Everybody and their dog has AdSense on their websites. Everybody and their dog also has a website stats program that tracks pageviews.
Why is it that nobody seems to have a reliable way of tracking AdSense clicks? The stats programs do a good job of telling us what page a reader came from and what page they went to, but they are all silent if somebody clicks on an AdSense ad.
All I am really wishing to get is information about how many clicks and which page. All of my sites are blogs with quite a few pages. Each ad location on each blog is a separate AdSense channel. So, I end up with about 3 channels per blog. I have learned from this that nobody clicks on the ads on the main page, but the single page and archive pages convert pretty well. But, I have no idea WHICH pages and archives.
For me it would just be for curiosity sake, but with all the money being made through AdSense, you would think that stats companies would be all over providing this information. With all the money Google makes with AdSense, you would think they would be all over helping us publishers figure out which of our pages result in clicks. Is it the post about the crafts that my kids do or my opinion of the defense used in the last football game?
I have seen some hacks that can be installed on the server but they are not things that can easily be set up or they make you wonder if they are really allowed by Google. I tried using Performancing’s metrics for a while and had horrible accuracy with the AdSense stats.
Who does it benefit to not provide that information?
Tags: AdSense, Google, web stats, web analytics
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