Section 9.3. Your Earnings

9.3. Your Earnings

To monitor your actual earnings (as opposed to your ad performance), choose the My Account tab and click the Payment History link. As you can see in Figure 9-10, you will be shown your month-by-month earnings for any time period you select.

Figure 9-10. Your actual earnings are displayed on the My Account tab

Your earnings can be downloaded as a comma-separated value file (by clicking the Download CSV file link shown in the upper right of Figure 9-8). This file can be imported into Excel for further analysis.

If you click an Earnings link in the Description column for a particular month, a detail report (an example is shown in Figure 9-11) will break out the revenue source between AdSense for Content and AdSense for Search.

Figure 9-11. The detailed monthly earnings screen shows you how much revenue came from AdSense for Content, and how much from AdSense for Search

Detailed monthly information can also be downloaded as a CSV file.