Is there a Google AdSense Bug going around?  I don’t about you guys, but yesterday I noticed my page impressions in Google AdSense were spiking (too bad my click through wasn’t doing the same).  I figured…”another spike from StumbleUpon”, but upon further analysis I noticed that my channel numbers did not add up to my total page impressions.  In fact I had approximately twice as many page impressions as I should have had according to my channels.

I dug a little deeper and took a peek at my Google Analytics data and sure enough I had way more page impressions according to Google AdSense compared to Analytics.  One final test…my AWStats.  AWStats were also at a normal level leading me to believe that there was an issue with Google AdSense.

Google AdSense Bug?

My initial thought was that someone copied some of my pages and pasted it into their own site Google AdSense code and all thus accounting for my increased page impression number.  I did some research and sure enough came across a few forums mentioning this possibility.  Hmmm…time to contact Google and let them know that trouble is afoot?  Nope…time for more research.  I went to the Google site and while looking for a contact form I came across AdSense Help.  I searched the forum and found that people were having a similar problem in a thread started yesterday.  Here’s the thread I came across: Unusual Page Impressions.

People in the forum are calling it a Google AdSense Bug, but I don’t think anyone is really sure what we’re experiencing.  My main concern was that someone scraped my publisher ID and I was afraid of a Google Ban.  However, if it’s a Bug or Google just making changes to the way they report AdSense statistics then I’m not really concerned.

How about you?  Is anyone else experiencing this phenomena?  Is this a Google Adsense Bug or something else?  If you know what’s going on or have any theories please let us know in the comment section below.