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How a Blog Can Look Good And Earn Revenue with Banner Advertising

2011-09-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

Look Good and Earn With Banner Ads

Many blogs fail to seize the many lucrative rewards that site-based advertising has to offer. Often, a blog owner will do nothing more than set up a Google Adsense account and fill their blog with uninteresting textual advertising. This is a huge mistake and a waste of valuable space.
Textual advertisements are regularly overlooked or ignored completely. They can look tacky and add no element of vibrancy or visual attraction to a blog. They provide nothing apart from the slim chance of earning a few dollars a month and this is doubtful.
If a blog owner is looking for an advertising outlet that will stimulate interest and provide additional revenue they should be heading in the direction of banner advertising.

Why Banner Ads Offer Enhanced Profitability

Banner ads are interesting. People are naturally drawn to images and while textual adverts are nothing more than a boring column of more text, banner adverts naturally attract a reader’s attention.
Images catch the eye. And the purpose of an advert is for people to actually notice it. Banner adverts will be noticed and are proven to be more successful. This means greater profit for the blog hosting the ads.

Greater Flexibility

Textual adverts are very limited in size and style. Banner advertisements come in many different shapes and sizes. They can be made to fit in with a blogs overall appearance, and can be used to break up long passages of text and slot into those awkward empty areas that lack content.

Professional Appearance

A banner advertisement will always look more appealing than a textual advert. A quality graphical advert can enhance the look of a blog, if correctly designed. Many companies spend a fortune on banner design and they have moved on a long way from the days of cheap flashing neon adverts.
Modern banner ads do not detract from blog content, they flow with it and readers will appreciate a blog that provides a valuable alternative resource that is relevant to their needs.

Increased Information

Banner advertisements often contain more information that simple textual adverts. They provide images of a product and offer more than a few oddly worded lines of text. With the advancement in Flash programming, banner adverts are now able to provide high-quality visual imagery that can seamlessly glide from screen to screen.
This multi-layered function allows banner advertisements to include a large amount of information in a very small space. Readers want to know what they are dealing with before they click on any advert and this is why banner adverts always outperform text ads.

Everyone’s a Winner

By choosing the right banner adverts for their readership and ensuring that these banners are both attractive and of a high design quality, a blog can provide its visitors with relevant products or services that will serve their needs.
Not only will a blog be increasing its overall revenue, it will be enhancing its appearance by adopting attractive, appealing imagery within the site.

The Top Widget Galleries and Providers

2011-09-16T09:22:00.000-07:00

Widgets can spice up your web life by adding fun and utility to personalized start pages, blogs, and social networking profiles, but they cannot spice up your web if you cannot find them. The following is a list of the top widget galleries and providers.

Widgetbox

Description: Excellent source of widgets that work on websites, social networks, blogs, and personal start pages. The process of putting widgets on the page is made simpler with their handy wizards that automate the process for some sites.

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Widgipedia

Description: Dedicated to widgets for the web and for the desktop, Widgipedia has widgets for all platforms. Allows searching by tags and the ability to read and give feedback on the individual widgets.

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Yahoo Widgets

Description: Widgets designed for the desktop, users are first required to install software to manage the widgets on the desktop. A great selection of desktop widgets, and the desktop manager makes installing them and uninstalling them a breeze.

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SpringWidgets

Description: A good gallery filled with both web widgets and desktop widgets, springwidgets also features the ability to automatically install the widgets onto some sites.

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Rockyou

Description: Rockyou is a widget host offering a variety of widgets from musical slide shows to horoscopes to games.

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Yourminis

Description: A nice selection of web widgets, yourminis also automates the process of installing the widget for some pages and has a distribution network for getting your own widget out there.

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Slide

Description: Slide is a widget host offering sophisticated widgets for producing slide shows, picture galleries, and guest books.

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Snipperoo

Description: Snipperoo is a directory of widget sites rather than a widget gallery. Arranging the sites by catagory, it is a very handy resource for finding widgets.

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Playlist

Description: Playlist is a social music experiment allowing users to create their own play list and take it with them to their favorite social networking site.

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Bunnyhero Labs

Description: Bunnyhero Labs offers popular cyber-pets for your start page, blog, or social networking profile.

How To Add a Widget to Blogger

2011-09-16T09:17:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it is nice to spice up your blog by adding additional content alongside your blog posts. One way of doing this is to add a widget to your menu.
If you use Blogger for your blog, these instructions will guide you through adding a widget to your blog.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 5 minutes

Here's How:

Locate the widget you want to add to your blog and copy the widget's code to the clipboard.
Sign into your Blogger account.
Go to the control panel of the blog and click on the template tab.
Click on the Add Page Element link at the top of your sidebar (menu). This will bring up a Choose New Element page.
Locate the entry for HTML/Javascript and click on the Add To Blog button. This will bring up a new page allowing you to add some HTML or Javascript to your sidebar.
Type in whatever title you want to give the block that will contain the widget. You can also leave the title blank.
Paste the widget's code into the text box labeled content.
Click the Save Changes button.
By default, Blogger puts the new element at the top of the sidebar. If you hover the mouse over the new element, the pointer will change to four arrows pointing up, down, left and right. While the mouse pointer has those arrows, you can hold down your mouse button to drag the element up or down in the list, and then release the button to drop it there.
Click on the View Blog button next to your tabs to go look at your newly-added widget.