URL Channels In Adsense

**hooperman** · November 10th, 2010, 8:23 AM

I don't use URL channels in Adsense, so I might not be reading the screenshot properly. Don't URL channels include all ad clicks on a site? Therefore a custom channel's data is just a subset of the URL channel's data?

I'm just trying to get my head around the Adsense stats in the screenshot as the custom channel at the top shows more clicks and revenue (a little bit more, anyway) than the URL channel

**Clinton** · November 10th, 2010, 8:57 AM

Just a note so everybody else is aware: that screenshot is what the site owner posted publicly and doesn't qualify as "confidential" information that the forum rules prohibit in posts.

**ScottJ** · November 10th, 2010, 9:03 AM

URL channel should show all the income, could be innocent enough though.
Also if you use domain.co.uk rather than www.domain.co.uk it should also show all sub domain income.

**hooperman** · November 10th, 2010, 9:04 AM

It's also not a pointing finger. This question is more to clear up my misunderstanding of what's going on

EDIT: I've changed the original post to reference the correct image URL.

**benitez17** · November 10th, 2010, 7:43 PM

Are you sure that the channel with the URL displayed is really a URL channel and not a custom channel with the URL as the name?

**ian** · November 11th, 2010, 1:53 AM

I think the top two channels probably are linked to the same ad units.

When I do channels I split them by each unit as well. So I might have domain.co.uk which displays total earnings, but then I also have domain.co.uk sidebar link unit, domain.co.uk content top, domain.co.uk content mid. Just so I can see which ones perform best.

**leadegroot** · November 11th, 2010, 5:15 AM

I would guess that you have math-Worksheet Home appearing on a second ad somewhere, with a really poor ctr, as it 4 clicks and 6 pence extr over the site total.

Oh! You could have been scraped and they are showing your ads (because they are too dumb to change the details)
Do you use the whitelist at Adsense Setup > Allowed Sites?
If not, try searching for some text on that page you would expect to be unique
Oh yes - http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%2...ke+math+fun%22
One of those could well be a scrape, including adsense!

**hooperman** · November 11th, 2010, 5:19 AM

Originally Posted by leadegroot

Oh! You could have been scraped and they are showing your ads (because they are too dumb to change the details)

Ah - never thought of that one! Maybe some of the content was scraped. It's not my site, by the way, it was one I was looking at on Flippa. I was just questioning my understanding of how the URL channel works.