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How important are Adsense channels?

by jensrsa
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I know that to be able to track your Adsense income they are important.

But ...

Do they affect your results if you use the same channel across similar sites?

Do the affect your income if you use them for different size ads, change the code?

Why I ask

I run a number of travel directories that generate a reasonable traffic but looking at my stats for July it shows only 85 impressions and 5 clicks!!

One of the sites alone has over 4000 visitors per month and have Adsense in a number of postions on virtually every page.

Can anyone explain this?

Jens
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    You'd need to contact Google about that.

    4000 visitors per month and only 85 impressions. something is wrong.

    it's my best guess that google already knows what your page(s) are about, and if not clicked on enough, will show irrelevant results, thus. will not show impressions on your site since they are not related to content. They do this to prevent Adwords advertisers paying more, or less than they should do on unrelated sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author RorRobRob
    As the other posters have mentioned, adsense channels are there to help you track which pages or sites are doing better. Using them or not using them should not affect your traffic levels. It sounds like there may be some technical problem with your ads , though, if they're not showing all the impressions they should show. Have you visited all the pages the ads are on to make sure the ads are showing properly? It could be as simple as a problem with the adsense code on your pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
      Thanks, for your responses.

      I am using separate channels for each web site but not for each ad position and the ads show when I visit the site and browse it.

      Well, the site used to get a lot of traffic from auto submission services (which isn't real traffic) until I changed the directory so some of the traffic may still be these. But looking at the traffic from Google itself the figures still don't make sense.

      I'll play around with the ad positions, etc. to see if I can figure it out.

      Thanks

      Jens
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      • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
        Yesterday I did a test and clicked through on ads in the different ad positions - these clicks didn't show up on my stats. How do I know? No clicks or impressions showed. Maybe Google is just clever but it was telling me to make some changes.

        I use Joomla for my sites and am using a adsense module to insert the code.

        I've now change the site discussed to insert the straight Adsense code rather than using the module. I also set up ad units for the different ad positions.

        Within minutes after making these changes the impressions started to show.

        Maybe these ad units don't work in the Joomla adsense modules?

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        • Profile picture of the author dburk
          Hi, jensrsa

          Clicking your own ads was a very bad idea. This will get you banned from AdSense for life.

          Your impressions and clicks from yesterday may show up eventually. the were doing a major update on AdWords/AdSense yesterday and stats from that period will be delayed for sometime.

          Based on what you have written, I would say the problem all along was with Joomla. In my experience, Joomla has a lot of issues. You should look at your page code after you set everything up and make sure that the AdSense code has not been altered.
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          • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
            Originally Posted by dburk View Post

            Hi, jensrsa

            Clicking your own ads was a very bad idea. This will get you banned from AdSense for life.

            Your impressions and clicks from yesterday may show up eventually. the were doing a major update on AdWords/AdSense yesterday and stats from that period will be delayed for sometime.

            Based on what you have written, I would say the problem all along was with Joomla. In my experience, Joomla has a lot of issues. You should look at your page code after you set everything up and make sure that the AdSense code has not been altered.
            I agree and it's no something I would normally do. I thought about it but in the end decided it was the only way I could check, so I clicked.

            As a result I made some changes to two site and within 12 hours the site has had 25% of the impressions of the month of July and another site had 80+ impressions compared to zero last month.

            Well, I have at least 50 sites to change asap and hopefully double my Adsense income vitually "overnight".

            How much I lost since this started I don't even wnat to think about!

            Jens
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