Tracking Adsense Revenue

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   Lela Davidsonposted 17 years ago

   Does anyone know how to track what ads people clicked on?  Yesterday I made over $4 in Google Adsense and prior to that I'd never cracked $1.  Just curious to see if I can find out what people are buying!
   Thanks,
   Lela

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   retireyoungposted 17 years ago

   I think the only way would be to set up channels in your Adsense account to your hub pages, but I believe there is no easy way to know exactly which ads have the highest clicks.

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   parushingposted 17 years ago

   I use URL Channels.  It makes it easier than setting individual channels up for your hubs and there is a limit on the number of channels you can set up.
   
   Just ad Hubpages.com to a URL channel to do that.  There are some "heat map" tools that can tell you where people click.  There just is no way to know the exact ad.

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   Moonmaidenposted 17 years ago

   Parushing,
   I've been trying to figure out the channel thing all day. If I go to one of my hubs and copy the URL I am getting results for just that one article.
   Is there a way to track all my articles on hubpages on one channel without having to list each hub of mine one by one?

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   pauldeedsposted 17 years ago

   AdSense will match everything that begins with the URL that you specify that has your ad on it, so for instance a URL channel for:
   
   hubpages.com
   
   would match anything on the hubpages.com domain (including your hubs, profile page, author tag pages, and any of your affiliates pages).  I think that's what you want Moonmaiden.
   
   On the other hand:
   
   hubpages.com/hub
   
   would only match hubs, and
   
   hubpages.com/hub/Archery_Buddies
   
   would only match your archery buddies hub.

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   relacheposted 17 years ago

   I have channels for each of my hubs and then just run a report that grabs all of them to get a total for my AdSense from HubPages.  Or I can see how an individual hub is doing.
   
   But you can't see exactly which ads are being clicked on, which probably helps eliminate clickfraud.

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      pauldeedsposted 17 years agoin reply to this

      Relache, you should probably set up a channel for hubpages.com as well.  It will capture data from your affiliate tracker links and signups as well as on the other pages you get a revenue share on (such as profile and author hub listing pages).

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   Moonmaidenposted 17 years ago

   Thanks Paul. I will try that instead.

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   JRobinposted 17 years ago

   Thank you for the info, Paul.
   
   I'll put it to good use...

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