Setting up Google Analytics so it gets AdSense data from more than one blog or website

This article is about setting up Google Analytics on your blog in a way that includes data for AdSense clicks and behaviour.

Google Analytics and Blogger.

Analytics is Google's tool for measuring website performance:   how many visitors, how long do they stay for, what pages do they look at - and if you use AdSense, where are your earnings coming from. It's a major step up from Blogger's Statistics displays, and has far more details eg where the visitors came from, what browser they are using.

When people first started using Analytics with Blogger, they followed the standard Analytics instructions to edit their template and add the tracking code to it.

However if they switched to use a different template, the tracking code was lost unless they remembered to re-install it - and many people didn't remember.

So some Google engineers started telling people to put the code into an HTML/Javascript widget instead, because widgets are kept through template changes.

This worked well, until mobile templates were introduced. By default, mobile templates don't show HTML-Javascript gadgets. And while this can be changed, it involves editing your template (so brings back the "what if the template is changed" issue) - and it relies on the mobile-visitors using devices that run  Javascript.

So Blogger added a field to the Settings tab where you can enter the Google Analytics profile ID for the blog:   GreenLava over at BloggerSentral wrote an excellent post about using this, including how to
check if your existing template has the code needed to make use of this new field.

But recently I've noticed that while setting up Analytics this way collected data about visitor numbers, it doesn't always get data about AdSense (eg how many ad-impressions, what page do "clicks" come from, what were the keywords, what browser were getting the AdSense clicksetc). In fact, this data has been missing for all but one of my blogs recently.    So I did some investigation and found that this is deliberate - but that you can fix it.

Getting AdSense data from Analytics

If you only have one blog, and you have linked your AdSense and Analytics profiles, and  put AdSense ad units in your blog by getting the ad-code from AdSense and adding it as code, then you should be seeing AdSense data in your Analytics account.

To check, log in to Analytics and check the Reporting > Standard reports > Content panel:   when you expand it there should be a line for AdSense, and when you click that line some data should appear in the middle report panel (assuming your blog has some non-ad-blocked visitors).

But if you have more than one blog or website, then AdSense data is only put into Analytics for the one that is identified as "primary" in your Analytics profile. (For me, this is was the first blog that I added AdSense to.)

To get AdSense data in Analytics for more than one site, you need to get the tracking code-snippet for non-primary website from Analytics and install it in your blog.  See below for exact instructions for this.

I've found that AdSense ad units that were added from Blogger's Add-a-gadget wizard don't report data through Analytics even if the tracking code is installed - and this support article from Google confirms that this is expected behaviour.   I haven't been able to find any way to work around this, as yet.

How to get the AdSense tracking code for non-primary websites and blogs

Log in to Analytics with the Google account that owns your AdSense profile, and in which you have linked AdSense and Analytics.


Click on the Admin tab in the top right hand corner of any page.


In the Accounts section, click on AdSense Linking.


In the Secondary Analytics Properties list, find the name of the site you want the tracking code for (if you have more than one account).  


Click the Code Snippet link to the right of the chosen profile name.


Copy the code that is shown, and install it to your blog.   As menioned above, there are two choices for doing this:

• Edit your template and add it to the header (ie somewhere between <head> and </head>) -  but remember that it will be lost if you change templates again in future.

• Add it using an HTML-Javascript gadget which you put near the top of the page - but note that you won't get AdSense data from mobile visitors.

Repeat this for any other blogs, except your primary one, which you want Analytics to track AdSense data for.

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Related Articles:

Adding a HTML-Javascript gadget to your blog

How to edit your Blogger template

Showing gadgets on mobile templates

AdSense and AdWords - what's the difference

Setting up AdSense for your blog

Facebook Status Quotes About Life and Love 2013

Now a days people change their Facebook status to keep their family and friends updated about their activities, their views about something, their mood, and much more. As facebook is evolving as the best social networking site, people are utilizing the Facebook status in the most innovative ways. Facebook users often search for status quotes to post on facebook.
Mostly people try to impress their friends through their FB Status. Here bestrix.blogspot.com will provide you some Facebook Status Quotes about Life and Love.

Facebook Status Quotes About Life

• Every day you need to look yourself in the eye and ask yourself if this is what you should be doing with your life.
• Yea I make mistakes but …. life doesn’t come with instructions.
• Life is a big question that even google can’t answer.
• Don’t wait for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come into someone’s life.
• We never get what we want. We never want what we get. We never have what we like. We never like what we have. That is life.
• You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.
• Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it’s inspiring.
• I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Life is too short to cry for anything.
• Life is like the ocean. It can be calm and still or rough and rigid but in the end, it is always beautiful.
• Enjoy the little things in LIFE …. One day you will look back and realize they were the big things.
• Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
• Everytime you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive.
• Don’t worry we all make mistakes so forget about the past & move on with life.
• Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.

Facebook Status Quotes About Love

• And in the end, the love you take is the love you make.
• Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale.
• Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
• Love is like a butterfly. If you chase after it, it will fly away. But if you are patient and sit still long enough, it will land into your hands. 

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Three ways to add camera shortcuts to Samsung Galaxy S4 lock screen

The Samsung Galaxy S4 packs a stonking 13-megapixel camera and the camera ships with a lot of awesome new smart features, such as Dual Shot, a Sound & Shot mode that puts audio in the background of still images,etc. Catch any moment to keep every memory is very easy with this device. But right out of the box you could be forgiven for thinking there's no way of unlocking the phone straight into the camera app. Like many of the Galaxy S4's advanced features, this is optional, and disabled by default. Enabling it is easy. Just follow these three different ways to add camera shortcuts to the Galaxy S4 lock screen in order to not miss any moment.

The first method is simple enough -- from the Settings app, go to My device > Lock screen and enable "Shortcuts." From there you can customize which shortcut icons are shown down below on the lock screen, and loading one of these apps up is a simple as dragging it upwards. Naturally, one of the defaults is the camera app.

The second and third ways both involve lock screen widgets, and you'll need to enable them through Settings > My device > Lock screen > Multiple widgets. Once that's done, you can go to Lock screen widgets > Favorite apps or Camera, which controls the widget that appears on the far right. The "camera" option is straightforward enough -- select it, and you get a big blocky camera shortcut, like on the Nexus 4. "Favorite apps" is a bit more versatile, and this allows you to customize a grid of apps -- one of these, of course, can be the camera app.