Written on December 4th, 2007 at 12:12 pm by Darren Rowse
AdSense ‘Reporting Enhancements’ Due Soon
The official AdSense blog have just published two interesting snippets of information.
1. Those publishers who use AdSense for Search have a report available to them that shows data on what people use the search field to search for. They will stop tracking data on these reports that are older than 1 year. If you use these reports they encourage you to save your reports before 10 December.
2. Not explicit in their post – but there none the less – is a reference to upcoming ‘reporting enhancements’. No mention is made of what they are (we can pressume they’ll roll out sometime after the 10 December) – but it begs the question:
what report changes would you like AdSense to make?
Bonus Question - it is around this time each year that AdSense sends out Christmas gifts to many of their publishers.
- In 2006 it was a Digital Photo Frame
- In 2005 it was a little pack with computer accessories
- In 2004 it was a ‘Mood Lighting Radio‘
No one knows exactly how much you need to earn to get the gift – but it seems to be something that quite a few medium to large sized publishers receive in the first couple of weeks of December.
What do you think the AdSense Christmas gift will be this year?
25 Responses to “AdSense ‘Reporting Enhancements’ Due Soon” - Add Yours
Abhijeet Mukherjee
December 4th, 2007 1:11 pm
Darren…I think the best adsense Christmas gift could be reverting back to the old clickable regions(many bloggers reported a drop in adsense earnings after the change was introduced)…and help the bloggers earn some more bucks… what do you say :)
bob cobb
December 4th, 2007 1:12 pm
They gave some adwords people mini fridges
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/google_fridge.jpg
RT the fitness guy
December 4th, 2007 1:22 pm
Who cares about the reports. No one is earning any money anymore with these new links.
Well, by no one I mean me.
CTR down from above 7% to below 2%.
David
December 4th, 2007 1:25 pm
A bigger cut of the ad money? ;-)
James from justhuntingtips.blogpsot.com
December 4th, 2007 1:40 pm
Free adwords
Keith
December 4th, 2007 1:41 pm
I was hoping for Google stock!
Ken Y-N
December 4th, 2007 2:59 pm
A $100 Text Link Ads voucher?
Darren, as there’s a lot of people hurting from the PR massacre and the clickable areas, this might be a good time to run some more articles on how to sell your own links or alternative monetisation. I’m down 50% on previous months with more traffic.
10kPortfolio
December 4th, 2007 3:43 pm
Nice post, I never knew Google would send out Christmas gifts. Like an earlier comment posted, A good gift would be to revert to the old click area.
Max Powers
December 4th, 2007 4:29 pm
Whatever the gift is, I’ll bet it comes from China.
Vishaal Bhat
December 4th, 2007 4:52 pm
@Abhijeet
I saw a rise in my Adsense Income after the change. Maybe the enhancements would be something along the google trends widget or similar stuff. And by the way I haven’t received any gifts till date… :) . Hope it is a big Adsense check ;P
Nikke
December 4th, 2007 5:03 pm
It’s a 2 GB memory stick.
R
December 4th, 2007 5:08 pm
What abt a reduction in payout to 50$ ?
Paul William Tenny
December 4th, 2007 5:14 pm
The special treatment they already get seems like a pretty darn good gift.
Mike Goad
December 4th, 2007 6:00 pm
I’m not generally a cynical person, but I know what the AdSense gift will be for me… the same as last year. Nothing.
It’s nice that the better publishers get something from Google in the holidays. Makes for something more to look forward to (or hope for).
Maybe it’ll be something that you could offer up as a prize in one of your contests. That way you win more traffic and someone else could say that they had something that came as a gift from Google – even though Google didn’t send it to them.
Andy Merrett
December 4th, 2007 6:23 pm
Hmm, RT, sorry to hear that.
Maybe it’s the Christmas effect, but my earnings have gone up since the changes. They certainly haven’t gone down, anyway.
I’m not sure every publisher who gets a gift also gets “special treatment” — I think the thresholds are quite different.
Calvin
December 4th, 2007 6:28 pm
christmas gift? Gos Desktop
Jan
December 4th, 2007 7:25 pm
interesting. but have no clue.
Roman
December 4th, 2007 7:38 pm
The nicest gift would be more clickable Ad Units again ;D…
Rhys
December 4th, 2007 8:58 pm
I dunno, probably a “Pagerank Gift”.
Looks nice, everybody talks about it for days on end, and you can boast about it when yours is big, however the excitement dies down quickly after the first few days.
aRo`
December 4th, 2007 9:01 pm
how much do you have to earn to get the gift ?
Anthony Lawrence
December 4th, 2007 11:38 pm
What I want from Google reporting is full info without the bother of channels: what ads worked best, what pages they worked best on – like Asrep, for example.
If they can’t do that, my alternate hope would be that they’d dump that stupid channel id and do it like Chitika: let us use channel names that we do not have to predefine.
matt
December 5th, 2007 2:04 am
Carbon offsets
bob cobb
December 5th, 2007 4:31 am
yea, its a 2gb usb credit card:
http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=googleqs4.jpg
nick
December 5th, 2007 6:37 am
I got two of the digital photo frames sitting in my draw at work. Pretty cool items which sell for about £50 here in the UK.
This year I’m hoping it will be an iPhone :)
66tx
December 5th, 2007 6:11 pm
It’s nice that the better publishers get something from Google in the holidays. Makes for something more to look forward to (or hope for).
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