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Thank you.
How something performs per page or site wide?
If you want to know how your pages are performing, just drop the page URLs in the "URL Channels" section and AdSense will start tracking how each page performs that you add to the list.
You can also create a channel name and track individual ad units via this channel name, either per page or the same ad unit site wide if you paste the same code with that channel code on multiple pages.
Just keep in mind you only have a limited number of channels so make them all count.
I have a rather large site: 20K + pages, and it grows every day. I would like to find out which pages make me the most money, however it appears Google has a limited reporting capacity?
Perhaps I must write a script to measure only the clicks on the ads? Yes?
I have 3 ads per page, a leaderboard, adlink and skyscraper so I created 3 channels called "sky" "leader" and "adlinks" and track them site wide.
Then for the home page only, which gets a high volume of traffic I created 3 different channels called "home-sky" "home-leader" and "home-adlinks" just to see how those did individually.
Next, I went to my server logs to see what my highest traffic pages were and put my top 90 pages in the URL channels to see how they are converting which seems to be covering about 95% of the income the site generates.
That's about the best you can do in my opinion with such a large site and the limitations of channels.
e.g. one of the low-traffic pages could have a VERY good EPC, and by doing so I would just forget it.
If I knew that a low-traffic page has a brilliant epc , I could decide it's worth while to promote that page more (e.g. prominent link in the home page, links from several pages to bring it up the SERP, etc.)
What I first thought is to do the following:
1) Leave 20 channles free for normal use
2) Set up 80 channels
3) For N days, I leave the 80 channels on pages 1..80
4) Compare the 80 page-based EPCs with the average epc in those days
5) repeat until you have scanned all the pages
But... it takes LONG to scan the whole site.
Assuming the N days are 3 days (and it's short a period to do statistics over, especially for less-visited pages!) and assuming you have 30.000 pages it would take 30.000 / 80 * 3 days = 750 days...
definitely not feasible!
I thought to group the pages in tens:
page 1-10 -> channel 1
page 11-20 -> channel 2
and then if I find a much better-behaving group of pages, investigate which of the 10 pages is the good one...
but it gets too complex, and I can spend that time in better ways!
Any idea, anyone?
I still recommend analyzing your top performing pages first as I ran into situations of high traffic and poor performance (or PSAs) on some pages and it was easier to start increasing earnings on pages with traffic vs. hunting for an elusive high paying ghost on a low traffic page.
I'll probably analyze the low traffic pages eventually, but not any time soon as I have bigger fish to fry at the moment.
Ahhh! That makes sense. Although I cannot believe google tracking is so limited.
