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See this sample [photos-of-the-year.com].
What really bites..I have been with adsense 18 months and can't even get a response via email when I can't login to my account. Yahoo called me personally the day after I was approved.
It may also include some explanation for possible gains/ drops in term of the site's local behavours, while some may be due to the impact from a major change on AS in the past 3 months.
1) This data is similar to the data we already collect. We just do it on a monthly basis instead of a daily basis, and we collect actual dollar amount, not relative data.
2) I'm not sure if the typical user would want to go through all the trouble of getting daily data and normalizing it.
3) This information seems to be not as useful when you throw in the noise of people tweaking ads, varying traffic levels, etc.
4) This information could be considered a breach of the confidentiality paragraph of the AdSense TOS which states: "You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google's prior written consent. "Google Confidential Information" includes without limitation: ... click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Program provided to You by Google". The last thing I want to do is get the users of AdMoolah in trouble with Google.
So, I was thinking, to help with problems 1, 2 and 3, it may make more sense just to collect monthly CPC and CTR statistics. This could be done in a relative way, like was done on the graphs in this thread. The first month that the user enters into AdMoolah would be taken as a baseline, and then from that point on, the user could be asked for a % difference between the baseline and the current month. This would make entering the data easier. I think seeing trends in CTR and CPC could be very interesting. AdMoolah could report trends or a single site, across all entered data, and by category.
Problem 4 could be a bigger issue. I will send an email to AdSense support to see if they have any opinions.
Any input would be appreciated.
It would be handy if you were allowed to enter other data such as impressions / clicks but that is against the TOS. However, from the data on total earnings, unique visitors and page views I'm sure they could make some useful comparisons that didn't violate the TOS.
I think their stats need working on. I'd like to see a summary by category function to start with.
From my understanding, Google allows the publisher to disclose the exact earnings and thus a presentation of the trend in earnings.
The presentation of CTR or eCPM may go into trouble with Adsense's TOS however as they are directly relevant to the site's performance.
All I need to do is just paste my earnings exported from the CSV file to this worksheet, it is handy enough. I would share this as a template if anyone would like to have it as a reference.
There is one page that I monitor very closely because it makes $2-$6 per click and is my best performer (for well over 1 year). Before Jagger, I was getting about 2-3 clicks per day on this one page. However, now I'm getting more than 10 click per day, but averaging only in the single digit cents per click. At the end of the day, instead of having made about $8 from this one page, I've made less than $1.
Je ne sais pas.
** I got a response from Google about my TOS compliance question on relative information. They said no, you can't reveal even relative info. ***
I assume you are refering to CTR and eCPM, but not the actual earnings.
I assume you are refering to CTR and eCPM, but not the actual earnings.
Correct, monthly earnings can be revealed, but nothing about CTR and eCPM can be.
How about YPN data? Or eMiniMall ad data? It would also be cool to correlate all the earnings with Alexa/technorati/blogpulse site info...
admooolah is awesome! keep up the good work! I like being able to see aggregated stats. :)
If things continue the way they are now, beginning December 2 at about 2PM I'll have to start paying AdSense for having ads on my sites instead of the other way around.
farmboy
neato. I've never met the admoolah guy. I really like his site (and I'm obviously not related to him at all).How about YPN data? Or eMiniMall ad data? It would also be cool to correlate all the earnings with Alexa/technorati/blogpulse site info...
admooolah is awesome! keep up the good work! I like being able to see aggregated stats. happy!
I'm glad yoy like the site.
YPN and Chitika do not allow sharing of even gross monthly earnings, so I haven't been collecting data from those programs. I'm hoping once YPN is out of beta they might relax their terms a little bit.
Putting Alexa info on there might be a good idea, but I've never really gotten the feeling that Alexa data was very accurate. We collect unique visitors and pageviews at the site already, so hopefully those are a little more reliable.
