Ladies and Gents I have been blogging for many years and recently had a real eye opener with a DMCA violation. Viewed in a different post.... Since then I have been very careful about what, when, why and where something appears on my blogs. In this research I have found one crazy problem with a wordpress plugin I have been using for the past year or so (not sure of the time used). The plugin is WP Super Cache. I was asked by my ISP to install this plugin to help me out with a traffic problem I was having. With out even thinking, I installed it and it has worked very well for the time I have been using it. Here is the crazy thing about what I found out. I'm setting up a new blog as usual and forgot to install the plugin. A few hours later I remember I didn't install the plugin so here I go to get it done. After I logged in I have a tracker I use I know works and the tracker was showing traffic off the wall. I verified the traffic from four different sources and it was close to the same everywhere. Still, I thought nothing about it. I installed the plugin and zap... no more traffic. I thought WTF... Turned the plugin off and here they come. Traffic, out the you know what. Now, what? Can it be the plugin affecting the traffic or the plugin affecting the tracking of traffic? I will be doing some more testing; however right now I have the plugin turned off. I'm sure Google is getting there freak on with this sudden traffic on my adsense account and I will not get paid now... lol Just trying to spread the findings and will test more to find results. Thanks FYI – Don’t forget to read the new Federal Trade Commissions new rules and how it affects blogs
Update: I was right about one thing. The minute Google seen this extreme increase in traffic my account stopped updating. I have not received a single page preview in the past 12 hours or so. As soon as I figure out is they are watching my account for the change in traffic over night I will have a better idea where this is going wrong. The plugin or not...
How are you viewing traffic? Are you using a plugin or outside source? Please remember specifics and details are always a plus, especially when asking a support question. I have a feeling though that you're facing the "It's not being called" issue that's common for users of wp-super-cache. If you run it in full mode, remember that wordpress is completely passed by and it;s the cached files that are served to the visitor. Unless it;s a javascript that's running the stats, the count may not be updated. Again, it's depends on your setup and what you;re running. References: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/who-sees-ads-wp-super-cache http://ocaoimh.ie/howto-make-wordpress-plugins-work-with-wp-super-cache/ Code (markup): http://www.contentrobot.com/making-openx-and-wp-supercache-work-on-your-wordpress-blog http://www.ronalfy.com/2009/11/20/wordpress-popular-posts-and-wp-super-cache/ Hope this helps -drmike