0 clicks site, a rewrite / redirect problem?

Rebuilt site working fine but 0 clicks, a technical problem perhaps?

[explorador]

Hi webmasters, just relaunched an old site and now is showing zero clicks, I suspect there is a technical problem but have no idea on why or how to fix it. I create and use my own CMS and just relaunched this site with my latest CMS on beta, but no clicks.

Before:

• Old CMS using a database to create all the HTML pages.
  
• The Adsense code was inserted on the templates.
  
• The result was a fast and practical website.
  
• Old style web, http://www.widgets.com and http://widgets.com

Now:

• New CMS creating pages on the fly from the same database.
  
• Real html files doesn't exist, this is a pure dynamic web by now. The CMS CAN create html files as a "cache" function that works the same as my previous cms, but the function has been -off- for a month and a half as I'm still testing the cms and the on the fly functions along with other stuff.
  
• All the pages are ok, not a single error, clean and valid HTML.
  
• The main difference between this one and my old cms: redirect and rewrite.

I created an .htaccess file to redirect all the old urls to the new ones. Also, the new model of my CMS works around http://widgets.com instead of http://www.widgets.com. This means, no matter what www.widgets.com/pages you visit, youll end up on http:// widgets.com/pages.

That's all, but since I switched the site to this CMS, Adsense reports 0 clicks. The domain is already on the -allowed sites- list, always been there (widgets.com). The site didn't have thousands of clics but since the change: none, zero, not even one click. I think that's the main problem. I tried to modify the allowed sites list on the respective Adsense panel, but tried the whole url: [www....] widgets.... and also http:// widgets..... instead of just widgets.com but it won't let me.

The htaccess code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)
RewriteRule (.*) http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

I didn't post this on the htaccess area as the site works fine, no errors and the headers are ok, is just Adsense that reports zero clics. I don't know if the on-the-fly code insertion (adsense) could be affected, the ads show just fine, no errors.

Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[tangor]

Try turning on the html pages and give it a week or two. Sometimes we can get too cute.

[johnmoose]

Check the server logs to see if you have any visitors/ page views/ hits at all..

[explorador]

Try turning on the html pages and give it a week or two. Sometimes we can get too cute.

Cache and real html files turned on now, let's see what happens

Check the server logs to see if you have any visitors/ page views/ hits at all..

Traffic is fine, the usual numbers.


Besides Adsense showing zero clicks, it also shows only 7 page impressions for the current month (may). I suspect on the Adsense code not being ok. In the past, the code was manually inserted on the templates and the CMS did the rest. Now I can insert the code via CMS in any position in a sort of admanager style. At first the ads didn't show because I tried to make the pages smaller removing any double space or double line breaks, then I found out Adsense doesn't like modifying its code even by a space or enter. Fixed that and ads appeared ok but now I have zero clicks. I guess there is still an issue there.

[netmeg]

Replace one ad unit with your own graphic and link, and click on it and see what happens. Or leave it up and see if your users click on it.

Or you could spend nine bucks for a month's worth of Crazy Egg analytics (with heat map tracking) and see if anyone *is* actually clicking on the ads.

[piatkow]

Have you actually done a really simple check like looking at the site to see what is getting displayed?

A bit obvious but you haven't mentioned doing this. Maybe nothing is being displayed or the inventory is so totally off topic that people aren't clicking.

[explorador]

thanks netmeg, didn't know about that service, will add one image add too.

yes piatkow the ads are there, they are being displayed with no problem but I register low page impressions (adsense report) and no clicks, while having in fact normal traffic. I'll keep checking on it.

[piatkow]

but I register low page impressions (adsense report) and no clicks, while having in fact normal traffic.

People moving on before the ads have finished downloading?

[explorador]

no, the pages are waaaay fast. Now even more with caching turned on

[explorador]

Clicks are slowly coming back. Weird, traffic is normal, turning on the cache had no effect (except from speed), then turned off and the same. Then the clicks are slowly climbing. All since the redesign, perhaps a re-crawl sandbox? bad time to make changes? (panda) I don't know.