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Wrapping Adsense Ads around your blog posts with text

2012-08-14T09:00:00.005-07:00

Google Adsense has become for more than 90% of bloggers a good source of revenue. And mostly users of blogger platform start using it right away, once they get a decent traffic. In order to get most of your ads, you should learn to position them so that visitors can notice them but not get very distracted. For that you have to customize the colors for your Ad codes, but that's a completely another story. Today i want to show you how to wrap your text posts around your Adsense Ads, so your CTR increases and the income as well. Let's get started.

So in order to get a higher click through rate, i recommend blending the ads with your blog main colors. So that the user doesn't get too much distracted, believe me on a blog with blue and white colors like in the image above, you don't want to use the Ads color red as it gets noticed and catches your eye as a result your visitor could leave your blog.

To avoid those kind of cases you have to experiment and already see what's better for you and your blog.
Let's move now to the tutorial part on how to make ads appear like in the image.

Wrapping Adsense Ads around your blog posts with text

Go to your Blogger Dashboard
Next click Design -> Edit HTML, check the Expand Widget Templates.
Using the combination CTRL+F, find this code <data:post.body>
Now add one of the codes below, above the line in (3) to show at the top part of your post.

This will show your ads aligned to left

<div style='float:left; margin-right:5px;'>
YOUR ADSENSE CODE
</div>

To make it align to right, change the float value to right.

Change the line that says: "YOUR ADSENSE CODE" with your parsed code. You can parse it HERE! And then include it between those lines. By this moment your ads should show up, but they will appear on your main page too, not only in your post content. To make your Ads appear only on post content page use this lines:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

</b:if>

The final result should look like this:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<div style='float:left; margin-right:5px;'>
YOUR ADSENSE CODE CONVERTED! 
</div>

</b:if>

That's it, not that hard at all. In the end i would recommend to use the following ad formats as they appear to be the best performing: 336*280, 300*250. That doesn't mean you can't try other formats, feel free to experiment and see what's working best for your blog. Good luck!

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How to show HTML codes inside your posts?

2012-08-13T09:00:00.011-07:00

Showing the HTML code of a banner or a script in your blogger posts for most of us becomes to be a problem, especially if your new to blogging or coding. But that's not a big problem, as in this article i'll give you some examples on displaying your codes properly on your post content. It's easy to use and doesn't require too much time.

For those of you who don't know for some time Blogger added a new option in the Post Options and i am referring to the Compose Settings options given, and those are:

Interpret typed HTML - if you check that variant then the editor will interpret all the HTML codes that you insert;
Show HTML literally - in this case the HTML codes will be simply shown in the posts content without being interpreted;

This option (2) can be accessed following the image below instructions:

So all you have to do is check the Show HTML literally and you are done, not that hard at all. Isn't it?

But what if you want to customize your codes, by giving a background color to it or a border around it. So to make it look more attractive to the visitor. In order to do that you can copy this lines below and paste them in your Edit HTML, after change the line that says Type Your Code Here with your desired one.

<div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px;">
Type Your Code Here
</div>

The 1px shows your border highlight, the number in green the frame color, and the blue one the distance between the frame and code on the four sides.

If you want to give your frame a background color use the code highlighted in green, you can see the result below:

<div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;">
Type your code here
</div>

If you got a bigger line of code that takes lots space you can make a scroll frame like below it's really nice and also easy to customize:

Code:

Result from the code given above you can see below:

<div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;"><div style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; background-color:#EFEFEF;">

These are some examples on How to show HTML codes inside your blogger posts! I really hope this helped you.

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Importance of Related Posts widget on your blog

2012-08-12T09:00:00.003-07:00

Hey there! Have you ever wondered why most of the bloggers consider having a Related Posts/Articles widget displayed at the end of their post content? Yes or No today i will give you a simple answer about this. As we all know or have seen on many other blogs, more and more bloggers appeal to include this widget on their blog as it gives the reader a list of related posts that could interest him.
Making him staying on your blog for much more time, which is a great benefit for you!

Still if you are wondering to see some good aspects of including this widget in your HTML blog template or simply adding it by using sites that offer this kind of services, you've come to the right place.

Importance of Related Posts widget on your blog:

It gives your reader a list of articles that could interest him;
Helps to increase the duration of time a visitor is spending on your site/blog;
Makes your blog look more serious and informative;
Is attractive and easy to use, we could say user-friendly;
Not that hard to install, lots of tutorials on how to create it and apply to your blog;
You can customize it to your preferences by working with HTML for a little;

This are some points that in my opinion present you the importance of having a Related Posts widget on your blog! Don't forget - Always experiment with your blog, and make it better day by day. Work hard, and the results will be seen within a few months.

I wish you Good Luck in what you do and lots of patience and inspiration.

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Showing adsense side by side in blogger posts

2012-08-11T09:02:00.000-07:00

All of us are in continue search for something new, we all look for methods that could increase our income from the AdSense. As a result we are looking for tutorials on how to integrate this Google ads in our posts better and with good result. A good example for that is including AdSense codes side by side in our blogger posts. More about that you will find in today's article.

So i want to show you how to get the same effect as in the image above and set two AdSense units side by side.

First log in to your Google AdSense acoount and generate the codes, in this image i used 250x250 ad size. You of course can change to your desired one, but maintain the sizes to a square.

After you done that go to your Blog, Design -> Edit HTML -> Check the Expand box.
Important: If you want to show your ads above the post then post your adsense code above this line

<data:post.body/>

If you want to show it below like in the image, paste the Adsense Code below it!

Now in order to make it align side by side you use this line:

<table width="520" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="250" style="padding: 5px;" align="center">

Ad script for ad block 1

</td>
<td width="250" style="padding: 5px;" align="center">

Ad script for ad block 2

</td>
</tr>
</table>

The AdSense codes can be seen only if you convert it, because if pasted directly into HTML template it will not be displayed properly. For that use the tool below:

At this point you Ads will appear on your blog, but they will be seen on your main home page too. If you want them to be shown only inside your posts use this lines:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

</b:if>

And that's it! At this point you are done and your ads should appear on your blog aligned side by side! Hope this tutorial helped you.

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How to find a profitable niche for your blog?

2012-08-10T13:07:00.000-07:00

That is the question that every blogger was asking himself once. Why? because the niche does everything in the first plan. Before you start blogging, it is to important to find the topic or niche that you will be willing to write about for a good period of time. It's important to remark that selecting your niche can take some good amount of time and also isn't that easy at all. In this article i'll speak about finding a profitable niche for your blog.

How to find a profitable niche for your blog?

Well that's a quite hard question to answer as it's not that easy. You know that selecting your right niche from the beginning of your blog is a considerable success for it's future. And that's true, choosing a profitable niche can be done, the only thing is that it takes some time. Why? Firstly because you have to ask yourself some question like:

What topic i think will make me be curious about for some time ahead?
Will i be able to write different and interesting content from other bloggers that write in the same niche i am going to choose?
Can i afford some of my time to it?
Is the competition high enough? (for that we are going to need working with Google AdWords Tool)
How profitable is the niche(topic) i am thinking to blog about?

In order to find out the competition and the approximate amount of money advertisers pay for that or other keyword is to use the tool i wrote in point 4 of the questions given above. Google AdWords Tool (context targeting tool) is really helpful when it comes to make some research on your niche selecting, as it gives good results that can help make you some decisions on which path to take next.

For finding how popular your niche is type the keyword related to your interests, to do that follow this steps:

Create the account -> Connect to it -> Go to Tools and Analysis -> Select Traffic Estimator or any other from the list given and simply research. Type your keyword and set everything like in the image below:

Note: This is not the only solution on finding a profitable niche for your blog, as there are plenty others one good example i heard about is Market Samurai, Traffic Travis. Check those out as well!

What about you? How did you find a niche for your blog, was it unexpected or you appealed to the tools listed in this article too?

You created a blog, now what's next?

2012-08-09T21:00:00.002-07:00

So here you finally got to the point where you created your desired blog, still what's next? What and mostly How you should act from now on? It pretty hard to get started, but once you do that believe me everything will change a lot in a beneficial way. I know and i felt the same way at some point, i had the passion for opening a blog, everything was good but still something didn't seem right. Guess that happens to all of us, it's like fear combined with uncertainty. In this article, i want to show you some advices on how and especially what to do after you opened your blog. How to control it, and simply work with it. Lets start!

It's not a new discover that EVERY person that creates a blog want to become famous, popular, have lots of visitors, and of course earn money. Yes, that really sound nice and beautiful isn't it? The truth is that in order to do that you have to work hard, blogging takes time ill say that always. Of course you can get to that sort of success, but to do that you have to be Active, by active i mean trying to be part of the community. Try to write good posts as often as possible, try to maintain your own blogging schedule and follow it. Socialize, perform your skills in communicating with others. Don't be afraid, just take the first step and follow it!

Ok, you created a blog what's next? below i will list some main aspects you definitely should pay good attention too:

Design;
Unique and well written content;
Create different contests for your readers;
Get involved in other bloggers contests;
Dont' be afraid, just give it a try;

Design

Let's start with Design, it's really important for every blog as it attracts a readers attention firstly. Having a nice and at same time simple, user friendly design makes the reader capable of reading your posts without paying attention to the amount of time he or she has spent on it. Try to use calm colors and create a nice ambience. Experiment but still not too much, as it can be disturbing.

Unique and well written content

It's the key to success, try hard on finding the necessary inspiration to write daily. Still that depends on you, don't forget if you heard something related to your niche BLOG about it immediately. Here applies the rule heard first, published first. Be in touch with all the news that happen on your selected topic and simply write about it!

Invent posts, that in your opinion could attract visitors. Make your blog different from the others, make it unique. Do experiments, and find out the right one for your blog. Consult and use such services like Google Keywords Tool or Google Analytics. Also don't even think about telling yourself that if your blog is at the very beginning it's not important to write good quality posts. That doesn't matter start right now and be successful in the future! If you write good and necessary for people posts then they will find YOU! And that's how you build a strong community.

Create different contests for your readers

Creating a community of readers is essential for every blog future, that's why don't forget to interact with them. Reply back, take their opinions into consideration. Creating contests makes more readers to get involved and read you! If you can do that, don't hesitate for a moment to apply this rule. Every business needs some investments, so does blogging take that into consideration.

Get involved in other bloggers contests

That's the point where you try to make as many as possible friends from the blogosphere that share your passion as well. Interact with them on their blogs, tell them about you and create a good lasting partnership.

Help each other, get involved, communicate that's the way to get noticed. Remember that communication solves everything!

Last but not least - Dont' be afraid, just give it a try

I know it's seems to be pretty hard (it sort of is), but that's not a reason not to try right? Everything at some point gets hard, but after some repetitions and hard work you can get a good result!

So my call for you is not to be afraid, give it a try and see how it goes!

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Introduction to BloggerCall

2012-08-06T13:54:00.000-07:00

Introduction:

Hello everyone, my name is Chris and I am the author at Blogger Call. The blog was officially launched today on 6^th august 2012, why? You might be asking. Well the answer is quite simple, for me Blogging means everything. I have started a few blogs on different niches, with some I succeeded with others not that much. I think I might even write some articles about My first blogging experience or something like that, to show you how it is to get started (hard or not that much you tell me).

Main Objective:

The main objective here at BloggerCall is to teach and make future bloggers understand what blogging actually means. Ill write articles about different Tips, Tricks related to this topic in which ill try to give you good and useful advices. So don't hesitate to join the community now!

Blogging becomes one of the most popular and researched term around the whole world, even I day by day continue to explore and learn something new and good for myself related to this topic. That why I decided that BloggerCall is going to be a place for all the persons that are willing to learn more, become better at what they do, and simply have fun.

I call everyone from young to old to join me on this blog, and stay tuned with latest articles that are going to be published soon. As this is going to be a quite exciting adventure.

With best regards and respect,

-Chris