Hello, I want to track ads much better. I do not like channels as I feel they are not accurate. So I want to know how else we can track earnings from ads and from particular ad units also.
Channels are about the most accurate you can get. You should be able to track each ad-block if you set it up with a channel in it (as long as you don't have so many that you run out of channels) Linking your account to Google Analytics would be another option, although there is occasionally some discrepancy between the two and as far as I know you can only get per-page tracking, not down to the specific ad-block. Curious...WHY do you think channels are not accurate?
Is it? That is another story...I had few blogs. I added code manually in 1-2 of them in a channel. Then used wordpress to add code in other 3-4 blogs. I get earning of eg:1$ in 6 clicks and 140 impressions, when I see channel, I just see 0 clicks and 10 impressions. So it is like clicks are from wordpress blogs where code is added by wordpress. That is why I got a bad impression over channels. Anyways let me see how it goes this time. But I love to track by ad unit.
Is it? It is the most accurate means of getting information other than account-wide numbers. As for tracking by ad unit, luckily, you can do that, BUT if you don't trust channels, there's no reason you should trust ad unit tracking, either.
lol, Ok, I trust channels, please tell me how to track ad unit individually with out assigning them to individual channels?
You need to assign the channel when creating the ad code. See the Adsense for Content section in the Adsense Setup area of your control panel.
So if I need 2 ad slots to be tracked, then 2 separate channels for that? But I am worried as soon my 100 limit will get full!!!
It will get full, you may want to track just placement types rather than each individual block, all depends on the detail you want and/or need. For the most part tracking each individual ad on each page is going to be overkill.
Oh Yes, Thanks. Got it now... Thanks friend! Curious...Are you from adsense? As you have signature also adsense?
No I am not from adsense....I include the links in my sig because SO many posts on here can be answered by just referring to those links that it saves me time having to copy paste it into the reply, I can simply refer people to the links in my sig.
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