Just a quick follow-up on my ‘AdSense Tracking for Exponential Profit Growth‘ post. I’m very pleased to say that February has seen me break through the $100-a-day barrier through AdSense alone; not once, but twice!
Now, I know that $100 in a day is peanuts compared to what others are generating, but I’m not churning out hundreds of websites at a time and the growth up to this milestone has been steady over the months.
Besides the money, it’s quite a sense of achievement for me to finally reach this invisible threshold that’s eluded me for a little while now. I’m not going to be giving up my day job any time soon in order to live off AdSense, but the income generated will certainly help to cover the increasing cost of hosting.
Just this last week, I had to order a second VPS in order to spread the load from my first. The load graphs have returned to a much lower average now and WHM/cPanel are responding much quicker. It’s comforting to know that a days AdSense revenue more than covers the monthly cost of another VPS, but there are a finite number of days in a month and I don’t want to become dependent upon AdSense to pay off bills.
After a few days of use of AdSense Gold, I can say that I like the application a lot because of the depth of information it provides, but what I’m not so keen on is the inconsistent click counts and page impressions statitstics when compared to those provided by Google. The vendor’s website explains this phenomenon,
There are two reasons the numbers differ somewhat: 1) AdSense Tracker cannot track Mozilla browser clicks (FireFox, Netscape) due to a bug in the way Mozilla browsers handle the IFRAME onfocus event. These browsers do not fire the onfocus event of an IFRAME if the IFRAME location is off-site. So those clicks do not get logged. 2) Google filters clicks in ways that it does not let anybody know about, so sometimes they will filter clicks that AdSense Tracker displays.
If the reason for the difference in statistics I’m seeing is down to reason 1 then I’m somewhat disappointed. Given the increasing popularity of the Firefox web browser, I hope this can be addressed. However, through my own testing, I’ve found that my own page impressions in the version of Firefox that I’m using are recorded. I’ve not tested whether or not AdSense clicks register in Firefox yet, but using a publisher ID of ‘ca-test’ allows me to do this without endangering my account.
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