Another day of adsensing today, I think I'll keep a running total of what my adsense earnings are as I do this.
Yesterday it was $17.51
and this morning when I woke up it was $17.58 !! 7c for going to sleep. hehe it doesn't sound like much but I only started this less than 24 hours ago. lol

I don't know where it came from so I guess I'll go off to google and have a read about channels and see if they can make a difference....

OK, so it seems that there are 2 types of channels.

URL and Custom.

The first one lets you track the clicks from individual sites (or pages) and the other needs you to put custom adsense code on the site you want to track and seems to be more work but probably more powerful. For now, I will use the URL channel feature and track the performance of ads from the 3 different sites and see which ones are performing well.

To create a URL channel:

1. Log in to your account at https://www.google.com/adsense
2. Click the Channels link below the AdSense Setup tab.
3. Choose the AdSense for content sub-tab and click the URL Channels link
4. Click Add new URL channel, and in the resulting text box, enter the URL that you would like to track.
5. Click Add channels.

The new URL channel will begin tracking data almost immediately.

To track a single page : enter the full path of the page in step 3 above:

Example : example.com/sample.html

If you have a script that generates your pages, like a blog or ecommerce site then you just put in the path to the script without the ? part.
ie. if you had http://blog.teamplaylotto.com/index.php?post=blah
then you would put
http://blog.teamplaylotto.com/index.php

I'm off to do that with my different sites too.



Current Adsense Earnings : $17.58