Can I find out which ads exactly are being clicked on?
john5000
7:25 am on Apr 17, 2010 (gmt 0)
How can I find out specifically which individual ads are being clicked on?
If tina's tent company is an adwords advertiser, and her ad titled "Buy A Tent Today" appears on my site and is clicked on, how can I know that her ad specifically is being clicked on?
Green_Grass
10:22 am on Apr 17, 2010 (gmt 0)
No, you can't get to know the specific ad being clicked. This is to protect the integrity of the adSense / adwords program.
Y/day, I got a click worth USD 4.90.. Just imagine the scope for fraud / misuse of the specifc info. w.r.t. which ad was clicked ( not by me, but by a potential scammer..)
john5000
12:49 pm on Apr 17, 2010 (gmt 0)
Know of any other similar programs to adsense that provide this data, even if a less lucrative program?
This info would be useful in determining what types of affiliate programs or direct advertisers might nicely complement the ppc ads on my sites.
piatkow
12:15 pm on Apr 19, 2010 (gmt 0)
This info would be useful in determining what types of affiliate programs or direct advertisers might nicely complement the ppc ads on my sites.
And any ad network is going to tell you which of their customers are worth stealing?
Samanthatouch
1:14 pm on Apr 19, 2010 (gmt 0)
I've been told that there is a technique of grabbing the actual HTML of the section of the page (presumably an adsense block) that reveals the text of the ads using javascript. This is coupled with another script that gives the xy coordinates of the visitors clicks. If the click is on an ad in the section being watched then the software stores the text of the ad so that you can later view which ads are getting clicks. Not sure if it allows you to correlate the click with the price paid but it does tell you what gets clicks on your site. I haven't actually seen this and I left out some info so take it with a large grain of salt. It doesn't feel very ethical because you need to do the nasty work on the client side (javascript) and send that info back to your database. Not my style.
StoutFiles
1:16 pm on Apr 19, 2010 (gmt 0)
Pretend you have advertisers A, B, and C. Advertiser A pays out 4 times as much as B and C. If we knew this, we would block B and C to get A. B and C would fold if no one wanted them. Due to supply and demand, A's click value would decrease.
