The YPN Blog has a post about using reporting categories to test ads on your site. The post doesn't contain anything new and is very basic. Must be targeting the newbies to YPN. I'm also a little confused about the title, "And The Survey Says . . ." I thought YPN was going to release the results of a survey or something. Maybe that's the point — to make me click on that darn link. That's why I titled this post, The Secret to Increasing Your Blog Income Tracking Ads (I've decided to change the title before I lose what little credibility I have left). Ha-ha.
Now that you are here, you might as well listen to what I'm putting down. Hey baby, I'm your handyman. I'm not the kind who use a pencil or rule. Sorry, James Taylor is playing in the background. OK, this is what I would like to add the YPN post:
The post forgot to mention reporting URL's. Instead of creating different categories for different sections of your site. You can also define different reporting URLs. Reporting URLs will track your results based on the URL. Categories will track your results based on whatever parameters you want to use (color, size, etc). From what I can tell, neither categories nor URLs are retroactive. You can only start tracking results after you have created the categories or URLs. I though reporting URLs might be retroactive, but they are not. I think Adsense works the same way.
One more thing, with categories, you have to update your YPN ad code. With reporting URLs, you just create them on the reporting URLs page, under the reports menu.
