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How to Set Up Adsense Channels

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By embitca


What are Adsense Channels?

Adsense channels are a way to track your Adsense performance. There are two different types of channels - Custom Channels and URL Channels.

Custom channels allow you to track ad units. You'll only be able to use custom channels on your own domain and not on a revenue sharing site such as Hubpages. With custom channels you can track the performance of different ad units and determine whether particular sizes, colors and positions work better than a different, size, color and position.

URL channels allow you to track adsense performance at either the page or domain level. If you are a Hub author, these are the channels you will want to set up. You can either set up one channel for all of your hubs, or you can set up a separate channel for each hub. The latter is the best way to get an idea of which hubs are performing well, but there is a limitation to keep in mind. You can only have a maximum of 200 channels.

How to Set up Your Adsense URL Channels

Once you log into Google Adsense, you want to click on the tab "Adsense Set-Up" at the top of the page, and then click on "Channels".

On the Channels page click on "URL Channels" and then click "+Add New URL Channels".

Then you can just start entering your Hubpage (or other website) urls in the box. If you want to just track all of your hubs as a single entity, the only thing you need to enter is hubpages.com and then click the button marked "Add channel". If you're going to add each Hub separately, then grab all of your hubpage urls and enter them in a batch or singly. Do not use your trackers. You want the raw url here.

And that's it. Now each time you log into your Adsense account, you can select "top channels" from the Reports menu and it will show you your top performing pages. You can also select "View All Adsense for Content channels" to get a performance overview of every page you are tracking.

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Maddie Ruud profile image

Maddie Ruud  says:
2 years ago

Great explanation, Embitca! Thanks for laying it out so clearly and simply.

embitca profile image

embitca  says:
2 years ago

Thanks, Maddie! I'll probably add some screencaps over the weekend too. I was working on this at 3 in the morning *g*

monitor profile image

monitor  says:
2 years ago

It's that simple. I just tried it and it works!. I am new to all this and find it a bit confusing. Thanks for making it so simple.

Mon.

sabrebIade profile image

sabrebIade  says:
14 months ago

THANK YOU!

LOL...I have agonized over this for hours reading forum posts about it.

But you summed it up in one fell swoop!

weblog profile image

weblog  says:
13 months ago

It's a great job. I got to know about this hub as Ryan Hupfer was posting the link in forum.

Thank you.

JYOTI KOTHARI profile image

JYOTI KOTHARI  says:
13 months ago

It will surely help many. Thanks.

Jyoti Kothari

Princessa profile image

Princessa  says:
13 months ago

This is very informative and very easy to understand. Finally I understand the difference between Custom and URL channels!

embitca profile image

embitca  says:
13 months ago

Thanks gang, I'm glad to be of help :)

newsworthy profile image

newsworthy  says:
12 months ago

at last....a new day is dawning and im yawning after reading a million pages of how-to's and rules and guides.

a most comprehensible article here - thank you!

earnestshub profile image

earnestshub  says:
7 months ago

Nice! Very clear and understandable hub, thank you embitca.

embitca profile image

embitca  says:
7 months ago

Welcome, Earnest! Thanks for reading :)

rnmsn  says:
7 months ago

thank you embitca, mostly I write to slow the constantly revolvomg wheel in my head but I would be lyng to say I don't want to make a profit...haha so far I have $0.20 in my accout :( this is very useful/I am setting up URL channels today!!

embitca profile image

embitca  says:
7 months ago

The URL channels will help a lot, rnmsn. Good luck!

KCC Big Country profile image

KCC Big Country  says:
7 months ago

Thanks for explaining this so well. I put all 101 of mine on there tonight. That was a chore! But it's done.

embitca profile image

embitca  says:
7 months ago

It's well worth doing, KCC. Take a look at it next month and you'll start to get an idea of what's doing well... ripe for more hubs :)

KCC Big Country profile image

KCC Big Country  says:
7 months ago

I'm excited! I actually had some show up before I finished. I actually see cents accumulating DAILY now where I hadn't been before. The 36 new hubs I did during the challenge have made a huge difference in my traffic, scores, confidence level, and evidently adsense dollars. I may actually get a payout before year-end! LOL

forlan profile image

forlan  says:
7 months ago

great tips i will try it

Cheeky Girl profile image

Cheeky Girl  says:
2 months ago

You explain this all so clearly! Thank you! Great Hub!

Ivorwen profile image

Ivorwen  says:
2 weeks ago

Thank you for the clear concise information!

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