Adsense: Do I count as a page impression?

Hi. If I visit my web site 15 times today, will my Adsense Reports add 15 page impressions to my stats?

I am constantly working on my web site and I visit it frequently to see how it looks in multiple browsers, etc., so I'm wondering if all these visits I make to my site are bringing down my CTR (since I obviously don't click the ads).

Thanks

 

I think it will count as impressions. Same happens to me.

 

it will bring your ctr down, but hopfully you get enough traffic where 15 impressions won;t be important at all even a little

If you have 2 units on the page it will count as 30 impressions
and so on

 

Yes, it does. I am not sure if adsense provides an option to discount your own visits by logging your IP, but the default setting is that it does.

 

That is not true.

 

Thanks. If anyone knows how to discount my visits by logging IP I would love to know how.

 

Find your Hosts file. On windows XP it's in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Open it using notepad

Under
127.0.0.1 localhost
Add
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
Save

Open a new browser and all Google adds will not be displayed.

When you are done with your site add #<space><space>
# 127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
Save

Open a new browser and all Google adds will be displayed again.

 

Make you site that, you type your ip and then for this ip ads are not shown.

 

Use adlogger. I just disable my IP for google ads.

 

Got it. Thanks everyone for your help.

 

That was great but using ad blocker will be easier for some users ..

 

I use my method on my kids computer permanently as they often visit my site and I don't want them clicking ads and I don't have to worry about them turning ad blocker off.

You can also disable javascript while viewing your site so now you have several ways to block your ads and you can choose what works best for you.

 

Of course, if you do this, you can't see what ads are being served on your own website.

You can set the publisher ID to "ca-test" while testing (see this thread). The advantage is that you won't get credit for the clicks either, thereby protecting yourself from accidental click fraud.

There are some more sophisticated solutions (PHP/JavaScript) which detect your own IP address and switch to the test ID. I don't have anything in place on my own website yet though.

Edit: Here is another reference...

Cryo.

 

15 impressions a day is negligible and not worth worrying about. Even if you only get 1000 impressions a day, 15 out of that is not even worth a nanosecond thinking about.

BTW what is the obsession with CTR? Who cares what the CTR is? The only number I care about is the one underneath "Earnings".

 

Well by monitoring the CTR I can tell how effective the ads are. If I have a low CTR, I might try changing the ad position, or putting more/less ads, etc. That way I can see what's most effective for my site.

 

I know it's slightly off topic, but it is a bit similar so I figured I'd post it in relation to invalid impressions - I asked Google about this and about invalid CPM impressions and here's what they said -

Maybe this will help you out a bit as well if you were considering the impact of pageviews on CPM ads

 

you shouldnt worry about impressions as i am sure google expects you to update yur website and fix your ad placement.

 

this ad blocking thing is new to me.
Thanx a lot guys i am going to use it block ads on my home machine as well.
thanx
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