Adding Sites to Your AdSense Account

As uptight as Google can be about the sites that display AdSense ads, you’ll
find this next little bit hard to believe — I did.
Many people (myself included) have more than one Web site or blog.
Because AdSense only allows you to have one account, if you want ads on all
your sites, you need to have multiple sites listed on your AdSense account,
right? Wrong. You only need to have the one site that you listed when you
first created your AdSense account.
Then, all you have to do is create your ads and copy and paste the code
onto whatever Web site you choose. Really. Of course, that makes it a little
confusing if you want to track your earnings by site, but AdSense even has an
answer to that conundrum.
Use channels. (If you read Chapter 15, you might remember the details I gave
you about channels.) Well, this is where channels are really the most useful.
When you have multiple Web sites that you want to place AdSense ads on —
but you want to be able to track them all separately — use different channels
for each site.
Creating channels is easy:
1. Log in to your AdSense account and go to the AdSense Setup tab.
2. Select Channels and then select the type of ad that you want to create
a channel for (AdSense for Content, Search, Referrals, and so on).
3. Click the Add New Custom Channels link, type the desired name for
your channel, and click Add Channel.
See? I told you it’s easy.
After you have channels set up and you create an ad, choose the channel that
you want to use to track it, and then that linkage is built into the code. When
you’re ready to track your ads, you can view reports by channel.
Don’t feel compelled to add multiple Web sites to your AdSense account to
keep your revenues separate. All you have to do is create channels that let
you track which site generates which revenue. To make it a little easier, you
can also track everything together so you have a consolidated view of how
much you’re making.