I am setting my channels back up after experimenting with deleting them to see if it had any effect on smart pricing. Is there an easy way to get the channel ID numbers? It's a PITA to go through setting up a new Ad, selecting the custom channel, hitting continue, copy/pasting the entire code into notepad (because the textarea auto selects, grr), and getting the channel ID from there. Am I missing something?
What did you figure out? I've been struggling with that PITA, so if you know an easier way I'd love to know... Cryo.
Sure! Go AdSense Setup => Channels View the source. Find/search for optgroup in the source. After the optgroup tag you'll have all of your channel options. The channel ID is the option value. Copy everything between the optgroup /optgroup tags and paste into your text editor. What you do from there is up to you. Hope this helps. It might not help when you add a new channel and need the ID (unless you add a few at a time), but it helps in cases like mine.