> Are there reports or metrics you would like to see in Google Analytics > that would help you run your AdSense account even better? Please post > your suggestions here.
> And, if you've found certain existing Google Analytics reports or > metrics to be particularly helpful in measuring the success of your > AdSense account, please post here as well. We'd love to hear and have > this info shared with other users.
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1) I would love to be able to see full referring URL's, as opposed to only search engines/keywords. For example, a full url to a message board post, or someone's blog that linked to my site, etc.
2) This is a 2-parter... 2a) I would love to see a list of the last 50-100 (or more) visitors including full IP address or hostnames if available, which brings me to 2b) It would be great if visitors' full IP addresses and hostnames were made available, instead of just their top level domains.
I may even be interested in paying a small fee for these features.
> Are there reports or metrics you would like to see in Google Analytics > that would help you run your AdSense account even better? Please post > your suggestions here.
> And, if you've found certain existing Google Analytics reports or > metrics to be particularly helpful in measuring the success of your > AdSense account, please post here as well. We'd love to hear and have > this info shared with other users.
3) More up-to-date reporting. I'd like to be able to look at my reports with the same frequency as I check my email - throughout the day... I realize up-to-the-minute reporting may not be doable for a free service, but maybe every hour or half hour would do.
I would like to see the number of unique visitors clicking the ads and their IPs as well. In the recent past some of the webmasters complaint that their adsense account were terminated because of click frauds on their website adsense ads (might be the clicks were generated by their competitors).
How can the publishers be protected from such abuses. If the IP of the users clicking can be provided by the Analytics, that woudl help.
I think Google Analytics is good tool to running Google AdSense better, because we can see which content is the most interesting or users visit our site from which sources ( referrals ).
> Are there reports or metrics you would like to see in Google Analytics > that would help you run your AdSense account even better? Please post > your suggestions here.
> And, if you've found certain existing Google Analytics reports or > metrics to be particularly helpful in measuring the success of your > AdSense account, please post here as well. We'd love to hear and have > this info shared with other users.
[Visitor Segment Performance] - column next to "Visits" with adsense clicks - column next to "Visits" with average of adsense revenue per click - root item next to "Referring Source" called "Adsense" linking to a list of our adsense channels and their data allowing us to cross segment it
> Are there reports or metrics you would like to see in Google Analytics > that would help you run your AdSense account even better? Please post > your suggestions here.
> And, if you've found certain existing Google Analytics reports or > metrics to be particularly helpful in measuring the success of your > AdSense account, please post here as well. We'd love to hear and have > this info shared with other users.
My site does not sell anything. It is only about content which is monetized with AdSense. So obviously, knowing if my adwords spending bring me back money with AdSense would be good. Note that I am talking about the regular MFA arbitrage. I wish we could track down AdWords users and see if they come back to the site and click at one point on ads.
I am not sure if you guys want to see publishers be arbitrage freak, so an other way to help would be Cost/Page Views. If the CPC of one keyword is 0.50 but brings me 10 page views that my cost per page view iis 0.05 which would be better than spending 0.25 on a keyword but only getting 2 page views.
> Are there reports or metrics you would like to see in Google Analytics > that would help you run your AdSense account even better? Please post > your suggestions here.
> And, if you've found certain existing Google Analytics reports or > metrics to be particularly helpful in measuring the success of your > AdSense account, please post here as well. We'd love to hear and have > this info shared with other users.
My login credentials are the same, but unfortunately I have to login to AdSense and Analytics separately, even if I pull up one immediately after I've logged into the other (using Firefox, with tabs). Being able to login once to Google, and switch between (via right corner drop down, for example), would be great.
Of course, there may be a security reason to force login when you access AdWords and AdSense, but how about a preference in My Account where I can check what services/products I'd like my login to carry over to, with a re-entry of the password necessary to save the changes (so, if someone was able to get access to My Account because I left my Gmail session open, they still wouldn't be able to change my preferences without knowing my password).
You could still ask for the user to confirm their password every couple of weeks ... just in case, and with the above it would be completely opt-in.
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If we're talking about making AdSense/AdWords and Analytics more seamless, how about the ability to switch from a day/week/month view in Analytics to the same time period in AdSense/Words? Or even vice-versa.
If I'm looking at stats from January, let me pull up an AdSense report over that same time period.
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Being able to bring my (url) channels over from AdSense to Analytics would also be very nice (how one page did compared to others in the channel, etcetera).
And of course, as the other's stated, being able to track AdSense exits would be absolutely wonderful (channel support from AdSense to Analytics would help).
A minor but useful thing would be to display the conversion rate with decimal points on the Conversion Summary report. Currently Google Analytics only shows <1% for my conversion rates. Numbers in the range of 0.05 - 0.50% are reasonable for my goal conversions, but I have to view one of the Marketing Campaign reports to see the conversion rates with this much granularity.
I'd like to see a data-over-time graph of the *percentage* between returning users and new users. Currently you can only see a plot of the ordinal total per day, besides the initial sum pie chart.
I'd like to see wider line graphs so that we can view long date ranges without the lines being crunched on a small graph. I'd also like to see a new bar graph that shows visits by month. And I'd like to see total visits-to-date displayed somewhere, or at least total visits in the date range on the main page line graph.
If we're to use Google AdSense to its full potential, being able to track what pages (and as a result, what keywords drive higher clicks and higher paid clicks) would mean that we can increase the quality and quantity of the adverts .. which means more money for Google!
How they haven't moved on this before now is stagering, it really is...
I'd find it useful to have the option of displaying the 'Length of Visit' stats as percentages. While the numbers are nice, if you're trying to get an idea of whether your changes are improving things or not it's a lot easier to compare % as these aren't reliant upon knowing the number of visits in a period. I'd like to be able to say '10s leavers are down this month from 34% to 28%, in a glance rather than having to work out the figures.
Having said that, I think several of the stats would be more usefully shown as percentages. Most of the reports I write involve converting numbers to % for user consumption and to be able to read these directly off the charts would be handy.
Dayparting analysis! I'd love to see what time or day my conversions, clicks, bounces, etc... happen over a month long period or something like that. That way, I can gear my advertising efforts to the most productive time of day for me.
> Are there reports or metrics you would like to see in Google Analytics > that would help you run your AdSense account even better? Please post > your suggestions here.
> And, if you've found certain existing Google Analytics reports or > metrics to be particularly helpful in measuring the success of your > AdSense account, please post here as well. We'd love to hear and have > this info shared with other users.
The change that would benefit me the most would be for a version of Analytics availalable that doesn't require Flash.
I don't need all of the bells and whistles that the flash version currently gives, just static chart and map images would be fine with me, but when I am using Linux (which is most of the time nowadays) I either cannot see the site at all as I don't have flash plug-ins installed, (on computer at work), and on the laptop at home which I do have Flash v9 for Linux beta installed but it isn't ready for prime-time and it freezes pretty continuously on the Google Analytics flash apps and repeatedly requires a browser kill/restart.
What for me misses in Analytics is to know how many people quit my sites by clicking on a adsense ad.
I can do funnels and goals, but I don't know how many people left the pages to an adwords customers, and how much adsense revenue I received on each clic.My adsense account gives me that info, but not the analytics, and it would be great to see it directly from there too.
Analytics shows which of my adwords brought traffic to my sites, at which cost, but not the same info for traffic going out through adsense.
Now, I just know that I lose traffic somehow - people quit as they close their browser, or type a new URL, or go through adsense.
However, Analytics is really a great service. Thank you Google!!
> Are there reports or metrics you would like to see in Google Analytics > that would help you run your AdSense account even better? Please post > your suggestions here.
> And, if you've found certain existing Google Analytics reports or > metrics to be particularly helpful in measuring the success of your > AdSense account, please post here as well. We'd love to hear and have > this info shared with other users.
More data on user's browsers. I'd like to know what toolbars they are using etc...
Easier ways of eliminating query parameters. If I eliminate google auto tagging parameters, I can't get the data for my adwords campaigns. Maybe allowing filters to execute on traffic in different ways...
Thank you for the opportunity to give our 2 cents worth.
>From a business stand point, even though we are able to create a
special coded link in the Adwords side of the house, when you have 12, 000 products and are providing a product feed to one of the comparison sites, it would be difficult to identify if a prospective customer came to our site via a 'click' on a product link and if it converted the sale, versus if the prospective customer came to our site via an adwords ad.
Again we thank you for the opportunity and for your interest in our feedback.
