Comments on: MyBlogLog And AdSense Don’t Agree

By: Blog Money - May 2007 | Derrich.com - crude, yet refined

Blog Money - May 2007 | Derrich.com - crude, yet refined — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:32:43 +0000

[...] Seriously. Are we ever going to get to the bottom of this charade? Since I posted about the discrepancy between MyBlogLog and AdSense in March, I’ve become used to the reporting differences. Luckily, they haven’t been [...]

By: WHY ARE YOU LINKING TO ME!? - MacBros’ Place - Everybody’s Entitled To My Opinion

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:01:26 +0000

[...] So, Moreover – A Verisign Company or Moreover Technologies, Inc. Tell me why you linked to this post here: Does Google Skim The Pot? Is it because I said Google? If so, can you ask Google to answer the question that was asked in the post? There are a few other bloggers that would like to know also. Bloggers like Dom Ramsey, Brad, and Derrich would also like to know. [...]

By: DanyO

DanyO — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:59:06 +0000

Interesting to see that much of a discrepancy, but then again google’s click stats might not be updated as often as MyBlogLog, a good way to track this is doing a monthly review, comparing the two. If they’re close enough, that might confirm your thinking.

By: Dom Ramsey » Google Gone AWOL

Dom Ramsey » Google Gone AWOL — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:26:32 +0000

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By: Robert Irizarry

Robert Irizarry — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:05:33 +0000

Warren – Did you upgrade to their paid package?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:17:12 +0000

ya, the difference is very likely because of lag in reporting and fraudulent clicks.

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:10:26 +0000

Well it seems that may be true. That explains why I had several clicks on MBL but much lower than that at Google panel.

By: Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:01:49 +0000

I like using the stats of mybloglog, it’s alot better than google analytics.

By: Robert Irizarry

Robert Irizarry — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:45:08 +0000

Very interesting and somewhat suspicious on the surface of it all. However, as some have suggested there are some possible explanations. The bigger problem seems to be the lack of detail from Adsense about how they determine legitimate vs. fradulent clicks.

By: derrich

derrich — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:10:48 +0000

Good idea, Dom. I’ve seen the same type of “probing” on Shoemoney.com. You know I was also thinking, though…maybe Google doesn’t count clicks they deem “invalid” or “fraudulent” according to it’s TOS. I got an email from Google about a month ago citing fraudulent clicks. I basically laughed that off because it sure as hell wasn’t me. In fact there have been a few occasions where I accidentally clicked on my own ad and in turn emailed Google to let them know I had done so. Anyway, just a thought. Thanks for stopping by, Dom.

By: Dom Ramsey

Dom Ramsey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:36:03 +0000

I would advise anyone seeing the same as me to take it up with Google – and also to make it public. If more people bring it to their attention, they might be more inclined to investigate it further.

I’d also go so far as to advocate that *everyone* try some kind of click tracking software (MyBlogLog or otherwise) and compare their stats. It could be that people are losing valid clicks and they don’t even know about it. Plus it would be interesting to see if people notice any difference in AdSense stats from the time they actually implement the tracking (ie if the tracking itself is interfering with AdSense)

By: derrich

derrich — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:27:49 +0000

That totally crossed my mind, and makes sense. Yeah, I’m not suree how much time is required either, but good observation.

By: Blain Reinkensmeyer

Blain Reinkensmeyer — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:15:20 +0000

Derrich, I see the exact same thing happen daily for me, and it really sometimes bothers me when I see that 13 people clicked an ad box on MBL, and adsense reports 0 clicks.

The only thing that could justify this though is that the visitors simply did not stay long enough at the advertiser’s site to register it as a click on adsense. Adsense only registers a click when the user stays at the site after xx seconds. From what I understands its like 20 seconds or so, so this could explain part of it.