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17/11/10

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15/11/10

Troubleshooting tips part III: Performance reports & earnings


Wednesday, March 03, 2010 | 11:10:00 AM
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Once ads are displaying fine on your pages, your next concern may be your earnings. To make sure all your impressions and clicks are recorded correctly, check out the following notes and tips.

First, be aware that your AdSense reports are updated every 15 to 30 minutes, but can sometimes take up to 24 hours to update. So at times, if you don't see the numbers you expect in your reports, be sure to check again later once your reports have been updated.
  • Do you use the Allowed Sites feature? Allowed sites are websites or URLs on which AdSense publishers allow or wish to have their Google ads displayed. If you use the allowed sites feature in your AdSense account, be sure to add all the websites you're displaying ads on, to the list of allowed sites. If you forget to add a sites where you're displaying ads, then impressions and clicks on the sites will be shown in your reports, but advertisers won't be charged and the clicks won't earn any revenue.

  • Do you have channels set up to track your clicks and impressions?
    • If your channel reports show more data than your aggregate reports, it might be the case that your domains or ad units are being tracked simultaneously on multiple URL or custom channels. If that's the case, then to see your complete, accurate statistics, visit your Advanced Reports page. When you select the Aggregate Data radio button and click Display Report, you'll see all clicks, page impressions, and earnings from your account with no duplication of data.
    • Alternatively, you may see that your aggregate reports show more data than your channel reports, even if all your pages are tracked with channels. This can occur sometimes when your page is displayed within a frame; in this case data won't appear in your channel reports but will display in your aggregate reports.


Channel data can be a bit tricky, so make sure to pick distinctive names to differentiate between URL and custom channels -- that way, you'll know exactly what data you're viewing. We also recommend checking out our optimization tips for channels to help you determine which ad units and placements are performing well, and how you can use this information to earn more revenue.
  • If you have ad placements, have you named them accurately? Once you create channels for your ad units or domains, you can turn your custom channels into ad placements that advertisers can specifically target their ads to, using placement targeting. When entering a description for your channels to appear as ad placements, be sure to enter something informative and accurate to represent your site well.
Also, we advise you to be careful when renaming the ad placement as you will lose existing advertiser bids.

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Euro reporting and you: your questions answered

Since introducing reports in Euros for publishers located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain, we've received a number of questions about this launch. For publishers in these regions, we've addressed some of your concerns below.

How will my earnings be converted to Euros?
Once you switch to the new reports, earnings generated from advertisers paying in currencies other than the Euro will be converted. This will happen on a daily basis using the prevailing market rate from the previous day. If you generate earnings from an advertiser paying in Euros, they won't be converted.

When I'm issued a payment, will my earnings be converted again?
If you've switched to Euro reports and are receiving payments in Euros, there will be no additional conversions when your payments are issued. However, if you're receiving payments in U.S. Dollars, your payment will be converted from Euros to U.S. Dollars at the end of the month.

When I switch to Euro reports, will that automatically change the currency of my payments?
No, your selected payment currency and method won't change after you switch to Euro reports -- unless, of course, you want them to change. (You can update them by visiting the 'Payments Details' section under your My Account tab.)

Will there be a delay in receiving my unpaid earnings once I make this change?
No, making this change will not affect the timing of your payments. After you switch to Euro reports, your unpaid earnings in U.S. Dollars will be converted to Euros before the next upcoming payment selection deadline (typically the 15th of each month). For instance, if you make this switch on June 3rd, your unpaid earnings will be converted by June 15th; if you make this switch on June 20th, your unpaid earnings will be converted by July 15th.

How will this change influence VAT and any taxes I have to pay?
While you may receive your payments in your local currency, all payments are being made by Google Ireland, a company incorporated under the laws of Ireland, in accordance with the terms of your agreement with Google. Unless your business is in Ireland, you shouldn't have an obligation to charge Google VAT or treat any of our payments to you as VAT that needs to be paid to any VAT authorities. If your billing address is located in Ireland, you may have an obligation to charge Google Irish VAT. For more specific answers, we suggest you head for your local tax adviser.

I'm not located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, or Spain. When will you include other countries?
We're working to offer Euro reports to publishers located in additional countries. When we do, we'll be sure to post any updates here on Inside AdSense.

Do I need to update my account if I'm eligible?
Although this change is currently optional, in the future we will require that publishers located in eligible countries make this switch. Eligible publishers who haven't yet updated their accounts will currently see an interstitial page with additional information after signing in. We understand that some eligible publishers would like to continue receiving payments in U.S. Dollars; while you can still choose to be paid in U.S. Dollars, it will be mandatory to view your reports in Euros.

If you're eligible to make the switch to Euro reporting, we encourage you to review the updated Terms and Conditions and update your account soon. To get started, sign in to your account and look for the prompt, "See your daily earnings reported in Euro amounts!" on your Reports Overview page. You can also find more information in our Help Center.



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Two new ways to optimize AdSense on your website


Publishers frequently ask for new ways to increase the relevancy of the AdSense ads shown on their sites. Today, we're pleased to announce two features to help you display highly targeted ads to your users in new and exciting ways.

AdSense for Search Ads Only

You may remember that last year, we introduced the Custom Search element to help you easily bring Google search results and ads to your site. More recently, we introduced data rendering to give you even more control over how the results are shown to your users.

We understand that some of you may have your own, non-Google search results that you'd like to monetize. In the past, this typically meant that you weren't able to use AdSense for search ads. Now, with AdSense for search ads only, publishers can now include AdSense for search ads on their pages and pair them with their own, homegrown search results.

By adding just a few lines of JavaScript to your page, you can display AdSense for search ads above, beside, or below your own search results. You can pick the size, shape and number of ads displayed in each block, and you can even adjust the style of the ads to better fit the look and feel of your site. For instance, check out how seamlessly MerchantCircle has integrated AdSense for search ads only above and next to their search results.

AdSense for Ajax

Whether your site offers your own search results or not, if you have dynamic content, you may be interested in delivering your AdSense for content ads with AdSense for Ajax. With traditional AdSense for content, ads refresh only when a page is reloaded. This works great -- but isn't optimal when your site relies heavily on Ajax, which allows visitors to navigate a lot of content without actually leaving a single page. Also, sites that generate a lot of dynamic content that isn't crawlable are difficult to target accurately.

Here's where AdSense for Ajax comes in. With AdSense for Ajax, your AdSense for content ads will refresh whenever there's a context change - regardless of whether the page reloads or not. Travel site trip.com has taken advantage of this by showing relevant ads based on the selected tab. Try clicking on the "Hotels" tab. The page doesn't reload, yet the Ads by Google have refreshed to show ads more relevant to hotels than flights.

In addition to the ads refreshing, you might wonder why the subject of the ads changed since the crawlable content on the page didn't change much when the tab changed. The second benefit of AdSense for Ajax is that it allows you to provide hints about your site's uncrawlable content with each refresh.

Both of these AdSense features can be easily added to most sites by just copying and pasting a few lines of JavaScript code, which will help you show highly relevant ads to your visitors.

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The AdSense revenue share

Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and AdSense for search.

As you may already know, AdSense is comprised of several products. The most popular are AdSense for content, which allows publishers to generate revenue from ads placed alongside web content, and AdSense for search, which allows publishers to place a custom Google search engine on their site and generate revenue from ads shown next to search results. Since AdSense for content and AdSense for search offer publishers different services, the revenue shared with publishers differs for each of these products.

AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that we collect from advertisers for AdSense for content ads that appear on your sites. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google's costs for our continued investment in AdSense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads. It also reflects the costs we incur in building products and features that enable our AdWords advertisers to serve ads on our AdSense partner sites. Since launching AdSense for content in 2003, this revenue share has never changed.

We pay our AdSense for search partners a 51% revenue share, worldwide, for the search ads that appear through their implementations. As with AdSense for content, the proportion of revenue that we keep reflects our costs, including the significant expense, research and development involved in building and enhancing our core search and AdWords technologies. The AdSense for search revenue share has remained the same since 2005, when we increased it.

We also offer additional AdSense products including AdSense for mobile applications, AdSense for feeds, and AdSense for games. We aren’t disclosing the revenue shares for these products at this time because they’re quickly evolving, and we're still learning about the costs associated with supporting them. Revenue shares for these products can vary from product to product since our costs in building and maintaining these products can vary significantly. Additionally, the revenue shares for AdSense for content and AdSense for search also can vary for major online publishers with whom we negotiate individual contracts.

Of course, we can’t guarantee that the revenue share will never change (our costs may change significantly, for example), but we don’t have any current plans to do so for any AdSense product. Over the next few months we’ll begin showing the revenue shares for AdSense for content and AdSense for search right in the AdSense interface.

We hope this additional transparency helps you gain more insight into your business partnership with Google. We believe our revenue share is very competitive, and the vast number of advertisers who compete to appear on AdSense sites helps to ensure that you’re earning the most from every ad impression. Additionally, when considering different monetization options, we encourage you to focus on the total revenue generated from your site, rather than just revenue share, which can be misleading. For example, you would receive $68 with AdSense for content for $100 worth of advertising that appeared on your site. If another ad network offers an 80% revenue share, but is only able to collect $50 from ads served on your site, you would earn $40. In this case, a higher revenue share wouldn’t make up for the lower revenue yield of the other ad network.

We’re continually working on helping you improve the returns from your site while giving you more control and insight into AdSense. For example, we continue to improve our technology so that we can deliver even better matched ads and attract even more advertisers to your websites. Additionally, we recently began providing more granular ways to find and review the ads on your site, as well as the ability to filter more ads by category. We’re also focused on finding other ways to make AdSense better for you. As you may remember, last December, we asked for your ideas and feedback on how we can make AdSense better. We received more than 600 suggestions and 35,000 votes, and we’ve been reviewing them all.

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AdSense Facts & Fiction Part III: The stats pipeline



Fact: Although there can sometimes be delays in the stats pipeline, all data is still tracked accurately.

We call the process of tracking your clicks, impressions, and earnings the “stats pipeline.” The stats pipeline runs continuously, reviewing the logs of activity written by our ad serving system, aggregating them, and updating the storage system. So that we can generate these statistics quickly and reliably, without losing any information, the process of aggregating your statistics spans several data centers.

Sometimes in rare cases, the process for aggregating stats can be delayed for several hours. This can happen for a few possible reasons:
  • We sometimes make updates to our datacenter to make use of the latest technologies. However, these don’t affect how your clicks are tracked or how much you earn. Depending on the time it takes for the updates to complete, you may notice that stats are delayed by several hours.
  • We have scheduled database down-times, generally on Saturday mornings (Pacific Time). Since the process of aggregating your statistics depends on database data, any such downtime also leads to delay in statistics. I’d recommend reading this Inside AdSense post for more information about these downtimes.
  • On rare occasions, data centers can have unforeseen problems, causing unplanned delay in updating statistics.
These downtimes only delay your statistics -- they don’t impact the actual tracking of your statistics. We make sure that all events are processed exactly once, and we have implemented a number of internally and externally audited verification procedures to ensure that this is the case. Also, events in the aggregation pipeline are processed in a way that’s not specific to a particular publisher, so all of you should get your stats updates at the same time.

When downtimes occur, we work to notify publishers in advance and as quickly as possible using this blog, the AdSense Help Forum, and our Known Issues page. We understand how important it is for you to have up-to-date statistics, and continue to work towards making sure that the delays are kept to a minimum.

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An update on the AdSense Product Ideas page


Monday, June 28, 2010 | 11:30:00 AM
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A few months ago, we created a Product Ideas page for AdSense, where you could tell us what product and feature updates you’d like to see. We received over 600 ideas from publishers all around the world, with ideas ranging from ad filtering options to increased transparency, and more detailed reporting to easier account management.

Our product and engineering teams have been hard at work to bring you ideas from the wishlist. We still have more to do, but wanted to share some of the progress so far:

You asked for...More transparency about how much you’re earning from AdSense.
What we’ve delivered...The AdSense for content and AdSense for search revenue shares are now publicly shared.

You asked for...The ability to block certain categories of ads, like religion and dating.
What we’ve delivered...Category blocking (previously known as category filtering) is now available in 13 languages. You can filter up to 11 ad categories, including religion, dating, politics and weight loss.

We’ve also been developing a new version of the AdSense interface. Although the interface is currently in beta, it addresses many of the requests we saw on the Product Ideas page. Take a look at the improvements that the new interface offers:

You asked for...Make it easy to change addresses when we move from one location to a new one.
What we’ve delivered...You can make requests to change the country of your payment address directly in the new AdSense interface. (Due to legal and system constraints, some country updates will still require you to create a new account.)


You asked for...Automatic revenue tracking to quickly and easily compare performance of ads of different sizes and types.
What we’ve delivered...The new AdSense interface offers Ad units, Ad sizes, and Ad types reports in the Performance Reports tab. These detailed reports can help you understand which individual ad units, ad sizes, and ad types perform best on your site.


You asked for...The ability to view data for a custom date range, similar to Google Analytics.
What we’ve delivered...The new AdSense interface includes a date range selector just like Google Analytics. Plus, to see how your earnings have changed over time, we also have a feature that allows you to compare two date ranges. Simply select the date range you want to compare, check “Compare to other dates”, fill in the start date, and we’ll fill in the end date for you!


You asked for...More time frames for analyzing metrics. Specifically we heard the wish to “select the same period of time and say group by week or month to see the trend.”
What we’ve delivered...Reports by week and month, in addition to by day, are available in the Performance Reports page. Along with reports for “Entire account by day” you can choose from weeks and months.

If you’d like the new beta interface enabled in your account, you can make a request.

Thanks for all your ideas and votes. Your ideas and feedback help our teams determine where we should be spending our time, so keep them coming!

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Switch to the new version of AdSense for search


Wednesday, July 28, 2010 | 11:50:00 AM
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Over the last two years, the AdSense team has offered the powerful Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) product as an improvement over the original AdSense for search. After some recent improvements, we're now ready to retire the older version of AdSense for search. If the Google logo on your search results page reads "Powered by Google" instead of the newer "Google Custom Search" then you haven't yet upgraded to the newer version. The new AdSense for search with CSE is available in your account, and we encourage you to make the switch by updating your code as soon as possible.

AdSense for search with CSE gives you more control over your search results without changing how you earn money showing AdSense for search ads. For example, with the new version, you'll have access to advanced features like refinements and promotions. Our team has developed a number of updates and improvements during the past few months, and you can access more advanced features at www.google.com/cse.

Your existing AdSense for search box will continue to work normally for a few more months, and we'll be sure to update you when we retire this version. To take advantage of the benefits offered by the new version of AdSense for search and ensure you don't miss any revenue during the transition, we encourage you to update your code now. You'll just need to regenerate your AdSense for search code by signing in to your account and following these instructions:
  1. Visit your "AdSense Setup" tab and select "AdSense for Search."
  2. Select the sites you'd like your users to be able to search across (Learn More).
  3. Customize the look and feel of your search engine results.
  4. Update the code on your website.
For more information about AdSense for search with CSE, please visit our Help Center.

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A new look for AdSense for content ad units


Monday, August 09, 2010 | 11:10:00 AM
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We're excited to announce a revamped design of three of our AdSense for content ad units! After analyzing publisher site layouts and reviewing requests around the world, we decided to make our formats more space-efficient and visually pleasing by changing the layout of the text. We spent a lot of time experimenting with different possibilities, and we're starting with changes to the following ad units:
  • Leaderboard (728x90): the title, description, and URL are now arranged in rows instead of columns (except in the case when only one ad is showing)
  • Medium and large rectangles (300x250, 336x280): the URL is now in the same line as the title
In certain cases, you'll also see a few minor adjustments to the font size. For example, the font size for the leaderboard with four ads is much more readable. Please note that these changes will roll out over the next few weeks.


During testing, the redesigned ads performed extremely well. We'll continue to experiment and innovate on our formats to help you monetize your content, and we encourage you to submit ideas in the comments below.

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Sensitive category blocking now available for Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Portuguese


Monday, August 23, 2010 | 11:30:00 AM
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In an effort to expand the availability of sensitive category blocking (also known as category filtering) worldwide, we’re happy to announce that sensitive category blocking has now officially launched in Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Portuguese. As you might know, this feature is also available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and Arabic with testing being done for Russian.

With sensitive category blocking, you can prevent ads from up to 11 specific categories from appearing on your pages. Ads in these categories will be blocked if they're in any of the supported languages, regardless of how they've been targeted to your pages.

If you’d like to set up sensitive category blocking, please sign in to your AdSense account and visit the Ad Review Center, located under the 'AdSense Setup' tab. Once you click 'change,' you'll be able to view the full list of categories you can block. In addition, to help you understand the impact of applying these filters, we'll show you the percentage of revenue and ad impressions you've been receiving from each category in the last 30 days.

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AdSense email preferences: Get the most from your account and from Google


Monday, August 30, 2010 | 9:10:00 AM
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Have you checked your AdSense email preferences lately? If not, you may be missing out on important information and special offers without realizing. Take a minute to log in and update your email preferences under the ‘My Account’ tab.

Want to be invited to upcoming events like AdSense In Your City? Make sure you check the box next to Special Offers when you edit your email preferences so you can stay up-to-date with giveaways and other special programs in your area.

Want tips from the AdSense team for how to earn more with your AdSense account? Check Customized help and performance suggestions and/or Newsletters so we can offer personalized guidance to improve performance and maximize your revenue.

Want to help us improve AdSense by testing out features like the new AdSense interface? Check Google Market Research and you’ll be able to share your valuable feedback with us through surveys and beta tests.

Want promotions and key updates for other Google products that can help you grow your AdSense business? Check Information about other Google products and services which may be of interest to you so we can send you news and coupons based on your potential needs.

We want to help you earn more with tips and promotions, invite you to in-person events, and gather your feedback so we can continue to improve AdSense. So log in, update your preferences, and take advantage of the opportunities coming your way from the AdSense team!

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Introducing themed ads in Custom Search


Monday, September 20, 2010 | 12:50:00 PM
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Last year, we took a big step forward in improving customization of the look and feel of results by providing plug-n-play themes in the Custom Search Element. This enabled you to choose from among a palette of predefined styles. You can find a style that matches your website and start using search, or further customize the style if you like.

We’re taking themes one step further. Each theme now has ads displayed with a look and feel that match the overall style used for the search results.

The result is harmony between search results and ads, which we think makes for a great user experience. The following screenshots show search results and ads for three different themes: espresso, minimalist and green sky.



We hope you agree that your visitors will enjoy themed ads. As always, be sure to send us your

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Introducing the new AdSense interface, now available globally


Wednesday, November 10, 2010 | 6:00:00 AM
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Last November we announced that we were starting to test a new interface with a limited group of publishers. Since then, we’ve been focused on adding new features and incorporating feedback from our testers. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re rolling out the new AdSense interface to all publishers globally. You should now see a “Try the new AdSense interface” link appear in the upper corner of your account. Clicking the link will bring you to the new interface.

Built based on feedback we’ve heard from you, our publishers, the new interface is full of features designed to help you make more money with AdSense. We want to thank you for all the input you’ve given us, and show you some of the ways it’s reflected in the new interface.


You’ve told us that data that helps you better understand your performance is critical to growing your revenue, so we’ve made sure that the new interface gives you more insights.
You can now run even more detailed performance reports by ad type, ad size, ad unit, targeting type, and bid type for total earnings and other metrics, over custom date ranges. You’ll also find graphs of your data on the new Performance reports tab. You can quickly view impressions, clicks, and earnings all in one graph, compare text ad performance to image ad performance, compare date ranges, and easily analyze data to recognize trends.

You’ve continued to let us know that protecting your brand by having control over the ads that run on your site is extremely important, so we’ve improved our ad controls and made them easier to use.
All ad controls are now in one place, on the Allow and block ads tab. Here, you’ll be able to filter ads from specific advertisers, categories, and ad networks. In addition, you’ll notice that we’ve updated the ad review center to make it easier to review and manage ads that have been placement-targeted to your sites. You can now search for ads in the ad review center by ad type, keyword, URL, or ad network, and choose to allow or block them.

You’ve shared with us the need to manage your account more efficiently, so we’ve redesigned the interface to help you complete tasks quickly and easily.
The new interface allows you to quickly see your earnings and payment information, find relevant features, and make changes to your account. It also brings relevant help and other resources, like videos and blog posts, right into the interface, so you can get the information you need without leaving your account.

We encourage you to give the new interface a try. To learn more, check out google.com/ads/newadsense. You’ll find additional videos, including a tour of the new interface, information about new features, and a getting started guide. You can also join the conversation in our Forum to share best practices and discover what other publishers think about the new interface.

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Western Union now in Thailand


Thursday, October 28, 2010 | 10:15:00 AM
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After launching in four African countries earlier this month, we're excited to announce the arrival of Western Union Quick Cash® payments for Thailand!

For those of you who are not familiar with this form of payment, Western Union Quick Cash payments are free of charge and will reach you faster than checks. Payments will continue to follow our normal payment schedule and will be available for pickup in your local currency at your local Western Union agent the day after they're issued.

A couple of things to note: We can send Western Union payments only to publishers that have an individual account at this time. Also, the payee name on your account must exactly match the government-issued ID card that you'll use when picking up your payments. For more information on how to sign up for and pick up Western Union payments, please visit our Help Center.




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Make the most of your AdSense experience with our new checklist


Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | 9:45:00 AM
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Starting a new program can be overwhelming. What steps should you take to get off on the right foot and make the most of your account? To help you make your way with AdSense, we're delighted to introduce the AdSense Checklist to publishers viewing our U.S. Help Center.


If your language preference is set to U.S. English and you are logged in your Google Account, you'll find the checklist in the left navigation bar of the Help Center. You can recognize it by the progress bar. The checklist is divided into five parts, offering basic recommendations, required steps, and tips to help you grow your account to its full potential.


When you check an item, you'll see the progress bar update accordingly. This will help you in several ways. If you're new to AdSense, you'll get a clear overview of what steps to follow to make the most of your account. If you’re already an experienced AdSense publisher, you'll also have the chance to revisit the basics, and further develop your use of the program.

The progress bar can help you identify quickly how many of the recommended steps you’ve completed, and the checklist will suggest which step you can take next.

We hope that this Help Center feature will be useful to you and help you grow with the AdSense program! If you have other great ideas for ways to help newbies get started with AdSense or thoughts on how to make the checklist even better, join the conversation in our forum.

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‘Tis the season for placement targeting: Display advertising



Over the past several weeks, we’ve given you tips about how to take advantage of placement targeting as advertiser spend increases during the holiday season. In this final post of our “‘Tis the season for placement targeting” series, we’ll take a step back to talk about a popular topic that's generated buzz around Google and the online advertising industry: display advertising. This is especially relevant to this series, as the goal of placement targeting is to offer premium space to advertisers so they can effectively reach their audiences. And these days, when you're talking about premium space, you're usually talking about space that's devoted to display ads.

Advertising on Google started out with four lines of text. In addition to the original text ads, you’re probably familiar with the image, video, and rich media ads we now offer. Did you know that, other than ads shown with search results, more than 40 percent of the ads that we show are now non-text ads? More and more advertisers are creating display ad campaigns as an interactive and engaging means to reach users. To take full advantage of these ads, refer to our last post on enabling ad units to show text and image ads.

Display advertising is a big area of focus for Google. We believe that the new technology we’re developing to make display advertising work better will help to grow the display advertising pie for all publishers, by orders of magnitude. We shouldn’t be asking how publishers can make another 5 or 10 percent out of display advertising in the next few years. We should be looking at how the industry can double or triple in size.

To learn more about Google’s position on display advertising and the steps we’re taking to push the thinking to the next level, read our recent blog post on the Official Google Blog.

This wraps up our “‘Tis the Season for placement targeting” series. We hope you learned a bit more about the impact of placement targeting and how you can take advantage of this feature to earn more from your online content

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Spot a problem? Check the Known Issues page


Monday, November 15, 2010 | 10:22:00 AM
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We work hard to make sure that AdSense is always up and running smoothly. Even so, there can be slight issues, and when those happen, we try to resolve them as quickly as possible. To keep you informed about any issues our engineers are tackling, and provide you with workarounds so you can continue to effectively manage your account, we want to remind you about the Known Issues page.

We update this page regularly to keep you posted about our progress as we work toward a resolution. We also record recently resolved issues so you can check if something you've experienced in the past has been fixed.

In fact, we now have two Known Issues pages, one for the old interface and one for the new interface. This way, you'll know if an issue pertains to the interface you're using.

If you don't see your issue listed, join the discussion in the AdSense Forum to see if other publishers are experiencing the same thing. We monitor your feedback in the forum to help identify issues, so if multiple publishers are discussing a similar concern, we’ll be sure to escalate it to our engineers immediately and post any details and workarounds to the Known Issues page as soon as possible. You can also report an issue about the new interface to our product teams directly from the interface by clicking the 'Report Issue' link available on the top of every page.

Thanks for staying on top of your account! We’ll do our best to keep everything working as smoothly as possible.

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Micro Niche AdSense Course Templates

Micro Niche AdSense Course Templates

By popular demand, I’m making the templates I developed for the Micro Niche AdSense Course available for sale and not just offered as a bonus for those who buy the course through my affiliate link (that offer still stands, by the way). You can buy the templates for $20 (you get both plain HTML and PLRSiteBuilder templates) or for $40 you can get the templates and a copy of a Find Me A Domain (the complete bonus).
I’m not going to post the order links here. You need to prove to me that you own the course first. Please send mail to ericgiguere@ericgiguere.com and I can tell you what I need.
If you have any questions, mail me or leave a comment here.

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Review: Micro Niche AdSense Course


Yes, I’m back from the dead. Actually, I’m back from buying and moving into a new house while still trying to sell the old one and doing some renos on the new one. The old one sold and the major renos are out of the way for now (getting pricing on a kitchen makeover, though, so not done yet!) and my life is returning somewhat to normal. Today I want to review an ebook/course called Micro Niche AdSense Course, which is one of the very few AdSense-related products I heartily recommend. Let’s see why.

How To Make Money With AdSense

Every once in a while I find the time to stop by the WarriorForum’s section on AdSense. There I discovered an interesting post by Warrior member “XFactor” about his technique for making money with AdSense. You should go and read the thread, as it’s full of real-life advice. I made a few posts to add to the discussion. Be warned, it’s a long, long thread with almost 1600 replies to XFactor’s original post, so it will take a while to read through it.
The gist of the thread is that you can make money with AdSense using completely free search engine traffic by carefully targeting low-competition product-related keywords with simple websites and some well-planned but easy article marketing. The fundamental steps are:
  1. Locate a keyword phrase with a decent level of exact phrase searches per month (using the free Google keyword tool) and low competition when a phrase search is done using Google (not many competing sites and/or the top 10 has many not-well-targeted sites listed)
  2. Register a domain containing that phrase
  3. Build a simple website around that domain using content you rewrite based on product descriptions and other material found elsewhere
  4. Write and submit articles to one or two well-known article directories that link back to the site
  5. Repeat the process with another phrase
None of this is really new, of course. In some ways, this is the “bum marketing” technique adapted for AdSense. You’re building a whitehat “virtual real estate” empire using a very focused technique.
What I find interesting was XFactor’s assertions that he’s tried everything under the sun, including lots of “blackhat” stuff, and this for him was the simplest, surest and safest way to generate a recurring income.

The Micro Niche AdSense Book

XFactor’s thread generated so much interest and he was getting so many questions about the specifics of his technique — most of which he quite happily answered right in the thread, by the way — that XFactor decided to create an ebook based on his experience. The Micro Niche AdSense Course, almost 100 pages long, is what he came up with. I’m jealous, I must admit, because I wish I’d written it myself!
The subtitle of XFactor’s book is “The Exact Steps That I Use To Earn $300 to $400 Every Day With Google AdSense”. And that’s what you get. The chapters are:
1. The Perfect AdSense Niches
XFactor explains why product-focused low-competition niches are the way to go with AdSense as to opposed to focusing on high-paying but extremely competitive niches. He gives several actual examples of niches he’s used and shows how writing content for those niches can be incredibly easy.
2. My Keyword Research Approach
How XFactor does his keyword research and domain registration. To speed things up, he uses Micro Niche Finder (MNF), but you can do it all with some elbow grease or different tools.
3. Creating Your Website Content
Using product descriptions and other easy-to-find source material to build your website content. Easy to do, even if you hate writing, and lots of content to work with.
4. My Highest Converting Template
XFactor shows gives you a complete HTML site designed using the same template he now uses for his new sites. It’s fully compliant with AdSense terms and conditions and is very simple to replicate for your own sites.
5. Getting Ranked & Making Money: Simple Article Marketing
XFactor gets his sites to rank by submitting articles to a few major article directories, mostly EzineArticles. But he doesn’t submit articles related to the topic of his site, he submits articles that are about topics that interest him and are therefore easy to crank out. The articles aren’t a source of traffic, they’re a source of high-quality, well-anchored links to the sites. If you’ve chosen a proper keyword phrase, all it will take is a few articles to get your site into the top 10 spots on Google for that phrase.
6. Putting It All Together: 7-Day Action Plan
Here XFactor runs through the same system he uses to find and launch new sites, basically putting everything discussed in the previous chapters into a simple checklist system.
7. Growing Your Business
XFactor’s final thoughts on making money online and how to adapt to changing times.
Along with the ebook you also get access to a live version of a site built using XFactor’s template and some training videos. Everything you need to replicate his system. XFactor also updates the material when he makes changes, and he emphasizes that you should test different approaches yourself to fine-tune the system for your own needs and skills.

Testing It Out

I decided to test out this system before writing a review. I followed the 7-day action plan and built two sites using two very different keyword phrases I had found with a bit of investigation using the AdWords keyword tool. Each site was built using a PLRSiteBuilder version of the template and linked to from articles on EzineArticles and GoArticles. After a couple of weeks, one ranks #7 for its phrase (NOT in quotes, by the way —) and the other ranks #9 (also not in quotes), with no work beyond the initial article submissions. (I didn’t even do the full 7-day plan, BTW, just submitted a couple of articles each per site.)
The results are very encouraging. The average CTR for both sites is 16%, which means it’s actually more because that includes my views of the sites. I’d say 20% was more accurate. On some days the CTR was as high as 50%. The eCPM numbers were exeedingly good, averaging about $75 and generally hopping between $45 and $300 on a daily basis. Of course, those are eCPM values, not earnings. Actual earnings are not huge so far. One site is earning about $30/month, the other $2/month. My niche choice for the latter had too few searches, I think, so I’m not sure it’s going to increase much. I can see the other one increasing to the $100/month range if I can move it up into the top 5 or so.
Are these two sites exciting in and of themselves? No, not really. You can’t quit your job based on these numbers. But I’m not losing money on them, and I don’t really have to do any extra work on them once they’re up.
This is where volume and luck comes into play. I’ve discussed this topic many, many times before. There are two important factors required for small publishers to make money with AdSense:
If you have 100 sites earning an average of $3/day, that’s $300/day, which is nothing to sneeze at. But you won’t see those kinds of numbers until you build up your “empire”, because it’s hit-and-miss in terms of niche selection. That’s why having a “fire and forget” system is ideal.

Is Anything New?

I really like this course, if it’s not obvious by now, but I also want to point out that it’s not a breakthrough or anything. The broad strokes are out there for free. If you feel you need specific details, get the course, but otherwise just study that WarriorForum thread and take action.
XFactor is very upfront about all of this, by the way, and he also makes no guarantees that his system will make you any money. But it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to a “sure thing” with AdSense if you’re willing to put in the work.
I especially like the whitehat approach he’s taken, because you don’t have to pretend you’re an expert at whatever niche you’re focusing on. Or do fake reviews of products and services you have never (or would never) buy or use.
The article writing is easy, as is the site building. A few hours of research and writing per site is all you need to do before moving on to the next one. And everything can be done with free tools and sites — all you need pay for are the domain names (get them cheaply with free private registration from 1 & 1) and the website hosting (get a cheap reseller account to host them all for one low price).

Bonuses!

Full disclosure: I was one of the first people to sign up for XFactor’s affiliate program. It’s the first time in a long time that I’ve been excited to promote something related to AdSense that wasn’t my own creation.
If you’re interested in purchasing the Micro Niche AdSense Course, I’m offering some cool bonuses to anyone who purchases it through my affiliate link.
The first bonus is a new tool I’ve developed called (imaginatively) “Find Me A Domain”. This software tool, which runs on your PC or Macintosh, was something I developed for my own use with the course, because finding a good domain name is always such a chore. This tool is simple to use and I may sell it separately if there’s interest. You give it a list of keywords (it will even read spreadsheets downloaded directly from the AdWords Keyword Tool) and it finds the best available domains for those keywords using the criteria in the course.
The second bonus is my own version of XFactor’s template, but this one is done in more modern HTML with CSS. There’s also a PLRSiteBuilder version of it included.
The bonuses will be ready later this week.

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How To Create EzineArticles-Friendly Affiliate Links


If you publish articles on EzineArticles like I do then you’ve surely come up against the “no affiliate links” rule. The rule doesn’t actually ban affiliate links outright, however. Here’s what the rule says:
You declare that you will not send in any articles with direct affiliate links in them. We reject articles with direct affiliate links. It is ok, however, forward/redirect to an affiliate link from the top-level of a domain name you own.
In other words, if you have a domain “foo.com” it’s OK to include a link (in the resource box only) to the URL “http://www.foo.com” or the URL “http://foo.com” if that URL immediately sends the visitor to an affiliate link. But you can’t link to any other page on the site that does the same thing — only the root page of the site is allowed this exception to the “no affiliate links” rule.
Why does EzineArticles have this rule? It’s about quality. A lot of sites that embed affiliate links in their pages are of dubious quality, and EzineArticles tries very hard to only link to quality sites so that it can keep its high page rankings. (The human-based vetting of articles that is central to its design is a big reason why EzineArticles is seen as an authoritative source of content by the search engines.) It also requires some effort and commitment on the part of the article author, who has to purchase a domain name to use as a forwarding service.

Easy Redirection With PHP

Your domain registrar can automatically forward any domain you own to a URL of your own choosing, but there some advantages to doing the EzineArticles-friendly domain forwarding yourself. And it’s not hard to do at all as long as your web hosting service supports PHP (which is pretty much everyone).
Let’s say I want to promote a ClickBank product called Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, a very legitimate ebook about exercise and weight loss. I start by purchasing an appropriate domain, in this case feedthemuscleburnthefat.com (no, it’s not very creative). I want to set up the domain so that anyone who clicks on a link to feedthemuscleburnthefat.com is automatically forwarded to burnthefat.com using my affiliate link.
All I do is create a file called index.php using a text editor like Notepad. Four lines is all I need:
<?php
$afflink = 'http://egiguere.burnthefat.hop.clickbank.net';
header( "Location: $afflink" );
?>
I place this file on the web server and Bingo!, visitors get automatically redirected to the official Burn the Fat site.
You can do the same with your own site, just replace my affiliate link above (set in the second line of the script) with your own affiliate link.

302 vs 301 Redirects

The nice thing about the redirection method above is that it sends a “302 Moved Temporarily” redirection command back to the web browser and not a “301 Moved Permanently” redirection command. This difference is important. You’ve probably heard that you should use a 301 redirect whenever you move or rename a page so that search engines will update their indexes (and Google will pass PageRank). That’s correct, but this is not the time to do a 301 redirect. You want a temporary redirection.
Why? At some point in the future you may want to replace the forwarding with your own landing page. Any links that you’ve accumulated to the site will start passing PageRank to the new index page, not to the vendor’s page like it would with a 301 redirect. That’s why setting up your own domain to promote an affiliate product using a temporary redirect is an easy way to promote an affiliate product via article marketing without having to set up a “proper” site.

Conversion Tracking

It doesn’t take a lot of work to do a bit of conversion tracking with the PHP script shown above. ClickBank, for example, offers a “tracking ID” or “tid” feature. Here’s what ClickBank says about tracking IDs:
Tracking IDs are short descriptions you create that are added to the end of your HopLinks. The Tracking IDs can be up to 24 characters long, and must consist only of numbers and/or letters (no punctuation or other symbols). When a sale is made using one of your HopLinks, the Tracking ID is passed into ClickBank’s reporting, so you’ll be able to see exactly which of your promotional efforts led to the sale. Your Tracking IDs are visible only to you, so the vendor you send customers to won’t be able to view your Tracking IDs.
To use a tracking ID, just add “?tid=xxxxxx” to the end of your ClickBank affiliate link, replacing “xxxxxx” with the actual tracking ID.
Adding a tracking ID to the redirection script shown above is done by changing the second line of the script:
<?php
$afflink = 'http://egiguere.burnthefat.hop.clickbank.net?tid=ftmbtf';
header( "Location: $afflink" );
?>
Now when I get a sale for “Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle” I can look at the tracking ID column in the ClickBank reports and when I see “ftmbtf” I’ll know the sale came through my feedthemuscleburnthefat.com domain.
Next I’ll show you how to modify that script to make the tracking even more precise.

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Updated AdSense Notifier

Updated AdSense Notifier

The AdSense Notifier, a Firefox extension by Allen Holman that displays your AdSense statistics in the browser's status bar, has been updated to handle some login problems due to changes to the AdSense management console. The current version of the Notifier is version 0.7. To see if your Notifier needs to be updated, select the Extensions menu item in the Tools menu:
In the resulting dialog, find and highlight the AdSense Notifier item. The version number is printed right there:
If the version you see is lower than 0.7, then simply press the Update button on the bottom of the dialog. Firefox will then connect to the extension repository and download the new version of the extension. You'll have to restart your browser to get the new version.

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Get AdSense reports mailed to you

Get AdSense reports mailed to you

There's another new AdSense feature today, that of emailable reports:
After you create a custom report, you can go to the Report Manager page and ask Google to mail you the report (delivered as a CSV file — comma-separate values — that is easily imported into a spreadsheet) to whatever email address you want. So if you have a BlackBerry or a Treo and want to see what your earnings are like while you're out and about, this is one avenue to do so. Unfortunately, there is no option to send out reports on an hourly basis, just daily, weekly or monthly, so it certainly won't replace the AdSense Notifier. But it's a nice option to have. (Note to Allen Holman: please change the Notifier to read “AdSense Notifier” and not “Adsense notifier”. Thank you.)

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Turn off the AdSense Notifier


If you use the Firefox browser, I recommend you get and install the free AdSense Notifier, which installs a small status bar at the bottom of the browser that lets you quickly see and access your AdSense earnings reports. On the productivity side, however, you may find that the Notifier is too distracting, because you're continually thinking about how money you are (or aren't) making so far today.
If you find yourself distracted by the Notifier, don't uninstall it. Instead, go the Notifer options dialog (select the Extensions item in the Tools menu, then select the AdSense Notifier in the list and press the Options button) and uncheck all the display options, like so:
Then what you'll end up with is a status bar that looks like this:
But you still get quick access to the AdSense management console by right-clicking on the status bar. So it's still a handy shortcut to have, and it doesn't distract you nearly as much. You still want to check your earnings on a regular basis — always good to keep an eye on things like possible click fraud — but you can do it at times when you're not otherwise engaged. Viewing the AdSense reports page doesn't cause new clicks to magically appear, no matter how much you wish it would!

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The #1 Rule of Blogging


Someone on a mailing list I'm on was interested in setting up a blog for her business and went looking for advice about what to do. My response to her was that there was only one thing that really mattered.
Be interesting.
Oh, sure, there are lots of technical details to explore and lots of decisions to be made about which blogging platform to use, what theme to use, whether to use partial or full feeds, whether to write long posts or short posts, etc. etc. If you want to know more about these kinds of things, read ProBlogger and Copyblogger. I can only bow to the masters.
But the #1 Rule of Blogging, the “one to rule them all”, is to be interesting:
  • Be interesting to prove that you're human, not just some bot that mashes and reposts other people's content.
  • Be interesting to incite readers to revisit, because usually you only get one chance to make a good impression. (It's kind of like dating.)
  • Be interesting to communicate, because Lord knows it's hard for anyone to pay attention when they're bored.
  • Be interesting to reach your readers on an emotional level, in a way that dry recitations of facts (“Hey, let's publish our press releases to the blog!”) and obviously overhyped sales material (“It's the best thing since sliced bread!”) can't and don't.
Perhaps the best reason to be interesting, though, is that it makes the world a more interesting place. And I'd argue that a more interesting world is a better world.
Don't create yet another boring business blog. Be interesting because you don't have a boring business blog. Ideally that means having an interesting business blog, but if you can't manage that then just don't have a blog!

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AdSense Notifier Goes Crazy


Heart attacks among AdSense publishers may have spiked yesterday as Google changed something in its management console that caused the AdSense Notifier to show bogus data. Here, for example, is what mine is showing this very minute:
The earnings shown are way lower than they should be for the reporting period in question. (Since the data is bogus, I can safely display the stats here.)
As you can see, though, Allen Holman (the plugin’s creator) is aware of the situation and will have a fix out for us soon.

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ClickBank Tracking Script

ClickBank Tracking Script

Here is a simple ClickBank tracking script written in PHP that you can install on any of your websites free of charge. It can be used to track sales from AdWords and sales from EzineArticles and other article directories.

Installation

Installation is simple, just copy the index.php file shown below (after modifying it slightly) up to your web hosting service. If you’re doing EzineArticles-friendly domain serving, install it in the root of the server, otherwise you can just create a new folder and install it there. For example, I might create a folder called “burnthefat” and place the index.php file in there. Any subsequent access to “http://www.mydomain.com/burnthefat/” would invoke the script and do a redirection.
Before uploading the script, be sure to modify the default $affiliateid and $vendorid values. They are currently set to ‘egiguere’ (my primary CB affiliate ID) and ‘burnthefat’ (the vendor ID for Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle). Set them to appropriate defaults. You can override these settings when invoking the script. (If you’re planning on using the domain with EzineArticles, you MUST set the affiliate and vendor ID values correctly because you can only link to the root of the URL with no parameters.)
Now this is totally optional, but you may also want to add these lines to a .htaccess file that you place in the same directory as the index.php file:
<Files *.log>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
These lines ensure that no one can download the .csv files the script creates — you’ll have to fetch them yourself using an FTP client. (Like I said, optional…)

Tracking EzineArticles and Other Sites

The script looks at the referrer header and tries to build a tracking ID that incorporates part of the domain name and some kind of unique identifier. For EzineArticles, for example, it uses the “id” field (the article identifier). So you can easily tell which article of yours generated the click. It looks for “id”, “C” (which is used by GoArticles) and “kw”. You can easily modify it to look for other things.
The tracking ID generated in these cases consists of the date and time (in MMDDHHSS format — 8 characters long, i.e. “03091347″), some portion of the domain name (i.e. “ezineartic”), and the article ID (i.e. “672234″). So when you see this show up in your ClickBank report:
03091347ezineartic672234
you’ll know the click came on 13:47 on March 9 from EzineArticles article #672234.

Tracking AdWords Clicks

The script has some built-in features for tracking AdWords clicks, but only if you use a special syntax in your destination URLs, like so:
http://www.yoursite.com/?ag=rf01&nw={ifsearch:s}{ifcontent:c}
&kw={keyword:none}&pl={placement}
This is what the values mean:
  • ag — an identifier for the ad group or whatever unique thing you want to track, i.e. if you have two different ad texts you might want to assign two different values here
  • nw — the network being used. Note the special “{ifsearch:s}{ifcontent:c}” syntax. On the search network, the value will end up being “nw=s”, on the content network it will end up being “nw=c”. This is how you tell where the click comes from.
  • kw — the keyword that triggered the ad, if known, or “none” if not known.
  • pl — the website the ad was featured on if it’s shown on a third-party site.
As you see, you can pack a lot of information into the destination URL. The script will store all this information in the CSV files it creates and it will use it to create a tracking ID. The tracking ID will start with the date (MMDDHHSS as before) followed by “aw” (for “AdWords”), followed by one character for the network (“s” for search, “c” for content, “u” if unknown), followed by the ad group (the “ag” value), followed by as much of the keyword (the “kw” value) as will fit. (Tracking IDs are limited to 24 characters, remember.)

Other Sources

If the script doesn’t have enough information to create a (semi)human-readable tracking ID, it generates a random number and prefixes it with the date (in MMDDHHSS format) and uses that as the tracking ID.

Overriding Affiliate and Vendor IDs

You can set the affiliate ID and vendor ID explicitly by using the “affiliateid” and “vendorid” query parameters, as in:
http://www.feedthemuscleburnthefat.com/?vendorid=4idiots
This is useful if you want to use the same script for multiple redirections.

Analyzing the Data in Detail

The tracking IDs the script creates are meant to be easily eyeballed in the ClickBank sales report. But if you want to know more about the context of a particular tracking ID, the script stores information in simple CSV (comma-separated value) files that you can easily download and load into a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel. A separate file is created for each day, so the clicks for March 8, 2010 are found in “clicks.2010-03-08.csv”, in the same folder as the index.php file.
So when you see a click in your ClickBank sales report and you want to know more about it, look at the first 4 characters of the tracking ID to extract the month and day to know which file to download and open in Excel. The following data is stored, in this order:
  1. The full date and time
  2. The tracking ID
  3. The final affiliate ID
  4. The visitor’s IP address
  5. The full path that was requested, including any parameters
  6. The referrer URL, if any
  7. The user-agent header, if any (useful for discerning robots from humans)

The Script

Here it is. Either download this text file or copy the text below; place the text into a file called index.php and copy it up to your webserver.
<?php

//*************************************************************
//
// ClickBank Tracking Script
// Version 1.0
// Copyright 2010 by Eric Giguere
// ericgiguere@ericgiguere.com
//
// You may use this script for free on as many sites as you want.
// You cannot sell this script or otherwise claim ownership.
// This script is provided as-is, no warranties are implied.
//
// For installation instructions, see
// http://www.memwg.com/clickbank-tracking-script/
//
//*************************************************************
// Modify these values to set your affiliate ID, the vendor ID,
// and any additional data (i.e. '&page=1928') to append to the
// final hoplink after the tracking ID.
//*************************************************************

$affiliateid = $_GET['affiliateid'];
$vendorid    = $_GET['vendorid'];
$extra       = $_GET['extra'];

if( empty( $affiliateid ) ) $affiliateid = 'egiguere';
if( empty( $vendorid ) )    $vendorid    = 'burnthefat';

//*************************************************************
// You shouldn't need to change anything below this point.
//*************************************************************

// Gather information about the visitor.

$ip       = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$browser  = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$request  = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$reqtime  = date( 'Y/m/d H:i:s T' );
$logfile  = 'clicks.' . date( 'Y-m-d' ) . '.csv';
$prefix   = date( 'mdHi' );
$source   = '';
$tid      = '';

// Check query parameters to determine if we are being called
// from AdWords. If we are, gather the requisite info. If not,
// try to figure out where we're being called from using the
// referrer header.

if( !empty( $_GET['kw'] ) || !empty( $_GET['ag'] ) || !empty( $_GET['nw'] ) ){
    $nw      = strtolower( $_GET['nw'] );

    if( strlen( $nw ) != 1 ){
        $nw = 'u';
    }

    $source  = 'aw' . $nw;
    $keyword = $_GET['kw'];
    $adgroup = $_GET['ag'];

    $tid = substr( $prefix . $source . $adgroup . makealphanum( $keyword ), 0, 24 );
} 

// If we weren't called from AdWords, check the referrer header and
// see if we can suss out an identifier of some kind and combine it
// with the domain name to create a tracking ID.

if( empty( $tid ) && !empty( $referrer ) ){
    $referrerparts = parse_url( trim( $referrer ) );

    $host = ( $referrerparts['host'] ? $referrerparts['host'] :
               array_shift( explode( '/', $referrerparts['path'], 2 ) ) );

    $params = parse_query( $referrerparts['query'] );

    $hostparts = preg_split( '/\./', $host );
    $tld = count( $hostparts ) - 1;

    if( $tld > 0 ){
        $domain = $hostparts[$tld-1];
    $ids = array( 'id', 'C', 'kw' );

    foreach( $ids as $param ){
        if( !empty( $params[$param] ) ){
            $source = makealphanum( $params[$param] );
        }

        if( $source ) break;
    }

    if( !empty( $source ) ){
        $tid = $prefix . substr( $domain . $source, -16 );
    }
    }
}

// Last resort: we weren't able to create a tracking ID, so
// generate a unique string to server as our ID.

if( empty( $tid ) ){
    $tid = substr( getfaketid( $prefix ), 0, 24 );
}

$afflink = 'http://' . $affiliateid . '.' . $vendorid .
           '.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=' . $tid . $extra;

header( "Location: $afflink" );

// Write out the data to our CSV file

$fp = fopen( $logfile, 'a' );

if( $fp ){
  fputs( $fp, logmsg() );
  fclose( $fp );
}

//*************************************************************
// Functions used by the code above...
//*************************************************************

// Convert the string to a lower case alphanumeric-only string

function makealphanum( $str ){
    return ereg_replace( '[^a-z0-9]', '', strtolower( urldecode( $str ) ) );
}

// Parse a query string into its constituent parts

function parse_query( $var ){
    $var = html_entity_decode( $var );
    $var = explode( '&', $var );
    $arr = array();

    foreach( $var as $val ){
        $x          = explode( '=', $val );
        $arr[$x[0]] = $x[1];
    }

    unset( $val, $x, $var );
    return $arr;
}

// Encode URLs for saving in the CSV file by converting
// quotes and commas to URL escapes.

function csvencode( $str ){
    $str = str_replace( '"', '%22', $str );
    $str = str_replace( ',', '%2C', $str );
    return $str;
}

// Create the line of CSV data to append to the log file

function logmsg(){
    global $request;
    global $ip;
    global $referrer;
    global $browser;
    global $tid;
    global $reqtime;
    global $afflink;

    $msg = "$reqtime,$tid,$afflink,$ip," . csvencode( $request ) . ","
         . csvencode( $referrer ) . "," . csvencode( $browser );

    return $msg . "\n";
}

// Generate a fake TID with the given prefix.

function getfaketid( $prefix ){
    return uniqid( $prefix );
}

?>

Final Thoughts

OK, user-friendly this isn’t, I admit it. It’s very geeky. But if you’re even a bit technically inclined you should be able to install this script and use it. If you have questions about it, please leave them as comments here rather than mailing me, it’ll be more useful for others

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