I was hoping to find more adsense tools to review and recommend, however I never received anything so we’ll go with what I was able to find.
Adsense Script Tools
These are the tiny little programs you install on your server (blech!) or locally on your machine that help you analyze your adsense clicks, CTR and earnings. Some of them are easy, some of them are difficult, and some of them help you make pretty graphs. To be honest none of them are worth recommending. You could do just as good a job by setting up your channels properly and dumping a CSV file into excel. If someone has a specific one or wants to send me a review copy of thier software, I will look at it. DO NOT send me anything that has to be installed on a server. I run multiple websites on multiple hosting companies, so I don’t need something that requires more maintenance thank you very much.
Adsense Preview Tools
The Adsense Sandbox comes via Digital Point. You put in a URL and it lets you preview what ads are most likely to appear on a URL. Pretty handy IMHO.
Adsense Tracking
While not set up to be an Adsense tracking tool per se, the free log analyzer from AddFreeStats is actually pretty good. You put a small graphic tracking bug on the bottom of each of your pages and it gives you standard logging reports. You can also activate adsense tracking to find out what ads are being clicked on what pages. Combine this with an excel spreadsheet and channels and you are good to go. You can upgrade to a paid version and get an invisible tracking bug. TIP: Lock down your stats under a password, I’m fascinated how many people leave that open.
Adsense in Action
Probably one of the best things you can do to increase your adsense earnings is to go and look how other people are doing things. The adsense case studies are one place. While these are Google approved you really don’t have an idea how successful they are. So you’d be much better off finding someone you know is in the UPS Club. Jason Calacanis who runs Weblogs Inc is on a quest to make 1 Million dollars a year from Adsense. While I do give Jason a hard time sometimes, I do actually admire what he’s built, and think there are some very valuable lessons to be learned from looking at the websites owns. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger also has two sites I really like the Digital Camera Review and Camera Phone Review. Don’t be a wanker and copy exactly what they’ve done, it’s bad form. Instead look at them, learn from them, and use it as inspiration.
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I am just starting out and am grabbing at any and all information. Your info is very clear and concise – no hype. Thank you.
Hilary – in Mexico
I’ve looked at both of Darren’s review sites (digital camera and camera phone). They are indeed good ideas and given his use of press releases for content they’re probably pretty easy to maintain. Not to mention it looks like he hires people to do his content entry.
So why do you think these sites don’t get penalized for duplicate content? The press releases must exist on the various company sites that created them. Is it because his sites are “trusted” so much that the search engines actually think he created the content?
Its easy make monay with adsense when you have god site with lot of traffic.That sites existing long time.Example:
neowin.net
freewarefiles.com
but for small personal sites is very difficult.If you want to earn monay with adsense you must first make quality web site.I am angry on people that adverisement how to I earn huge money(one million dollars with adsense).That people on yours web sites have one storry about adsense and earnyng money with the help of that story because first you can see when open site is google adsense adveriesment block.Sorry about my english
Good and useful post.But you forgot some important ones like keyword density anylyzer,page rank,etc…
Hi,
I have just started playing with Adsense. Information is very helpful. I appreciate.
The Adsense Sandbox is not the best preview tool, check googlock.com
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