I got an email from google 3-4 days back that my ads were not performing well.. for that one day I had a huge increase in number of impressions and no click thrus at all.
I had to reactivate my ads, and everthing is working fine since then.
I noticed today when I search for www.mysite.com and then click to see pages which contain my site.. I got 100s of pages from epinion and dealtime. My question:
1) Are these ad impressions, which were displayed when google was crawling these pages, counted towards impressions? If yes, this reduces my click thru ratio and helps me understand the reason of poor performance the other day. If this is true, I might get an email again, when google crawls these web sites again (those pages) after few days.. and that would be my third warning and I will have to pay 5 bucks again to reactivate my account.
2) If by any way, google is not counting these ad impressions, when google is crawling these pages, I still doubt that these pages will be counted towards my impressions when other crawlers crawl these sites.
Google must consider either providing us an option of search partners sites where we want to show our ads, or they should ask these search partners to stop showing ads when crawlers are crawling their sites and there is no real serach being performed.
SD
