Invalid Impressions

Must I mail AdSense about them? They are coming from my website work. No clicks.

So should I mail this, or let it be?

 

I've never emailed them about this and I do quite a bit of refreshes when I'm developing pages. They have to assume that most people do. If you ARE concerned, though, there's no harm in contacting them. Better safe than sorry

 

I don't see why they would care your site is getting traffic, and no clicks?

 

sometimes you can get 1-2 cents per thousand impressions, but i doubt google is going to take invalid impressions seriously, especially over such a small amount. it's the invalid clicks that's causing losses to the advertisers

 

Hello,

Well depent, if I'm like a money doing refresh for one hour, maybe I could have problem with them...

Best,
Jakomo

 

I have no idea what you just said.

Anyway, thank you to everyone. I thought about it, and since I'm not making any money whatsoever, like some of you stated, AdSense would have nothing to cling to. Thanks again, everyone.

 

Whew, I thought it was just me

 

Well I refresh a lot to see my site, and the updates that I've made. I don't see any problems, unless you know you've sent them traffic from bots, or hidden frames... :/ I recommend reposting what you meant.

 

ive gotten high ecpm's on impressions only, like $1.25 or so.

Just remove your publisherID and it will stop accrediting clicks and impressions to your account.

Pierce

 

Well, I would, but I'd have to re-install it into around 50 pages.

I was too lazy to make a common.js for the ads.

 

If your sites are PHP, you can do simple includes for each ad.... 4 files to change, not 50

 

But they are all HTML based Call me old school. I know I need to change, but this would involve learning PHP, which I'm a little hesitant towards.

 

Or <!--#include virtual="...."--> for just plain html files

 

Elaborate please.

 

You create a file at the root of your server, call it ad1.html, another called ad2.html etc You include the snipped of googles ad code in those files...nothing else.

Then, in your html document, instead of putting the google ad code, you just put the line

<!--#include virtual="/ad1.html"-->

And when that page is served, it will insert the code automatically (or whatever contents you have in ad1.html, just as if they were part of the page.

 

Ah, merci.

 

Interesting! Thank you, I would like to try it to save time.

"file at the root of your server" ... Where do you create that page ad1.html; in root directory of my site or in 'server root' directory?

 

You got many invalid page impressions ?

 

I got around 600 from working for about 7 hours yesterday.

 

At the root of your webserver so you can call it as /ad1.html

If your files were served from /var/local/apache/htdocs, ie, when someone typed in just your domain the page that is served would be /var/local/apache/htdocs/index.html, then you would create /var/local/apache/htdocs/ad1.html

Make sure Includes is one of the Options for your root directory in your httpd.conf file. Of course, all this is written specifically assuming use of the apache webserver