Google trick to reveal your Adsense competitors

This one is for all the publishers running Adsense out there. Ever wanted to know who your competitors were in your niche, and the approximate volume they are doing compared to you? Well, that info can be easily found, courtesy of Google itself using Adwords.

Here’s how to do it: (click to enlarge images)

1. Log into your Adwords account.

2. Click “New Placement Targeted Campaign”

3. Enter a bogus campaign and adgroup names (you will just be deleting this). Add the countries where you want to check your competition and where your site is targeted.

4. Enter a fake ad, and continue.

5. Here is where you want to be: “Target your Ad“. Now click the “List URLs” button, and enter your URL in the box. Click “get available placements”. In this example, the niche we would be checking out is cars and our site is cars.com.

Google will then display your competitors under “Placements” with their average daily impressions. Sweet huh?

After you are done checking out all the data don’t save any of this, or you will start a new placement targeted campaign. If you share this tip, a link back would be appreciated!

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11 Comments »

Comment by Scott

2007-11-20 17:47:42

Wow dude, this is a great tip. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment by Sucker

2007-11-20 21:47:59

I wish they had narrower impression ranges though

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Comment by Chad

2007-11-21 03:04:19

Ya, well you know Google. They are going to give up that much info.

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Comment by Happy

2007-11-22 00:06:35

This is exactly what I have been looking for.Thanks for sharing, very helpful. Here’s another great tool to help with your online endeavors, http://portal-feeder-review.com

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Comment by sundaybrew

2007-11-27 08:18:58

Hey -

All I have to say is Right on!

Thanks for sharing that for sure !

This is one hell of a neat trick

~Brew

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2007-11-27 17:14:42

[…] So jump in and give it a try. If you want to know how to set up one of these campaigns , see this Adsense tip post I did last week which gives most of the steps. Have fun! var […]

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Comment by Joshua Dorkin

2007-12-06 01:35:38

That is a sweet tip! Thanks for sharing. I also wish the ranges were more narrow….

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Comment by chuks ugoji

2008-03-20 10:55:50

Thanks for sharing bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comment by MillionDollarCheck

2008-03-29 08:44:40

this is a great tip. I have tried site placements before but have not tot that it could actually help to sense my competitor’s traffic..thanks

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Comment by shaun

2008-03-30 19:50:03

wow this is actually what i have been lookin for, i didnt think this actually existed though!

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Comment by Chuckmiser

2008-04-26 11:39:35

Great post! thank you for the info!

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