So today I was tweaking a few Google AdSense ads and figuring out if I can buy a beer with the pennies that are coming in. Despite the fact that one of my blogs, Balanced News Blog, is getting somewhere in the order of 6000 hits/day+, Google AdSense is still only registering 50-150 impressions a day. Befuddling isn’t it? It’s certainly got me, and I make sure to use the maximum of 3 Google AdSense ads per page, no more no less.
Anyway, I thought I’d find out a little more and started clicking on things here and there. On the ‘Google AdSense – Reports’ page, there are five named columns: Page Impressions, Clicks, Page CTR, Page eCPM, Earnings. The one link I’m writing about is the question mark next to Page eCPM.
I clicked on it, curious why it lists one number. Guess where it goes? Nowhere! Actually, here. It’s a 404 Error Page. You’d think with ALL that talent over at Google they could get something as simple as a help page working, wouldn’t you?
So I thought, I’ll be a nice guy, I’ll help them out, mail them telling them their code is wonky. Not sure if others are like that, perhaps no-one has mailed them? Perhaps everything thinks someone else is going to do it? Anyway, I can’t find anywhere on the page to get in touch with them. Figures…
Even WORSE – at the top of the page, there is a ‘Help’ link, guess where IT goes? You got it, another 404 Not Found. I’m beginning to sense a theme here.
My last one. On the bottom left, there is a link: Learn more about custom reports. Guess where IT goes? You got it, another Error 404 page.
Not to be too cheeky here, but Google, you can contact me anytime for web work. I have quite a bit of experience, I even do my own error checking and try to break things on my own. I don’t charge TOO much, honest 
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