Logging your Adsense clicks can have a good impact on your future “web gains”. By tracking which pages, keywords, ads formats, etc. which gives you the best results, you can tweak your pages to optimize them in order to get the best results possible. Furthermore, by tracking which keywords will often give you a click (high CTR), you’ll know on which keywords you should focus your website articles. Don’t work in the dark, open the light!
Free Options
Google Analytics method
First, you’ll want to install the Google Analytics code on your page (at the top of your page) so it tracks your pages statistics. Then you’ll download the script provided on the website and follow the instructions. Once you start getting clicks you’ll be able to see your results in the Google Analytics report page. Note that the statistics are quite restricted but they give you more than what Adsense currently does alone.
AdLogger
Lots of work is currently in progress in this project which is great. It’s currently open-source so you’re free to contribute to the project. There’s a interesting feature that this script offer and it’s the possibility to not show the Adsense banners when a specific visitor (tracked by IP) has clicked on the advertisement more than a specified amount of time. This is a great way to reduce the possibilities of click fraud. You can go check out a demo of the statistics at Demo. There isn’t currently much statistics been shown on the report pages but it’s only a matter of time before it starts getting big as many people are interested in this kind of script.
Paid Options
Adsense Gold
Gives a great deal of details about each and every click you get through your advertisement. I haven’t seen any tracker giving you that much information on Adsense and I’d recommand it to anyone who’s avid to make money online using Adsense. You are able to track keywords, referal domains, IP, ads format, the time, the page, what the ad is about, the link to this ad and even more. All the statistics are related to each other so you’re able to browse back and forth to know how everything went on which is pretty interesting to know. Being able to track pages which gives you the best results, you’ll be able to tweak them and work back on them to enhance them even more giving you bigger chances to high an higher CTR. I should also add that the interface is pretty intuitive for beginners.
Cost: 97$
NicheBOT’s AdSense Tracker
I haven’t had the chance to try this tracker but from what I’ve seen, it looks like their a limited amount of statistics. The tracker doesn’t give information about the keyword that were used in searches nor the entry pages which are in my opinion vital informations.
Cost: 67$
asRep
They offer a demo version in which you have a restricted access to the reports. Check it out at their page asRep Free Trial Version.
The script in itself is not pretty intuitive which makes it hard for someone starting out and it makes you lose a bit of time to learn it. I haven’t really tested it, there’s a demo page at Demo Page but I don’t understand how it works enough to get the statistics I want. I guess the programmer or designer should have thought about making it intuitive since it’s generally not hard to tell “Hey, you select that and then you click here!”. It is said to report the pages, the IPs, the ads format, the clicked ad url, the referrer page and domain and more.
Cost: 50$
