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Servant

5:16 pm on Apr 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

Since recently, I've set up channels in order to monitor the impressions and where the clicks come from.

I'm aware that channel stats are delayed up to two days. However, it seems that Google is not adding the earnings I made on the channels to the Aggregate data (all earnings).

For instance, on March 30, I made $19.58 on the channel stats but when I look at the aggre data, it only reveals $11.69.

Should I contact Google and inquire about this? Or..

Regards

stardoc

5:21 pm on Apr 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hi Servant,

Before contacting Google make sure you are not adding URL channels also to the aggregate channel data, as it will add the income from the same pages twice.

HarleyGuy

5:24 pm on Apr 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Servant
Welcome to WW.

Earnings and impressions are reported at different times.
Your earnings could have been delayed, and then just added to the next days results.
Wait till the end of the month and see if both figures add up.

Or a simple inquirey to G may put your mind at ease.
If you do contact them and get a response don't forget to come back here and let us know what happened.

ClosedGL

5:29 pm on Apr 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Also, if you're using more than one different type of advert across the different sections of your website, that you're using channels for all of them. Otherwise from my understanding you might be using the 'aggregate' channel for some of them which would explain why it's value is higher.

An example is that I have two channels; for arguments sakes, 'left' and 'right'; which relate to sides of my webpages. If I use the code for left on the right-hand side, I'll be seeing figures that indicate that left is artificially higher. Similarly, if I use the standard code for a left hand column and 'right' for right, then when I read my 'left' channel results I'll see either a zero, or an artificial reduction (other pages may use the code correctly).

Hope that wasn't too confusing!

gmac17

7:19 pm on Apr 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I think what you are seeing is that you have a site with Channel 1 (the entire site) and also channel 2 and channel 3. When you run the channel stats it adds all of them together - your whole site channel and the sub channels.