The other day, I mentioned a problem I’ve had with Adsense Deluxe on The Ancient Standard, and upgrading seems to have lessened the problem, as I’ve seen less of a descrepancy yesterday and today. However, I’m still seeing more clicks reported in my stats than in Google Adsense, so I’m not quite ready to accept there is a problem with the stats quite yet.
My next plan of action is to switch to a completely different Adsense plugin. I’m going to try Shylock Adsense; one thing I really like about this plugin is that it allows you to schedule Adsense to show up later, after the fact. So, I can set it so that no Adsense is displayed in a post until it’s more than 7 days old or something.
This will allow me to keep the homepage Adsense free, without having to remember to go in later and add Adsense to each post. I’m hoping that removing all Adsense from the homepage will help increase the conversion of new visitors to regular readers.
So, my quest to solve the mystery of the missing Adsense clicks continues, I will keep you posted!
Good Profits.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:39 am
I’m not sure what script you are using to track AdSense clicks, but it seams that the click over reporting issue is about to get worse, no matter what you do.
And it’s no hackers or exploit fault:
http://www.memwg.com/smaller-clickable-area-to-affect-adsense-ad-trackers/
November 19th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
That’s not good news! Thanks for the heads up Staska, I’m hoping I can solve my problem before this kicks in, otherwise I don’t know if I ever will be able to!