If you are using Google AdSense on your website, here’s some very good news.
You will soon be able to track visitor clicks on your AdSense ads using Google Analytics reports.
These new reports in Analytics have enough details to help you exactly measure AdSense performance on every single page of your website.
Google dropped hints on AdSense - Analytics integration some two years but the program has finally entered the beta phase as revealed by a post on GoogleCache (offline now).
Luckily the story remained in FeedDemon’s cache and picking from there, following is a summary of AdSense related data that you’ll be able to track via Google Analytics:
1. The number of times AdSense ads were clicked on any given web page.
2. AdSense revenue generated per page for clicks mentioned in #1.
3. You’ll also know the CTR and CPM for all web pages - no need to create individual URL channels in your AdSense dashboard.
4. "Top AdSense Referrers" - this is the most interesting report as it helps you know about revenue made per referring websites.
Let’s take an example. Assume two sites - digg.com and cnn.com - have linked to a page on your website and are sending some referral traffic. Now Analytics will tell you exactly how much AdSense revenue you are making through traffic from each of these sites.
This report has enormous potential as it lends a "measurable" value to each incoming link. Some sites could even use this as a replacement for affiliate programs.
All the above information is based on screenshots that were shared by Google Cache but that story is no longer available on the web.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/track-adsense-clicks-in-google-analytics/4295/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
Its very good news for web publishers and blogger
Written by Litto on 08.21.08
Great news! I hope it will be rolled out ASAP!
Written by Petro on 08.21.08
Does changing your blog url name to new url name affect the appearance and working of previous adsense ads on your older blog?
Written by Anil on 08.21.08
It’s great news for the adsense publishers like me……let’s hope integration will come asap
Written by Roshan Bhattarai on 08.21.08
Thats a very good news for Webmasters.
TFS
Written by Abhik on 08.21.08
Incredible feature. If this come out we can get rid of the “Track AdSense” tweak.
Thanks for sharing this news, you are great too.
Written by Binh Nguyen on 08.22.08
WOW!! I can do lil bit more analysis now
Written by About Online Tips on 08.22.08
Thats good new to all publishers
Written by Raj on 08.22.08
As you wrote here…
4. “Top AdSense Referrers” - this is the most interesting report as it helps you know about revenue made per referring websites.
This is not going to be useful as Google Adsense is retiring Referral Ads this month. However, in AdSense Click Tracking Data of Google Analytics, this feature will must retire.
Written by Debiprasad on 08.22.08
Debiprasad - This is nothing to do with AdSense Referral Ads. The Top Referrers is for tracking revenue generated by referral traffic from other websites.
Written by Amit Agarwal on 08.22.08
Cool.
I’m mainly monetising my site with Adsense, and using a revenue sharing model with other bloggers on my site, and this will be great for measuring.
Yahoo, I mean Yeeha!
Go, go google gadgets:)
Oops, its almost 1am and I’m getting sillier by the minute. Ok, that’s it, I’m outta here
Written by Haroun Kola on 08.22.08
Hi Amit, are you sure the news is true ? because in the past googlecache has put similar suggestive posts like how things should be which created confusion in readers mind.
One example was of the post of adding css div class for sold links and put the name of that css block in your google webmaster account, killing all kind of link selling. It caused lot of confusion (there were images in that post too) and later on the disclaimer came though it was pretty evident from the fact that that the post is just suggesting a possiblity, its just that image which caused the confusion.
Written by iCyborg on 08.22.08
If it is real, It’s great news.
Thanks Amit
Written by Sukkim Lama on 08.23.08
Great news google, this is the one thing that would completely crown Adsense/analytics as the combo to use. I don’t see any other competitors coming even close.
Written by iRobota on 08.23.08
Good news.. no I’ll only have to log in to 1 acount for all. Its just a pitty that they cant manage the same with Feedburner and be able to bringthe feeds over to google tracking without asking us to create a new feed and loose all curent subscrbers via blogger platforms.
Written by Reccemaster on 08.23.08
Great news! This will be a really useful tool for publisher. Thanks for the info.
Written by Bob on 08.23.08
It is very amazing how much data can be collected from a simple click.
For a low traffic blog like mine, this function is useless.
Written by Andy T on 08.23.08
It will be great to see all these details…
We are missing these features right now…
Thanx for sharing…
Written by Nihar on 08.23.08
This is great news…I can’t wait till it’s released.
Written by Susan on 08.24.08
This is a great feature. I was using a lot of scripts to track the clicks but if it is provided by Google itself, it will be great!! I am waiting for this.
Written by Jawahar on 08.24.08
It is a great news and will help all the webmasters to analyze their traffic source and monetize the one that is worthy…:)
Written by Auto Man on 08.24.08
Incredible feature. If this come out we can get rid of the “Track AdSense” tweak.
Thanks for sharing this news, you are great too.
Written by Seowits on 08.24.08
Wowww.. I want this! Hope it’s not far now..
I hope it has a report of which posts are getting the clicks. I always wonder which posts give me the best clicks so far
Written by Michael Aulia on 08.25.08
Great news. This will make the adsense programme more transparent and measurable.
Written by Udit Bhandari on 08.26.08
Yes, finally! It’s will be nice to play with real numbers rather than playing the guessing game.
Written by Universal Search on 08.26.08
Yes, that is indeed good news. When I used to see my analytics report, I had wished this option when I saw that they can report conversion goals.
Written by Indian hindu names on 08.27.08
Thats good news, the more data publishers get, the more transparent the process will be which will be welcomed by all.
Written by Prasanna S on 08.29.08
great news awesome feature i wonder if this help to track invalid clicks and ip where ads clicked from
Written by spidro on 08.30.08
This is indeed good news to the adsense community, this tool has been requested so many times
Written by Mike on 09.09.08
Great news… This will certainly add some crisp. One can track all those nasty invalid clicks too… :)
Written by kashif on 09.11.08
That’s great. But do you know if you have Adsense associated with other email address and Analytics associated with other.. can you combine those two??
Written by Information Madness on 09.11.08
Hey thats a great news although i am reading this article too late but still wondering why isnt it started yet?
I am gladly waiting for adsense own tracking system to be made available in google analytics
Written by Tom on 11.21.08