How to know who click on my Adsense?

How to track IP address or Country information of Ads clickers?

[burntan]

Is there anyway to track who click on Adsense ads at my site? I would like to know what type of visitors click most, from which country?

Anyway to track those Ads clickers IP address?

[DamonHD]

Hi,

There is some JavaScript that works with IE visitors to give you IP address, etc, but (1) you have to write some extra handling code on your Web site and (2) you have to do the lookup to country with one of the (free) IP-to-country databases out there (or sometimes you get a clue from the user's domain, eg .fr or .uk).

Rgds

Damon

[gregbo]

It should be pointed out here that the mappings from IP to country are giving the country of registration for where the traffic entered publicly routable IP space. The end user could be located anywhere in the world, using tunnels or VPNs. Or they could be part of an internal (non-publicly routed) network.

[edited by: gregbo at 8:23 pm (utc) on April 18, 2005]

[gregbo]

I don't recommend using the domain name. Domain names need not correspond to the point of origin of the traffic, especially with the new TLDs coming out now. If you must try to determine the country of origin, evaluate all of the geolocation services for accuracy and freshness. (My personal preference would be to use geolocation services that most closely reflect the IANA RIRs.)

[burntan]

There is some JavaScript that works with IE visitors to give you IP address, etc, but (1) you have to write some extra handling code on your Web site and (2) you have to do the lookup to country with one of the (free) IP-to-country databases out there (or sometimes you get a clue from the user's domain, eg .fr or .uk).

Thank you for all your replies.
I manage to get visitors IP address from web server log files, lookup for IP-to-country also not a problem and I don't need 100% accurate result. However, this doesn't tell me who are some of this visitors did click on my Adsense. How do I isolate which visitors IP did click on my Adsense Ads?

[burntan]

I found my answer from the other thread in this forum. Thank you for all your replies.

[Seige]

Can you post a link to that thread? Can't seem to find it.

[burntan]

Can you post a link to that thread? Can't seem to find it.

Here you go, but the script seem like can't track click records when visitors not using IE browser.

[webmasterworld.com ]

[Seige]

Thanks so much. Yeah, it seems that way. But majority of internet users are using IE, so I guess it's not a big issue yet.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

I think that even if IE became a minority browser it would likely give you a reasonably representative *sample* which is how I am seeing it.

Roll on support for FF and Opera though, in case they have radically different (eg early-adopter tech-savvy) user bases.

Rgds

Damon

[Seige]

I like Opera, it's not bad. If only it has a banner blocker, and follow the basic w3 standards.

I don't understand why the massive publicity for Firefox. It's not as good a browser it should be as many had thought. It randomly "dissappears" from task bar and I have to purge it with "Task Manager" when it halts my system. It's a pain everytime that happens.

So, I use Maxthon.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

I use Opera most of the time for my browsing.

I'm not that impressed by FF1, but it's OK. And for the money I paid for it, very good indeed. B^>

I think the main thing is to have some choice and not be limited to one browser that has been historically sloppy/contemptuous about standards and security and that was made *just* good enough to kill the competition. This is not me being cynical, this is me with my engineering and security hat on; IE5/6 has been a real crock that I would be embarrassed to tell people about if I'd worked on it. Writing code to support it at the HTML and toolbar level has been a needlessly painful drain on my resources too.

Rgds

Damon

[shahhitesh10]

Had anybody have a successful java script for adsense tracking.
Can anybody paste the js here?