Adsense Channels help?

How to set up adsense channels

[ddss]

Hi,

Sorry to be a pain but i have 3 websites i use adsense on. I would like to seperate the data to see how each site performs and how many clicks each one gets etc.

I know this can be achieved by using "channels" i have had a play around in my adsense account and cant seem to set them up!

Does anyone know of a tutorial or could someone give me some advice quickly on how to set them up!?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Dan

[hunderdown]

There's a considerable amount of information about them on the AdSense site. Did you look in the Help section?

[celgins]

You can actually create a channel "on the fly", right after creating a new ad unit.

When you create a new ad unit, click the "Add New Channel" link. Give it a descriptive name and click "Continue" to receive your new ad code.

This will add the entry "google_ad_channel ='#*$!#*$!#*$!x'" to your Adsense code, and will enable to you to track all ads within channel
'#*$!#*$!#*$!xx'.

When you log into Adsense and check the stats on that channel, you should get an idea about how those specific ads are doing.

That's the short description! Adsense has a more detailed description that you can study.

[ddss]

Thanks guys, i was just being a bit lazy and not reading :P

Anyway for anyone who comes across this topic in the future and would like to know how to set up channels i have included googles own instructions below, hope it helps!

How do I create custom channels?

Before creating your custom channels, you may want to take some time to consider how channels can best be used on your site. Think about which metrics you would like to track - are you looking to compare performance of various ad layouts, or do you want to find out which groups of pages are generating the most clicks? When creating custom channels, we suggest that you use descriptive names for each channel, so that they are easily identifiable in your reports.

Once you've decided how you're going to use custom channels, there are two steps to creating them: first, the creation of the custom channel name; and second, adding the channel-specific code to your web pages.

To create a new custom channel name:

1. Log in to your account at [google.com...]
2. From the links below the AdSense Setup tab, click Channels
3. Choose the appropriate product sub-tab and scroll down to the Manage Custom Channels section
4. In the 'Create new channel' field, enter a name that will help you to identify this channel later. For example, carpages or blue_skyscrapers
5. Click Create new channel. Your new channel will be added to the Active Channels list.

To add the channel-specific code to your page:

1. Click the AdSense Setup page and choose the appropriate product. After choosing your ad type, format, and colors, select the desired channel from the Channel drop-down list, then click Continue
2. Copy-and-paste the ad layout code into your web pages. The channel identifier within your code will track performance on these pages.

A page can be moved to a different channel by updating the code on that page. A page can also be removed from all channels by specifying No channel selection when generating the code.

Thanks again
Dan