Using Google Adsense Channels
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This is a response to a question asked by Waynet. So why did I join hubpages? I remember a couple years back I was going through a radical change in my life. Not "the change" but a change. I just had a...
How does URL tracking benefit me?
Well you want to know what is working and what is not right? Using URL trackers through your adsense account helps you see which hubs or articles are making you the most money. Using URL trackers and Google Analytics together helps you direct traffic to the hubs or articles that are generating revenue.
The understanding is really very simple. Analytics will tell you your top landing pages, how much time visitors are spending on the page, it will tell you where they are exiting to, how many times they come back and what key words they are entering though. Knowing this helps you target an audience.
Statistically, the more traffic you get the more $$ potential there is. Note: Don't be discouraged by the hubs that are making you money but are not getting as much traffic as you would like. Most adsense revenue is made through targets. So while you might not get much traffic to the one that is making money, the handful that do go there are the ones you want. In time, your most successful pages start to creep. Meaning, your most successful hubs will not happen over night but if you are patient and know what to look for and how to target you audience, they gradually start to get more traffic and more $$.
This is your goal. You can have a hub that recieves 1000 page views a day an no adsense revenue and $2.00 to $3.00 a day on a hub that sees 100 views a day. So your job is to incorporate them and get more traffic to your $$ hubs or articles. This is how URL trackers and Analytics can really benefit you.
Knowing which articles are bringing in the most traffic you can back link to the hubs that are making money. If you haven't read HubPages Backlinking for Dummies, I suggest you check it out. Back linking is not as difficult as you might think and using back links is an important tool when trying to make some money online either through sales pages or adsense.
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Setting up a URL channel in your Adsense Account
Obviously, you need to set up a Google Adsense account to do this. After you have done that and written a couple of hubs, sign into your Adsense account.
- Go to your Google Homepage
- In the top right corner of the page you will see a My Account, click that. If you have not signed in, it will redirect you to sign in and bring you back to your account page.
- Now click on AdSense
We will come back to Analytics in a second.
-Note: if you haven't set up any URL channels yet, then the "top channels" will not appear and only appears when one of your channels is active.-
Next you want to:
- click on Advanced Reports
- click on the link that says "manage channels"
- click on URL channels not + add new custom channels
- click on + Add new URL channels
- now copy and paste the URLs of your hubs or articles you want to track. Add only 1 per line. You do not need comas to separate them. One liner per URL.
- click Add Channel and you are done.
If you are new to HubPages and don't have many hubs written, add them all. Even though Google will automatically tell you if you have made some sense or not, unless you add channels, you wont know which hubs they are specifically coming from.
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Setting up Analytics
After you set up your Google Analytics account; when you go back to your AdSense account, it will ask you if you would like to link your Adsense account with Analytics. Say yes. :D
Now let's set up Analytics:
- Go back to your Google Homepage Account, the same page where you go to check your Adsense reports.
- Click on Analytics
- click Sign up
It will ask you for a website URL, put in hubpages.com. Fill out the rest of the information. It will auto detect your hubpages profile account so don't worry about adding your profile URL here. Just enter hubpage.com.
You will want to give it at least a day before it will show anything. It still has to gather information from the site. Then you can start working on your marketing plan. Analytics together with Adsense will help you optimize your hubs to their full potential.
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very useful article thanks
@ ocbill, Which one are you talking about? Using adsense channels you have to put in the separate URL to each hub you are tracking and when you get some activity, clicks or what have you, adsense will tell you which hub it is coming from.
If you only put in your hubpages profile, then it will tell you when you get action but it wont tell you where it came from unless it added in the channel tracker.
On Analytics, it tells you each and and every hub on a rundown. If you go to the "view report" (with options for day, week, or month) it will tell you which hubs are receiving the most traffic, where the traffic is coming from, how many unique views you got, how they got to your page, what pages they are exiting on etc...
So about your questions. There is two ways you can work with that information. First, having five links on 1 page, if you look at the entrance source it will tell you through which domain they got there.
On my fly fishing site, I didn't submit a url for each page in analytics because it already tell me which pages (url) they are entering in and it will also tell me if they are entering the flyfishing site through hubpages.
Does that make sense?
Hi sandra. Great info. I'm really having problems with analytics. I signed up over a month ago, but it still reads 0 visits, 0 pageviews, etc. I've kind of given up but my traffic increases by the day(thanks to the hubchallenge) and i want to know where its coming from. My analytics reads zero all the way. Could it be because i havent linked the Adsense with the Analytics?
Ive learnt so much from reading some of your hubs. So i know you'll give me good tips. Thanks
Hi viryabo, that is strange. Maybe you should try it again. It shouldn't be because you haven't linked the accounts together. Basically all that does is give you a link so you can go right over to analytics without having to go back to the accounts page and go to analytics....
In the mean time, I would just suggest you get the urls from each of your hubs and put them in the channels under your adsense account.
At least with the hubpages analytics and the url trackers on adsense you can have some idea until you get your analytics account worked out.
Very interesting and helpful hub. I will follow your advice and try and learn which of my hubs are actually generating the traffic and money. Thanks!
Hi Peggy. Once I started using these tools I was able to significantly increase the amount of money I was earning by targeting hubs which were receiving the most money per click and driving traffic.
You do have to get creative in learning how to drive traffic too but that I can't really help you with. But I can tell when you see what's going on you find inspiration to really make it work.
Hey good hub and explained easily and simply. Perhaps I was too hasty in deactivating something ,ooops, well just need that traffic to start clicking I guess.
Hey Kiwi (can I call ya Kiwi. :D ) they will. Back links. :D
Yep sure , um ive read the dummies one too, and by heck Im doin it!! ,thanks alot. I just left Google analytics,wow another toy for me to play with (or wreck) accidently, this world map thats shows where traffics is coming from crap...I need a geography lesson again. Search engines yayyyyy..they see me..well 55% of the time..hahaha..
lol, Kiwi. It's fun to play with stuff. Well, when you don't brake them that is. :D
nice hub thanks it really helped me.
Your welcome mwaky. :D
The only real problem is Google does not offer unlimited channels. For most hubbers not a problem, but for people who do a lot more than just hubpages there are simply not enough channels to allocate to hubs.
Well I cannot argue with you there Mike, that is true.
Hi, I use it only to track my blog urls and the affiliated ones like hubpages pligg ...so I know from where I am getting money.
With Google Analytic I try to understand wich article pays the most, which content is better to increase earnings.
Sandra, I am really a big fan. New to hubs and I have gotten a lot of information from your hubs. Thank you for helping the Newbies. I always make sure to leave the comments because your information has really helped me. Just set up my channels and also analytics. I also will pass information to other people that might not have gotten to your hubs. Again congrats on your new move to Hawahii.
Wow thank you Leop. I love to be helpful. Thanks for passing it on too! Best of luck, see ya around the hub. :D
great hub.. very clear explanation
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have read a few of your hubs and looking forward to more. I am a newbie and a fish out of water here. Your clear and concise explanations have given me a few much needed aha moments. I am getting things set up here to publish my first hub. At the moment I am trying to figure out if I need to have a hub published before I can sign up with Google Adsense and Amazon. My head hurts and I know you will be a great source of pain relief. Thanks again for your wisdom and inspiration. Yours will be the first fan club I join.
Excellent uliveulearn (nice name btw!). I feel honored for being the first person you fanned. I like that, what can I say? :)
I look forward to reading your first hub. Be sure to let me know when you do. Good luck and welcome to HP.
Thanks for a wonderful hub. Its just go great for newbiews like me. Do you have any idea, why my hubpagea re not showing in top channels.
Just skimming over your hubs, it would seem you are writing in competition with several million other people. The only thing I can think of is doing a better keyword search, targeting demographic, backlinking and patience.
Good luck, your hubs look sharp. :D
ocbill says:
5 months ago
I don't know. Does it really tell you the exact URL where the visitor came from or just the main url / home page? I have seen a mix. Obviously if you have 1 link on 1 page on another website you know where it came from but if you have 5 links on 5 separate pages of a website, the exact URL is difficult to nail down. I admit, I could be wrong.
Maybe they will get going and charge us a fee for that?