Optimizing campaigns on the content network

Hi Folks,

i'm giving the google content network a second chance and have just build a seperate campaign for the content network.

Because i haven't found a way to optimize my campaigns on the content network, i've just added a huge quantity of urls (for placement targeting) and no keywords in this ad group.
I track clicks on my placement ads with the wild-card "{placement}" in the query string of the destination url. Otherwise i don't found a way to track clicks generated by the content network. I can't use google's conversion tracking (because i'm an affiliate and i can only use subids to track the visitors) and so i can't use analytics for tracking of the exact urls where the visitors came from.

My question: Is bidding on placements in my situation the only way to go?
And: Where do i get a huge list of domains which are using adsense?

Greetz,
Wini

you can also track where your clicks are coming from with Prosper202 its free and pretty easy to set up on a domain. Also, there's a tool for finding websites with adsense on it i think called adwords digger... it may or may not be on here, but its kinda lame... i dont know of any others tho.

Mark

Thx, Mark.
The problem is: You see in your stats only the referer doubleclick/google. It doesn't matter what tracking software you use - in the HTTP_REFERER gets only the google-domain displayed. I've heard that there is a special google analytics edition which can also display the real URL where someone clicked on your content ad, but this must be a enterprise edition...

Okay, but I'm giving the Adwords Digger a try and go for placements....

Wini