By abelleba on
Hello,
I figured I would ask here since I am using Drupal. I followed the instructions on this website here: Adsense Instructions 4 Drupal 6x. As you can see by reading I have setup Google Adsense as a custom block on my Drupal Blog.
My question is:
How the heck do I figure out what blogs my adsense clicks are coming from? I'm getting a lot of clicks but I have no idea from which blog pages or what subjects. Google doesn't seem to tracker referrers so I don't know if anyone has any ideas or knows something I don't.
Any feed back would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
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Maybe if you set up Google
Maybe if you set up Google analytics, you can collect this date. I'm not sure but you could try.
UGHHHH
Alright, I have done this so far but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or maybe I'm heading in the wrong direction?
1.) I signed up for the google analytics program here: http://www.google.com/analytics/
2.) I downloaded the Google Analytics custom module from http://www.drupal.org/modules/
3.) I followed the read me file in the module and I setup my settings. I am fairly confident I did exactly what needs to be done. I inserted my [UA] ID number and left most of the settings at default.
I waited about 48 hours and clicked on my google ads a few times just as a test. I logged into http://www.google.com/analytics/ to check my reports.
When I checked on my report, it stated I didn't have a single click or hit. So, unless the reports are generated on a weekly/monthly basis, I don't know what I'm doing wrong?
Is all of this necessary just so I can find out what pages my traffic is on when clicking my adsense links? I would love to understand this so I can add more content that is similar to this.
For instance, I am adding large hardware driver files to my site. I have no idea if I'm burning up the bandwidth and none of these users are clicking any of the links. It would make no sense for me to continue posting these kinds of files on my site as it's not productive.
If anyone would let me know if there is a better method of tracking this information or what I might be doing wrong, I would greatly appreciate it!!!
Thanks,
It sounds as if you did
It sounds as if you did everything right settign up Google Analytics and installing the module. Are you sure that your site received any hits? Depending on the settings of your google analytics module, hits by yourself (logged in as the Drupal super-admin) may not be counted.
You ask if all this is necessary, but I don't know the answer to that. As said, I don't even know if Google analytics collects the data you're looking for, but I think it's worth a try (and personally, I think a GA account is always interesting).
wow
I'll be damned... I just checked and it went from 0 when I last checked a few hours ago to 950 hits, which seems normal and (3) clicks. The reports must process on a 2-3 day basis or something.
Strange..
Strange indeed, if I
Strange indeed, if I remember correctly, GA stats should be max. 24 hours behind....