Using Report Templates

The basic reports AdSense provides are useful enough for most purposes,
but at times — recurring times — you need a report with a specific set of
information and you don’t want to have to re-create it every time you want
to run that report. No sense in reinventing the wheel, right?
Report templates allow you to set up reports, based on your specific needs.
Each time you want to run that specific report, all you have to do is select the
template, rather than re-creating the report each time that you need it.
Here’s the rub: You can’t create reports that are any more sophisticated than
what you can do with the advanced reporting capabilities I talk about in the
previous section. What you can do, however, is create the report once, fashion
a template based on that report, save the template, and reuse it whenever
you want. (The idea here is to keep the template on hand so you don’t have
to go through setting up the report every time you need it.) Here’s how you
save a report as a template:
1. Log on to your AdSense account.
The Reports page appears, with your Today’s Earnings prominently displayed.
2. On the Reports tab, select the Advanced Reports link.
Your report options appear. 3. Create the report that you want to use as a template.
Set date ranges, choose the type of report — aggregate or channel data
display — and choose the product (AdSense for Content, AdSense for
Search, Referrals, and so on).
4. Click the Display Report button to run the report.
When the report has processed, you see a Save as Report Template text
box at the top of the report,
5. Enter a name in the Save as Report Template text box and then click
Save.
You see an orange confirmation box displayed if the report was successfully
saved. If the confirmation box doesn’t appear, go through the creation
process again in case you’ve forgotten steps or there’s a problem
with the service.
That’s really all there is to it. After you create an advanced report, it’s saved
as a template in case you want to run it again in the future. When you’re
ready to run the same report again, select it from the Advanced Reports section
on the Quick Reports screen. You still have to change the date range, but
your other selections are automatic