Beyond 200 Ad Tracking Channels

A mathematical solution within the TOS.

[otem]

I love AdSense, but I for me, I hate the lack of earning details we get about the ads shown on our sites.

I would love to benefit from having access to individual ad earnings. I think knowing this, and some additional ad click information [webmasterworld.com], will be a useful tool in helping me know exactly where my revenue comes in from, how best to increase my earnings, how to better optimize my site, and how to better reduce or eliminate click fraud.

Using PHP, it would be conceivable to use individual ad channels to track each ad click, which would work great, but definitely is not scalable, and would fail beyond 200 ad clicks. Leading to an idea I'm pursuing about random sampling [webmasterworld.com].

But I have a mathematical theory how one might legitimately increase their 200 ad tracking channels exponentially. I was hoping to get some feedback on my idea.

There are 200 channels (Real Channels) one can use. However, a person can associate multiple channels to the same ad. I think by using certain combinations of Real Channels, I believe you might be able to get a very large amount of Quasi Channels that a script would be able to rapidly process to determine exact values for a very large amount of "Channels".

Here's my idea:

If there were three real channels, A, B, C, then there are up to seven unique combinations of these channels, which could be assigned as quasi channels T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z:

• T = A
  
• U = B
  
• V = C
  
• W = AB
  
• X = AC
  
• Y = BC
  
• Z = ACB
  

I believe (but have not been able to work out the math) that, given the values of A, B, C (real channel earnings would be shown in AdSense) through using Algebra you would be able to deduce the values of the exact values of the seven quasi channels.

I'm hoping there might be others interested detailed account reports, that are interested in this quasi channel idea, and who might be a little sharper at their math skills than me, and might be able to tell me if this idea is even feasible, and worthwhile or not.

Thanks so much.

[Mr_Smithee]

You're trying to encode 7 numbers in 3 variables. That can't work without constraining the numbers. In your example, it would be indistinguishable if 10 people clicked in channel A (T) and 10 people clicked in channel B (U) or if 10 people clicked in channel AB (W). In this simple example, you could disambiguate by looking at totals, but with more channels in the mix, there would be several possible combinations which lead to the same totals.