Google Channel Variable Changes
Last week was very active in terms of changes Google implemented in their Adsense code. First they changed channel variable in IFRAME call to google_ad_channel probably with rational of having variables named same in JavaScript code and IFRAME call. At ClickAider we’ve discovered the change and adapted the code to the new variable name.
Few days later the change was rolled back and now you again have google_ad_channel variable in the JavaScript code and simply channel in IFRAME url. It looks like this change broke not only external tracking tools like ours but internal Adsense stats were also broken because of this change.
Ability to react on such changes promptly is one good reason why you would like hosted solution for click tracking, like ClickAider.