I recently received a copy of RevenueMonitor (non-aff) for my (meager) translation services (i.e. English -> Malay), and successfully installed it on one of my shared hosting accounts for testing. So, I thought I might as well feature it here.

RevenueMonitor aims to be the best ad tracking script for Adsense and YPN, replete with a full set of features, including referring URLs, exit URLs, ad. sizes clicked on, colour (link, background and border) of ads clicked on, etc. It even tracks Firefox clicks, though I’m not too sure about its accuracy at the moment. RevenueMonitor seemed to record more Firefox clicks than Google, but that could be Google filtering the clicks for fraud, etc.

I’ll post a proper review once I’ve done more testing on the script, but for now, I have a couple of things I’d like to address. One: The “snake oil” website. I’m can’t be sure, but it seems that the best scripts out there tend to come packaged with these type of websites. We already had one earlier with AdsenseGold, reviewed at Performancing BTW.

Two: IonCube. RevenueMonitor (RM) uses IonCube to protect the scripts, and while I’m sure a large number of hosts will support IonCube, I ran into problems installing RM on one of my shared hosting accounts. Understandably, that host isn’t one of the best in the business, but still…

Overall though, I’m pretty happy with what RevenueMonitor can do. It’s definitely comparable with any ad tracking script out there, and perhaps even besting tried-and-tested scripts like AdsenseGold. Why? Unlike AdsenseGold (based on Chris’ review), it tracks Firefox clicks and is far cheaper too (US$49.95 against US$97).

But until I get more testing done, I’ll withhold my final judgment.

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