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The Full Adsense Formula - No Tricks

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:33:00 +0000

Adsense is the best income generating program ever spawned! Why?

There is no product or service to promote. Only your domain. Webspace, an Adsense account, and highly targeted traffic is needed. Your success with adsense, you will soon learn, is as easy as driving s car or cooking a four course meal. The reality is Adsense Success and everything else has to be learned. When you learned how to drive a car it became simple and after a couple of months of driving everyday or so. It became second nature. Once you learn the Adsense formula and it's variables. The sky's the limit with Google Adsense

Learn The Adsense Craft.

You can't cheat your way to success or for some a healthy adsense income. Just like anything other skill in life, it has to be learned. Everything that everyone knows was learned from a teacher(I.E. Anyone), a book, an article(I.E. Newspapers, Magazines, and the Internet), or by word of mouth. You have to learn the adsense formula and all the adsense variables. I have a A.A.S in Computer Programming and Engineering. So believe me I know how to give low-level instructions. No one can tell YOU how to make YOUR site a success, only guide you in the right direction.

The Adsense Variables

TT(High CTR) + Content = Adsense Earnings

Content - try to have a 1000 words of keyphrase-rich content.
High CTR - highly optimized placement of the adsense code.
TT - Highly Targeted Traffic

Yes that's it. The "Adsense Formula" is just a basic math problem and as we all know any on can learn math. We're not near finished. These variables the make up the Adsense Formula is the key to your success. Why refer to them as variables, because these Adsense elements constantly change and YOU are in full control of them. Imagine a indoor plant and its variables. Sunlight, Soil PH, CO2, Fertilizer, and Water. You control every variable and if each one is highly optimized then you will have a healthy fast-growing plant. If you highly optimize each adsense variable then you will in turn receive a healthy fast growing adsense income. Now that we have an understanding let's evaluate this "Adsense Formula."

Adsense Content

Keywords are a bad idea! High paying or not. In fact don't choose high paying keywords, not because of the saturation of SEO experts, but because keywords are to broad. Adwords is ying and Adsense is yang. Broad keywords have low payouts and ctr. You want to target keyphrases, so your site only displays high paying adsense ads, not .15 adsense ads from some beginner with one of your terms in their adwords campaign. There is a lot of free content online, but it is best to use unique content for search engine purposes. To accomplish this hire a writer or choose niche subjects that you are familiar with, so that you can write your own articles and e-books. Don't base your site on money rather than your passion. Example. My passion is computers and networking.

Adsense CTR

Optimal adsense ad placement is the heart of high adsense ctr. There are four locations on a webpage the receives the most clicks.

1. Just above the fold. The fold is the end of the section of the page you can view without scrolling.

2. All along side the left column.

3. In your content, if very interesting and informative.

4. At the end of your content after a reader finishes.

Adsense ad format effects ctr greatly whether or not they are placed in the right spots. Squares receive the most clicks, beginning with the largest and so on. The ads should blend with your page. Only the link title should be a different color than the text and url. No borders unless red or yellow. They attract viewer's eyes.

The link color should match your site's links, but blue and red work the best. Incredibly Increase your adsense ctr up to 400% by placing related images above or to the left of adsense ads.

Highly Targeted Traffic

Yes, there is a difference between targeted traffic and highly targeted traffic. Someone looking for an online business would be targeted traffic to this article, but someone looking for an adsense business would be a highly targeted visitor. Why high quality traffic? Your Ctr will be amazing and unbelievable because all of your traffic will be looking for YOUR site. Don't be surprised if you have certain days where 97% of your visitors clicked an adsense ad. How? Blogs, Articles, E-books, Rss Feeds, and most SERP(search engine results page) traffic. Never use traffic exchanges or links from other sites unless their content is similar to yours.

In my experience TrafficSwarm is the only echange that will get you clicks without getting your adsense account terminated.

I have given you the full adsense formula in detail, but for more info please visit Adsense Secret Tips. Please, if this article has benefitted you in any way leave a comment on my blog at Adsense Secret Tips [http://adsense-secret-tips.blogspot.com/2006/04/full-adsense-formula-no-tricks.html].

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4 Keys to Increasing Your AdSense Income Online

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:20:00 +0000

Nothing is as frustrating as watching your Google AdSense revenue trickling in cents; $.10 here $.30 cents there and $.0 cents over there. So much for all the hype about guys making thousands a month with AdSense. Me thinks, thiz Adzenz thing be weird!!

Read this article, Try the 4 facts, and up the wall you will drive AdSense!

Lets face it, if my website traffic is anywhere in the hundreds a day, there is no way under these blue skies I'm gonna make myself enough money over the internet. I read a review of some website with mammoth traffic and they make over $15,000 a month. Heck, Digital Point makes anywhere around $10,000 a month on a 50% revenue share with their contributor members. That is $10,000 being 50% of what is left after forum members have been paid off. "Google pays Digital Point about $10,000 a month, depending on how many people view or click on those ads", said Shawn D. Hogan, the owner and chief technology officer of Digital Point.

Here is the kicker. I don't in my wildest dreams think I'll ever have a website the size of digital point, ever! But I can make 100 small ones. See, I'm just an average Joe trying to make head, tail, or both, whichever comes first; of this internet money thingii. And right now I'm not sure I'm holding onto the tail or neck.

I have been doing some research on Google AdSense and I want to share with you some interesting things. Things that I didn't know about and things I believe if I had known earlier, I would still be having some hair left on my head. (Pulled much of it off trying to double my AdSense to $ 0.40 a day). Anyway, I have concentrated my research on how to optimize my AdSense revenue even before I work on increasing traffic to my 2 blogs.

In my quest, I have learned that the secret to increasing your AdSense revenue lies in mastering four main factors namely:

Creating Relevant Ads

From my Google AdSense account reports, I have noticed I earn much more from AdSense for content ad groups as opposed to the AdSense referral ads and AdSense for search bar. If you have an AdSense account, you know that there are three types of AdSense ads that you can choose to be served by Google on your site. These are AdSense for content ads that are related to your website's general content. The content based ads are the best performers in generating you AdSense revenue and they are definitely your best bet. Make sure to concentrate your efforts to having as many relevant content ads as possible if you want to make the money.

Then there are AdSense referral ads that you can choose for your website. These ads are not related to your website content and will advertise anything from bio fuels to air tickets. These Google ads do not do as well as the content based ads. The main reason being that visitors to your site are more interested in relevant content to what they were looking for in the first place. AdSense referral ads are however second to the content based ads in generating revenue. And that's a distant second from content ads.

The last type of ads that Google offers you for your website is the Google search bar. The search bar ad group is such that a visitor to your website can type the name of what they are looking for in the bar. The bar connects directly to Google search and will bring the visitor to a Google page with several ads related to what they searched for. I have really not experimented on the effectiveness of this ad groups from Google and would not therefore conclusively say they work or don't. It's however worth putting up a search bar at a corner of your page or at the bottom.

From the above three discussed Google adgroups, you will notice that content based ads perform better than the other two. Its not rocket science to figure out why. The main reason however is that people searching the web are looking for particular information of their interest. They are therefore more likely to click on ads that seem relevant to their search. AdSense adcopies are written such that they offer answers to very specific needs and a visitor will most likely click on an ad that seems to answer their quest. And that's all you need them to do to earn your money. Click.

For example, people looking for Movie Downloads will be confronted with ads that offer them all sorts of diverse benefits and types of downloading movies online. Likewise, People looking for Water-for- gas cost saver kits and manuals on their cars will be bombarded with ads that offer increasing mileage per gallon of gas etc. Once again, concentrate on requesting from Google only those ads relevant to your website's content.

Serving Only High Paying Ads

In the real sense, choosing high paying ads from Google AdSense will in effect determine the content you put on your website. In other words, if you want to concentrate on high paying ads, and considering that you need relevant content to earn good AdSense income, then by default you will have to make a website or blog on topics that pay prime dollar for clicks on them. In a nutshell, not all ads pay the same with Google. Since competition for some products is excruciatingly high, the advertisers are willing to pay top dollar for their ads to appear first on Google content based advertising network.

Google adwords (this is where advertisers bid and create their ads on Google) offer the advertisers an option to allow Google to distribute their ads to other websites within their network besides Google that have relevant content to the ads. This is how you end up with AdSense being served by Google on your website in the first place. Now here is the spoiler, not all ads that you choose will pay as high. Ads for new technology, gadgets and gizmos pay much more higher since the manufacturers are willing to pay as much to enter the market and make their product known. Google ads for such products pay you equally higher dollars per click as opposed to ads for say nail vanish.

I have seen some adwords bids that start from $5 per click. Other companies and individuals bid as high as $50 per click to maintain the pole position in Google results pages. The revenue principle applying to AdSense when Google serves the ads onto your website is practically the same. On the converse, the highest bid by advertisers is a paltry $0.05 for some products. Which ads would you rather get served with by Google?-go figure.

For you to be able to run high paying AdSense ads, you will need to make a thorough research on minimum bids made by advertisers in adwords. This is not rocket science really. One way of telling a certain area has higher bids is to Google a product you suspect might have high competition among advertisers. Just counting the number of adwords ads appearing for that particular keyword will tell you much.

A Google SERP (Search Engine Results Page) with a lot of ads appearing on it might indicate that the advertisers on that keyword are bidding serious figures per click on their website.

The higher a particular ad appears on a highly competitive keyword usually indicates higher bids and you may want to consider creating websites in such an area and get it served with AdSense. But also bear in mind that high ad counts also means that it's a highly competitive field and getting traffic for your website might be like pulling teeth...and with a pair of tweezers that is.

It pays to do an intensive research into areas to create websites for AdSense revenue. Since AdSense is served automatically by Google to your website, your only maneuver is to look for very specialized, less competitive, high paying niche areas and keywords to create your website content on. As a rule of thumb, new products are naturally good niche areas to start with; assuming that you catch on the fad soon enough before every man and his dog start selling the same product. Please note that we are placing emphasis on guys that want to use AdSense as their main source of online revenue here.

In most cases and usually why we (me included) make measly AdSense income is that, we create websites in areas of our own interest and then serve AdSense ads to them. Problem is, our preferred areas of interest are not necessarily areas that can make us worthwhile money with AdSense. Research an AdSense area that pays, then create unique content on that, serve the ads and laugh all the way to the bank. Kind of doing things in reverse... banana eating monkey sort of thing.

Positioning And Designing Your Ads

This is an area that I want to approach with a lot of caution. One thing is painfully true, and that is your AdSense ads are not worth the space if they are not optimally designed and positioned. One of the biggest advantages with serving AdSense ads is that Google lets you design and position your ads on your own website. But, which design and positions work best? Just like the offline world, positioning an outdoor advertisement makes all the difference between the ad being seen and it passing as a waste of resources.

Why does placing a TV ad at prime time, for example, cost more than double that of placing it dead in the night or early in the morning? Better still a billboard on an unused highway will not receive as much audience as one in a freeway that has huge amounts of vehicular traffic.

The same principle works with serving ads from Google AdSense. Placement of your ads is everything in getting noticed by visitors to your website and eventually getting them clicked on. Some areas of your website are actually prime real (or is that virtual) estate while others are... well, badlands, abandoned dumb and quarry sites.

Positioning Your AdSense Ads

As mentioned above, you need to know which areas of your website or blog work for AdSense. Research (and don't ask me by who) has shown that an online browser's eye is trained more emphatically on certain areas of a webpage while other areas receive just a gloss-over glance. It is also true that a webpage visitor's eye lands automatically and for the first instance on a particular area of a page and then follows a certain trail of vision on that webpage. Disconcerting, is it?...No, it's actually a nightmare for an advertiser if you don't have those facts.

You might have noticed that, in a Google SERP (i.e. the results page you get when you search a word in Google) ads always appear on the mid top and right side of the page. Fact is that, advertisers on these two areas pay completely different rates. The ads on the top of the page are called sponsored ads, while those on the right edge of the page are called adwords.

The middle top area (sponsored ads) is also much more expensive to advertise on while the right-top side ads (1st to 5th positions) are priced higher than the mid-right and bottom right adwords areas. Although, this is done through a bidding process, the idea is clear that, if your ad is the first on the top right side of the page, you get hit more than those below you. This is not only exclusive to Google but to most if not all search engines online that run ads on their SERPs.

Ok, let's bring it home. Considering your webpage will be providing other relevant and mainframe content in the middle of the page, you will need to follow Google ad positioning example. For starters, you can try to place AdSense ads at the mid-top of the webpage. The best ad design that works for the top page section is the leaderboard format which stretches the ads across from left to right of the page. Usually about three to four AdSense ads will be served with the leader board format.

The leaderboard ads are available in the ads set up button within the horizontal ads drop down. All this is possible once you get Google to approve your account, you will be able to create your ads there and get a HTML code provided for you to paste to your webpage. Google promotes family friendly websites and blogs and will need to review your website before approval. They discourage websites with adult content; your website should also have well arranged and meaningful content.

Your next prime real estate on the webpage is the far right hand side. This is a crucial area and you might want to place the ads right from the top running downwards as a column. Again, I have experimented on this area with the broad banner ads from AdSense and they fit in like a glove hence bracketing the main middle text. The broad banner format is available from your Google ad set up button in your account under the vertical ads section.

Personally, I select the text-only ads from the create-new-ad button. You have a choice of ad types including texts and images, text only and images only formats. I prefer the text only since it's now accepted that text ads attract more interest than banner and image ads. I think it's something to do with an ad getting to the point as fast and as effectively as possible.

Now, the other available position has been subject to a lot of debate; but there are still some marketers who swear by it. This is the mid-text AdSense ads. These are ads that are placed in between your main text and separated into two, three or four parts depending on the size of the main text. Basically it interrupts the flow of the text after some delivery of information. By text I mean your main page content located at the middle of the page. I cannot deny that locating the ads mid-text really gets them seen by people interested in reading your full content. But there are also visitors that might consider it an interruption to their reading and just pass along. I think this position's effectiveness surely depends on an individual reader and I might want to leave the choice up to you here.

The last AdSense positioning real estate is the end-text position. This is placed at the very bottom of your webpage text. This position is equally important for webpage visitors that have read your content and might see something that catches their eye at the end. It is proven that a visitor prefers a sense of continuity while doing their web searches as opposed to opening one page, closing it and opening another altogether. If your end-text AdSense ads are relevant enough to the content on display, the visitor will most likely sign off from your page by clicking on that last ad. Which I believe is good enough for that AdSense revenue click.

As I end the positioning AdSense discussion here, I might want to mention that caution is necessary to avoid overdoing it by serving too many ads. Your webpage should have just enough AdSense ads to create a wrap around effect to your main text. The webpage should avoid looking like an overcrowded flea market. Usually Google allows you to serve about 15 ads per page but you need not go the whole nine yards with it. Place just enough on each page to make it optimized for AdSense revenue.

Designing your AdSense ads

You will also be able to design the format of your ads within your AdSense account. Google allows you to play around the text of the ads within certain parameters like size, type, nature, text color, borders color, background colors, url color and the shape of their edges. Google also lets you choose how you want your AdSense ads to contrast against your main text by being able to choose the templates among them blend, mother earth etc. Personally I have found blending my ads to the text works where I don't want them to conspicuously stand out.

While designing your ads for primarily the purposes of AdSense income, you may want to consider making them stand out. Take care however not to overdo the colors, otherwise your site will look like its reading the riots act to visitors to click on them or else... The idea here is to softly make the ads stand out but not so much as to distract the reader of the main text. This means you will be doing a balancing act with the AdSense font color, the background and the general shape around the edges of the ad boxes.

My research has shown that choosing a soft AdSense ad background like light grey combined with emphasized text color on that ad's background has a good effect on the click through rates. But grey if your own site's background is white. Grey works best with websites with a white background. Other lighter colors work best with different backgrounds on websites. I guess I'm trying to say that your AdSense background color should just be enough to provide a slight shade to differentiate it from your original website's background. Don't make it scream here.

This might hold true when you visit other websites like hubpages.com which shares its AdSense revenues with article contributors. What they do here is that they serve AdSense ads around your article and if it's a nice piece, you will get decent clicks if not an outright click-riot. I observed that, since their website background is white, they serve their AdSense ads with an ad-background of light grey while blending the top-text ad's background white. Your best bet here is not to take my word for it but to keep on tweaking, testing and turning the ads until you see what works for your website.

High Traffic Levels

This is the devil in AdSense income. The above three aspects of increasing your AdSense income will only work to a certain extent and as far as your traffic goes. As I said this is where AdSense becomes everybody's biggest headache. However if we are to look at this critically, there are a hundred ways to drive traffic to the websites.

Let's assume we have already worked on the other three areas to our satisfactions. We are now more than sure that for whatever traffic we bring to our websites, we will be able to milk the most revenue out of them. I think that is important. No one wants visitors to be making a pass by their website without ever contributing a cent to their revenues online. So optimized they are and out you go for traffic.

I don't want to go deep into this area of bringing traffic to your website but let's just say the methods are many besides writing unique content, writing articles with links to your websites, adwords, contributing in forums among many others. The most important and that which will save you a lot of agony and time is to choose a niche area that has comparatively less competition. Since we started off making websites for AdSense, we might as well ensure that we make websites with content that attracts the search engines, hence traffic.

Choose your niche area well and the search engines will pick you out. Visitors will be on your website like ants to a Popsicle- with the right content. To help you with selecting a niche area, you can use the Google trends keyword tool to measure the competition of a particular keyword. As a rule of thumb, avoid keywords that are crowded. The competition won't do you any good.

There are people out there who have mastered the art of making multiple websites for AdSense revenue. Most of them use the automated softwares that help them develop unique websites in certain niches. An example of good AdSense automated website developer software that is popular in the market is the HYPERVRE [http://increasingAdSenseincome.wordpress.com]. (see below)This software is designed to prompt you generate the most unique sets of keywords and go on to develop unique content. As mentioned earlier, making websites in unique niche areas is the key to getting massive traffic sent your way by the search engines. Well designed and unique website content also saves you the agony of leveraging your website traffic by writing articles, buying advertising space, email lists and all other related headaches to generating traffic.

Concentrate on making websites that attract traffic by themselves, then keep on churning out as many websites as you can using the automated softwares. Within 2 months you will notice your AdSense revenue expanding to unimagined levels. So much for your earlier belief that-nobody can earn more than adcents monthly.

Good Luck

Robert is a successful online marketer. He has written extensive reviews of new products including providing his well researched areas on "how to make online income'. He recommends the HYPERVRE for automated adsense websites development. Follow links to read more Click Here! [http://increasingAdSenseincome.wordpress.com]

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Increase Google AdSense CTR

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:29:00 +0000

An increase in CTR (Click-Through-Rate) can mean a lot to Google AdSense Revenue to your blog. To increase Google AdSense revenue, you have to either increase the traffic or CTR. If somehow, you manage to triple your CTR just by tweaking the Google AdSense code, you can get three times more traffic.

What Google AdSense engineers say in increasing your CTR.?

“Due to the dynamic nature of Google AdSense, fluctuations in your revenue will occur. Your earnings will depend on a number of factors, including the types of ads being served to your pages, the cost per click or cost per impression of these ads, and your users' click through selections. Regarding ad placement - the best ad format varies from page to page. We've observed that, in general, wider ads perform better because of their reader-friendly format. We strongly recommend putting your users first when deciding on ad placement. Think about their behavior on different pages, and what will be most useful and visible to them. You'll find that the most optimal ad position isn't always what you expect on certain pages.”

Google Adsense Optimization Guide
For example, on pages where users are typically focused on reading an article, ads placed directly below the end of the article tends to perform better. It's almost as if the users finish reading and asking themselves, “What can I do next?” Precisely targeted ads are just like answering their questions.

CTR largely depends upon the keywords you are targeting, look of your blog, quality of its content, placement of Google AdSense ads, page optimization, and various other factors. Generally, Google AdSense blocks wrapped between the quality content works the best. For the websites having poor quality content, placing the Ads before the start of the content works well. But you will be getting low priced ads. Besides, nobody will like to add your URL to their favorites. However, if you have quality content that keeps the visitors glued, you may get low CTR, but you will be getting high priced ads and regular visitors.

Google AdSense comes after traffic. No traffic, no Google AdSense. Take good care of your traffic. Your visitors expect some valuable information from you. Make sure you are providing quality content to them. Then it will automatically increase AdSense CTR. https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html

Build an effective AdSense site?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:04:00 +0000

What do you think about your AdSense performance? Do you think you have a formula to success? High traffic? Content? Not really? I am going to tell you more what should be included in this formula.

The trick to putting up an AdSense site that actually makes money is this: You need to have a site that displays ads with the most profitable keywords available and get traffic to your site the cheap way (or even free of charge) as possible.

So how do you know what are the most profitable keywords? You can use the Google AdWords Traffic estimator. The basic functionality is available for anyone to use, even without an AdWords account. Just enter your keywords in the text box at the top. You can leave all the other fields blank for now. Push the Continue button at the bottom of the page and you will see how much each of your keywords costs to get the #1-3 spot in Google AdWords.

How does this help you to find profitable AdSense keywords? First of all, you are splitting the price of the keyword with Google every time someone clicks on your ads The actual percentage is not known, but most experts agree that it is about 50%. If a keyword costs $20 for the number 1 spot and someone clicks an ad on your page that uses that keyword, then you will get somewhere around $10!

You should know that high priced keywords do not mean high levels of traffic. The traffic estimator will also tell you the number of clicks per day that each keyword is getting in the number one spot. What you need are keywords that are a balance between the most money and the most clicks per day.

Another thing you need to know before building an AdSense site is which keywords to use to bring in the most traffic. You don't want to go up against ten million other sites that are all talking about the same thing that you are. What you need is a niche topic, something that people are hungry for information about. Here is a step by step process for finding a niche topic.Download a free keyword tool fromhttp://goodkeywords.com/.

When you get it, enter the most general keyword about your topic that you can find. It will give you a list of related keywords from the Overture search engine along with the number of times each one of those keywords was searched for in the last month.

For every keyword that the Good Keywords gives you, enter the following search into Google: allintitle:yourkeyword. Look at the number of results that Google displays for each keyword.

Divide the number of results by the number of searches and you will come up with what is commonly referred to as the R/S ratio. In economics, this is called Supply/Demand.

Look for keywords that have a high number of search, but a low R/S ratio. I wouldn't choose any keyword unless there were at least 1000 searches per month and an R/S ratio of 2.0 or less.

Take the most profitable keywords in this group and build your AdSense pages around them.

Alright, so you have the most profitable keywords that are in high demand. You now need to have some content related to each keyword in order to get Goggle to put the right kind of ads on your page. You can either write this content yourself, or you can go to one of the many free article websites on the net and grab some free articles related to your keyword. Just make sure to give the author credit for the article, it's not nice to steal.

Once you have your article, start putting your AdSense ads in the middle of the article, about once every few paragraphs or so. I have found that this is the most effective way to get people to click on your ads. You are allowed up the three sets of AdSense ads per page, so place them wisely.

That is really all there is to making a profitable AdSense site. Just find the best keywords, get some articles about them, add your AdSense to them, drive traffic to these pages, and start making money.

Author:Alex Hudson, univeristy in Ireland

How much can I earn with AdSense?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:37:00 +0000

Once you set up and running of Google AdSense ads on your blog, you can view your earnings at any time. Usually all we very conscious about go to this most desired place every morning. The easiest way to find out your earning with AdSense is, sign in to your blogger account, now you are on the Dashboard click on monetize link, then you’ll see the monetize tab,
You'll be able to see the total number of page and ad unit impressions, ad clicks, click through rate, effective CPM, and your total earnings with AdSense, so you can get an idea of how well the program is performing for you and how much you can expect to earn over time in the program. From your monetize tab, also you can switch back to your AdSense account, view your AdSense reports, customize ads and remove your ads.

You also can find out how much you’ve earned with AdSense from your earning report, at your AdSense account, directly logging to https://www.google.com/adsense?sourceid=asos&subid=ww-ww-et-HC_entry&medium=link and clicking the Reports tab. If you’ve added AdSense for search Box to your blog, you can view your total earnings and your earnings separately for AdSense for content and AdSense for search.

What is AdSense for search?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:03:00 +0000

We're presented several Google AdSense options. You'll notice that the first choice is what we have already added to our Blogger blog is AdSense for Content. But today we're focused on AdSense for Search. In our prior posts, How do I optimize my AdSense ads? I and How do I optimize my AdSense ads? II all we discussed about AdSense for content. Today we are going to discuss about how to add AdSense for Search to our blogs. AdSense for Search is a great option for blogs. It gives readers the ability to search the Internet from our own blog, as well as our blog content.

To add the AdSense for search box to your blog follow these steps; Sign in to your blogger account, on your Dashboard click on the Layout link. In Page Elements tab on your blog: Click the "Add a Gadget" link that appears in the sidebar of your layout. You'll then see a popup window with all the different types of Gadgets you can add to your blog. Look for the one called "Search Box" and click on the blue "+" icon:
You can then configure the “Search Box”. Once you have satisfied, click the orange color "Save" button. Now you’ve added AdSense for search box to your blog. If you are not happy with the position, where you’ve placed it, you can move your “Search Box” around the layout and place in your desired place. Learn how to customize your blog layout?
AdSense for search lets you offer your users Google web search directly from your blog. By placing an AdSense for search box on your blog, you'll generate earnings from ad clicks made by users on the search results pages.
However, you will not receive revenue from user searches through your AdSense for search box, which you have placed on your blog. When users perform searches on your blog, but choose not to click on the ads on the search results pages, you will not receive any earnings though the use used the AdSense for search box on your blog.
We think you are a complete newbie to the Google AdSense program. For those AdSense has gathered all the essential information in the Newbie Central, the complete resource center for newly approved AdSense publishers. There you'll find everything you need to get started with AdSense, learn more about the program and advanced features, and maximize your AdSense experience.

Optimize my AdSense ads? II

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:02:00 +0000

Blogger gives you the opportunity to use three ad units. If you don’t use this opportunity, you are wasting your opportunity to maximize your income. First go to the Layout Page Elements tab of your blog: Click the "Add a Gadget" link that appears in the sidebar of your layout. You'll then see a popup window with all the different types of Gadgets you can add to your blog. Look for the one called "AdSense" and click on the blue "+" icon:
You can then format the ad to suit to your blog. Once you have satisfied, click the orange color "Save" button. You have now added another AdSense unit. If you are not happy with the position, where your new ad unit placed, you can customize the layout moving your ad unit around the layout to locate in your desired place.

Blogger recommends you following ad units for the sidebar, choose among these

· Button (125x125)
· Skyscraper (120x600)
· Wide Skyscraper (160 x 600)
· Vertical Banner (120 x 240)
· Small Rectangle (180x150)
· Vertical text link (120x90), (160x90), (180x90), (200x90)

You’ll have to test them to see which one works best for your blog. Starts with the button, follow your stats for a week, then replace it with a vertical text link and then a skyscraper and compare the results. You should soon discover which deliver the best CTR on your site.
You’ll be able to view all the text ads, image ads, video ads and link units on Google AdSense Ad Formats

Play around with the different format options to optimize your AdSense ads. Get a feel for the different shapes and sizes that Blogger AdSense options have to offer.

Optimize my AdSense ads? I

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:46:00 +0000

To get maximum revenue from your AdSense ads you should optimize them. The principle behind optimizing AdSenses ads is to make your ads look like part of your content, not like ads. Blogger assumes that’s how you want your AdSense ads to look. That’s why the default color scheme when you’re first asked to choose your ads is the “Blend Template.” This removes the borders from the ads, makes the background color the same as the background color of your blog’s template and matches the font color of the content and title of the ad to the content and title of your blog.

To format you’re AdSense ads you should login to your blogger account, on your dashboard click on the layout link.

In page elements page click Edit on AdSense element.

Then the “Configure AdSense” page will be displayed where you can format your AdSense ads. Make changes you want to do, then click on the orange color save button.

You’d better not to use any other color scheme than “Blend Template”. The match template is somewhat ugly and while choosing other schemes will make your blog look pretty, but they won’t do much for your income.
When you’re going to optimize your AdSense ads, it’s very important to put the right ads format in the right places. Research has shown that wider ads are more successful. You start by placing one ad at the top of the page you’re likely to get the best results there with one of the following, the top three formats are:

· Large rectangle (336x280)
· Medium rectangle (300x250)
· Wide skyscraper (160x600)

Additionally, the 468x15 horizontal ad link under the navigation bar is also good.
The horizontal text link will look like a menu bar of a conventional website. Sometime it will be good option for your page. The banner fills the space very neatly above the first blog entry. We’ll further discus how to optimize your AdSense ads in our next article, “How do I optimize my AdSense ads? II”

Where do I place my AdSense ads?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:55:00 +0000

Do you really want to get the maximum potential income from your AdSense ads; you must consider the best location for AdSense ads. If you’ve placed you AdSense ads where users’ attention don’t get, you’ll gain nothing or get poor income. The best location to place your AdSense ads varies from page to page, depending on the content. Consider these reasons.

· What is the user trying to achieve by visiting my site?
· What do they do when viewing my page?

Google has given us a diagram of a page layout to make easy this task. Google calls this the “Heat Map”.

This heat map is useful as a positioning guideline. The colors fade from dark orange (strongest performance) to light yellow (weakest performance). As you can see the best areas for ad placement is the viewing area that is first seen when a user visits your site. Typically this will include the header, navigation system, and your content. What you want to do is place the AdSense near rich content areas that readers are going to be drawn to. As mentioned above, in most cases this will be near the header, navigation, and content. Understanding these hot zones is crucial.

For example, on pages where users are typically focused on reading an article, placing your AdSense ads directly below the end of the editorial content perform very well. It's almost as if users finish reading and ask themselves, "What can I do next?" certainly targeted ads can answer that question for them.

AdSense terms and conditions

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:14:00 +0000

I do recommend that you do read the AdSense terms and conditions carefully. Generally Terms and Conditions are quite boring. Most people take one look at terms and conditions, assume that everything is okay and tick the check box. If that’s you (like most people) then this post is for you – it’s very important to understand the terms and conditions so we don’t get our AdSense accounts banned.

Invalid Clicks;
Do not click on your own AdSense ads. Any method that using robots or artificially generates clicks or impressions is strongly prohibited. You can test your ads without any risk of invalid click with AdSense Preview Tool. If you have got an idea to set up a blog and earn money from clicking on your own ads all day long. Forget about it, you are going to get your earnings cut off and terminated your account. Very often, people click their own ads simply because they are curious on what is behind the ads. That's why they click and open the ads. This is absolutely forbidden. Clicks must result from genuine user interest.
· Don’t encourage others to click on your AdSense ads. Don’t give any form of encourage to click ads.
· Don’t ask friends/ relatives to click your own AdSense ads.
· Don’t request users to click your ads using phrases like these or similar to these phrases “support us”, “click here”, “for more info.” and “click these links” etc.
· Don’t direct user’s attention towards ads using arrows or any other graphical methods.
You should not join those programs like paid-to-surf-, paid-to-click, or even traffic exchange programs. Google have very sophisticated detection system to detect these programs. Also, don't use some sort of deceptive tools in order to have automatic clicks on your ads. Google can detect them quite efficiently.

Site Content;
AdSense is not allowed on several non content pages. The content of your blog may comply with the Google’s content guidelines;
· Don’t include violent content, advocacy against any individual, group, or organization.
· Don’t include pornography, adult, or mature content.
· Don’t include gambling or casino-related content.
· Don’t include sales or promotion of prescription drugs.

Ad Placement;
Google AdSense offers several ad formats to place on your blog. Your can experiment with a variety of placements. We will be talking next, where should I place AdSense ads? To generate maximum income.
· Up to three ad units may be displayed on each page of your site.
· Up to three link units may also be placed on each page of your blog.
· Up to three referral units may be displayed on a page, in addition to the ad units, search boxes, and link units specified above.
· Google ads may not be placed on any non-content-based pages.
We have noted here a portion of Google AdSense terms and conditions. You’ve already understood Google AdSense terms and conditions when you are setting up your AdSense account. Anyway if you want to have a look at them again go to Google AdSense Program Policies

How to make money with AdSense?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:13:00 +0000

As you learned from our prior post “How to monetize a blog?” Google AdSense is a free contextual advertising service. There are some differences between Google AdSense and other ad networks. Google AdSense matches ads to your blog site’s content and audience, and you’ll get paid for each click the user made on your AdSense ads. Blogging is the easiest way to make money with AdSene.

AdSense lets you customize the appearance of ads to match the look and feel of your blog site. You can also customize the style of your AdSense for search box and search results of you blog page. The AdSense servers determine what your posts are about and display the most relevant ads to your readers. How nice is that? So if you have a blog about car, there might be ads related to car subject next to your post.

Ads can be either display cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-thousand-impressions (CPM)( What are CPM ads?) ads; this means that advertisers pay either when users click on ads, or when the advertiser's ad is shown on your site.

To make money with Google AdSenes;
Sign in to your blogger account, then on your blogger dashboard, click on Monetize link.

Set up your AdSense account here. If you don’t already have an AdSense account, select “Create a new AdSense account” option, click next.

Here you can configure ads, where you want to display them, select your choice and click next.

Then you have to fill the AdSense account set up information form correctly, now you can see Google AdSense terms and conditions, read carefully and understand them, if you agree with them, tick on the check box and click the button. Now you’ve monetize your blog with Google AdSense. As Google states it will take up to 48 hours to be reviewed your new account before ads are displayed on your blogger account.

What is AdWords?
This is Google’s another most popular program. AdWords program enables you to create advertisements which will appear on relevant Google search results pages and their network of partner sites. Learn more about Google’s AdWords program.

The Google AdSense program differs in that it delivers Google AdWords ads to individuals' websites. Google then pays web publishers for the ads displayed on their site based on user clicks on ads or on ad impressions, depending on the type of ads. You can understand that these two programs go together, that is the relationship between these two programs.

Now all you know, how easy to make money with AdSense. Make legitimate income with Google AdSense. Any one can make money with AdSense using your blog. Adsense is free, you have nothing to loose but you are making money.

How to monetize a blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:10:00 +0000

Every day, thousands of people look for online money making methods. Most new comers to the Internet get caught to scam sites and get lost their hard earn money. In my experience, I don’t trust quick money making schemes. I know that most people agree with me. Precisely Blogging can be a very lucrative way to earn money online. Most successful bloggers use blogging as their fulltime money making method. Creating a blog in a high traffic niche monetize it with ads, is the best way to make some excessive money.

Once your blog up and running with a quality posts, it's time to monetize your blog. A blog can be considered as an ultimate money making machine, it earns even when you are sleeping. There are plenty of ways to monetize your Blogger blog. All the following methods can use together to monetize your blog. Use multiple streams of income generating methods, don’t be limited to one method.

· Google AdSense program.
· WidgetBucks is also is a free ad service like Google AdSense.
· Text link ads
· Chitika
· Donations
· Affiliate programs

You also can monetize your blog by directly approaching to advertisers.

1. Google AdSense: The most popular search engine - Google has introduced a contextual advertising service called AdSense. (About AdSense ) Which allows virtually any website or blog owner to make money. AdSense is a program in which you get paid for targeting your readers to another websites product or service. Someone clicks on one of these ads they go to the advertiser's site. The advertiser is then charged for the click by Google and Google shares the money with you. Many People are making thousands a month with this. Learn How to make money with AdSense?

2. WidgetBucks: WidgetBucks launched in October 2007, is a vertical shopping ad network that helps publishers and bloggers optimize their earnings easily. WidgetBucks is one of the Internet's fastest growing ad networks. It is also free service like Google AdSense and compatible with all other ad systems. See how you can maximize your income with WidgetBucks?

3. Text link ads: Text Link Ads is the premier targeted traffic and link popularity ad firm. Generate targeted traffic to your website -Improve your natural search engine rankings Only advertisements from Text Link Ads can do both. Many Text Link Ads publishers earn thousands of dollars per month. Once your blog is approved, your blog will be added to their marketplace within 48 hours, at which time it will be ready for purchase. By simply installing the Text Link Ads script on your site one time, you are set up to earn a consistent revenue stream and truly monetize your blog. Text Link Ads are priced on a flat rate for a 30 day period, so your earnings will not be dependent on clicks or impressions like most of the other advertizing programs. Payments are sent out immediately on the first day of each month with no fees. You can use Text Link Ads to monetize your blog with other advertizing programs.

4. Chitika: Chitika is a full-service on-line advertising network serving over 2 billion monthly impressions across more than 30,000 websites. Chitika is 100% Compatible with Google AdSense. Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. Make sure your SEO'd site is cashing in on that search engine traffic with Chitika Premium, the world's premiere search targeted advertising solution. Use Chitika to increase your revenue with other advertizing programs. Chitika recently released an eBook to help bloggers. The eBook is “Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging learn from 30 experts”. You can get this for free clicking the following link.

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5. Donations: another effective way to monetize your blog is paypal donation. When we are talking about monetizing a blog, methods like Google AdSense and WidgetBucks comes to mind. However, these free ad services are not the only ways to generate revenue. So even if your content is free like mine, give your visitors a means to voluntarily contribute if they wish.

PayPal is the leader in sending money and buying products online. This free service utilizes by people around the globe to purchase items from places like eBay and Amazon. But one of the great features that PayPal provides bloggers is the ability to create a donation button. This process is easier than ever.

6. Affiliate programs; another profitable way to earn money is to sell affiliate products. You simply direct traffic to their Web site and earn commissions when people buy products. They'll give you a link to track your sales. Amazon.com is great place to get HTML codes for various products to promote and earn good commission. Thousands of people are making a full time income just by only driving traffic from their site to merchant sites, never touching or shipping a product.

There are many more ways to monetize your blog, but above enlisted methods can generate substantial amount of money for beginners and let us leave rest for expert guys. But remember you can't do it overnight, patience and dedication you can make, good content pay back for itself and then some.

What is Following a blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:11:00 +0000

Do you have a favorite blog and want to let the author and readers know that you are a fan? Well now you can do that and more with the Blogger Following feature! You can even keep track of the blogs you follow via your Reading List on the Blogger dashboard. There are several ways to become a follower of your favorite blog. One of the easiest ways is to visit a blog that has added the 'Following' widget, ad then follow these steps:

Visit a blog that has added the Following widget and click on the "Follow" button under the "Followers" widget:
You'll then see a popup window with the options to either follow publicly or privately:

Select how you'd like to follow the blog, and then click the "Follow this blog" button. It is that simple, you are now a follower of the blog! If you elected to follow the blog publicly, your profile picture will be displayed on the blog with a link to your Blogger profile (Note: The widget may not show all followers of the blog. If this is the case all followers will be linked from the widget).

When you become a follower of a blog, the blog will also be added to your Reading List on your Blogger dashboard and this site will also show on your Friend Connect profile for all the sites you've joined using Friend Connect. Additionally, you can become a follower of any blog or URL (even if the blog doesn't have the Followers widget) by adding the blog to your Reading List on the dashboard.

How to remove yourself from following a blog

The easiest way to remove yourself from following a blog is to visit the blog, and click "Settings" under the Following widget on the blog.

You will then see a pop-up window with your profile settings. Click the "Stop following this site" link and you will be removed from following that blog. If the blog doesn't have a Followers widget, you can still stop following the blog. To do so, go to the "Blogs I'm Following" tab under your Reading List on your dashboard
Then click the blue "Manage" button. You will then see a list of all the blogs that you are following. To stop following a blog, click the "stop following" link next to the blog you want to stop following.
Lastly, following a blog will create a subscription to the blog in your Google Reader account.

How to customize my blog layout?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:13:00 +0000

Changing blog template is a fun way to customize your blog layout. When creating a new blog, you're first asked to choose a default template; this is the basic design of your blog. You can choose from customize your blog's layout using our intuitive drag-and-drop interface. You can also add powerful gadgets such as slideshows, user polls, or even AdSense ads. Changing the fonts and colors on your blog is easy too. If you want more precise control over your blog's layout, you can also use the Edit HTML feature. To edit your blog's layout, follow these steps:

1. Click the Layout link from your dashboard below the blog you would like to customize.
2. From the Page Elements sub-tab, click Edit to edit existing gadgets, or Add a Gadget to add new ones.

3. After you've clicked Add a Gadget, simply click the plus sign next to your desired gadget. You can choose from gadgets by category, or search for a specific gadget in the top right of the pop-up window.
4. You have the freedom to drag the page elements and drop them to arrange in a proper way. The mouse pointer changes when you point on the page elements then click on them and arrange as you like.
5. Once you've added the necessary information to your selected gadget, click SAVE button. Your layout changes will appear instantly.
6. When you are on your page elements tab, you can configure any of the page elements by clicking the “Edit” link on each elements. You can add and remove gadgets from your blogger layout when ever you want. Also Blogger gives you the freedom to format, configure and move around you page elements when ever you want.
Compared to a web site and other blogging platforms, Blogger has a lot of resources to add as gadgets to your blog. After adding a gadget you can customize them or if you want to remove them form you blog later you can do that. To remove a gadget simply click the Edit button of the relevant gadget, then click the Remove button from the pop up window. So, how easy to customize your blog layout?

How do I add new posts to my blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:22:00 +0000

To add a new post to your blog, sign-in to your Blogger account at Blogger homepage, where you can enter your username (e-mail address) and password.
Once you've click on blue color SIGN IN button, you taken to your blogger dashboard. The dashboard will show you all your blogger blogs you currently have. From your dashboard you can enter to all the works you want to do, to any of your blogs you manage at blogger, post a new blog post, edit posts, change settings, adjust your layout and monetize. When you are going to add a new post to your blog, simply click on the blue color NEW POST button.
Next, you'll be displayed the post editor window (Writing and publishing a new post I). Start writing your post by giving the post a title (optional), and then enter the post itself:

What are backlinks?

· Backlinks display other webpages that link to your posts.
· To enable backlinks on your blog go to your SettingsComments tab and select Show

Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. What it all works out to is a way of expanding the comment feature such that related discussions on other sites can be included along with the regular comments on a post. The backlinks setting can be found under the Settings Comments tab, and consists of a single, simple option to turn it on or off:

Once everything is set up, you'll see a new link marked "Links to this post" next to the comment link for each post:
If you click that link you'll be taken to the post page, where the backlinks are all listed beneath the comments. Clicking the triangles next to each link will display a snippet of text from the page linking to you, as well as some author and date information.
If you want to turn off backlinks for individual posts, you can do so. The process is the same as that for turning off comments. Just edit the post in question and change the options that appear below the posting form:
Login to blogger to at Blogger home page to do all the work you want to your blog. Add new posts to your blog regularly. Blogger likes if you post frequently.

How to add images from photobucket?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:23:00 +0000

When you wanted to host your images and videos, the ideal place for that task is photobucket. Sometimes your uploaded images to your blog posts won’t display with its original size. In this case we can assist a third party service to fix this problem. Photobucket is ideal for this; it is a free image and video hosting service. Photobucket is the premier site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. Your free Photobucket account can store thousands of photos and hours of video.

Create a free account with photobucket
Go to the photobucket.com and click on the green color Join Now button.

In the next step, give a user name and a password and then click Next step button.
After creating your photobucket account you’ll be able to upload your images and videos you want to. Login to your photobucket account and click on the Choose files button. Select the files you want to upload to your photobuket account then click open.
How to add images to your blog?

Point the mouse to the image you want to add. Form the pop-up box click on the HTML Code box. Copy the link and past it in the exact place in your blog post editor window. Before you past the link make sure to select the Edit HTML tab on Blogger post editor window.

Add images and videos to your site form photobucket for free. Make your site more informative adding images and videos. Photobucket gives you more flexible features.

How do I add images and videos to my blog posts?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:17:00 +0000

Adding images and videos to your blog posts is one of the simplest and most effective things you can do to grab and hold the attention of your readers, otherwise when you are writing your blog posts especially in tutorial mode, you want to add images and videos to give detailed explanations to the readers.

Adding an image to your blog post
Many bloggers do not use images; sometimes they don’t know the importance of using images with their blog post. Images enhance your blog posts in several ways:
· Images make your blog post look better.
· Images make your blog post look more professional improving the look of it.
· Images make your blog differentiate your blog from the rest.
· Images make your blog articles memorable to your visitors.

You can add images to your blog posts from your computer or from the Web. Click the image icon in the post editor toolbar.

Browse for an image file on your computer, or enter the URL of an image on the Web.
Once you've selected your image, you can then choose a layout to determine how your image will appear in your post:

The 'Left', 'Center', and 'Right' options allow you to customize the way your blog text will flow around your image.
The 'Image size' options will determine how large the image will appear within your post.

Click UPLOAD IMAGES button to add your image, and then click DONE when the notification window appears telling you that 'Your image has been added.' Blogger will then return you to the post editor, where you'll see your image ready to be published to your blog.

You can also publish images to your blog using your mobile device, Google's free photo software Picasa, or a third-party service like flickr. Learn more

Sometimes your uploaded images to your blog posts won’t display with its original size. In this case we can assist a third party service to fix this problem. Photobucket.com is ideal for this; it is a free image hosting service. How to add images from photobucket?

Adding a video to your blog post
To add a video to your blog post, click the film strip icon in the post editor toolbar.

Click Browse to select the video file from your computer that you'd like to upload. Note that Blogger accepts AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media files and that your video must be less than 100MB in size.

Before uploading your video, add a title in the 'Video Title' box and agree to the Terms and Conditions (you'll only have to do this the first time that you upload a video with Blogger). Then click UPLOAD VIDEO.

While your video uploads, you'll see a placeholder in the post editor showing where your video will appear. You'll also see a status message below the post editor letting you know that your upload is in progress. Depending on the size of your video, this usually takes about five minutes. When it is complete, your video will appear in the post editor. How do I add a video to my blog?

Writing and publishing a new blog post II

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:43:00 +0000

When publishing your new blog post, sometimes an error message will be displayed telling that you have a HTML error.

If you haven’t modified “Edit Html” section manually or you can’t think any possible reason for this error message, simply click on the check box “Stop showing HTML errors for the body of this post”. Then you can save and publish the post.

When you create a new post, Blogger will start automatically saving it for you once a minute without interrupting your typing. When it does , you'll see a little note next to the "Save" button, like this:

If you want to make sure the saved copy is completely up to date, you can click the "Save" button yourself. You'll remain on the post editor and can continue typing, since the saving happens in the background. If you're done working on the post for now, you can either click orange color "Publish Post" button to convert the draft into a post, or click "Return to list of posts" if you want to leave it as a draft and go back to the Edit Posts page.

Autosave does not occur when you are editing posts that have previously been published to your blog. This keeps your readers from seeing your edits until you're done with them. When editing a published post, you can click "Publish Post" to republish the changes to your blog, or click "Save as Draft" to unpublish the post and turn it into a draft.

Labels are handy if you blog about a lot of different subjects, since readers can then choose to view all of your posts on, say, dancing at once. Or politics, or knitting, or whatever you happen to be writing about. If you have a team blog, you could also give each member their own label, so you could easily read all the posts by any one of them. Feel free to come up with other creative new uses as well!

When you're writing a post, you'll have a space at the bottom of the post editor marked "Labels for this post." Enter whatever labels you like, separating them with commas. You can also click the "show all" link to display a list of labels you've used previously. Then just click on the labels to add them.

When you publish your post, the labels will be listed with it. Clicking any of the labels will take you to a page containing only posts with that label.
You can easily change the formatting used here by editing your blog's layout. You can also add a list of all your labels in the sidebar of your blog, sorted alphabetically or by frequency of use.
This is convenient way to readers; they can easily select the category which they find about by clicking the desired label. When you write and publish several blog posts, you’ll familiar with these options.

Writing and publishing a new blog post I

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:05:00 +0000

Now you’ve made your blogger blog. After you’ve been created your blog, you’ll be taken to a page where you can start writing and publishing your new blog post. There you’ll also be able to change all the settings and format of your blog, control the comments and change your current template if you want.

After setting up your blog, you are taken to the Create New Post page. Start by giving your post a title (optional), and then enter the post itself:

Here when you are writing the post in the writing space make sure the compose tab is active.
Blogger's post editor has three modes:

Compose: a wysiwyg mode where you manipulate text with formatting buttons
Edit HTML: a raw mode where you edit the html manually
Preview: renders a full-body preview of the post, including its Title, links and images

To switch among these modes, simply click on the appropriate link:

If you'd rather not use the wysiwyg editor, you can disable it in the Settings Basic tab in Blogger. The formatting buttons are only available in certain browsers. Keyboard shortcuts are also available; they can greatly speed up the posting process and we encourage you to use them.

Features, from left-to-right:

Font
Font size
Bold
Italic
Font color
Link
Left-justify
Center
Right-justify
Full-justify
Ordered (numbered) list
Unordered (bullet) list
Block quote
Spell check
Upload imageRemove formatting from selection

Blogger developing an advanced, standards-compliant web-based rich text editor give you a convenient way to writing, publishing and edit your blog post.

When you're done, click the Preview link to make sure it's ready to go:

Once you're satisfied with your post, click the orange color PUBLISH POST button. This will publish your new post.

You’ll be displayed the message Your blog post published successfully!, now click “view blog” link to see your blog.
In our next post “writing and publishing a new blog post II” you’ll find further more explanation to write you a blog post.

How to make a blogger blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:40:00 +0000

How to make a blogger blog tutorial, explains very simply, how to create, set up and start your blogger blog today. Also explains in details how to start writing blog-posts, how to adjust all the essential settings at blogger, how to promote your blog, how to monetize and how to get traffic for free. Step by step guide on how to register with major social book marking sites, blog directories and other free traffic generating sites.

To start to create your blog with Blogger, simply sign in with your Google Account. (If you use Gmail, Google Groups, or orkut, you already have an account.) You do not require you to have a Gmail address to log in to Blogger or to create a Google Account. If you don't have or want a Gmail account, you can still create a Google Account. A Google Account is made up of any email address and password of your choosing. If you don't have a Google Account yet, you can create one now.

A Gmail account comes with a built-in Google Account. If you already have a Gmail account, you can use your Gmail address and password to sign in to any other Google services you use. You can also merge your Blogger account with this existing Google Account, rather than creating a new one, and then use the same login information at Blogger.com.

Google Account functions as a single Google login, made up of an email address and password of your choosing. It gives you access to various Google services, including AdWords, Google Groups, Google Alerts, Froogle Shopping List, Personalized Search, your Personalized Homepage, and Google Answers. If you've used any of these services before, you already have a Google Account. Google Accounts are better protected against fraud, impersonation, and abuse.1. To get started with Blogger, visit the Blogger homepage, the following page will be displayed.

2. When you click orange color CREATE A BLOG button at Blogger, the following page will appear, this page is to create your Google account by choosing a username, a password and a display name – the name that will appear on your blog. Most people don’t put their own name on the blog but if you like you can.

3. If you already have any Google account, enter your username and password, and click Sign in. In the “Display name” box, you have to give name; you don’t have to confuse trying to come up with some nice title. “Peter’s Blog” or “Ann’s Blog is enough. In the next step you’ll be asked to create your “Blog title” and a URL. This will be http://yourchoice.blogspot.com/. You might have to enter few possibilities before you come up with an URL that hasn’t been taken. That’s because you are not the first person to start blogging. Also you can create use your custom domain name, we’ll be explaining about creating a custom domain later in more detail.

4. Final stage is to select a template. Blogger offers twelve templates to start with. They are all good professional design though you don’t like them, and you change it later. There’s a good selection at http://www.geckoandfly.com/blogspot-templates/

5. Your blog has been created.

In less than five minutes you’ve got your own blog. In this post How to make a blogger blog tutorial explained how to setup a blogger account. Next we are going to discuss “writing and publishing a new post”

What is the best blogging platform?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:59:00 +0000

Why Blogger? Well for a few reasons:

1.) It's Free!

2.) Its quick and easy to setup

3.) Is owned by Google, the world’s most popular company on the Internet.

If you are a total new beginner, Blogger is suitable and the best blogging platform for you. However, no matter how popular your blog is, it is still owned by Google. Your blog can be removed if Google does not agree with the content you are putting up.

· Your blog. Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world.

· Easy to use. It’s easy to post text, photos, and videos from the web or your mobile phone.

· Flexible. Unlimited flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more.

Blogger's user-friendly editing tools help you easily design a great-looking page.

Templates — Blogger gives you collection of templates, will get you started with an attractive site right away without you having to learn any HTML, though Blogger also allows you to edit your blog's HTML code whenever you want.

Custom colors and fonts — when you're ready to take the next step, you can further customize your templates to create a design that perfectly reflects you and your blog.

Drag-and-drop page elements — Blogger's simple drag-and-drop system lets you easily decide exactly where your posts, profiles, archives and other parts of your blog should live on the page.

The fastest way to understand blogging is to try it out. They've worked really hard to make it really easy for you. And you can be part of the phenomenon that's transforming web and media to a participatory activity in less than five minutes, seriously.

What will happen then? Who knows? It might be fun, though.

And remember: Blogger is totally free, and if you have trouble, just click the Help button from any screen, and you can find the answer you're looking for—or even ask from the dedicated support staff. So what else, now you can decide why blogger is the best blogging platform for you, especially as you are total beginners to the world of blogging.

Common Blogging platforms

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:41:00 +0000

When you decide to make your own blog, there are many choices to be made. The very first choice is which blogging platform to use. Blogging platform means, which blog service (which blog service provider) you are going to be used? The most popular blogging platforms are Blogger, WordPress (WordPress.com/WordPress.org), Typepad, and Movable Type. There are some other blogging platforms are as follows.

· Lycos Tripod

· Squarespace

· Blogsmith

· Gawker Media platform

· Drupal

· Bricolage

· Expression Engine

· Scoop

· Gawker

· Serendipity

· LifeType

· Flatpress

· Wheatblog

· Eggblog

· Loudblog

When choosing your blogging platform, you’ll need to determine whether you would prefer a hosted or non-hosted blog platform. A hosted platform is one that is hosted on the platform’s server. In other words, if you have a Blogger blog, your blog is hosted on the Blogger server for free. A non-hosted site is a blog that is hosted usually a third-party you have to pay for the hosting. For example, if you use WordPress.org as your blogging platform, they do not host your blog for you. You will have another company host it.This article will explain the basic differences of these most common blogging platforms.

Blogger

Blogger provide free blog hosting on its own servers. Blogger will let you host a blog on its domain (yourblog.blogspot.com). With Blogger’s quick initial setup and point-and-click template switching, Blogger most resembles WordPress. Blogger has the ability to modify templates, allowing you to drag and drop 12 different page modules onto them. You can also drop in external RSS feeds such as Yahoo news feeds, AdSense ads, blogrolls, and third-party HTML and JavaScript applications. You can even customize your CSS by hand. Comments, and feeds, and presents them in a simple interface that clearly explains what each does.

Sometimes you just want to share a photo. There's a button for uploading photos in the Blogger interface. Just click the photo button to upload a photo from your computer. If the photo you'd like to put on your blog is already on the web that's fine too. Just tell us where it is.
You can also send camera phone photos straight to your blog while you're on-the-go with Blogger Mobile.

Blogger Mobile lets you send photos and text straight to your blog while you're on-the-go. All you need to do is send a message to go@blogger.com from your phone. You don't even need a Blogger account. The message itself is enough to create a brand new blog and post whatever photo and text you've sent.

Later, if your want to claim your mobile blog or switch your posts to another blog, just sign in to go.blogger.com and use the claim code Blogger sent to your phone
We support most popular mobile carriers in the US and worldwide. If Blogger Mobile is unavailable from your provider, you can still send posts to your blog using Mail-to-Blogger.

Blogger is a great option for anyone who wants to trick out a blog with third-party ads and applications, or who wants to blog for dollars through Google's AdSense program and other money making programs. If it ever lets you use its design customization on third-party servers, it will be a fantastic way to run a blog on your own site without having to maintain and update blog software. And remember Blogger is totally free

WordPress

WordPress.com offers versatile and free blog hosting on its own servers, or you can install its open-source code software (WordPress.org) on your own server. WordPress will let you host a blog on its domain (yourblog.WordPress.com) or use a domain or subdomain (blog.mycompany.com).

The widgets are limited, however, to items approved by WordPress.com, meaning you can't embed third-party JavaScript-based widgets or news feeds. Custom modification of CSS templates is possible, but that feature costs $15 per year.

You get no way to preview an entry before publishing as blogger gives you, which can be frustrating when you want to decide whether a page is ready for posting or needs more editing. WordPress offers 50MB of image storage, substantially less than Blogger allows.

WordPress is a great option for people looking to host a blog on their own domain for free. It also has a very dedicated set of users who contribute code to the product and answer questions in its forums. If you want to make money from blogging, however, you should look elsewhere for a hosted offering that allows ads, or find one of the many hosting providers that will install the full WordPress software on their servers.

TypePad

TypePad is the hosted version of blog software pioneer Six Apart's powerful Movable Type blog platform. TypePad services start at $5 per month a steal considering its professional interface and excellent design options.

Starting a new blog is simple. You can choose from 50 different themes and nine column layouts. You can also map a sub domain or a full domain to your hosted blog if you upgrade to the $9-per-month plan. You cannot, however, install third-party JavaScript, as Blogger allows you to do. Also, TypePad cannot create static pages. Text ads are allowed on TypePad blogs, but they must be from Kanoodle, a Six Apart partner. TypePad features a clean, professional design that is distinctly different from Blogger and WordPress's more playful interfaces.

TypePad, with its clean interface and multimedia features, is a great choice for a small-business or professional blog. However, its low bandwidth limits (2GB at $6 per month and 5GB at $9 per month) and its inability to create static pages limits its usefulness as a full content management system.

Movable Type

Movable Type makes it simple to start a blog, manage entire websites and build an engaged community of readers and customers.

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· As your site grows and becomes more successful, the platform scales to accommodate your fluctuating traffic needs.
· Movable Type is supported. We offer optional support for bloggers, online support for businesses, and premium support for enterprise and high-traffic bloggers.

You could get detailed information about common blogging platforms from this article. Next we will discus what is the best blogging platform for you.

What are the benefits of blogging?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:42:00 +0000

Being a blogger you tell the world about anything you want to talk about. The main benefits of blogging are that it is very simple for a beginner and you can create your blog in five minutes or less. Unlike creating a website, creating a blog site is an easy process which does not require any technical, designer or any other HTML knowledge. Unlike other blogging platforms, creating a blog with Blogger, is very easy for beginners.

This whole process makes it fairly easy for people to create new blogger blog pages. This is especially created for first time users, as they can start blogging right away. There is a wealth of tools and information on blogging online. It is a very quick and easy process, as it doesn’t require much planning and designing. Compared to a lot of work that is needed to redesign a HTML website.

Another positive thing about creating a blog is interactivity. Blogs are made to be interactive. Your blog visitors can easily contact you and comment on your blog articles, and you can just as easily comment back. And with the size of the Internet, whatever your blog topic is, whatever you like to write your blog about, there will always be an audience wanting to visit and listen to what you have to say.

Here are some more benefits of blogging you could gain;

Make Money
Monetizing your blog is the best part of blogging. Some people start blogging targeting only making money, having a blog is a great way to make money online. One of the best money making strategy is have a Google AdSense account (which is free), a blog (which is free), and some articles (which are free if you write them yourself). Start showing ads on your blog. There's no cost, no obligation, and getting started is quick and easy.

Get your blog up and running without spending any money means that you have nothing to lose by starting a blog. The AdSense ads will be targeted to your content. Each time visitor clicks on ads, you get paid. When the money reaches $100 Google will either send you a check or transfer the money into your bank. Many bloggers don’t care about monetizing their blog but I know most bloggers earn excessive revenue from their blog. Precisely you also can earn money from your blog for free. The Google AdSense is only one option to make money with your blog, there are many ways to make money with your blogger blog. How nice is that?

More Friends
People come to my blog all the time. Some say nice things about the blog and its value to them. If I have made a mistake, they note me and also give some advises.

You can make some pen-pals, and some of them will spread your message. And you can’t forget the connections you’ll end up making through this most social of environments.

Build CommunityBlogs provide your small business with a chance to share your expertise and knowledge with a larger audience. An opportunity to connect with a wider audience and build a community is a strong benefit for consultants and knowledge workers.

More benefits of blogging
• Blogs represent a democratization of information dissemination, providing each individual with the opportunity to publicly present his or her thoughts and opinions.

• Blogs allow others to respond, providing feedback to the authors.

What are the types of blogs?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:02:00 +0000

There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.

Personal blogs
The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog type. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. A type of personal blog is referred to as "microblogging," which is extremely detailed blogging as it seeks to capture a moment in time. Sites, such as Twitter, allow bloggers to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously with friends and family and is much faster than e-mailing or writing. This form of social media lends to an online generation already too busy to keep in touch.

Corporate blogs
A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.

Question blogging
Is a type of blog that answers questions? Questions can be submitted in the form of a submittal form, or through email or other means such as telephone or VOIP. Question blogs (Qlogs) can be used to display shownotes from podcasts or the means of conveying information through the internet. Many question logs use syndication such as RSS as a means of conveying answers to questions.

Group blog
A blog type with more than one regular contributing writer. Also known as a collaborative blog. Like the name says, it’s a blog that’s controlled by several people. Basically, a few people get together and share the workload. One of the main benefits is that each person will be able to bring there strengths into the mix. Everyone can share their ideas for monetizing the site and increasing the revenue. Also, everyone can share there knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and other promotion strategies.

Celeblog
A blog written about celebrity or written by a celebrity. Usually focuses on news, gossip and often contains embarrassing or revealing paparazzi photos.

Movlogs
These are mobile video blogs. These are similar to a Moblog, but the feature videos.

Media Blog
They can be video blog, music (mp3) blog, or photo blog. Their blog posts are shorter as their main focus is to share multimedia contents.

Splog
A spam blog.

Tech blog
A blog that focuses on new technology information.

Linguablog
About linguistics, translation etc.

Metablog
This is a blog type about blogging.

Milblog
A military blog.

Project Blog
A blog dedicated to a specific project. This can range from a hobby project to a larger corporate project.

Blawg
Blogged by lawyer/related to legal stuff.

Edu-blog
Education oriented blog.

Photocast
A photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.

MicroBlog
A blog that allows up to 140 character long posts. Twitter is the most popular and allows text messaging for blog postings via cell phone.

Those are the most commonly used types of blogs on the Internet today. There are some more blog types there.

What is a blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Roshan) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:49:00 +0000

A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics, audio or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what’s new first. There are millions of blogs on the Internet, in all shapes and sizes.

The features that make blogs different from other websites are:

It is free; you don’t have to spend money for domain or hosting.
You can create a blog in five minutes or less.
Content is published in a reverse-chronological order.
Readers have the possibility to leave comments.
Information that is entered on the blog is generally updated very frequently depending on the writer.
Other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and pingbacks.

The reasons, why we say a blog is a type of website:

Both found on the Internet using a URL or a web address.
Both also must have some sort of host to keep the information online.
Both can be maintained by virtually anyone from individuals to companies.
Both blog and websites can also contain information, pictures, link and keywords, as well. These two types of sites will target readers.
Promoting methods, for both blogs and websites are same.
Both can be used to generate income using income generating methods.

Blogs originally started as online diaries but they quickly developed into so much more. There are no frills, bells or whistles. You get page after page, usually on some company’s server, to put all the text, pictures, audios and videos you want. You can write about anything you like from your family, your past, your future, your cat, dog to what’s happening in your workplace, village, and city to what you think about politics, sport, religion or anything else that takes your fancy.

Today blogs are being used for all sorts of purposes. You have companies that use blogs to communicate and interact with customers and other stake holders. Newspapers that incorporated blogs to their main website offer a new channel for their writers. Individual that created a blog to share with the world their expertise on specific topics. And so on.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art artlog, photographs photoblog, sketches sketchblog, videos vlog, music MP3 blog, audio podcasting, which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts.

The fastest way to understand what a blog is, you should try it out now. How to make a blogger blog.