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Let The Real Expert Wake Up - 200 visits a day but no pageviews

by nik0 Banned
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So Google says that I get like 2-3 pageviews per day for a certain site (it's monetized with Adsense so makes sense to me).

Hostgators traffic tool at the cpanel says I get 200 unique visitors a day on that site.

I don't have Analytics, Statcounter, Kiwi or anything like that installed and plan not to do so cause I think I already know the answer.

But what do you think?
#200 #day #expert #pageviews #real #visits #wake
  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    NIk its you man. Knowing how you like to comment in multiple places and you are a marketer...er spammer.(just kiddin nik).. its easy to figure out.

    you posted comments to the site throughout the day and forgot you had HMA set to change every minute. 200 posts in a day? That sounds about right for you (although musta been a slow day)

    Case closed.

    Plus you are lying. with 2-3 visits per day adsense doesn't really monetize any site (shucks even with 200 visits a day it still doesn't meet the definition)
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    If the ads aren't on all the pages receiving traffic, then it's not going to match. Adsense can't count page impressions it doesn't see.

    Another possibility is that you're looking at 200 visits worth of bots. Adsense/analytics won't show that, while cpanel reporting would. Bots would include comment spammers. There's alot of those.
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    LOL

    I'm impressed by you guys. My site received 20.000 spam comments lately.

    But how come Adsense doesn't recognize these bots while hostgator does, they do visit my site right, otherwise they can't comment.

    The cause of all this is that I forgot to put comments off when i just uploaded 100 articles and while the site was PR3 so since then it went real fast.
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      But how come Adsense doesn't recognize these bots while hostgator does, they do visit my site right, otherwise they can't comment
      The hostgator stats are server level and they will record just about everything ..including visits by Googlebot itself, bingbot, the popular backlink services like ahrefs, ose, and hundreds of others.

      It'll also record a unique visit everytime a comment spammer hits your wp-comments-post.php file. I have a few popular wordpress based sites that literally get hit several times per minute all day long. There's a htaccess rule that can take care of some of it.

      Adsense doesn't see these hits because most bots don't load js.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Do yourself a favor, open the WP single.php file & delete the comment section of the theme, you'll never get spam again.

    If your running Adsense then your not hiding anything from Google, might as well be running Google Analytics hooked up to your Adsense account so you can track Adsense earnings down to page level, otherwise you'll never know which pages are the best performers.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Do yourself a favor, open the WP single.php file & delete the comment section of the theme, you'll never get spam again.

      If your running Adsense then your not hiding anything from Google, might as well be running Google Analytics hooked up to your Adsense account so you can track Adsense earnings down to page level, otherwise you'll never know which pages are the best performers.
      Actually I gave up on that site long ago, the contents grammar/spelling is real poor and it's rewritten from other sites, almost word by word so even proofreading won't help much. Besides that the whole concept/idea of the site was thought out in a poor way.

      I uploaded these posts 6 months ago, it just got my focus cause it turned out that I had 95.000 inodes in use at Hostgator and they have a cap of 100k. So at first I thought that had to do with the comments but those are stored in the database so that has nothing to do with it according to chat support. Then I asked them then what the heck is causing this huge usage (I have around 40 sites hosted there) and it turns out that Wordpress eats up on average 2000+ files for an almost clean installation, what the heck what a resource waste is that. My best performing site is an html one with 37 inodes in use, go figure.
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      • Profile picture of the author Fredbou
        My site has a huge discrepancy between the AWStats and Google Analytics.

        The number one page views for 24th Nov was 1491 so I decided to lookup the IP. What I found was AutoBlogIt.com , who I figure is ripping off articles from my site and re-birthing them for their subscribers!

        I have blocked their IP and a number of others who have huge daily page views on my site. I guess they are all doing the same thing; copying articles.

        AWStats tell me around 300 visits per day, Google are telling me 40 per day and Adsense is returning around 3 cents per day.

        Any experts like to comment, please?
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    • Profile picture of the author npakergy16
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Do yourself a favor, open the WP single.php file & delete the comment section of the theme, you'll never get spam again.

      If your running Adsense then your not hiding anything from Google, might as well be running Google Analytics hooked up to your Adsense account so you can track Adsense earnings down to page level, otherwise you'll never know which pages are the best performers.
      Completely agree. I've tried this myself with great success.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    I see similar things. But I know what's going on. A rather simple knowledge of how the internet works would actually answer it.

    This not directed at anyone in particular, but you know it's a pet peeve.
    Warning...

    If you were first in the internet and had to code by hand, learn about
    hosts, servers, etc., you really would have a leg up on the competition.

    Can you do it without that? Sure. But then you would be asking questions
    right and left about ... what's going on in cases like these.

    I won't even bother to answer anything more than this.

    Google "normally," (and I use that term loosely) only counts real
    human visitors. Real human visitors at least to some extent.

    What does that leave the rest of the missing stats? Well, it's quite normal.

    I can send out a tweet, and have a certain "program" tell me I just
    immediately had 50 visitors. But I know that's not true. I know that.
    It just comes with knowing how the internet works.

    Spammers can post with no trace.

    I can't fathom why anyone would have 20 spam comments right away.
    You should have zero comments. Period.

    Anyway, google, that clever little fellow, knows how to count
    real people. Other little fellows, for the most part, do not.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Dead Body
    If you have a wordpress press or some other CMS, you probably attacked by spam non-javascript commenting tools like Scrapebox.. In Scrapebox Google can not identify your visit but the cPanel can..
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