AdSense: Reports not adding up...

[Matt Mickiewicz]

Several blogs and forums are reporting problems at AdSense since last weekend's maintainence.

One publisher states:

On one of my lower-traffic sites, Google's reporting 224 impressions,
7 clicks, and 89 cents in revenue today. But on 3 channels from that
site, I'm reporting 4 clicks for $1.02, 3 for $.51, and 2 for $.31.
So the channels that are reporting clicks are claiming 9 clicks for
$1.84 while Google's claiming 7 for $0.89. For the first time, my ad
channels are reporting higher than a URL channel, and that is worrying
me.

Have you seen any reporting problems with your account?

[shredder-man]

Yes, Google has been having some troubles with their Adsense accounts for a couple days now. A lot of people have been effected. For the most part, only the tracking and reporting numbers have been off and revenue from clicks has held accurate. Some are reporting that their accounts are now back to normal. By the end of the weekend I'm pretty sure all issues will be worked out.

[bradical1379]

As it was discussed in here:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=510528

It may have been a coincidence that the system just got fixed, but I added the Google recommended info to my robots.txt and my stats are just fine now.

[shredder-man]

...I added the Google recommended info to my robots.txt...

What info are you talking about?

[bradical1379]

What info are you talking about?

https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...y?answer=10532

[webvicious]

I agree not adding up but thats Google...

[dvduval]

Thanks for the clarification. My channels aren't adding up either.

[homesonsale]

^ Ditto mine have been screwed for most of this week ....

[Appliedeye]

You right there is some problem with the reporting, and if i hear correctly there is some problem with adsense it self.

I recently have seen some friends who have quit adsense for other alternatives because of low earnings. The earnings have suddenly dropped to unexpected levels with the same traffic.

Wonder if its just the reporting or other things wrong too.

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[ldcdc]

https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...y?answer=10532

Somehow I don't think that had anything to do with the misreporting channels.

In any case, it seems that mine are back to normal.

[cpvr]

My stats have been working ever since the maintenace. My earnings are up too.

[at0m]

Everything's back to normal for my account. The only problem was that the adsense only showed me the URL channel stats.

Great to have it back to normal

[semadvance]

I saw huge discrepancies in clicks receive vs. clicks paid for

I can't see how stock analysts rate this company so highly, when they have no open line of communications with their publishers, advertisers and what they do have likes to talk about his cat and other fluff....

[john2k]

but I added the Google recommended info to my robots.txt and my stats are just fine now.

Giving Google's crawler access to your site via robots.txt shouldn't have anything to do with Adsense correctly tracking and reporting stats on your impressions/clicks.

when they have no open line of communications with their publishers

I think it would take either very significant competition or Adsense loosing foothold with publishers in order to sway Google into being more transparent about the system.

[rcj662]

I noticed ads took long time to load and some did not work only showed code for ad. Stats are working again and ads are slow every now and then.

[GzThai]

My stats have been working ever since the maintenace. My earnings are up .

[Tomer]

Yeah I too had to replace some ads code [referrals], earnings were low last few days, could be back up today, we'll see.

- Tomer

[brent5392]

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/10/...ing-again.html

[java4]

Thank you for raising such strange problem
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[Hostpitable]

I saw huge discrepancies in clicks receive vs. clicks paid for

I can't see how stock analysts rate this company so highly, when they have no open line of communications with their publishers, advertisers and what they do have likes to talk about his cat and other fluff....

Maybe because they are a quasi-monopoly that can impose its standards and practices upon its customers and partners

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[oogabooga]

I've about all but quit with publishing Adsense ads. If I MUST have some type of 'quick to implement' ppc ad revenue, I will put YPN ads up. Targeting isn't as good for more obscure niches, but the revenue is double, maybe triple currently compared to G.

It is paying very well to go with pay per lead programs and actual products (affiliate, PLR, whatever). Life is too short to have your income jacked around - Google is NOT worth the angst.

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[ToddW]

Some of my sites went from XX/day to X/day even looking w/out channels.
Something def. odd going on!

[Poiesis01]

Some of my sites went from XX/day to X/day even looking w/out channels.
Something def. odd going on!

I've been having the same problem.
On some days my page impressions for the channels adds to less than the page impessions for the site!

[jainmanoj123]

It's all normal for me too.