The Adsense Experiment: Google Adsense and Analytics. How to link adsense to new (multiple) profiles in analytics
Saturday, January 16th, 2010This took me quite some time to figure out. All I wanted to do is link my Adsense account to all my Analytics profiles. Now this is easy if it’s the first time you’re linking your accounts. All the google help docs talk about this case and all the help docs say to go to “Getting Started” link. My case was different because I had already set this up for one of my profiles, my linux to macbook blog. I just added adsense to this blog and another blog I started so I wanted to now link those new accounts.
I kept looking for ways to do this but every time I didn’t find a solution I would put this aside and try again later. Well today I found the answer. You can’t do this on the adsense side. Here’s what you need:
- Log into your analytics account.
- You should have a list of accounts (or one account), pick the account with the multiple profiles and click on it
- You should now see a list of profiles (your domains under this account). On this page at the top you should see a link to “Edit Adsense Linking Settings”. Click that link. I’m attaching a screen shot here for clarity:
- Follow the wizard to add your new profiles
Hope this helps you avoid the stress I had to go through to figure out such a simple task.
