Tools for Adsense
If you're just boarding on the
AdSense train, and looking to find a quick way to make the
profits you've seen all being pulled of all over the Internet,
you might be interested in a couple of tools.
These software tools are designed to aid AdSense publishers in
getting a better understanding on how traffic flows through
their site. Some will help you in understanding which keywords
gain you more money and which locations give you the best
AdSense payment.
One of the best such tools available is AdSense Gold (http://www.profitbooks.com/go/astracker)
which allows you to have a better understanding of which ads and
formats actually get more clicks and which are useful or nearly
useless.
This program works by tracking views and clicks on all the
publisher's pages. It even goes as far as offering you the
possibility to see which referrer each visitor came in through.
There's a free tool called SynSense (http://www.singerscreations.com/RSS/Posts/235.asp)
which is more of an AdSense monitoring tool. This sits in the
tray and offers actualized AdSense stats as you hover your mouse
over its icon. It's a very nice tool for those which like to be
informed on how their AdSense is doing at all times of the day.
Google provides you with stats in a csv format on their site. So
someone made a tool that can automatically download such files
and extract a lot of information from them. The name of this
tool is CSV AdStats and it is available from http://www.nix.fr/en/csvadstats.aspx?q=download
It has a large number of
features, including the possibility to highly customize reported
stats, exporting data and charts to other formats. It's in
French but the language can very easily be changed to English.
Of course any tool can only access these stats as often as 15
minutes but the authors are well aware of that fact and none of
these tools will get you in trouble with Google because of that.
If, however, you're browsing content most of the time, and your
tool of choice is the Firefox Internet browser, there's an
extension for this program that allows you to view the stats in
your status bar.
Again, this software is aware of Google's 15 minute rule and
enforces its usage, 15 minutes being the minimum time between
updates. The Google AdSense notifier for Firefox can be obtained
from http://code.mincus.com/?p=3
There is also a program called Golden Keywords out there that
helps you in getting the best keywords for your site. It's
really efficient and very easy to use. It does come with a price
tag though, it costs $49.95 and it can be obtained from http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=8616-2
So as you can see, software developers are making more and more
programs meant to help you in your quest to maximize your
AdSense profits. But before you go out looking for them remember
that Google has a few features of its own as well.
It does offer some reports (albeit a bit more limited) and using
the 'channels' feature is a good way of finding out which ads on
your site are really bringing in most of the revenue.
Be on the look out as new tools appear daily and make sure to
invest time in your site, as that is the real key in success
with AdSense. |
