adsense control - is it possible?

is it possible to know what individual ads are performing poorly

in this way - i would think you can control smart pricing by removing poor performing ads

i assume channels are no good as they only cover the page and not the actual ads

does Google analytics help in any way?

 

there is no spoon. once you realize this, you'll know that it's no the spoon bending, but yourself.

or some other crap like that.

in other words no.

 

no spoon ?
please explain

 

Spoon - Suitable Performance Optimized Optimizer Negative

No Spoon.

No.

 

Well what the hell?

I've been using channels for each individual ad. If I have a links unit and a banner on one page, I'll use 'baby tips links' for one channel and 'baby tips banner' for another.

 

this seems the obvious solution, isnt there limitations to this?

for some reason i thought i tried this and it didnt work

 

i guess you didn't do it properly.....did you create ad channels, not site channels?

 

You need to create custom channels for each position of your ads. eg:
TopBanner, BottomBanner, SideBanner or whatever the case may be. Then place the code with the relevant channel designation in the appropriate place on your pages.

This will allow you to track the information for each ad placement. However you need to consider that smart pricing doesn't simply just take into account what the CTR is, but various other factors. In fact your lowest CTR placement might be your highest converting one.

 

I suspect Zanet wants control over individual ads in *each block* rather than just a channel for the block. In which case that's not possible.

 

that's what I gather too

 

Well in that case it's definitely not possible.

 

i just want to see which add is converting, and get rid if the areas that arent

eg on my only fools site, i have 1 add in the news list, and a set of 4 at the footer
i want to know 9f getting rid 0f one block will benefit the other, especially with smart pricing

 

Well in that case you can try to use custom channels for each ad block. That way you'll know which one makes the most money, but you won't really be able to tell the conversion as Google sees it. Your lowest CTR adblock might have the highest converting ads and vice versa.

 

so is smartpricing fact or theory?

 

fact. not theory.

 

So what are the facts?
My money is halved while my traffic almost doubles in the last 6 months

what do we know?

 

Smart pricing is calculated from the conversion of the clicks on the Adsense on your site. A high CTR does not necessarily mean a high conversion. A conversion means that the person that clicked on the ad either purchased a product, dowloaded software, registered or whatever the case may be.

 

How could Google possibly know whether a person went on to buy something (conversion)
That's policing the web!

 

a 30 day cookie, and a validator on the purchase confirmation page. it's not policing the web...