Adsense Plugin for Google Deskbar
Check out this nifty Adsense Reporting plugin for the Google deskbar:
It reports daily/weekly/monthly statistics for you Adsense account, including earnings, impressions, clicks, click through rate, and CPM, which is handy to have at a glance, I think. Here’s a screencap:
How is this actually useful? It’s not, but it keeps us adsense freaks from maniacally checking our daily statistics, which is a nice creature comfort. SEO value is slim, quality of life value is high!
Update:
There’s an edge case parsing bug for when the day rolls over from an old to a new day. When your Adsense account reads:
AdSense for content - No data available -
The plugin fails to recognize that there is no data and instead spews random HTML to the output window. Minor bug, easy to fix.
Update 2:
Fixed!
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