Google AdSense and Amazon Associates are two popular website publisher programs where you can earn some money without having to create or sell anything physical. All you have to do is place a few lines of code in the desired locations. Every time the visitor clicks on the ad (AdSense) or buys a product (Amazon), you get paid. For some bloggers and website owners, this money is additional income to cover hosting costs, while for others, Amazon and AdSense represent the main income.
Both programs have a dedicated website where you can monitor statistics and check earnings. Some dedicated webmasters log in multiple times a day just to check earnings. While this is not a bad thing, it does take time and you need to query more than one page to get all the data. Due to this problem, there are some tools that automate this task. So-called monitors download data from original web pages and create various reports. A common drawback of these monitors is that they are only available for one platform (Windows, Mac, or Linux), have limited reporting, or support only one program (usually just Google AdSense).
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a monitor that would work on all popular platforms, support AdSense and Amazon Associates (including local Amazon stores if possible), and create compact yet informative reports and graphs to easily monitor the parameters essentials, including earnings? Luckily, there is such a tool. It’s called TinyMonitor and it has all the mentioned features. It is a PHP application that works with any web server, be it commercial hosting or local installation of Apache (one of the popular AMP packages – Apache – PHP – MySQL). Since every internet marketer already uses at least one web host, installing and using TinyMonitor is not a problem. Of course, installing the AMP package is also trivial in most cases. And there is an added benefit of having a web monitor. It can be made accessible from anywhere. Instead of logging into many accounts, just check out their TinyMonitor page. Simple and effective.
The AdSense monitor is very useful as it provides all the data you need to know about your account, statistics and current earnings. Similarly, Amazon Associates Monitor displays all data related to tracking IDs, products ordered and shipped, fees, and revenue. Having all the information on a single web page is a great advantage. In addition to many configurable reports and graphs, TinyMonitor also generates RSS feeds. This makes it possible to monitor earnings in your favorite feed reader as well. TinyMonitor is not free, but if you are a serious internet marketer, you should have no problem investing in a professional AdSense/Amazon monitor.