Use Adsense Channels to Track your Articles
One of the best things about publishing articles on sites like InfoBarrel and Xomba is that you can track each articles performance (and earnings) by setting up custom Adsense channels.
Here’s how to do it…
First log into your Adsense account, then click on the Adsense Setup tab.
Click the Adsense Setup tab
Next, click on the Channels link..
Click on channels now..
Under Adsense for Content you have ‘Custom Channels’ and ‘URL Channels’ Click on the URL channels..
Click on URL channels
And now, click on ‘Add new URL channels’..
Now click on 'Add new URL channels'
After you click on ‘Add new URL channel’ you’ll see a box, just go to your article page, copy the URL and then paste it into the box and then click add channels..
Paste the URL(s) into the box and click 'Add Channels'
And that’s it, you’re done. Make sure you go back to all your articles and get the channels setup. Google limits you to 200 custom channels so keep that in mind.
Tomorrow I’ll show you how to setup custom reports to really track your articles!
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Reader Comments
Awesome! Finally, a way to figure out which articles are making money. Thanks again my friend.
Setting up different channels is a great way to keep track of all your Adsense earnings, whether it’s on your website, blog, or articles.
You can also set up custom channels by size, dimension, or page location. But I like setting up the channels by page better, like in your example, because it allows you to see which keywords get the most clicks, and which ones are worth the most per click. It’s all very interesting and useful.
You might want to blur out your CTR as I think its against Googles TOS.
Good article though, I’m sure a lot of people on Infobarrel could use this info!
Hey Ryan, Thanks for the heads up, I’ll modify that now.
Yep, I did this. But I think there is a lag somewhere. One of my IB Articles shows 68 views but the adsense channel only shows 15 page impressions. I would think that they would be the same. Of course I am a rookie at all this so I could be overlooking something….. Great Blog BTW, Glad to hear that Sears is happy.
@ Phillip – I think that is because some of the ad impressions get created to IB, and not you. Maybe Norm can confirm this.
@Phillip – It is because on Infobarrel.com the articles are tracking raw views, so if you refresh, or click the back button the views will go up.
I believe Adsense will only list this as one impression resulting in the Adsense numbers being a bit lower.
I’ve looked at the actual data within Google Analytics and they are always a bit lower.