Im not rly sure if this is the right forum but I am looking for a way to track the revenue made on individual post pages of various authors on my wordpress blog, but I dont want to sit through analytics and add up the revenue per post, since it could end up being like 1000-3000 posts per month. It would be cool to get the figures aggregated per author on a monthly basis. I want to get them to work harder with the incentive of pegging revenues to their posts, so they can push to market their work more to ease the load of myself. I take a cut and they get the rest... any ideas on what I can do?
You should let people use their own Adsense Publisher IDs. It's an accounting nightmare to try and divide up revenue from one account among many authors. You also run the risk of getting your account permanently disabled when one of your authors tries to increase their earnings by asking all their friends to click the ads multiple times. Most sites that revenue share have users use their own Adsense publisher IDs. If your site gets at least 100,000 page views per day, you can use the AdSense API. If not, you can use one of the WordPress plugins designed to manage AdSense revenue sharing. That way people are responsible for their own Adsense accounts. If it were my site, I would use other incentives (maybe weekly prizes for the "most popular posts" or "top 10 traffic-generating authors" or similar) until the regular daily traffic was enough to use the AdSense API. If you really have thousands of new posts every month then you should definitely be able to ramp up to 100k page views per day.
@Nonny - How would I do maybe a 50/50 distribution though. Im a nub at coding and there are no mods compatible with WP 3.0. :/ The channels idea looks good but Im afraid the staff members may abuse it.
SOme time back I have created a wordpress plugin which changes the adsense code after every visit. This can be useful for you.