Any Free (or close to it) adsense trackers?

I am looking for some good adsense click trackers.. I found a good one, www.asrep.com - but I just cant bring myself to pay $50 for it.

I was wondering if any of you knew of any free ones?


Thanks,
Josh

 

I use http://www.addfreestats.com/ for general day to day tracking (includes click tracking) - has been OK for me and doesn't cost anything.

Cheers,

JL

 

But you have to add there little annoying button to your site.

Id much prefer something that I can run on my own server.. and not have to depend on someone elses site for.


Josh

 

Hi Josh,

I have a really simple one I built from info in a Webmaster World thread. You are welcome to that. It's a bit of javascript that you put on pages below the adsense script. In my case it appends the page url, the advert url and the time into a mysql database, and I have a php page that pulls it out. I guess you could do more stuff if you could be bothered to code it into php. It's all a bit diy to implement.

Otherwise, one of the adsense trackers has a free basic version. It's been referenced here recently. I've not tried it.

 

That sounds cool.. could you post the code here, or zip it and email it to me:


Josh

 

No problem - I'll get the code into some sort of manageable form and post back tomorrow evening (UK time).

I've been meaning to develop it into an open source freeware format - It's so simple I can't belive people are charging money for it.

 

Exactly what do you plan to do with the tracking information when you get it? Do you think if you know who clicks through you can fine tune the page or the ads for a higher CTR?

 

Yes, compar, thats about right. Try different adsense placements/colors on differnet pages, and see what gets the highest CTR.


Josh

 

I think the paid one from related-pages.com is good.

 

My bodge together of the webmaster world adsense tracker is now available for download on http://www.vordweb.co.uk/adsense.htm It's php/MySQL, but the javascript bit should work equally well with asp.

It's limited in it's scope and far from user friendly to install, but I've commented in some instructions. No time today to do any more. Maybe I'll make it a bit more sensible at a later date.

BTW - if anyone has time to improve it then great. I'm claiming no copyright or anything like that so feel free to take it away and make it better. It would be great to make a simple open source and free version available.