Google begins an AdSense Toolbar for Chrome

Jan 28, 2012, by admin

Google today announced a new addition for Google Chrome that will help you rapidly access your AdSense earning reports without leaving the page you are currently reading.

The addition, known as the AdSense Publisher Toolbar, presents a summary of your AdSense earnings for the current day, the previous day, the current month and the previous month. In addition to daily earnings data, it also show income data for top channels that you have created in your AdSense account.

There’s an significant “lifetime revenue” section in the report that shows your total AdSense earnings from the day your account was approved for AdSense.

Once you install the addition, it connects to your Google AdSense account using OAuth and then uses AdSense APIs to bring your earnings data. You need to approve only once and thus, if you enjoy checking your AdSense report every hour, this addition could save you plenty of time.

I have many Google Accounts (for security reasons) and my AdSense account uses an email address that is different from my main Gmail address. Earlier, I had to log out of Gmail to check my AdSense reports but with the AdSense Publisher Toolbar now available, I can get my basic earnings data without having to change accounts.

On a dissimilar note, I have no idea why the Google team is calling this additions the AdSense Publisher Toolbar when it only inserts a button near your Chrome address bar and there are no toolbars anywhere. You click the AdSense button and your earnings report are nearly right away display in an overlay.

And if you set in motion the AdSense addition while you are on your website (that is running AdSense ads), you can turn on the “site overlay” mode and it will display a rapid summary of each ad unit’s earnings that are accessible on that page. Channel names are puzzling, especially when you have lots of them, so this chart mode will come very useful.