Track AdSense Clicks With Google Analytics
It would be cool if Google automatically tracked AdSense clicks into Google Analytics... But until they do, here's a little bit of JavaScript code you can use to do it. You can then setup an AdSense click as a "goal" within the Analytics interface.
<script type="text/javascript"> // by Shawn - http://www.shawnhogan.com/2005/11/track-adsense-clicks-with-google-analytics.html // Put this at the bottom of the page (after the last AdSense block) function adsense_click() { if(window.status.indexOf('go to') == 0) { urchinTracker ('/AdSenseClick'); } } var elements; if(document.getElementsByTagName) { elements = document.body.getElementsByTagName("IFRAME"); } else if (document.body.all) { elements = document.body.all.tags("IFRAME"); } else { elements = Array(); } for(var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if(elements[i].src.indexOf('googlesyndication.com') > -1) { elements[i].onfocus = adsense_click; } } </script>
This only works with Internet Explorer because of some limitations/bug with Mozilla. I'm too lazy to code a complicated workaround for other browsers (which would involve running JavaScript code whenever the mouse moves which seems really inefficient to me). Hopefully Mozilla will fix the bug (although it's been pending for 2 1/2 years now).
Basically it will log an AdSense click as a pageview to a non-existent page (http://www.digitalpoint.com/AdSenseClick in my case).
I'm a boy... from San Diego, CA (USA). And I don't really have a whole lot else to say about myself.
