Hi, I am running a phpArcade site with games, images, and embedded youtube videos and there is something wrong with the AdSense stats... Here is the server stats for yesterday: Successful requests: 3,411 Average successful requests per day: 3,517 Successful requests for pages: 2,237 Average successful requests for pages per day: 2,306 Failed requests: 59 Redirected requests: 17 Distinct files requested: 2,281 Distinct hosts served: 661 Data transferred: 18.02 megabytes Average data transferred per day: 18.59 megabytes The phpArcade admin stats shows 1157 games played... To me this means that there must be at least 2000 page views registered by AdSense but the AdSense account shows only 61 page views... Does anyone have any idea as of what might be happening here? I would appreciate any input. Thank you.
I'd think Proxy surfers have found your site... and are displaying their adsense instead of yours. (google will only allow technically, one adsense account to be shown per page)
Proxy sites load their frame first, thereby, loading their adsense account before the site they are framing.. google see's/senses their adsense account ID before yours and defaults to the first to load.
use any of these "break out of frames" codes to end the proxification of your site: http://www.google.com/search?source...LJ:2006-41,GGLJ:en&q=break+out+of+frames+code
This is a good explanation and I think you must be correct as I cannot see any other reasonable explanations for this. I would not want to use the "break out of frames" code as this way I would lose the visitors. I think I better try using some other ways of monetizing the site. Thank you.
Actually, if your being proxied, then you are essentially hosting another sites bandwidth for them. They are making the profits, they are getting alexa'd, they are getting the traffic. The site being proxied loses all around. Breaking out of frames will do no less than ensure that users are YOUR users, and not some leach proxy site owners.
Now that you made me think about it ... Why would they access my site through the proxy in the first place? The site is one month old and I doubt any schools had time to block it yet. I am convinced. Will implement the break out of frames code tomorrow and report if there will be any change in AdSense stats in a couple of days. Thank you.
it's happening to me as well...same number of visitors same pageviews but low impressions..anyone else has this.. am using blogspot with no frames or anything.
I think you misunderstood my use of the term frames, Godmode. When a proxy sites visitors visit you, the proxy site "frames" your website. Your site having frames is irrelevant.
I c but i dont get any traffic from proxy..its either google 75% and 15% direct and rest is all from digg/reddit/links etc But still this drop in impressions? I have also seen that impression are now counted as average and not the total...is it that way?