Re:80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
by jefftk on Saturday July 10, 2021 @07:58AM
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Google tried something along these lines with Contributor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor), which in it's first iteration would bid on your own ad impressions. It wasn't popular, partly because it didn't cover all ads (not every ad goes through a public auction) and partly because it fundamentally cost you money. They later tried another version, which only worked with specific partners but did exclude all ads; it wasn't popular either.
(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
Re:80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
by jefftk on Sunday July 11, 2021 @07:21AM
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Are you talking about the second version? That one did exclude all ads on participating publishers, because to participate you had to set it up that way
(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)