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I try to experiment by not allowing SE to cache my pages.
In my case, the advert is consider as "plug and forget it" (hopefully) additional income.
More like, plug and wait for a letter from Adsense. You should check out your site in IE6 - and others should to the same to theirs - and you may see why some people do not click on them.
IIRC you are not supposed to have "half appearing" adverts. I know I would be rather pissed if I knew my adverts were not being shown correctly after paying out money for it.
30% of my earnings come from SE cache and Google translation sites below as it is a very large site with international content:
webcache.googleusercontent.com
translate.googleusercontent.com
Disabling SE Cache is just not a great idea for me and maybe for some of you. For those of you who haven't, you should put those two sites above in your "Allowed Sites" list along with all your allowed sites so you get credit from the clicks on those sites.
@ cien
This is new and I am curious, how can you specifically know 30% of your revenue come from webcache and translate. I can only track adsense by channel within my site.
And I think visitors will not necessarily go to webcache if there is no option for that in SERP, and my site is available 24x7x365. I mean, that why we make a website right? For visitors to visit.
[edited by: cien at 4:43 am (utc) on Oct 24, 2010]
IMHO, translate is not about cache, it's a translation tool that fetch fresh content from site and translate it to different language.
[edited by: cien at 5:25 am (utc) on Oct 24, 2010]
Many months ago I got into the "Allowed Sites" feature in my Adsense account and those two sites were showing at the bottom of the screen as sites that were displaying my ads but I wasn't getting credit for the clicks. I mean, I would get a ton of clicks and no earnings until I allowed them:
webcache.googleusercontent.com
translate.googleusercontent.com
I entered those two in the Allowed Sites list and my earnings skyrocketed after that.
... but when your site is found on Google.es or any other international Google site, the search result has a link on the right to translate your site's page. If they click that link, your site will display on the user's language and your adsense ads will display. If you don't allow the translate address, you won't get the earnings from those clicks is what I mean...
I really don't know. Why would you click on the cache version of a page when you can go straight to the fresh page?
In my adsense account, there are two options:
a. Allow any site to show ads for my account
b. Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account
From the beginning, as a default my option is a.
And I take that as every sites (including those two above) which display my adscode shall credited the earning to me.
I really don't know. Why would you click on the cache version of a page when you can go straight to the fresh page?
That is because you allow SE to cache your page and put an option in SERP, if there is no cache then they HAVE to go directly to your site.
[edited by: cien at 5:41 am (utc) on Oct 24, 2010]
Who would click on that or know what that means but our type? :-) I mean, I get hundreds and hundres of cache visits a day. Something is up. Users would normally click on the search result, not the cache link below it.
Other reason I have to disable cache is because I will put specs and price on goods listed in my page. And I don't want any headache or even a tiny explanation just because some company send me order based on those information in SE cache.
