Google Isn't Counting all the digits

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by retsek, May 20, 2009.

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    Since the end of April, beginning of May I experienced a sharp decrease in CTR even though my traffic is up 35% and as a result i'm earning 25% less than I was prior to May.

    I use OpenX to manage advertising on my site, so today i checked it for the first time in a couple of months.

    I found that from around May 1st it was consistently reporting ~250 clicks more than what adsense was reporting. Today adsense tells me I have 650 clicks so far, but OpenX says 920.

    This can't be:

    -a OpenX error - because prior to May 1st the differences were never more than ~20.
    -invalid clicks - because invalid clicks are reported in adsense, but they pay $0.

    This is a well established site with 3 million page views per month. There are alot of returning visitors so my CTR never really breaks 2%.

    Anyone else experiencing this? OpenX has free hosted version if you want to test this out. Some wordpress plugins can do tracking too. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
     
    retsek, May 20, 2009 IP