Running out of AdSense Channels

How to get more

[Vegas21]

Has anyone had any experience getting AdSense to allow you more than 50 channels in your account? My business has a heavy focus on AdSense and we run it across many sites and thousands of pages but we are currently using all 50 channels and would like many more.

The reason we want more than 50 channels is because we have the ability to spotlight featured sections and pages of our site on the homepage and in newsletters, concentrating the traffic to those featured areas. Multiple channels are the key to determining which sections of our site will yield us the highest revenue. Once we determine which sections of our sites (via channel reporting), deliver the most revenue, we can spotlight these areas and generate more revenue for both us and Google.

I can continue to delete and reuse channels but that is a very inefficient process given the size of our sites and network. Does anyone have any experience getting more channels?

[loanuniverse]

You can use some of mine :)

[hunderdown]

Email Google. Tell them what you told us. It's worth a try. If you are earning them enough money I bet they would find a way to accomodate you.

[caspita]

You can use some of mine :)

I have 49 channels left also .. PM me if you want some ... I'll give them for free ;-)

[Born_User]

I've hit the same problem.

My solution... rotate them. Set a limit on how long you want a channel to remain active. Use channels to run tests and measure results, then retire the channel until you want to use it again.

But, I certainly think we all need more channels. Some advertisers should be allowed to have more.

[Vegas21]

Thanks for the offers loanuniverse and caspita ;) I'm going to pass for now.

I will go ahead and ask Google and let you know what they say. If I get denied, I'll just keep rotating them.

[UK_Web_Guy]

Does anyone know if you have to update the code on pages when you de-activate a channel?

My guessing is no, that if the channel is not active G will just aggregate the clicks, but just wanted to check if anyone had any opinion on this.

[Vegas21]

Good question.

I once posted some AdSense code on a high traffic page with an incorrect channel number due to a typo. AdSense just aggregated the clicks and earnings in my account until I realized my mistake. That is a bit different from your question but I'd guess it would do the same.

Has anyone deactivated a channel but left the old channel code up? What happened?

[Jenstar]

Has anyone deactivated a channel but left the old channel code up? What happened?

They encourage you to do this if you need more than 50 channels, and rotate which ones are turned off and on. You can have as many channels as you want, but only 50 active at any one time. Stats for deactivated channels will simply turn show in your regular stats, but not in your channel specific stats. You don't have to worry about losing any money for having an inactive channel in your AdSense script.