How do I use Google AdSense Channels?

What makes me interested with your article is your marvelous incomes :)

We have a lot of content that is password protected. Is it possible to run AdSense for Search for our site?
Will the pages that are password protected reflect in the site search? And then maybe prompt the user to log in when he clicks on the link?
Could you clarify my doubt on this issue?

Ciao
Gautam

Gautam, you cannot use AdSense on pages that are secured by a password according to their terms of service. But you wouldn't want to anyway: if AdSense can't see the page, it can't target the ads and you'd just get generic ads that aren't a good match anyway.

Update: Google is testing out AdSense for password-protected pages! Please check it out here:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/google_adsense_on_password_protected_areas.html

I have signed up for adsense. I am not sure how I go about starting.

i started using adsense and it is showing 0 cpm after 18 impressions and 2 clicks. how can i start earning how cpm will be decided?

please read it carefully,i have 430 impression and 11 clicks and 2.56% ecpm but i have got 1.28 dollars. Why?

Okay, I'm not usually this much of a quitter, but AdSense makes no sense to me at all. I don't understand what a channel is, why I have to create one and why I can't just get random links from content tags such as "books, blogging, writing, etc." It seems like way too much effort when it could be very simple.

Dave,

Fantastic site! Thank you for taking the time to share your considerable knowledge. The AdSense numbers you post are enviable - hopefully with your help I'll be able to duplicate your success.

Question: In the adsense reports, is it possible to find out exactly which pages (content) perform the best for ads. Currently I am guessing by trying to synch Google Analytics and Adsense data. Is there a way to objectively discover which content pages have the highest click throughs and earnings?

Thanks for your note, Ted. I have been asking the AdSense team for per-page reporting for quite a while, but it's "possibly coming" and I have no further clue than that. I would love to see full stats on a per-page basis, but even with Google Analytics, we're still on our own to figure this sort of thing out for ourselves.

Please show me how i can earn $1000 a month with google adsense.
thanks
:)

Easy answer, Prince: produce really good unique content on a well-designed site, and make sure you're involved with other sites that are focused on the same customer community. And persist: it'll take months, if not years, to get to $1000/mo in AdSense revenue. But it can be done!

the thing is, i have custom channels, i place the codes but the ads are still not targeted. i dont want to place all ads that match the content of my site, but still i've been trying for months. the same wrong channels ar ad appears and the custom channels dont seem to work. Help anyone!!!

I have placed the codes for my site. But when I try to view my site, there's no ads showing! pls help, why are my ads not showing? I used a text only banner..

Thanks for the info.
Well explained Q/A. I'm adding adsense shortly. I hope Iwill earn as much money as you :)
Thank you!!!

Me and dolores still don't get what a channel is and how to add it. I want goodreads and amazon to be on my links as well as facebook and I dunno some other sites. How do I make channels, what do I call them?

Your site is a very NICE example for us AdSense publishers. Thanks Again

Thanks, great explanation from someone who has used it and achieved results.

im not using any channel in my ads. should i make more money if i add it?

David, nope, sorry to report that adding channels to your AdSense won't get you more revenue. Except... if you can compartmentalize ads by location on your page and/or by category or area of content, then you can learn more about your visitors and learn how to better target popular material and locate the ads on those pages, which, in the long run, will help you generate more revenue.

Got news for you the Top Channels dropdown is gone as of yesterday. Too bad they are the only game in town

What an in-depth Answer and attractive stats Dave. I am wondering if that's earnings from since in the early adsense days?

Thanks for the kudos, Gordon. I have deliberately not specified the date of these reports, but I will say that I am still a happy AdSense publisher...

Dave i change my channels what happen next?i change it like popular keyword i use in my channels it is okey to use popular keyword in google adsense channels? please check my website any advise will appriciated.
www.easternsamar.info
thanks.

This is quite attractive stats. I had never made more that 2.00 per day on adsense.

Using these channel ads can be a lot more targeted to specific cpa offers.

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Can I use more than one channel on on site/blog?

Example: I have 9 channel and have only 1 blog.

Can I use these 9 channel on one blog?

Try, definitely. I have about twenty different AdSense channels here on AskDaveTaylor so I can keep track by category of clicks, revenue, etc.

Hi Dave,
Can you target which keywords are targeted by setting up channels? Say I find a high paying keyword by doing some research then want to make sure that ads that relates to that keyword appear, can channels help me to achieve this?

Hi Dave,

your rectangle is positioned brilliant and it has a high conversion rate. how is the top leaderboard performing in your site? I found out that it works in content too, as some kind of related topics link right below the content.

And what about Chitika and Asterpix? Does this work?

Okay... help- I don't understand what exactly I should be typing into the "channel" name.

My blog is about denim- so so I name 5 channels under that ad for specific retailers and denim companies or do I just put Premium Denim in one Designer Apparel in another? What is the benefit of a descriptive channel name?

Thanks dave, really good information that i learnt, been looking for this everywhere.

Nice post. I use channels to track the performance of each ad block and links unit on my blog and it has been helping me to know which ones are really getting me the earnings. This goes a long way in tweaking the ads for best performance.

Hi Dave!

I couple of weeks I implemented the adsense code on my first blog .But now I 'd like to use channels.Is it possible to go back and name my channels, or I have to start new blog in order to set up channels?

You can definitely set up channels after the fact, Mellony. Just go into the AdSense interface where it lets you generate code for ad blocks, add the channel you want, then replace the existing code on your site with the new code. Done!

I think it's important to know which ads on which pages are getting the most clicks as well. Let's say you have a 250 x 250 ad block on 10 pages and you have one custom channel for this ad block,you may well get people clicking on this ad block a lot, but they may not necessarily tell you which page they are viewing the most. Is it not a good idea to create a custom channel for each page?

Great point, Penn, that's why it's a really smart idea to hook up AdSense to your Analytics account. The two combined can give you information like the most profitable pages, which is not something you can get from AdSense alone.

Read this for more information on how to get this working:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/connect_join_google_adsense_analytics_accounts.html

Hi Dave,
I'm not clear can I use more than one google_ad_channel per page. Actually, I wold like to implement one channel per position of the ads. If yes, is this possible with AdSense for Content implemetation too?
Do I have to include function google_ad_request_done more then once? How?

Marina, you can definitely use more than one channel on a page - I'm doing that on this very page - but you can't use the same include code or script to do so: something need to specify the channel ID and that's going to have to change.

I'm not familiar with google_ad_request_done so can't advise further.

I just created some sites for google adsense. I have a tool that automatically ads my ads. In that tool there is a box that ask for channel. I put my primary hosted domain name there. All my sites are under that name.BUT, I have never created a channel though. Now I wonder if that can affect my adsense negatively, as there is no such channel ever created. I have 1000's of pages. do I need to go back in and delete that wrong info (channel name) ? I have searched everywhere with this questions. Seems you will know. Can you email me with the answer? I don't see that request here. Thanks

Hi Oxford. Hmm.... so you're worried that you've created channels that aren't actually live on your site? I really can't imagine that would affect your AdSense results at all. Remember too that AdSense has control over matching ads to content, but your overall traffic is up to the Google search team (quite disconnected) and the CTR is really up to the creativity of the advertisers themselves.

Btw, why not just create the channel to match what your AdSense add utility has included? :-)

I just learning how to optimize google adsense. I think that many websurfers have the ad blocker add on and that prevents many ads from even showing up. Is this method can be used?