Always check after upgrade!
February 11, 2007 – 10:29 pm
As obvious as it sounds I still fall foul of the simple rule of checking a site or page after an upgrade. Be it a code upgrade, site upgrade or template upgrade. Since I changed to a new template on one of my blogs back in November, the adsense clicks I was getting dropped considerably from a few a day to a few a month. The position of the ad units hadn't changed, nor had the sizes. I'd figured that it was just a coincidence and put it down to ad blindness or people blocking ads as my visitor stats on the server didn't tally up with the page impressions given by Google.
However yesterday I was looking over the site and checked on the stats. Looking at the most viewed pages I noticed the Category and some of the monthly archive pages were quite popular after the front page. Viewing these myself I noticed there were no ads displaying. I think this was down to the template I have has different filenames to the norm (ie. Archive) and so it didn't occur to me to update the files when I added the code to the front page and single post page. Of course when I post I tend to check the post and that's it, so visiting the monthly archive or category pages is not something I tend to do hence the possibly major oversight. The code's added in now so considering the visitors have stayed steady with a few busier days hopefully I may start to see an increase in clicks and thus income.
I'll be ensuring I check every inch of a site in the future after an upgrade!
One Response to “Always check after upgrade!”
Since making the changes and getting AdSense back into my internal pages my clicks have increased. Not dramatically but it's a major improvement over recent months!
By Sarah on Feb 22, 2007