Adsense Keywords?

by ColouredRice

Posted: 13 years ago 7 replies

By any chance, is it possible to see which keywords people are bidding on your site from Adsense?

If so, how do you do it?

#adsense #keywords

paulgl

13 years ago

I believe you have to make your site targetable first.
Do you have that set up already?

I can't remember if you can actually find out individual bidders or not.

Thing is, they might not win the auction, so it might be a moot point
anyway.

Just a funny thought. If you see ads, those are the ones that are
winning the auction.

Uness you have a really popular site that gets tons of traffic, and
people can readily find that info , chances are, nobody is going
to target your site.

I used to believe that if your url was in the ad code (right click
and copy link from ad then paste to see it), that it meant they
were targeting your site. I have since found out that this may
be true, but it could also be for tracking purposes. That is, they
want to find out what sites are getting clicks and sales, then
they would either block you or allow you. But, they could do this
even without specifically bidding on your site.

Paul

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ColouredRice

13 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Yeah, I already have my site set up to be targetable and everything. I target a multitude of keywords for my site (all my traffic is organic) and I usually get roughly 20-30 cents CPC. However, I found out today that I got a single click that was actually $1.74.

I'm just trying to figure out which keyword that was, I can't figure it out.

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yukon

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by ColouredRice

You won't find the exact keyword CPC. Are you 100% sure the traffic that clicked the Ad was search traffic?

The best you can do, is connect your Adsense account to Google Analytics, that would have shown you the [exact] web page/URL that the Adsense click came from, then you'll at least have an idea which keyword/s you were targeting for that specific web page.

There's still a bunch of other variables but that will at least give you an idea of what's going on.

If you connect the Adsense account to Analytics, the click that already happened won't show up since Analytics wasn't tracking anything in the Adsense account, you can only track data after the two accounts are connected.

The Adsense/Analytics data is pretty cool, I can sort the top earning Adsense pages/URLs for an entire year. That tells me exactly which pages/URLs generate the most money.

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ColouredRice

13 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was from search traffic because I only got a single click that day and it was worth $1.74.

I didn't know that the Adsense/Analytics integration thing could do that though, I'll have to check that out. I set that up a while ago but there were a few steps I didn't complete with it or something, not sure if it's up.

Thanks for your help though, I think this is pretty much as close to as what I can do to figure out what that keyword was.

Thanks!

Edit: Just checked it out, apparently I got that particular click off my home page. I have absolutely no idea which keyword it could possibly be, guess I have no way of checking now.

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yukon Banned 13 years ago

I should have also mentioned that you can track incoming keywords from Google SERPs as long as the traffic isn't logged into a google account. I use a WP plugin for only showing the incoming search phrases on the WP Admin. I have the plugin setup to show the last 2,500 incoming search phrases on one column, & the other column shows the same list sorted by popularity (traffic count per keyword). The list of keywords are hyperlinks that take you to the page traffic landed on while searching.

If you would have had the Adsense account connected to your Analytics account, you would know the URL (Analytics) that the Adsense click happened on, then you could go to the WP Admin (plugin) & match the URL (from Analytics) to the incoming keyword.

It's kinda half azz, but If traffic isn't logged in to Google, it would work. Assumes traffic actually came from a major search engine.
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- paulgl 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  It's kinda half azz,
  
  I hear ya on that. Google wants to keep so much a secret, they
  make people do inane things.
  
  Paul
  
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  yukon Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by paulgl
  
  I hear ya on that. Google wants to keep so much a secret, they
  make people do inane things.
  
  Paul
  
  I think Google tries to spread itself out over too many things, for instance Google Analytics & Webmaster Tools should be a single tool, makes no sense to have all that data spread out over two different sites/tools/accounts.
  
  Another one is the half azz way they started doing Adsense on Youtube, some of the data is on the Adsense Admin. & the rest of the data is on the Youtube Admin, that's completely half azz whoever came up that idea. They have people running back & forth just to try & make sense of what's going on with their account data.
  
  I understand the idea of not showing too much data per Adsense Ad/keyword, because that would be the easiest way to game Adsense, only target proven high earning [exact] keywords & proven high paying Adword bidders.
  
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