Cache Plugin Broke My Ads [help]

Dresden · Nov 29, 2019

I am using adsense and yesterday I installed W3 cache plugin to speed up the site a bit. Today I check my site and the ads are gone. For a second I thought google turned them off but it seems like everything is ok on their end. I remember that I installed a W3 cache plugin and that probably caused it. I deleted this plugin but the ads are still blank. I didn't made a backup of the site because I didn't think this plugin would break it. What can I do?

wisdomkid · Nov 29, 2019

If you remove the plugin and the ads are not showing, it may be that Google is reviewing your site..
Have you checked your gmail?
Is the site bringing in any views?

Dresden · Nov 29, 2019

wisdomkid said:
If you remove the plugin and the ads are not showing, it may be that Google is reviewing your site..
Have you checked your gmail?
Is the site bringing in any views?

Yes, I check the email and I didn't get anything. Yes the site was bringing in views and it says active in adsense.

Whome · Nov 29, 2019

It could be your ads are limited, you may or not receive an email about it but what happen is they are screening your traffic for invalid activity. Do you have social media traffic? Also check if the ads are returning 403 response.

Dresden · Nov 29, 2019

Whome said:
It could be your ads are limited, you may or not receive an email about it but what happen is they are screening your traffic for invalid activity. Do you have social media traffic? Also check if the ads are returning 403 response.

How can I check for the 403 reponse? Right now all I see is a blank screen where the ads were.

cheva · Nov 30, 2019

Dresden said:
How can I check for the 403 reponse? Right now all I see is a blank screen where the ads were.

ctrl+shift+i then click on console tab in DevTools

Dresden · Nov 30, 2019

Whome said:
It could be your ads are limited, you may or not receive an email about it but what happen is they are screening your traffic for invalid activity. Do you have social media traffic? Also check if the ads are returning 403 response.

cheva said:
ctrl+shift+i then click on console tab in DevTools

There is no 403 response in the console.

cheva · Nov 30, 2019

Dresden said:
There is no 403 response in the console.

What errors do you see? If you pm me your link I can have a look?

Whome · Nov 30, 2019

Sorry check for 304 response, when it is blank adsbygoogle will return 304.

Dresden · Nov 30, 2019

This is all I see in the console.

I also don't see a 304 response.

cheva · Nov 30, 2019

Have you checked your website from another browser?

Dresden · Nov 30, 2019

cheva said:
Have you checked your website from another browser?

Yes, I checked it from different browsers, IPs, phone etc.

The page views are still updating on adsense. The only thing I did was install cache and then minify js/html.

Psh · Nov 30, 2019

Even if you uninstall WC3 I'm pretty sure there are still cache files left in the WP directory. Google it and you shall find some info about it, had a similar issue myself. Just deleted the cache folder somewhere in WP directory and it fixed itself, give that a go.

Dresden · Nov 30, 2019

Stackz said:
Even if you uninstall WC3 I'm pretty sure there are still cache files left in the WP directory. Google it and you shall find some info about it, had a similar issue myself. Just deleted the cache folder somewhere in WP directory and it fixed itself, give that a go.

I deleted the cache file in wp-content/cache but it didn't work

cheva · Nov 30, 2019

Dresden said:
I deleted the cache file in wp-content/cache but it didn't work

Iv offered to have a look. If you don't find a solution, feel free to give me a shout. Good luck

cygh1980 · Dec 4, 2019

If "Google Adsense" is counting your pageviews but not counting your "Impression" then for sure they are checking your traffic for invalid activity. It has nothing to do with the "W3 cache plugin".

Do you have checked your "Policy center" for account issues related to your website?

Dresden · Dec 4, 2019

cheva said:
Iv offered to have a look. If you don't find a solution, feel free to give me a shout. Good luck

cygh1980 said:
If "Google Adsense" is counting your pageviews but not counting your "Impression" then for sure they are checking your traffic for invalid activity. It has nothing to do with the "W3 cache plugin".

Do you have checked your "Policy center" for account issues related to your website?

Whome said:
It could be your ads are limited, you may or not receive an email about it but what happen is they are screening your traffic for invalid activity. Do you have social media traffic? Also check if the ads are returning 403 response.

You guys were right, the next day I received an email stating that my account has been limited. I thought it had something to do with the plugin because it happened a few minutes after activating it. I'm pretty sure this was caused because of the high CTR I had on my site but I wanted to see if I could slip by since all my traffic is 100% legit and just a small portion of it is from social media. I already bought a few backup adsense accounts and I will continue doing this but this time I will lower my CTR.

kosaidpo · Dec 4, 2019

try to view your site in incognito mode cus maybe your browser still keeping the cache or atleast delete the cache

Dresden · Dec 4, 2019

kosaidpo said:
try to view your site in incognito mode cus maybe your browser still keeping the cache or atleast delete the cache

The account is limited.

kosaidpo · Dec 4, 2019

what you mean , view your site in incognito mode first

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