I'm making TOO Much from Adsense

The stats just don't add up

[kokaroach]

Alrighty. This is a strange situation to have:

Lets say (just an example) my stats for yesterday show I made, hmmm, $337.15 for the day.

I grab a calculator, add up the amounts earned from each channel, and the result is only $296.44. I recheck to be sure I didn't miss anything, add it up again, and it's still $296.

This has been happening for about 2 weeks now. The total daily earnings are anywhere from $10 - $50 more than when I add up the channel data. I've went over everything with a fine tooth comb, even so far as to look at all the sites hosted on my server to make sure I didn't missone that's running adsense that I may have forgotten about, or whatever.

Jen? Or someone who's experienced this... should I contact Google and alert them?

K

[sirkei]

I grab a calculator, add up the amounts earned from each channel,

If you run multiple sites, are you using one channel per site? If you have only one site, do you have one main domain for the channel? Let's say mydomain.com. This will track all earnings for that site.

For me, the channels are quite accurate.

[hyperkik]

I have seen the same thing. I think that sometimes channel data lags behind the aggregate data, resulting in a differential.

[moftary]

Ditto here. I was thinking that I might missed a channel on a site here or there, leaving the adsense code with no channel property. But I was wrong and it really appears that's google fault. I dont beleive it's a lagging issue as it's the same thing when I check for a month old record.

[HitProf]

Same here [webmasterworld.com...]

Are you using url or custom channels?

[voltrader]

I asked this question a little while ago. Somebody replied that it could be from ads clicked on from cached pages.

[topr8]

are you sure that the channels don't overlap, if they do they are added twice.

[Ept103]

Aggregate data includes revenue from your ads on search engines cached pages...

Channel data does NOT... According to Google.

Therefore, if your AGGREGATE data is higher than your channel by a relatively low percentage then this is probably what is causing the difference; assuming your not overlooking something major like forgetting to add a channel.

[vincevincevince]

Interestingly - if you combine URL and traditional channels - you can get MORE from channels than you do in Aggregate (and in your bank)

[robsynnott]

How accurate is channel accounting, anyway? I don't look at them very much, since ~90% of my revenue comes from one large site, but from what I remember the figures never entirely added up.

[Dantol]

You are also paid for impressions of image ads. That's why clicks and earnings don't ad up. They pay you for image ad impressions too.

[HitProf]

You are also paid for impressions of image ads. That's why clicks and earnings don't ad up.

This does not explain a (much) different number of clicks on aggregate data and the combined channel data.

[sailorjwd]

The cached pages is likely it..

I have channels that haven't existed on the web for more than two months and they are still getting clicks via cached pages - several dollars a day.

[HitProf]

>The cached pages is likely it

Not with a site that's not yet been indexed....

It's either a Google bug or an installation error. And I don't see waht what could be wrong as these (in my case) are url channels.