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Basically, what I feel is that I am losing around half of my revenue from this site because adsense is not reporting all clicks.
Now, I can assure you one thing, none of the clicks rre being discounted because they are from the same source or from bad sources. My site is a high quality site and the what the Statcounter reports is that the clicks are coming from completely different users from various countries, but mostly from the US but also from places like Canada, the UK as well as few from other parts of the world. This has been happening from a few weeks now.
What might the problem be? I tried replacing adsense with Chitika, but unfortunately Chitika does not serve the best ads in the world and only serves ads to US and Canada search users. Also, I cannot use YPN since I am in the UK.
I was hoping YPN would be international by now and MSN Pubcenter, but they are both stuck in the gutter.
I may not be up to speed with exxactly what Statcounter exit activity is supposed to show
It seems to me that your first task is to learn exactly how Statcounter determines whether a click has occurred and whether that counting method is the same as Google's. For example, Google no longer charges advertisers for clicks on an ad's background or body text, since such clicks may be accidental. If Statcounter is simply counting "exit clicks," rather than "valid clicks," it stands to reason that its numbers will be different (and higher) than Google's.
Good point. Maybe people are cliking on some part of the ad other than link on the ad.
FYI, UK pubs can get access to PubCenter through Yieldbuild.