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Google PageRank Exclusivity License Period Expiring in 2011. What does that mean?

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:31:00 -0700

In webmaster world, Google PageRank is an important factor in measuring the strength of a webpage. Time to time, Google allocate or update the PageRank of webpages as a number between 0 to 10 where 10 is for most popular webpage. It is another story that in year 2010, Google updated the PageRank in April and after that it didn’t happen yet. We all are awaiting for the Google PR update. Anyways, here is another story where it is found that PageRank is a patent owned by Stanford University and will expire in 2017. Google hold a one time paid license of this patent and in 2003, the exclusivity license was extended till 2011. After that period, Google’s exclusivity on PageRank will expire and license will become non-exclusive. What does that mean?

First of all here is the reference document where these things are mentioned. Search for “Table of Contents” in that document, and you will see details about the PageRank license and patent. Here is what is written in that document in this reference,

The first version of the PageRank technology was created while Larry and Sergey attended Stanford University, which owns a patent to PageRank. The PageRank patent expires in 2017. We hold a perpetual license to this patent. In October 2003, we extended our exclusivity period to this patent through 2011, at which point our license will become non-exclusive.

As exclusivity of PageRank license owned by Google is about to expire in 2011, it may mean that PageRank technology can be used by others after that period. As the patent expires in 2017, and it is owned by Stanford University where Google’s founders Larry and Sergey studied, it is hard to believe that they will not renew (if they want) the patent after that period. Regarding the exclusivity period, as they did in 2003, they can renew that license again in 2011 and own the exclusive rights for this technology.

About PageRank Update

Matt Cutts, official spokesman and engineer of Google handling webmaster and SEO related stuff told once that Google PageRank is a number which we provide or update for reference. What benefits you think of getting after the PR update, you start getting once your site gets quality backlinks. That means, you don’t need to worry about PR update as it happens on some interval when Google team gets some time out of their critical tasks. As this year, Google launched Android and Chrome Web Store, Chrome OS and so many other applications and team is very much busy in improving the interface of their existing products as they did for Google AdSense, Feedburner, Webmaster Tool etc. It is expected that Google will run the PageRank update in January 2011, but we should leave that behind and keep writing good stuff on our website or blog.

How To Create Gmail Account

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:28:00 -0700

Open http://mail.google.com/mail/signup in your browser or go to http://www.gmail.com and at the bottom right corner you would see “Create an account” button, click it.

You would get the below form:-

Fill up this form and submit it. Sometimes the form does not get submitted, in case if you have not entered something or if you have entered wrong code/captcha or password does not satisfy minimum requirements. So, re-enter the blank fields (you need to enter and re-enter the password as well as the Captcha every time the form submission is rejected, so do not panic).

You would get the below screen, if your account is created successfully.

Getting a message ‘Account Creation Failed’ for Gmail…read here…

Once you click “Show me my account >>”, you would enter to your Gmail account for the very first time which would look something like below:-

We would look into each of the sections and facilities here one by one in the upcoming articles. Just remember do not directly close the browser window, first log out / Sign Out of your account by clicking the sign out link at the top right corner of the Gmail screen and get successfully logged out. Closing the browser does not delete your login information from the browser cookies. So next time if anyone else opens Gmail in that browser, may be your Gmail account is naked before him or her.

Most of the times people forget to sign out from their email account, causing major security threats to their account, because anyone else sitting on that computer where you have left your Gmail account signed in could access your account and do anything (send some suspicious mail, change your password or anything more dangerous information theft to you). So please be cautious!

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:25:00 -0700

If the post that you are writing is a longer one, you might want to insert or embed an adsense ad in between the content so that you can monetize your longer content.

You can achieve this by pasting a small function in your active theme’s functions.php and then using a simpe shortcode [adsense]

Code to paste in functions.php :

function create_adsense_shortcode( $atts ) {
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
            'size' => '1'
    ), $atts));
    switch ($size) {
     case '1' :
        $ad = '<div class="inpost_ad">
              <script type="text/javascript"><!--
              google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
              /* 336x280, created 4/8/09 */
              google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxx";
              google_ad_width = 336;
              google_ad_height = 280;
              //-->
              </script>
              <script type="text/javascript"
              src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
             </script>
               </div>';
     break;
     case '2' :
        $ad = '<div class="inpost_ad">
                   <script type="text/javascript"><!--
                google_ad_clien

REVEALED – Google Gives 68% of Adsense Revenue to Adsense for Content Publishers

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:39:00 -0700

Till today, Revenue sharing of Google Adsense was not officially stated and that’s why there were lot many speculations on Internet about the same. But today Google’s Product Management, Vice President Mr. Neal Mohan posted an update on Adsense blog announcing or sharing the revenue share of Adsense for Content and Adsense for Search product with Publishers. 68% of total advertisement revenue of Adsense for Content goes to Publishers account and rest 32% remains with Google for enhancement of system as well as revenue for Google. For Adsense for Search, Google gives 51% to Publishers and keeps 49% with itself. This transparency from Google will definitely add value and extra Publishers to their Adsense service which is one of the best CPC (Cost per Click) network.

As per the official announcement,

For Adsense for Content Publishers

AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that we collect from advertisers for AdSense for content ads that appear on your sites. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google’s costs for our continued investment in AdSense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads. It also reflects the costs we incur in building products and features that enable our AdWords advertisers to serve ads on our AdSense partner sites. Since launching AdSense for content in 2003, this revenue share has never changed.

For Adsense for Search Publishers

We pay our AdSense for search partners a 51% revenue share, worldwide, for the search ads that appear through their implementations. As with AdSense for content, the proportion of revenue that we keep reflects our costs, including the significant expense, research and development involved in building and enhancing our core search and AdWords technologies. The AdSense for search revenue share has remained the same since 2005, when we increased it.

What is Adsense for Content and Adsense for Search?

Adsense for Content are ads appearing on a website which is using Google Adsense for monetization. You can see 336 x 280px, 300 x 250px ads or 468 x 60 or in different sizes where you can see “Ads by Google”. These ads are served from Google Adsense server for which Advertisers pays to Google thru AdWords service. and Adsense for Search is the Adsense ads appearing on the search result page of a website using Google’s Custom Search. You can try searching a keyword on this site and see ads appearing on top and bottom of the search result.

Also Read: Google Adsense Section Targeting to Increase CTR and eCPM

As per today’s announcement, Google is not going to change the revenue share in next few months but that may change depending on the maintenance cost from Google’s side. In next few days, Publishers ca see revenue sharing stat in their Adsense dashboard.

Publishers Can Prevent Unwanted Ads On AdSense

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:38:00 -0700

If a website owner don’t want to show his competitors advertisements on his website or blog because of the obvious reasons then he can prevent those ads by using Adsense filters. It is also useful when you don’t want to have low paying ads from Adsense on your blog.

To use the Adsense Filters, login to your Adsense account and click on “AdSense setup” tab. There you will see “Competitive Ad Filter” tab where you will have to enter the URL of your competitor who has started AdWords campaign for his company. There are two ways to provide the URL to be banned on your website,

Provide the advertisement destination URL and save the changes. Never use your own website to check the destination of an Ad as it is a violation of Google AdSense Policy. Use other’s website from same category where that particular ad appears to check the final destination i.e. Ads owner website’s URL.
If you don’t want to check the destination URL or you want to block only a particular advertisement from your competitor, then provide the URL of the advertisement over “Competitive Ad Filter” box.

There is a concept of broad and specific URL. When you want to block only the advertisement of the forum section of your competitor’s website, then provide the destination URL as www.forum.domainname.com, this way you can block a specific part of advertisement from the competitor. But if you provide the URL as domainname.com, then it will cover all the sub-domains and pages from competitor’s website and will not show any of the Ad from his AdWords account.

Go ahead and start filtering your AdSense Ads to show specific advertisement to your visitors. We have already discussed other ways to optimize AdSense to increase revenue.

How to block Google AdSense Ads with Adblock Plus on Mozilla Firefox

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:35:00 -0700

If you are using a slow connection to browse Internet, then you may try Ad blockers to avoid loading advertisements on web pages. Firefox users can try “Adblock Plus”, a free to use add-on to disable ads. But once you will install this add-on, it will keep loading the Google AdSense ads and to block those ads, you will have to add a new filter in Adblock Plus. Here is how you can add filter for Google AdSense to block those ads.

Also read – How to block or disable YouTube Ads

Important – As a blogger, I do not encourage to block ads as that is the main source of income for us. Earning from ads keeps us alive and charged up to come up with new posts and tutorials for you.

To block AdSense ads with Adblock Plus,

- Install Adblock Plus add-on on Firefox

- Go to the Adblock Plus “Preference” window by selecting the “Preference” link from menu

- Click on “Add Filters” button on the window or under the Filters option tab

- Add a new filter as “http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js” and save changes

Now you can reload the same webpage and see whether Adblock Plus blocked the AdSense Ad on the website. Advertisement by Google uses IFRAME to load the ads on webpages, and now those IFRAMEs will not get loaded while loading the page

4 Ways To Avoid Ban by Google for Testing Site Template with Adsense Code on Localhost

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:35:00 -0700

Lot many webmasters and designers worry about testing a test or offline site with Google Adsense code on localhost. They do test the design changes for many times on localhost which turns into lot many impressions of Adsense ads on the offline or “under construction” site. As per the TOS of Google Adsense, you should not use Adsense code on “Under Construction sites. Adsense Codes should be there on live sites only. In case you accidently click on those served ads while testing the site, it may lead to get Adsense account banned from Google. If you are testing your site locally usingWAMP, XAMP, LAMP or any other platform, you should avoid using the Adsense impressions or even code in the template. To avoid the Adsense account ban for these issues, you can try below ways to complete your template, design changes testing.

Use Screenshots of Adsense Ads from Live Site

Best way of testing a site design changes with Adsense layout is to put the screenshot of Adsense ads on the same place where Adsense code is located on live site. If you are planning to add new “Adsense Size” ad then go to any website which is using that layout or your can take screenshot from Adsense Sandbox. This way you can avoid any impression of Adsense ads on test site while testing it.

Install AdBlock Chrome Extension or Firefox Add-on

You should not click on ads running on your own site whether it is a live site or test site. To avoid any hit on localhost sites, you should install “AdBlock” Chrome Extension or Mozilla Firefox add-on. AdBlock blocks advertisements from Google or other network to appear on the browser. So this will also help you ion avoiding any accidental hit on Adsense ads.

Test Template Without Adsense Code

Basic way to avoid any penalty is to remove the complete code of adsense from the site. You can keep the DIV section of the adsense ad area on HTML part. Test your site changes and add Adsense code at the time of upload.

Use “Ozh’ Who Sees Ads” plugin on WordPress Sites

If your test site is on self hosted WordPress platform, then you can use “Ozh’ Who Sees Ads” plugin to control the visibility of Adsense or other ads. Thru this WordPress plugin, you can set the option to avoid any impression of adsense ad on site template to appear while testing. This plugin is having lot many ad visibility option for live sites as well but you can customize it for avoiding any ban from Google for Adsense TOS violation.

Also Read: How To Increase Income Thru Adsense By Doing Simple Changes

Back in 2009, people were used to use google_adtest = "on" for the test sites but now this features is no longer available. As per the TOS of Adsense, Publishers are not allowed to make any changes in the Adsense Code. So don’t use google_test = “on” while testing your site. To avoid penalty or ban from Google for wrong implementation of adsense, use any of above 4 ways while testing your site on localhost.

Don’t click on your own blog’s Adsense, may affect the CTR

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:32:00 -0700

At that When you are testing the layout of your own blog or website which is having Google Adsense code, at that time you are loading your page many times and requesting for ads thru google at the same time. As google is not aware that you are testing your site, so that will be counted as a fresh page load but from the same IP. That will affect the CTR or your Adsense account.

Even if you do the same for many times, Google might penalize your account for click-fraud. To avoid these things for your blog, follow the below precautionary measures:

Remove the Google Adsense code from your blog at the time of testing
Add another line to Google Adsense code google_adtest = “on”;
Modify the value of google_ad_client to something like “pub-googleIamTesting”
Instead of Adsense code, use static image of the google ad to check the layout.

Otherwise contact Adsense Team with your query.

How To Place Google Adsense Ads On Free Blogger Blogs On Single Click

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:29:00 -0700

Blogger is a free blogging platform from Google where one can start a blog within 5 minutes without any investment. Once you started blogging on a particular niche of your choice, why don’t you try to monetize that blog using Google Adsense.

You can insert Google Adsense Ads on Blogger blogs on a single click. To do that, you need to have aGoogle Adsense Account. You can enrol for Google Adsense account using same ID and Password of Blogger i.e. Google Account. Once you will enrol to a Google Adsense account, you will get a PUB ID over there. You can see your PUB ID at below location,

Google Adsense ==> My Account ==> Account Settings ==> Property Information

[ad#Google Adsense-1]

Now login to your Blogger account and then go to the “Monetize” option. Choose the layout in which you want the Ads to appear. i.e. you can choose whether you want ads in Sidebar or Posts or both. Placement of Ads on proper location is very much effective in monetization, so place Adsense ads by doing some kind of analysis. Click on next and then you can select the Google Adsense Account from there. They will also show you the PUB ID over there, Always confirm that the PUB ID shown over there is yours only. PUB ID is like Account Number of Bank Account, So the Adsense income will appear in the PUB ID used for showing Adsense Ads. Save the changes, and go to your Google Adsense Account. Since your Ads are getting served on Blogger blogs which is treated as Partner Website as it belongs to Google. You will have to approve the partner website access for your Google Adsense ads to show those Ads on Blogger. There is no risk associated with this step.

To approve the partner website access request made by Blogger, follow the below steps,

Google Adsense ==> My Account ==> Account Access ==> blogger.com

Once you will approve the request, you can visit your blog where Adsense Ads started serving with your blog content. Google Adsense is a CPC kind of advertisement where you will get paid whenever any visitor will click on the ads served on your blog. You can track the Adsense income on your blogger account itself by clicking on the “Monetize” option.

How To Find PUB-ID in Google Adsense Account

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:27:00 -0700

Google Adsense is one of the most trusted and preferred monetization platform for bloggers and website owners. Now lot many bloggers has started revenue sharing option where you need to post some content and provide your Google Adsense Pub-ID to earn thru CTR on that post. If you are new to Google Adsense and like to know your own Pub-ID then here is the step by step process to check that.

Login to your Google Adsense Dashboard
Go to Account Settings under “My Account” tab
Scroll down and check the “Property Information”, there you can see your 16 digit Pub – ID
Share that Pub ID on revenue sharing blog
Once your post publishes on that blog, check the page source of that post “view source”
Try to find your Pub ID over there, if that is appearing on adsense ad, that means the ad is running thru your ID and you will be paid for clicks

I hope this short but helpful article helped you in finding the Pub ID of Google Adsense account.

How To Track Google AdSense Data in Analytics for Multiple website Profiles

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:24:00 -0700

We have already shared the benefits and how to merge Google Analytics and AdSense for primary domain to track AdSense performance in Analytics. Now if you are managing multiple websites thru oneGoogle Analytics account and you want to track AdSense performance of each website or blog, then here is the tutorial to do the same. First of all, I would like to make it clear that the AdSense and Analytics should be there on same Google Account for tracking. Now here is the step by step guide to enable tracking of AdSense for multiple website profiles on Analytics.

Steps to track multiple website AdSense on Analytics

1. Login to Google Analytics first page where you get list of website profiles attached with the Google Account. That is actually Analytics Settings page.

2. Click on edit link beside the website profile for which you want to track AdSense performance.

3. Click on the edit link present on right-top of window “Main Website Profile Information”. On that window, you can see an option as “AdSense Data”.

4. Check the box which says “Yes, this profile should receive AdSense data”. Then you will get a piece of code on that window only. You just need to paste that piece of code in the header section of your website or blog so that the code will run on each page impression.

5. Done. Now you can track AdSense performance in next couple of days on Analytics Dashboard of that website profile at the below navigation.

Dashboard ==> Content ==> AdSense

Go ahead and see which keyword and post is performing well on AdSense. This will definitely help you in boosting the performance of your AdSense and website monetization.

Google Adsense Account Must Be Integrated With Google Analytics

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:21:00 -0700

e both to take a look in deeper side of monetization. Google Adsense and Analytics can be integrated with each other so that you can keep an eye on your referral links thru which you are earning maximum revenue or other sources of income thru Adsense.

Google Analytics tells about the source of incoming traffic and popular keywords and at the same time Google Adsense tells you about the revenue generated thru CPC. Once you will integrate Google Adsense and Analytics, you would know the source of traffic thru which the user clicked on the Adsense ads and generated revenue for your site or blog. You can also track the keywords which attracted users to hit on an ad provided by you on your blog.

How To Integrate Google Adsense And Analytics

Integration of Google Adsense and Analytics is very simple, You should have Google Adsense and Analytics on same Google Account. Now log in to your Adsense Account and then click on “Integrate your AdSense account with Google Analytics” on Report Overview page. Now step by step execution of automated program will link your Google Analytics with Adsense. If you are attaching with Primary domain then no need for another tracking code at all.

Here is a YouTube video to show you the integration of Google Adsense and Analytics,

There are lot many benefits of integrating these two products but the most important one is that you can now track the page views and income at single place.

Embed Google Adsense Ad Anywhere Inside The WordPress Post Without Using Plugin

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:21:00 -0700

If the post that you are writing is a longer one, you might want to insert or embed an adsense ad in between the content so that you can monetize your longer content.

You can achieve this by pasting a small function in your active theme’s functions.php and then using a simpe shortcode [adsense]

Code to paste in functions.php :

function create_adsense_shortcode( $atts ) {
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
            'size' => '1'
    ), $atts));
    switch ($size) {
     case '1' :
        $ad = '<div class="inpost_ad">
              <script type="text/javascript"><!--
              google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
              /* 336x280, created 4/8/09 */
              google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxx";
              google_ad_width = 336;
              google_ad_height = 280;
              //-->
              </script>
              <script type="text/javascript"
              src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
             </script>
               </div>';
     break;
     case '2' :
        $ad = '<div class="inpost_ad">
                   <script type="text/javascript"><!--
                google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
                /* 468X60, created 4/8/09 */
                google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxx";
                google_ad_width = 468;
                google_ad_height = 60;
                //-->
                </script>
                <script type="text/javascript"
                src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
               </script>
               </div>';
      break;
    }
    return $ad;
}
add_shortcode('adsense', 'create_adsense_shortcode');

Replace the google ad (the code between the div start and div end) with your own ad code (remember to check your pub-ID i.e. google_ad_client, I have replaced it with xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and also check the google_ad_slot for the correct ad).

How to use the shortcode

In the post content, you can directly write/put the shortcode [adsense] anywhere to embed your ad.

You would like to read:- WordPress plugins to Rotate Advertisements including Google Adsense, Chitika, YPN or Banner Ads

How to embed different size of ads

You can embed different sizes/format of Google ads by making a slight addition in the code. In the above code, you can refer to second case statement:-

case '2' :
        $ad = '<div class="inpost_ad">
                   <script type="text/javascript"><!--
                google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
                /* 468X60, created 4/8/09 */
                google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxx";
                google_ad_width = 468;
                google_ad_height = 60;
                //-->
                </script>
                <script type="text/javascript"
                src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
               </script>
               </div>';
        break;

So, replace the Google adsense code with your second adsense code.

In the WordPress post content when you need to insert this ad, just use this shortcode [adsense size='2']. You can also create third ad with different size, just add a new case statement (similar code as above, just replace the ad code with third ad).

How to format or style these ads

Now you would like to make these ads float left or right, or give some background color or margin and padding. It is very easy, you can style the div with class ‘inpost_ad’, i.e in your active theme’s style.css, you can add similar kind of code:

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.inpost_ad{
float:left;
margin:5px 0 5px 10px;
}

You can add any kind of styles to this class, that would help you styling the ad container.

Post your comments to tell us how it worked for you.

How to create Google Adsense Account and Start Making Money Online

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:11:00 -0700

Google’s main revenue source is advertisements appearing on search engine’s result page on computers, mobile devices or tablets. In Google, the advertisers platform to get ads is known as “AdWords” and the publishers platform to publish ads on websites is known as “Adsense”. Here we are talking about making money with Google Adsense and how to create an account to start publishing those ads by Google. I am using Google Adsense since last 2 years and very much satisfied with the program. If you own a website / blog or a blogging network, thinking about trying Google Adsense, then here is the step by step guide to help you do that.

Is this right time to show Google Adsense Ads on Blog?

You can enroll for Adsense at any point whether your site is new or old and start serving ads. But I would suggest to serve no ads before getting some popularity. Popularity in terms of PageRank, Monthly Views etc. Start serving advertisements including Adsense ads after getting more than 3,000 view per day i.e. approx 100,000 view per month. Of course if you are getting this much traffic specially from search engine, your site’s PR would be at least 2 or 3.

Steps to get Google Adsense Account

Important: Google Adsense team analyzes your submission request, and may or may not approve your account.

Step 1 – First of all, you need a Google Account to sign up for Adsense program. It should be an account with gmail.com ID, which means you can’t get into Google Adsense with custom domain account registered on Google. Here is a process to create Gmail account, you can try this to have a proper Google Account required for Adsense in no time.

Step 2 – Go to Google Adsense page, and provide details about yourself. I would suggest to use Mozilla Firefox for submitting the request in case you are facing any problem on Google Chrome browser. Yes, you can try that with any browser of your choice like Internet Explorer.

Step 3 – As your request has been submitted, now you will have to wait for the approval from Google Adsense team. They will verify the website submitted by you and will also see if you site fulfill the eligibility criterion provided in Google Adsense TOS. For example, you site should have content which are comfortable for read for families and people of different ages. Site should not have any explicit content or anything which may hurt the sentiment of any community of group of people.

Once your request will be approved by Google Adsense team, you will receive an email from them about the approval. Now you can sign in into Adsense page and start creating ads of different sizes and layouts.

Learn more about optimization, better performance, CPC, CTR, CPM about Google Adsense

If you are using WordPress as blogging platform, you may try advertisement manager plugins to rotate ads automatically. You can provide Adsense ads into those plugins to rotate between Adsense and direct ads (or any other ad from different network).

Change Background Image of Google Homepage

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:04:00 -0700

Google started a new feature on Google Search homepage where you can change the background image on the page. Google show off different logos through Google Doodle to celebrate different occasions but this new initiative will make the homepage more attractive. The default color of Google’s homepage is white, so if you are a colorful person then go ahead and select right image as a background of your Google. Yes, Google is also taking measures to make the home page as colorful asBing (Search Engine by Microsoft) but here it gives more personalized feel that preset pictures on Bing.

I said your google, because you need to login with your Google ID to change the background image. That image will be saved for your ID and whenever you will be logged in with that Google ID, your selected image will become background of the search engine homepage. That means it doesn’t mater which computer you are using, your set background image will be there on Google homepage.

Initially this background image feature was available on Google.com only but now it is available worldwide on local domains as well.

Custom Picture as Background of Google Homepage

Google India users can also see the “Change background image” option to bottom-left of the Google homepage. Click on that link to get the list of “Public Images” or you can also select image from your computer to set that as background image of Google. Google’s logo changes on different public pictures. You can set your family pictures as well on Google Homepage.

How To Set Background Picture on Google Homepage

Once you will click on the “change background image” link, it will show you lot many pictures from public library. Either you can use them or upload your picture from local computer as well. You will find options for picking the picture from as public gallery, your Picasa web album, local computer or editor’s pick. You may choose any of these options to put your favorite picture as background of Google.

To remove the set background picture, you just need to click on “Remove background image” on bottom-let of the homepage. To do this, again you have to be logged in with the same user ID. So what are you waiting for, go ahead and select your favorite picture as the background of your favorite search engine i.e. Google.

Important: Background picture is only visible on Homepage. Search results pages will have default white background.

Embed HTML Code On Facebook Profile To Spread Your Social And Blog Links

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:03:00 -0700

Most of the people who uses Internet are active on Facebook for social networking. If you are active on your blog and other other social networking sites as well then it is always useful to provide image icon, link or text related to them over Facebook profile. You can provide Twitter icon and the link to make your Facebook friends your follower on twitter. This way you can spread your social links as well as blog link on Facebook and attract more traffic from there.

To do this, you need to paste some HTML code on your facebook profile page which will have <img> tag, <a> tag, or some texts and that should appear on profile. There some applications on Facebook to write HTML code and then move those codes to profile sidebar. Take a look at some of them,

Note: You can see the link images of my blog, twitter account and other social media provided on my facebook profile page at left sidebar on below image.

1. My Box

It is a powerful WYSIWYG editor for HTML in Facebook applications. You can edit the box by adding your blog’s logo, Twitter Icon, YouTube Videos and other profile icons and then link them. You can directly add HTML code over there and then check the preview. My Box is a free application on Facebook where you can easily create a HTML box for your profile and then embed that on your facebook profile.

2. My Info

Only HTML editor without any WYSIWYG where you can paste or write HTML codes as per your choice and then show that on your facebook profile. My Info is better option for those who are familiar with HTML and CSS otherwise go for My Box.

3. My HTML

It is similar to My Info but it doesn’t have Narrow and Wide box option which actually adds a div for width of the box. If you are planning to add HTML code in your Facebook Box then that should have more width i.e. wider but If you are planning to have HTML on profile page in sidebar then that should be narrow. This width feature is provided in “My Info” editor but is missing from My HTML.

To implement the newly created HTML box for your own, just go for editing your installed applications and then edit the application setting from there. If you are using My Info, then click on Edit Setting for My Info in your installed applications. Add the application on “Box” and then enter in your Facebook Box on Profile Page of Facebook and then move the HTML box from there to Profile page in Sidebar.

I can proudly say that once I added the HTML links of my blog, twitter account and other profiles, I got more numbers on followers and more hits on Internet Techies.

Nine Optimization Tricks to Make More Money with Google Adsense

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:58:00 -0700

Google Adsense i s no doubt one of the most preferred CPC network ad serving platform for publishers. Here are some optimization tricks to opt after creating Google Adsense account to make more money with Google Adsense. There is no doubt that once you will install Adsense ads on your busy website, you will start earning thru that, but small optimizations and customization may increase your earning by remarkable percentage. So here are some tips to optimize Google Adsense ads to earn more money thru that ad network by Google.

1. Use Section Targeting to get relevant ads : Benefit of using Google Adsense is that it serves ads related to the content of the website so that users may also find the ads useful for them. If you are having lot many things on your website which are even not related to the content shown on the page, you should use “Section Targeting” to server ads related to the main content rather than related to some static content from sidebar or footer area. This will increase the CTR (Click Thru Ratio) of your website that means your adsense ads will start getting more clicks i.e. more revenue.

2. Effective Formats of Ads – Even Google Adsense team has said that their more effective and the best performing ad formats are 336 x 280px, 300 x 250px and 160 x 600px ads. I would suggest you to install these formats of ads on your website to get more eCPM i.e. more money out of your installed ads.

3. Find Most Clicked Zone using Heatmap – Do you know where most of the visitors on your site used to click more. You can find the same using Heatmap for webpages and find the spot. Try to install Google Adsense ads near to that area to get more clicks i.e. more CTR which will tend to give your more money out of installed Google Adsense ads.

4. Filter unwanted ads from Adsense – If you find that particular ad is not giving much eCPM, you should filter out that from your Adsense account. Other eCPM rich ad will be served in place of that.

5. Install Ads in between the post content – If you are using WordPress as blogging platform, you can use plugin to insert adsense ads in between the post content. As visitor is reading the content, you may choose to serve them with ads to get clicks on them.

6. Install ads on Forum to earn more from there – As Forum is community driven content type where you need to build a strong community and then you can start monetizing that with Google Adsense. Start a forum and install ads over there to earn more.

7. Customize the color of ads as per theme – It is really important to customize the color of Google Adsense ads from the dashboard of Adsense to make ads similar to the theme color of your website. Ads should look similar to get more clicks on them. Yes, it is like making them bit confusing for visitors, but that is how you can make more money out of your website.

8. Track Adsense income in Analytics – Are you aware of the most profitable article on your website / blog? Start tracking Adsense income in Google Analytics by integrating both of them. Here is a tutorial to integrate Google Adsense with Google Analytics. This will help you in making more money with Adsense by promoting your best performing post. You can also optimize the underperforming posts by looking onto them in Analytics.

9. Placement Targeting – Do you know that advertisers can target your blog’s adsense channel and give you more eCPM if they find your site useful? Placement targeting in Adsense is an option to tell advertisers about a particular channel and let them select your website channel to serve their ads.

There may be more AdSense optimization techniques but above tips are really effective in increasing your Adsense income by remarkable amount. Share your views about the above list and let us know if any other technique is working for you.

5 Best Ways to Make Money From Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:57:00 -0800

We talked about how we can earn money by writing and Now, Lets talk about How you can earn money from blogs. Initially Blogging was used only as a medium of expression and to voice your opinions and thoughts. Nowadays , blogging has become money making online activity which can generate a reasonable amount of income. If you have the flair and passion to write, you can start doing the job you like while earning money at the same time. There are five ways to earn money from your blog. They are:

1. Google Adsense

A popular way in which you can earn money blogging is with Advertising. You can refer to Google Ad sense and Amazon Associates for this purpose. This is the most common method of earning from a blog… Once your blog becomes well known and is well-received in a particular niche, it is possible to sell ad space on your own blog. For lesser-known blogs, services such as Google’s Ad Sense or BlogAds enable bloggers to establish ad programs. Ad Sense’s pays you based on how many readers click on the ads.

2. Affiliate programs

Another way to earn money from your blog is with Affiliate Programs. You can choose from many available online. Pick one that is free to join and pays a good commission for your referrals.

3. Help sell others’ products

Affiliate programs enable your blog to serve as a link between readers and online sites offering various goods and services. One popular choice is Amazon.com. For example if you offer a book review in your blog, an affiliate program will provide a means for your readers to click directly from your blog to Amazon to obtain further information about the book. If they charge their card, you get paid as well.

4. Market your services in your blog

Many people think that blogs are exclusively used to voice your opinions. Blogs are an ideal venue to share your thoughts with others, but we should not overlook their capacity to generate new business and income. You can mention references and what you do to the person reading your blog. That will spread your opinion and your business at the same time.

5. Selling an E-book

If you enjoy writing, you may consider selling an E-book on your blog. You can write about a subject you have much knowledge in or interview and expert and turn it into a book. You will need to learn how to create E-books and there are plenty
of resources online.

50 Secrets of Successful People

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:53:00 -0800

There are only 5% successful people in the world. This means that only one person in Twenty really achieves success in life. This is a result of a recent research. Highly successful people are not born that way. They develop certain characteristics and traits which help them to achieve growth and success in life. The growth is slow and steady but these people are not afraid of failure or defeat. They just want to pursue their dreams and attain a position and status in the society. It is not difficult to follow these principles. By following these you will not only be a successful person but also a good human being.

The secret of highly successful people are stated below

Successful people:

1. Look for and find opportunities in places where others can not see.
2. Discover what their real goals and dreams are.
3. Are optimistic or positive thinkers.
4. Have high integrity and speak only the truth.
5. Make detailed action plans for achieving their goals.
6. Never stop in the pursuit of knowledge.
7. Practice patience and persistence in their lives.
8. Stay focused on their priorities.
9. Are creative and imaginative.
10. Have clear communication skills.
11. Seek solutions and do not mourn over problems.
12. Create success for themselves.
13. Do not complain and moan.
14. Do not blame others; rather take responsibility for their actions.
15. Are ambitious and efficient.
16. Are clear about what they want in life.
17. Keep themselves busy.
18. Are life-long learners.
19. Do not believe in chance or luck.
20. Attempt to do the impossible.
21. Are adaptable and ready to accept change.
22. Are physically fit.
23. Are not lazy and lethargic.
24. Set high standards for themselves.
25. Believe in the saying- work while you work, play while you play.
26. Complete what they begin.
27. Practice what they preach
28. Are kind and generous to others.
29. Live life to the fullest.
30. Love to face challenges.
31. Have value for time.
32. Respect their seniors and elders.
33. Care for others.
34. Are reliable and trustworthy.
35. Are humble and submissive in nature.
36. Live within a budget.
37. Get out of bed early.
38. Meditate.
39. Pray regularly.
40. Make reading a habit.
41. Do not procrastinate.
42. Realize the importance of a mentor or coach.
43. Develop an effective network.
44. Can balance both home and work.
45. Know when to take smart risks.
46. Understand the politics of the organization.
47. Give out positive energy to those around them.
48. Laugh it out.
49. Are well organized.
50. Love and value themselves.

How to Get Your Disabled Adsense Account Back – Solution

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:48:00 -0800

Many of Times Google Adsense Publishers are banned by Google Adsense Team for several reasons such invalid click activity or risk for advertisers of Google Adwords. People Use to send email to Google Adsense Support and receive a reply saying they can’t reinstate your Adsense Account. Here is a Professional method that actually works for getting a Banned Adsense Account.

Now, as for all of you guys out there with banned Adsense accounts:

Guys that really are innocent and have nothing to do with invalid clicks or fraud, continue to read further.
The rest (in a much higher percentage than the earlier mentioned, I presume), just stop here and move on from my blog. Nothing interesting here.

A reinstating procedure is more like proving the AdSense team that it wasn’t you who made the fraud and you have nothing to do with any type of terms and policies breaking actions.

Always write your e-mails in a perfect grammar.
Write the letters addressing yourself to a 3rd person, without taking the manner personally.
Be corporate, be understanding and nice, although you are frustrated (probably). I was too.
Try to offer every little bit of help possible, so that the AdSense team can check all the possible variables.
IMHO, if you are a fairly known figure, for it’s whitehat techniques or just for it’s truly honest behavior, post your issue in a well documented, read and influential discussion forum.
IMHO, if you are NOT a fairly known figure, for it’s whitehat techniques or just for it’s truly honest behavior, do NOT post your situation in a forum, or any other public place.
Try not to spam the AdSense team with repeated e-mails sent to multiple e-mail addresses, telling them the exact same thing. If you sent it once (maximum twice) that’s all you can do. ALL the e-mails are read.
Do not reply to the first horrifying e-mail telling you your AdSense account has been disabled. Why not reply ? Because the first Google AdSense Account Disabled e-mail comes from the e-mail address adsense-adclicks@google.com (which is NOT ticket based) , and because the e-mails that come to you after you use the appeal form, come from adsense-adclicks-appeal@google.com (which IS ticket based).
Use the AdSense invalid clicks appeal form. After you will get your first reply from the message sent to the appeal form, from a Google representative (they have a ticket system), you can then reply to that.
Try to offer them server logs, tracking and analytics logs, and any other useful information, that they can use to determine if your account got click-bombed or not.
Whenever you write e-mails, please try to sign your full name, telephone, mobile telephone, e-mail address, website, and so on, in the e-mail (please see the template below).
In the AdSense appeal form, at the e-mail part (Email Address:), always write your AdSense publisher e-mail, and not another e-mail.
One again, write in a polite manner, always. Polite + corporate + helpful + not spamming = success.

Below, I will give you a template of an e-mail to use:

The initial Google AdSense account disabled e-mail

Hello ……………………….,
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on
the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google
AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an
effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.
A publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks on any ad(s), including
but not limited to clicks generated by:
- a publisher on his own web pages
- a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads
- automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software
- a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the
layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason
Practices such as these are in violation of the Google AdSense Terms
and Conditions and program polices, which can be viewed at:
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US
Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further
participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The
earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected
advertisers.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team

Hello ……………………….,
While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since
keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage
our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.
Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the
interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We
realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in
advance for your understanding and cooperation.
If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve
taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information
by visiting
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.

Your response to the above e-mail

PS: Send it trough the AdSense invalid clicks appeal form, and do NOT reply.

Hello there,
Thank you for letting me know about this click attack on my (personal/company) AdSense account.
I do not know what happened with my account (clicks, CTR etc.) since yesterday/2 days ago/3 days ago/one week ago when everything as far as stats went, seemed just fine, and followed the usual patterns (no abnormal rises in clicks).
As of this day, I can’t check my account and my stats for weird behaviors, because my account is disabled and I do not have access anymore.
I am trying to cover all the possible issues, so below I will write what I came up with about possible click attacks on my account:
- Reason 1 (ex. This guy threatened to click bomb my account). Put URL’s of forum discussions if you have them too.
- Reason 2 – server logs, that seem fine or not.
- Reason 3 etc.
But I can’t say nothing concrete about any of the above, simply because I really can’t know for sure.
What I know for sure is that I have nothing to do with invalid clicks, I never clicked my own ads and I never encouraged any other people to click on my ads.
Please tell me what are the next steps. Also let me know if there’s anything I can do or offer the AdSense team (server logs, tracking logs, history of the account, payment logs etc) to help with the faster resolve of this issue with my account.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Tenezo
My Tenezo Company
My Address and City/Country
Office phone: +92 333.333.334
Cell phone: +92 333.333.333
YM!: my_id_here ; Skype: my_id_here

End note

All the above I learned myself, either trough my own experience or from others. I can’t guarantee that your account will be reinstated, but what I can guarantee is that you will have a better chance.
Good luck.

Place Google Adsense in Blogger Post (above and below)

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:43:00 -0800

Now a days every blogger is using this common hack or trick of blogger to increase Google Adsense revenue. You can also increase your Google Adsense Earning by placing Google Ads below and/or above Blogger Post. You will be able place Google Ads Above the post (but below the post title) and at the End of Blogger Post. This Hack is only for post pages and not for Homepage of your Blogger Blog. Follow these steps to implement this trick in your blog.

Login to Your Blogger Account
On Your Dashboard, Click on Design (see below shown picture for further assistance)

Now Click on HTML (see below shown picture for further assistance)

Now Check the box of Expand Widget Templates (see below shown picture for assistance)

Convert Your Google Adsense Code into XML Format using Google Adsense Code Converter (note: This does not violate Google Adsense TOS)

Now Search For

<data:post.body/>

Place Below Shown Code before and after <data:post.body/>

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == "item"’>
GOOGLE ADSENSE CONVERTED CODE HERE
</b:if>

Save Your Template !
Its Done

It will looks good and also improve your CTR if you 336×280 Format.

This trick will surely help you to maximize Adsense Earning. I tried my best to explain in easy way but if you face any problem using this trick then discuss your problem in Comments form and i will help you to fix that problem

Google Adsense Ads Between WordPress Posts

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:39:00 -0800

WordPress is one of the most used platform of blogging. Normally people earn money by placing Google Ads in sidebars only BUT you can increase Google Adsense Earnings by placing Google Ads between WordPress posts at mainpage. There are several plugins to show Google Adsense ads between WordPress posts. But here is a manuall method to show Google Ads inside WordPress posts..
All You have to edit your WordPress Theme’s index.php file
1- Login to WordPress Admin Panel and navigate to Appearance > Theme Editor
2- Now, Find and click on index.php (Main Index Template ) template from right listed files list.
3- Find This Code

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

4- Above given code with following code

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $count = 1; ?>
5- Now find following code

<div class=”entry”>
or
<div class=”postcontent”>
6- Add following code after above searched code.

<?php if ($count == 1) : ?> AdSense Code <?php endif; $count++; ?>

By defafult the add will be displayed after 1st post, BUT If you want the add under desired number of post, simple change $count == 2 the figure.

5 Ad Networks can be run along side with Adsense

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:34:00 -0800

We found Google Adsense is one of the best and easiest way to monetize your blog or website. Google Adsense pays 68% to their publishers and their payment system is also fast and reliable. Now, If you want to earn more money with your blog and dont want to remove Google AdSense ads from your blog/website and you should try to use following ad networks alongside with Google AdSense.

Infolinks.com

Infolinks is one of the well known in-text advertising company paying well to their publishers. They link key-words from your blog contents to external websites and pay you according to your blog contents and geographical area (i.e. they will pay you most if you are having US visitors).

Amazon Products

Amazon is another way to make more money from your blog or website without removing Google AdSense. They will give you code, simply add it in your blog and your visitors will say some products in your blog from Amazon, you will be paid a good amount on every sale.

Adbrite.com Ads

Another way to get more revenue from blog is to place Adbrite ads alongside with Google AdSense. Its safe to place Adbrite ads with Google AdSense as Google Adsense’s TOS prohibit you to put any other Contextual Ad service along with Adsense itself. And AdBrite ads are site(and/or category in some cases) targeted ads, which comply with Adsense

BuySellAds.com

You can also sell ad space to directly to advertisers using Buysellads.com, They are providing you best to sell ad space on your blog. You are free to fix the price to sell your ad space.

There are many other ad networks like CJ (commission junction),click bank products and hop links, direct ads etc

10 Things to Know for Quick Adsense Approval

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:30:00 -0800

Google Adsense is widely platform used by several bloggers and webmasters to monetize your blog and make money online. In previous post, we discussed how to create adsense account quickly. But sometimes we need more things to know before applying for Adsense account because Google is strict for new adsense accounts in several countries. So, its time to know what things we should know before applying for an Adsense account or creating a Google Adsense account quickly and successfully.

Domain

First and most important thing is Domain name, try to purchase a professional sort of domain rather than rude or adult kind of domain. Never apply for an Adsense account using a free domain such as .tk, .co.cc etc domains. If you cant purchase a domain, simply use blogger for creating Google Adsense account.

Website Template or Blog Design/theme

The most important thing after domain is website template or blog design. You must use a professional, attractive and user friendly template for your blog. You can download such templates easily. There are several websites from where you can download free HTML templates/website templates/blog templates. Never use casino or adult kind of templates. If you apply for an Adsense using Blogger, never use default template.

Contents

Content is King so, you must have unique contents in your blog before applying for an Adsense account. You must not have mp3 tracks, warez things, adult stuff or pictures whose owner is someone else than you or you dont have permissions to publish such things. Google will never approve your Adsense account if your contents are not yours i.e. mp3 tracks, warez, adult, copyright pictures etc. If you are not such person then its fine and if you are applying for and Adsense using your blog, try to have atleast 10 to 20 articles in your blog before applying for an Adsense.

Link Promotion

Several bloggers and webmasters take Google Adsense account creation easy and some time its easier too when your application is reviewed by some Google Adsense employee who is in happy mood. But if you are not that much lucky, you have to exchange your link with 5 to 10 websites for link building purpose. Try to exchange links with websites which are related to your websites in topic.

Personal Information

When you are filling Adsense form, give them exact and true information such as postal code, home address, phone number etc. Otherwise your application will be rejected.

Above are the factors which really helps (if satisfied) for creating an Adsense account successfully.

Google Adsense Updated Ads Delivery

noreply@blogger.com (free call) — Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:25:00 -0800

Google Adsense is source of earning of thousands of bloggers and webmasters around the world. Whatever a blogger earns from his blog through Google Adsense, Google keeps 32% and pay remaining (i.e. 68%) amount to blogger which is a good paying rate. Now a days, Almost 1 of every 4 sites and about All blogs are using Google Adsense to generate revenue from their blogs. Due to wide use of Google Adsense, almost every one knows about Google Adsense Ad links and several people have become conseous about clicking on Google Adsense links. This thing makes Google Ads "Blind" as Google has limited ad formats and ad customization for normal adsense publishers while Premium Adsense publishers can play with customization of ads.

It seems, even Google saw a decline in their earnings because of their ads were being ignored. So, Google made several changes in their Ads delivery such as

Larger Fonts
Selection of Fonts
New Placement of Links
Removing image of "Ads by Google" from ads and placing same text in small format.

Now, its expected Google will soon introduce in-text advertising.