I use channel for each page to track my clicks and impressions. My eCPM went to hell just a bit more than a week ago so i suspect i got even more smart priced (always smart priced but not as bad as now). Then i removed the code for my very low ctr page and replaced the ad with cheap clicksor ads (they are even cheaper than my google smart priced ads, 3-4 cents each clicks but i can't seem to get into other network at this time any suggestion for an online game site?). But still, the channel on adsense reports a similiar page impressions even i removed the adsense code from the page. From 50,000 imp to 48,000 imp in adsense compare to the day before while on clicksor it already reporting 40,000~ so where are those imp in google coming from? Has anybody has that happened ? on the side of every of my page i have a link unit and a search box, but i dont think that is counted for the channel page impression... The page i am talking about has 50,000~ pageviews daily. Because is it mostly surf by returning visitors, CTR is like 0.01-0.05 but still it makeup for more than 10% of my site's income. It gets 50-70 clicks a day just page imp too high make CTR look bad and i believe that has much to do with my site getting smart pricing after smart pricing... Also need advice on this: I have around 200,000 page imp per day on the entire site. 50,000 on that one low performing section is like 1/4. Before i leave the page completely with adsense, i tried promoting affiliate products on that page with cj/linkshare but because the nature of my audience they never worked lol so i have to stick with cpp/cpm. I stopped trying and leave that page with just adsense last December and watched my eCPM & CPP drop drop drop every month but income keep increasing for the site overall. That is just because I keep adding new things to the site and attracted more visitors. So i am still undecided, it could make my site's cpp higher if i remove that page from adsense. But it could also lower my the site's earning because even tho the ads are cheap and ctr is low they still make up for a good amount of clicks and contribute to the income. What i am trying to do is find an alternative for that page so it wont affect my adsense acct as much but still keep the similar amount of earning from that page. so far it has been unsuccessful so i keep using adsense on it ... any suggestion? btw, that page is not a static page. it shows different stuff sorta like a search result page and always in the same format.
Not to take this off topic, more to just make sure I'm following along with the two previous replies... If I do cache:OPs' url.com in google, he can still get paid for those impressions? If I'm running from my browser's cache, then that also can cause impressions? hehe...if I save it a copy to my hard drive, would that count? (that could be funny if I did it MONTHS down the line)