On my other site I have Google ads. It’s a nifty way to recover some of the costs of running the site. It wasn’t until recently that I started to use the “channels” feature. Basically you can set up different sets of ads that you can track so you can see if certain pages, or ad positions, or ad types bring in more revenue than others.<\/p>\n
I recently unveiled a redesign of my other site. Along with the new site came a different set of Google ads and a special component to help insert them in the new site. The add-on was necessary because of the software running the site.<\/p>\n
So for several days now, the channel for the ads contained in the add-on was not logging any clicks or any activity. Huh? I can see the ads, and if my other ads are any indication, they’re getting clicks. What is going on?<\/p>\n
Well as it turns out, I had them set up wrong. So people were viewing and clicking the ads, and because they LOOKED fine, I didn’t realize anything was wrong until I looked at the reports for the site.<\/p>\n
So here’s my question… Who got the ad revenue for those days that the ads were running but not hooked up with my account? Sounds a little sneaky to me… Who gets the money from ads that are set up improperly? My guess is Google keeps it. I wonder how much money that is each day? Just imagine how many people might set up their ads incorrectly on a daily basis… Sounds to me like Google has found a cool new way to generate some extra revenue. <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On my other site I have Google ads. It’s a nifty way to recover some of the costs of running the site. It wasn’t until recently that I started to use the “channels” feature. Basically you can set up different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-eS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}