense account.

If there is trickery involved we would all like to see you get this person banned and also learn what method they used.

IanCP

8:02 pm on Aug 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Hopefully you saved the code.

Automotive site

8:27 pm on Aug 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Yes indeed. I thought I would save the code and the publisher ID just in case I wnated shoot an email to the adsense team.

But since this individual's code is no longer on the site, should I only ask Google why my impressions are currently significantly down (for the last 4 days) or should I also mention this person too in the email I send?

IanCP

8:50 pm on Aug 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

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I would, but that's not necessarily good advice.

cyc0

11:13 am on Aug 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Its only 4 days, treat it as a cheap lesson.