November 22, 2005

Track Google AdSense Clicks via Google Analytics - Free AdSense Tracker : SEO Book.com

There have been 3rd party javascripts that track adsense clicks out for a while, but no free ones to my knowledge that track clicks on Firefox. Until now.

This free script integrates with Google Analytics to allow you to track your adsense clicks.

This tracking is done through “Goals”. A goal is a way of tracking when a website visitor does something you want - Buy an item, submit a contact form, or in our case click an adsense ad.

Create a goal: To create a goal you assign it a URL. This url doesn’t have to exist, as the javascript will trigger it.

In the Goal URL field, enter “/asclick” and “AdClick” for the goal name.

This is insanely cool.

I’ve been using several blog search engines. So far my favorite is Technorati. I use the tagging and watchlist features on a daily basis.

The runner up is icerocket.com with its cool trending feature, an excellent implementation of something that can be hard to do well.

Google BlogSearch comes in third, but I use it a lot.

Pet peeves:

• Why is it different from the Search New Content engine in Google Reader?
• Why isn’t it visible from the Google front page?
• Why isn’t it integrated with Google News? They are looking for the same kind of daily updated content.

Even with those faults, it’s still the most confidence inspiring.

I don’t usually like Taschen, because they publish a lot of stuff that is, frankly, porn, but Diana means a lot to me. She died the weekend after we moved to Ohio in 1997, and Kelsey, who was 6 at the time, and Cheryl were deeply affected by the 24 x 7 news coverage. Diana seems to have had her share of faults, but her virtues of compassion, caring, and courage were the ones that make the world worth living in, for book-lovers and for everyone else.

Just five months before her tragic death in August 1997, Princess Diana was photographed by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair. Diana, Princess of Wales by Mario Testino at Kensington Palace (TASCHEN, 144 pages, GBP 19.99/ USD
39.99) brings together the most beautiful images from this last portrait sitting, displaying Diana in a state of relaxation and intimacy unlike any other. The selection of about seventy photographs includes many unseen images which, alongside previously published images, fill in the untold story of the shoot.

Features include:

- Foreword by Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair
- Introduction by Meredith Etherington-Smith, who played a major role in arranging the sitting in 1997
- Interview by Mario Testino conducted by Hamish Bowles

Candid, tender, poignant, provocative - the photographs by Mario Testino in Diana, Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace allow readers an entree into the private world of a beloved icon where an uncensored view-of a woman who influenced the world-is on display.

This book is being launched to coincide with an exhibition at Kensington
Palace, opening in November 2005.