First day of running adsense site and got just over $5!

Hi All,
Not too sure what I can say about my earnings as I have read the google tos and it says I can't tell you about my click thru rate but I can mention gross amounts.

Well after one day of operation my free articles site have earned just over $5 gross from google adsense.

After the site initially did not get approved as it was a information site about how to make money on the net via get paid to sites, google deemed it as incentivising visitors to click on links just cause the site mentioned get paid to click sites. But with the revamp by a mate it is now running smootly and hopefully my earnings will continue this way!

Drew.

 

Congratulations! Welcome to AdSense, the webmasters crack cocaine!

 

Thanks, I do have one question though.... How do I see what keywords are earning the money? I looked all over the stats and could see a link to tell me exactly what words were doing it.

Drew.

 

I'm using AdSense Tracker for that.

The obvious downside is the $99.95 price tag, but I have made my money back.

 

Ok, thanks for that. I will consider it once I get my first pay cheque.

Drew.

 

How does that interface with your website? Is it a collection of PHP scripts that you need to wrap the google code in? I am trying to figure out how it tracks the clicks.

EDIT: Does it track per ad block click or just per page? I am trying to determine which ads are being clicked.
EDIT2: If it edits googles code, then I think its against terms of service.

 

You need to use google ad channels. https://www.google.com/support/adse...8&ctx=en:search&query=channels&topic=0&type=f

Here's the instructions: https://www.google.com/support/adse...9&ctx=en:search&query=channels&topic=0&type=f

 

Thank you for pointing that out! I didn't realize you could create channels directly for certain ads. I thought channels were just used for URL's. I guess I should have looked more into it. Thanks again!

 

It's a one line JavaScript you place after your AdSense block.

It tracks Domans, Ads, Formats, Pages, Dirs, IPs, Clicks, Referrers, Referring Domains, Keywords, and also supports it's own channels interface.

For me, it was good because it showed me which pages on my sites were making clicks, as opposed to which pages were just getting traffic.

But...

Now that you can track down to the page level (for only 200 pages though!) through the AdSense portal itself... perhaps AdSense Tracker isn't such a good deal?

I dunno... it depends upon how you run your sites and what your total revenue is.