Question About Where Clicks Are Coming From...

[bigcat1967]

For the last two years, I've been optimizing other ppl's websites part-time (have full time job in the IT world) and have been allowing my side biz to slow down since I want to get into IM. However, I've had personal websites out there and the last few months I've been serious about putting more content on these sites. On these pages, I've been putting adsense on them and recently have been dealing with channels.

Recently, I've been experiencing a lot more clicks per day (hey, I'm not complaining about it) and see that some of them are coming from a couple of my main sites. However, I've also been getting clicks where I don't know where they are coming from. They aren't a vast amount, but I would like to know where so I can capitalize on it and expand on these sites. The only thing I know is that about a year ago, I've was setting up bloggers (blogspot) for clients and I had adsense on them. However, I would think Adsense would pick up clicks and report them since they (Google) own blogger.

I guess I'm trying to find out where these additional clicks are coming from. Anyway I can find out?

 

[Razbox]

I assume that you have already check your analytics right? Or are there clicks not being accounted for your analytics?

 

[djbaxter]

Do you have "channels" set up in AdSense? This allows you to localize the source of your clicks.

It works by generating a unique ID for each AdSense script associated with the channel. You can then display your reports broken down by channel.

 

[bigcat1967]

Do you have "channels" set up in AdSense? This allows you to localize the source of your clicks.

It works by generating a unique ID for each AdSense script associated with the channel. You can then display your reports broken down by channel.

Yes - I do have channels setup. But I may have found the problem. I only have channels for my index pages. Since I have adsense on my internal pages - I'm assuming that I have to have channels on those as well? Because, right now, I don't have channels for the internal pages.

 

[djbaxter]

I suppose. I don't know that you really need to create separate channels for internal pages, though: That seems like overkill to me (and information overload).

I thought your main question was whether some of the clicks were coming from dormant domains or from sites created for other people, in which case just the regular channels separated for domains would do the trick.

 

[eimroda]

How about edit your existing ads and assign them channels. you can create one channel for one website so that those clicks not coming from any of your channels can be considered as from the blogger blogs.

You can integrate the ads in your inner pages to the channel where your ad in the index belongs so that ads can be grouped with channels according to websites. (I hope I made myself clear here)