Using Adsense Channels - Arbitrage

[Rednax]

How do you arbitrage gurus use adsense channels on your pages? Seems a little tedious to make a new channel for every niche, how else do you keep track though?

 

[TylerL]

Right now, I have a seperate channel for each ad spot (might be overkill, but it's easy to keep track of). Say I had AdSense running in the footer, sidebar and header, I'd set it up like this

Header:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Header


Sidebar:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Sidebar


Footer:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Footer

That way, I can keep track of each individual ad spot by looking at a specific ad's channel, or just see the total stats for the one site by looking at the SiteName channel.

Probably the way everyone in the world does it

 

[ffblueocean]

Right now, I have a seperate channel for each ad spot (might be overkill, but it's easy to keep track of). Say I had AdSense running in the footer, sidebar and header, I'd set it up like this

Header:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Header


Sidebar:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Sidebar


Footer:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Footer

That way, I can keep track of each individual ad spot by looking at a specific ad's channel, or just see the total stats for the one site by looking at the SiteName channel.

Probably the way everyone in the world does it

Yep, I'm on the same page for tracking. I found the skyscrapers to convert best on my sites.

 

[jened]

easiest could be to use site based channels but not necessarily the best.
ie) niche1.domain.com, niche2.domain.com, etc
or domain.com/niche1, domain.com/niche2
depending on how you've set things up

 

[engaged]

easiest could be to use site based channels but not necessarily the best.
ie) niche1.domain.com, niche2.domain.com, etc
or domain.com/niche1, domain.com/niche2
depending on how you've set things up

yes.

 

[BlondeTM]

Right now, I have a seperate channel for each ad spot (might be overkill, but it's easy to keep track of). Say I had AdSense running in the footer, sidebar and header, I'd set it up like this

Header:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Header


Sidebar:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Sidebar


Footer:

Channel #1: SiteName
Channel #2: SiteName_Footer

That way, I can keep track of each individual ad spot by looking at a specific ad's channel, or just see the total stats for the one site by looking at the SiteName channel.

Probably the way everyone in the world does it

It's how I set mine up. I just started using channels a lot more, because without them I can't tell which ads are getting clicks and which niches are converting.

 

[vai_lee]

so you guys have more than 1 unit of ads per page? doesn't it hurt the ECPM?

 

[illkity]

I use both methods. Site based channels for each page. Then a set of channels for each template. For example Template_1_Top,Template_1_Bot, Template_2_Top. Template_2_Bot.

This way you can track each niche by page. And you can track ad positioning by template. This will allow you to scale very easily.