What ads are being clicked?

ad clicks

[kensav]

How do I tell which ads on my sites are being clicked. I received well over 30 clicks today and made $40+ and yesterday I had over 45 clicks and made a bit more than $6.

How can I tell which ads or articles people are clicking from on my site to earn the bigger eCPM?

[bts111]

Use the channels that are provided. They are very, very helpful ;)

[david_uk]

If you want to see what ads are clicked, there are a variety of trackers available, but caution needs to be exercised with them. Google doesn't endorse the use of them, and it doesn't prohibit them either. One other recent thread showed that one of the scripts available made public a lot of data about advertisers that is confidential. A surefire way to get booted!

[kensav]

bts11: I do use many channels to track which ad blocks are being clicked but I can't tell which are paying off higher for me. If writing about one subject is much more profitable than another I would want to know and capitalize on that. Naturally.

But I only want to do it fairly.

[david_uk]

You could put a channel on each banner if you had enough available. That would help you to improve the bottom line figures by only putting ads where they worked.

[kensav]

I have channels for each section of my page the 3 ad blocks are installed. I would like to know what articles people are clicking from in each of those ad blocks. I have a blog site with over 500 articles.

Is this possible and what are people using to track clicks from specific pages?

[david_uk]

The trackers will tell you what ads have been clicked, but not what block they were in. Like adsense channels you can give each page it's own code so that you know what pages the ads were clicked on. Or at least you can with the one I use.

In the case of adlinks, you may only see that they left your site via an adlinks unit, and you won't know what ad was actually clicked (if any were).

Whilst the information gathered by the tracker is interesting, I don't know that it has changed the way I run my site / adsense - apart from picking up a couple of MFA's I didn't know about that got a click (zapped 'em of course). in the main, using a tracker confirmed what I suspected was true from weblogs etc - that people who click on the quality ads will come back to your site, and those who leave by a junk ad don't. I'd say that the highest page views are from people that click the ads - they seem to spend more time looking round the site than those that don't

The tracker won't tell you how much you get from each advertiser. If you want to block ads you think are low paying, as ever a crystal ball is your best tool.

[Key_Master]

Javascript trackers also give you the advantage of letting your visitors choose the ads on your site. This way, when you go to weed out the poor performing ads from your site, you don't delete the popular ad campaigns that are generating the most revenue.

I'm pretty sure you can track channels with the js trackers too although I don't see why you would need to assuming you have a good stats package.