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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When it comes to writing articles for money eHow, in my opinion, is the king of the hill, with Bukisa being a poor second.  I started publishing articles there around November last year but lost interest as it didn’t seem to be a good use of my time, in fact I was earning less than 10 cents a day.

When it comes to writing articles for money I think it’s important to have multiple streams of income. Putting all your eggs in one basket can be dangerous and ineffective.

With eHow earning slowing down, which, by the way, seems to be occurring for all eHow users according to the forums, I’ve decided to revisit Bukisa with a new direction.

Now that I know a lot more about keywords and article promotion I’ll be publishing articles over there again, at first just re-tooling my current eHow articles, but eventually submitting new ones.

As I said, I’ll be using a new keyword strategy over there since they pay on page views and not ad clicks.  Bukisa, with it’s lower PageRank and Alexa rating requires a different keyword approach than eHow does.

I’ve decided on two strategies to try, and will be publishing articles over there to test them out.  It should be interesting to see which one turns out to be more effective.

I’ve already done two new articles over there to go along with my 24 existing ones.

This is only an experiment, in the end I’ll need to gauge what’s a better use of my ‘writing articles for money’  time, a new eHow article or a re-tooled Bukisa one.  It seems a new article takes about one hour to produce, while a re-tooled one takes about a 1/2 hour.  Even if it doesn’t pan out I’ll still get some more backlinks to my blog

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