MyBlogLog and Google Adsense Tracking
The Site — By trench on August 4, 2008 at 6:11 pm | 81 Visitors
As a publisher for google adsense, I have always been curious to know where my site received the greatest number of visits and which ads and placements were the most effective. With tons of resources regarding Adsense across the internet I did a little research and placed my ads in areas that were supposed to get me the best return rate.
After searching google, I noticed that the one search term which regularly made the top 10 listings on all major search engines for my site was “Postal Service Exam”. I found that odd because I wrote a two liner on the subject when I took the examination several years ago.
This is where MyBlogLog comes in. After locating my post receiving the most search engine traffic I wanted to be sure to make the most revenue from it. I placed a few ads in several “hotspots” including one right below the post title and made sure they were clearly visible but non-intrusive to the reader. From there I was able to track my adsenese clicks and any other site clicks using MyBlogLog’s Link Tracking Code feature. It’s very simple to use and highly effective considering I’m still using the free version. After several weeks of testing my adsense placements I began noticing where the highest amount of clicks came from and from that point on I was actually able to sell several banners including a three figure one bought by AceYourPostalExam.
Heres a 10 step guide on how to set up your MyBlogLog account and place the tracking code on your wordpress installation.
1. Visit the homepage at mybloglog.com
2. Click join now. If you already have a Yahoo account simply use your Yahoo login information.
3. On the left side of the screen after logging in, scroll down until you find My Sites and Services. Click Add Website.
4. Fill in all relevant information.
5. After your website is registered click settings near your site thumbnail.
6. Scroll to the very bottom and find Link Tracking Code.
7. Copy and Paste the tracking code into the footer.php of your wordpress installation right before the (/body) tag.
8. Give MyBlogLog time to confirm and start tracking.
9. After 24-48 hours visit MyBlogLog and near your site thumbnail click Statistics.
10. Here you should find a listing on where your readers came from, what they viewed, and most importantly what the readers clicked.
The information provided by the tracking code is invaluable to anyone trying to find information about their visitors activity and their ad placement’s effectiveness. Its worked well for me the past three months and I’ve almost doubled my google earnings just understanding the importance of effective ad placement and which ads were performing the best. Good luck with Googling to riches and be sure to become a member of MyBLogLog community.
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I have mixed heritage of Chamorro, Filipino, and Japanese and I currently reside on the beautiful island of Guam. My interests include critiquing films, eating out, import cars, gaming, web design, MMA, and bodybuilding. I'm also a die-hard fan of both the Los Angeles Lakers and San Francisco 49ers. I hate bandwagon fans!
11 Comments
Thanks for this post! I sure like to hear about effective ad placements from you. I placed Google ads on my blog since January of this year, and the result has been poor.
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I found out MyBlogLog tracking sometimes deviate from the actual click at my adsense account… mybloglog register about 20 clicks but in my account it only register about 3-5 clicks only.. I suppose it also can be true since sometimes visitors may click but didn’t really follow through the ads..
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@AM – Thats not MyBlogLogs fault. Google Adsense doesn’t count all the clicks. although you may get 20 realtime clicks from your site, some may not counted based on what google “Thinks” are legitimate. I get 75-100 clicks a day via mybloglog but when I look at google they count about half of that.
Very interesting post. I use both MyBlogLog and Feedburner (for a real-time count) to track who clicks what.
@AsceticMonks. It depends on the stories you are posting. I wrote a sh*t load of Batman: Gotham Knight and The Dark Knight stories and got high Google clicks because people were very interesting in the ads that those posts generated. Who hasn’t been interested in The Bat for the last two months?
@Trench. How do you get those small google ads to appear underneath the Leave a Comment box? Do you select that ad type or does google do it for you automatically?
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@Film-Book dot Com – The ad is a standard 468 by 60 banner. I put it somewhere in comments.php in my wordpress template.
@AsceticMonk – Ascietic, I know google provides a hotspot map. that works. My site has also been well indexed by major search engines and several of my posts including Miami Ink, Postal Service Exams, and Americas Best Dance Crew regularly appear in the top 20 listings. It is important to post about popular topics as Films mentioned, but you must also make the site readily available to be indexed. At times I have over 40 bots on my site at once. Its crazy.
Trench, how do I maximize the number of bots that are indexing my website?
Film-Book dot Coms last blog post..Review: Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
@Film – Good SEO. Short but clear descriptions of each post, Good titles, pretty URLS (ex. 7milesdown.com/date/title of my entry), and updates at least twice weekly. I’m also active on Digg, StumbleUpon, Entrecard, and other networks to help boost my PR, links, etc.. Its taken time. Its really not something that happens overnight Im afraid.
I do all of those things already thanks to John Chow, Matthew Berman, etc. How come you don’t have all of your networks listed on MyBlogLog? Ever single one that could fit up there I placed there, even Film-Book’s MySpace page.
I try to update once a day, if not more. I’m not always able to though. I write some posts in advance and edit the time that they post.
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Nice job. I have heard of the other marketing or seo LORDS but never have I felt compelled to listen to what they have to say– usually because they are long and dragged out explanations with the bottom line their only real goal. I appreciate this information, it put 2 and 2 together for me!!
@Sophia – Glad it helped you out Sophia. Thanks for visiting!