How to remove an adsense URL channel

An important way of measuring a blog's income is definitely the performance reports in google adsense - particularly when it is one of the main sources of income for the blog or website.

It is easy enough to add URL channels but if you are like me and have dabbled with a wide variety of blogs and have since deleted some of them, then you may have numerous extinct blog addresses in your channels, if the website doesn't exist then it will probably not show any results but if you have sold on the domain or someone else has bought it since the expiry date then it will continue to track page impressions.

Removing the channel from the performance reports is quite easy, you need to choose "Specific URL channels" and add the only the addresses you want to show.

Removing the URL from this list is more difficult though,the new Beta version of Adsense or Analytics does not provide you with an option to remove URL's and this can be done.

If the old version is still available to you, then click "Return to Old Adsense Interface" and then choose the "Adsense Setup" tab, click on "Channels", choose "URL Channels", select the ones you want to get rid of and choose "remove checked"

Will Filtering Adsense Ads Improve My CTR?

You may or not be aware that there is an adsense tool called "competitive filter" which allows you to block up to 200 unwanted google ads.

If you find ads on your site which you believe either to be morally wrong, completely irrelevant or extremely low-paying (those niggly links which only pay 1 or 2 cents!) then you can right click over the link, copy the URL and add it to your competitive filter, the only problem is that if you have a blog in a niche with few relevant ads then it is likely that those ads will be replaced by irrelevant ads or worse yet nothing at all.

You have to be very careful with this tool but unless you are earning big bucks, it's definitely worth toying with it.