It took me a couple of days to finish installing the adsense tracking materials I mentioned in my last post a couple of days ago. At this time, I have installed google analytics, adsense channels, and adsense gold (astracker) on one of my adsense niche set of ten sites. Now I can get a much more detailed look at what or who is bringing the traffic to my sites.

Tonight and tomorrow, I am going to finish up installing the adsense tracking on the other two niches that I have. One niche has 3 websites, the other niche has 7 websites. If you haven’t yet installed tracking on your sites, it is essential. If you can test what is working on your sites, then you can continue to improve what is working on your sites.

Installing tracking materials on your sites is only the beginning. Yes, it is a ton of footwork to go back and install the materials. But as I said before, if you already have a bunch of sites, don’t kill yourself getting them where they need to be–this includes tracking. Pace yourself. We’re trying to form habits here. We all know that it is better to work 10-30 minutes a day on your sites than working 2 hours one day out of the week on your sites.

Now, I’m going to need to make $200/mo with adsense, so we will begin speeding things up here soon. And since, I am a programmer, I have already begun developing tools of my own to help speed up the process, but because the tools are not quite ready for public use, I can’t let anyone else use them yet. But let me give you a couple of tips about installing tracking and why it’s important. These tips are not in any particular order. I’m writing them as they come to me.

1) when you install google analytics. Install it in an include if at all possible. The code below will suffice:

<?php include ‘http://www.’.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].’/google/analytics.js’;?>

This code can be dropped into any webpage in which the server can support php. This code also assumes that you have a folder called google in your public_html folder on your server and that a javascript(js) file is saved inside the folder. This ‘analytics.js’ file is where you save your google analytics code to. Drop this code at the bottom of each of the pages on your site right before the ‘</body>’ tag.

The benefit of doing this is that if you ever have to edit or change this analytics code, you only have to change it in one place and all pages will then be updated after that.

2) Tracking (such as astracker) is important because you can begin seeing trends on what ads are more popular (being clicked on more) than others. That is, the ads that more people are clicking on are ads that you should take note of and begin implementing across your site.

3) Tracking (such as analytics) is extremely important so you can begin to identify traffic trends and how visitors are arriving at your site–whether through referrals, search engines, or directly. Particularly you should pay particular attention to the keywords that people are arriving to your site through. This may help you target traffic (through seo) for keywords you never thought about.

So those are the quick tips and things on my mind today. After I have tracking installed on all my sites, I’m going to move on to seo (on-page and off-page) for my sites, and then link bait. And guess what, it’s a cycle. After I feel confident with the sites that I have, I’m going to begin building more. Seven months–$200/month. Are you with me? Are you already doing it? Share your comments.

I don’t want to leave anyone out in the cold. And I want and need to get on with it. So as promised…

The pictures above show my earnings for yesterday May 15, 2008 and my earnings for December 1, 2007–May 15, 2008. That’s 37 cents yesterday (May 15) and $61.77 since December. We’re all about to find out what happens when I focus on a blueprint with the right software to get the job done. The sites I’m going to create and tweak will not only be optimized for search engines, they will have completely unique content.

So here’s a look at the plan of attack for this blog and for my sites. But don’t get ahead of me, taking a guess at what I’m about to talk about could cost you a lot of money and could get you banned from adsense if you’re not careful.

adsense rules
adsense referrals

onpage optimization

astracker
keyword elite
seo elite
affiliate elite
google analytics
search engine optimization
website translator
adsense wealth empire
rss feed on the template
ezadsensetemplates
sitemap generator
web ceo
instant article wizard pro

offpage optimization

social media
digg
stumble upon
feedblast
rss announcer
instant article submitter
list of directory submissions

So, that’s it I’ve laid out a plan for us to cover. I’m probably going to make a lot of professional adsense publishers upset with the information I’m about to give out, but stay tuned you’re about to learn a ton. I’m going to give you a more detailed blueprint and go into each one of these along with the pros and cons of some of these software products and tools.