Start combining channels. Surely you have some sites/channels with very similar statistics, month after month.

<<I have set up 200 sites>>

I am impressed. Wow. I have a hard time managing 3. I wonder how big your combined traffic. Tens of millions maybe? I find that even managing 2 million visitors with roughly 6 million impressions is hard enough. What tools do you use to run a portfolio of 200 websites. I would love to have more too but just trying to update 6 wordpress, one joomla, and one b2evolution, monitoring traffic, updating content -- it is overwhelming.

I manage my sites manually with simple html tool. Nothing fancy, I'm not a coder, alas. 200 sites can be managed if you have time and rather few pages per site.

Chit

Do these sites have any real value or are they simply MFA sites - no one person can manage 200 useful websites!

Do these sites have any real value or are they simply MFA sites - no one person can manage 200 useful websites!

May be or may not be. As we are not aware of OPs properties. There is new trend is developing creating small and niche site will 10-100 pages. Usually, this kind of site converts better as compare to one large site with millions of page view.

Not sure if it really makes any difference to my question/problem if the sites are MFA. The more I think about PurpleCape's suggestion the more it seems like the only workable solution. Does anyone know if the Adsense API or even Analytics (I have set up one Analytics account per site) lets me do something that would allow for some kind of analysis close to that which I get through Channels?

In any case I don't understand Google's limit of 200 channels. It means less business for them and one more customer who could have been happier.

I'd been reading this assuming someone would come with the solution, so here it is, but I think it's painful. You can categorize a page (or site) into multiple channels. Then use the combination of channels to represent a "virtual" channel. You have to keep a fair amount of stuff in your head, but that gives you a huge amount of virtual channels. If you wanted to get real serious you could probably do this, and download the stats, and import them into a stats program that you can configure to save you the brain work.

That's basically the way I do it.

I could wish, given that we only have the 200 channels, that some of the reporting options were better.