Was not paid for all subdomains. What to do?

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Was not paid for all subdomains. What to do?

AdSense URL channels are deceptive

zebracobra

4:45 am on Nov 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

Several months ago I integrated AdSense ads into my website and everything seemed to work fine, was making about 3 to 4 dollars per day.
I had originally set up my ads using a URL channel to track them, as per the example given in AdSense setup, www.example.com would do the trick.
Last week I logged into my account to make a new ad and found out that there was an example.com to track all pages across all subdomains; I have hundreds of pages across several subdomains, so I added example.com to my channels and my earnings jumped to 25 dollars per day!
Now, for about 7 or 8 months I have been sending traffic to advertisers without being paid for, I would like to know if there is any way I can request a review of the clicks and have them pay me for that traffic? I am sure AdSense got paid by the advertisers and in accounting they can't have any extra unaccounted money, so I imagine I can request a review, can I?

ashii

5:12 am on Nov 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

Adding a channel in adsense account will never increase your revenue.
May be your stats are overlapping.

For example:

sub1.example.com =$5
sub2.example.com =$2
sub3.example.com =$3
example.com =$10

That does not mean you will get $20.Your actual earning will be only $10.

hunderdown

5:41 am on Nov 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

Exactly. The aggregate totals are always the correct ones. Channels just let you slice and dice your stats.

zebracobra

5:43 am on Nov 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi, thanks for the quick response. But I still have a doubt, if my website has several subdomains and all have AdSense ads, was I being paid correctly when I only had registered one subdomain in the URL channel section of AdSense?

My website has:

www.example.com
sub1.example.com
sub2.example.com
sub3.example.com

In AdSense I only registered:

www.example.com

Was I being paid for all subdomains? All subdomains have AdSense ads without the ad channel in the code, something like this: google_ad_channel = "";

ashii

11:41 am on Nov 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

zebracobra,

Channels has nothing to do with your earnings.
They Only tell you which page or page(s) are earning what amount for you.

You will still continue to earn exactly same $$$ if you delete all channels including www.example.com

Hope it helps a bit.

hunderdown

3:26 pm on Nov 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

AFAIK you don't have to list all of your domains. Use the code correctly, and you will be paid.

OptiRex

6:16 pm on Nov 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

AFAIK you don't have to list all of your domains. Use the code correctly, and you will be paid.

AFAIK one doesn't have to used Channels whatsoever, they are merely statistical analytical tools?

hunderdown

9:11 pm on Nov 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

merely statistical analytical tools

Yes, and more elegantly put than I did.