We have just released a new version of AdSenseLog – 6.1.1. This minor version includes some bug fixes (in the login procedure and domain channels).

The new version can now be downloaded from our site. Users of 6.0.0 will not need a new serial, but users of older versions will need a new serial number for this version, contact us for details.

We have just released a new version of AdSenseLog – 6.1.0. This minor feature makes it possible to customize the currency symbol, to support dollar, euro, British pounds, or whatever new currency that Google will support…

The new version can now be downloaded from our site. Users of 6.0.0 will not need a new serial, but users of older versions will need a new serial number for this version, contact us for details.

We’re happy to announce a new version for AdSenseLog. We have added several new features:

• Adsense for domains
• Custom reports changes – added support for folders, and drag-and-drop ordering.
• You can now choose colors for all reports in one place. Or you can choose to use the old method (each graph with its own set of colors)
• Channels are now sorted alphabetically.
• Option to display earnings in Euro.
• Option to have an hourly update schedule (i.e. update every hour on the 23rd minute).
• Support for TLS authenticated mail servers (such as gmail) for email alerts.

The new version can now be downloaded from our site.  Users of older versions will need a new serial number for this version. If you bought or updated within one year, you’re entitled for a free upgarde. Otherwise upgrades cost 25$. Please contact us for your new serial number or info on how to upgrade with the discount if your copy is older than one year.

We’ve just released a new AdSenseLog version. This new version includes a feature that was requested by several users – the ability to ‘expand’ the Channel selector. In case you have many channels, it was difficult to use the small selector (in table and graph reports). Now it’s much easier and quicker.

Download the new version

We just released a quick build (5.2.0 B5) – this fixes some new issues with Google reporting of placement ads – if you experienced problems with your URL channel reporting, this should fix the issue.

Here’s the link to download:

http://www.metalgrass.com/downloads/bin/adsnslog.exe

It’s now offical – Google has integrated Adsense into Analytics. They are rolling this out to publishers now.

And now, we wait…

The new version (5.2.0) adds a new type of emails – HTML mails that include more statistics and even some trend graphs – better than the simple text ones we had so far (don’t worry – you can still get the old mails, or even both).

We have also added small banner ads to the ‘free’ and unregistered version…

Get the new version here

Google’s official AdSense blog (Inside AdSense) posted about the delays in AdSense stats, and GASS.

GASS stands for “Google AdSense Stats Syndrome” – which means that you just have to check your AdSense stats, all the time… Refreshing again and again to see if you earned some more money since the last check.

The first reason to make AdSenseLog was to make these checks easier, and have some software to do it automatically. Since then we added many more tracking and analyzing tools – although one of the major reasons to use the software is to easily stay updated and monitor your account all the time.

AdSenseLog 5.1.0 was just released. This new version includes new ‘total’ reports. These reports combine all of the three AdSense products – Content, Search and Feeds. This means you can now view reports with your total eranings – whether in graphs or tables. We also added the reports split by product. So you can see how your earnings on feeds compare to your earnings on seach, etc.

The new version can be downloaded here.

One of the easiest ways to increase your AdSense earnings is to optimize your page ads.

Basically you can try different ad sizes, colors, types, and location. Obviously you can also try different ad providers, not just AdSense.

The best way to see which is the best combination is to do split-testing (sometimes called a/b testing). Split testing means that you keep changing between combinations – usually with a simple ‘random’ way (or a round-robin). This means that the next visitor will get ad type 1, and the one after that will get ad type 2, and so on. This is better than changing the ads once per day, or a week, because it will be very difficult to find out if the performance is indeed better in one combination over the other – maybe the traffic profile changed over the days/weeks? (for example, the day of the week makes a lot of impact, and the traffic source is also important).

So making the combinations change ALL the time makes the test more reliable.

Following the results in AdSenseLog is easy – you can simply add a custom table report with all the combination channels, and see the difference. Obviously you should wait a little bit till you have enough traffic… otherwise the stats might not be relevant.

If you want to read some more about split-testing, see this post in ProBlogger.