Adsense Tools

July 30th, 2005 by Michael Gray in SEO

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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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6 Responses to “Adsense Tools”

  1. Hilary Stewardson Says:
    May 19th, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    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

  2. Another SEO Guy Says:
    September 4th, 2006 at 7:42 pm

    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?

  3. nucke Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    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

  4. Vedant Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 5:58 am

    Good and useful post.But you forgot some important ones like keyword density anylyzer,page rank,etc…

  5. Red Son Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    Hi,

    I have just started playing with Adsense. Information is very helpful. I appreciate.

  6. Jon Says:
    November 9th, 2007 at 9:12 am

    The Adsense Sandbox is not the best preview tool, check googlock.com