Amateur Blogs and Blogging for profit

Starting a blog has never been this easy with numerous blogging platforms available online such as WordPress and Blogger. You can use these blogging platforms to create one such blog and the services are free, though WordPress might charge you some extra bucks if you want to customize your blog beyond. But Google’s blogger is free and you can customize everything right from adding gadgets (also called plug-ins) to editing codes of the theme.

If you have already created a blog and have begun writing the desired posts, you may want to try your hands on monetizing your blog. Amateur bloggers can also earn money provided they utilize their time smartly. Few methods can be used by amateur bloggers to kick off their earning:

1. Google AdSense- It is perhaps one of the best tools available to earn money from your blog, it is a free service and you can sign up with AdSense account to start getting ads. You do not have to worry about the type or nature of ads, Goggle software will recognize it post the relevant ads only. You will get paid every time a user click on those ads and when your account has $100, Google will transfer your earned money to you.

2. Affiliate Marketing- Affiliate programs can be used as an effective tool to earn money if your blog has reasonable amount of traffic. You earn money as commissions when you refer a product or service of a company. Almost each affiliate program is free to join; there are numerous companies that offer their products for these. Refer their products on your blog or help them selling their services to your growing audience. You can even build separate pages regarding the products to specialize, and link them back to your blog.

3. Selling your e-goods- Now, if have tons of knowledge about some topic, you can use this as a tool to make money. Write an e-book of that particular topic or which matches with the genre of your blog. And then put that up for sale, on your blog itself. You can even offer few samples of it for free, to get an idea if readers like them or not. It can build up your network as well. Sell your creation and make money.

4. Earn from the space on your blog – After you manage to attract few hundred visitors, you can sell the space on the blog for displaying ads of different companies. This service is totally different from AdSense; you will have to fix certain amount for every ad by yourself. You will have to check with the standard prices available before setting.

Google AdSense can be little difficult as new to this field, they have numerous others regulations which you got to fulfill. Don’t be disheartened if you are not able to get Google ads, there are numerous other programs in the market. Courteous to them getting ads is not that difficult, and the myth that only professional bloggers can earn money no longer exists.

This guest article is written by Alia Haley. Alia is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and autos. Beside this she is fond of gadgets and games. Recently an article on 3D Games attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on best mobile phone.

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AdSense Program Policies

Publishers participating in the AdSense program are required to adhere to the following policies, so please read them carefully. If you fail to comply with these policies, we reserve the right to disable ad serving to your site and/or disable your AdSense account at any time. If your account is disabled, you will not be eligible for further participation in the AdSense program.

Invalid Clicks and Impressions

Publishers may not click their own ads or use any means to inflate impressions and/or clicks artificially, including manual methods.

Encouraging Clicks

Publishers may not ask others to click their ads or use deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks. This includes, but is not limited to, offering compensation to users for viewing ads or performing searches, promising to raise money for third parties for such behavior or placing images next to individual ads.

Content Guidelines

Publishers may not place AdSense code on pages with content that violates any of our content guidelines. Some examples include content that is adult, violent or advocating racial intolerance. 

Copyrighted Material

AdSense publishers may not display Google ads on webpages with content protected by copyright law unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content.

Webmaster Guidelines

AdSense publishers are required to adhere to the webmaster quality guidelines.

Traffic Sources

Google ads may not be placed on pages receiving traffic from certain sources. For example, publishers may not participate in paid-to-click programs, send unwanted emails or display ads as the result of the action of any software application. Also, publishers using online advertising must ensure that their pages comply with Google's Landing Page Quality Guidelines.

Ad Behavior

AdSense code may not be altered, nor may the standard behavior, targeting or delivery of ads be manipulated in any way that is not explicitly permitted by Google. For instance, clicking Google ads may not result in a new browser window being launched. 

Ad Placement

Publishers are encouraged to experiment with a variety of placements and ad formats. However, AdSense code may not be placed in inappropriate places such as pop-ups, emails or software. Publishers must also adhere to the policies for each product used. 

Site Behavior

Sites showing Google ads should be easy for users to navigate. Sites may not change user preferences, redirect users to unwanted websites, initiate downloads, include malware or contain pop-ups or pop-unders that interfere with site navigation. 

Competitive Ads and Services

In order to prevent user confusion, publishers may not display Google ads or search boxes on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colours as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure that these ads cannot be confused with Google ads.

Google Advertising Cookies

AdSense publishers must have and abide by a privacy policy that discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users' browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on your website.

Product-Specific Policies

AdSense for content: Up to three ad units and three link units may be placed on each page.

AdSense for search: A maximum of two Google AdSense for search boxes may be placed per page. Also, a single link unit or a search box, but no other Google ads, may be placed on pages with AdSense for search results. Queries must originate from users inputting data directly into the search box and cannot be modified. This includes pre-populating the search box with terms or hard-coding direct links to search results pages. AdSense for search code may not be integrated into any software application such as a toolbar.

This information is provided by Google AdSense. For more information have a look of Google AdSense Program Policies

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Tips To Increase Adsense Earning

If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box. 

The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file,  and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.

If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.

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Find High Paying Keywords in Google Adwords to Increase Adsense Revenue

Here we will discuss on very hot topic in the market and that is: How to Find High Paying Keywords in Google Adwords to Increase Adsense Revenue. Google Adsense Ad type currently displaying on your page is solely depends on the keyword in your content, as every adsense users know that the ads are displaying on the page are automatically comes in contrast of your blog title, url and content. so if you use high paying keywords then you will have a better chance to earn more, if you display higher CPC (Cost Per Click) keywords then when user clicks on that ad you will get higher benefit. so now i will demonstrate what to do for finding high paying keywords with the use of Google Adwords and Earn more money with Google Adsense.

Steps to find High Paying Keywords in Google:

Step 1. Open https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.

Step 2. Enter Keywords (Enter one keyword or phrase per line) and Click on the Get Keyword ideas Button.

Step 3. Now Click on the Choose columns to display Dropdown and Select the Show Estimated Average CPC

Step 4. Change the Dropdown value in Calculate estimates using a different maximum CPC bid to US Dollars (USD $)

See Screenshot given Below here for more details on how your screen will look like after performing the above operations.

Find the Highest CPC Keyword from the list and use them in your post content. you will get higher paying ads.

Links:
1. Adsense: Do's and Dont's 
2. Customiszing Google Ads

source: geekblogger.org

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Google Adsense: Do's and Don't

List of Google Do's
Things you should strictly follow when writing and using google adsense in your blog or website is to follow the terms of service that google provides. If they find you blog or website violating their terms believe me your account will be suspended very soon.

1. Make sure that you are using a consistent theme/template with lots of informative pages about different topics. so that you can add more ads and possibly increase your CTR too.

2. Use keywords. Higher paying keywords mean high payout from google adsense.

3. Content: Use original and unique information on your website or blog. I know its easy to just take articles from article directories to add content but the truth of the matter is that that same article is already on thousands of websites and blogs. It is much better to write and use your own original content.

4. Experiment: Experiment with colors and formats of ads on your website or blog. Make sure to make the background of your adsense ads match the color of your website or blog background. Make sure that the links and text on the ads compliments and/or matches the text on your website or blog.

5. Placement: Placement is the key of success while using google adsense. Make sure to place your google adsense ads in the top section of your web page so that they can be viewed by readers without them having to scroll down(this means putting google ads above the fold for better CTR).

6. Use the google preview tool when creating your ads. You want to get a direct experience and feel on what your viewers will see when they visit your website.

7. Analytic: Use google tracking tools to monitor how your ads are doing. Google analytics is a very good start.



Google Dont's

Do not use deceptive tricks on order to get clicks on your ads. Some common methods are:

• Automated click programs
• Repeat manual clicks
• Clicking your own ads (Never)
• Using robots to click your ads
• Tricking visitors into clicking your ads

Don't use confusing layers and fonts in your website and blog content. Your ads should match the font of your content on your website. They should also compliment the look and feel of your website such as the background and colors.

Don't have broken links on your website or blog. Always use relevant, high quality content.

Don't use old or illegal content on your website or blog. Update your pages frequently so as to stay current.

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Increase Adsense CTR- Customiszing your Ads Design and Place

Note: You can use maximum 6 Ads (3 ad unit + 3 link units on a Single Page) and keep your maximum Google Adsense adunits above the fold (user should able to see your adunits without scroll down of window) so they can easily shown by the people.

To Increase Adsense CTR you need to do is just Customizing your Ads Design and Place and some font size for your ad units.

Guidelines you should follow.

1. Use link units to maximize the CTR. Demo

2. Use Verdana Font in Ad Unit (For Text Only) so the font in your Google ads will show big title in ads and hence increases the chance of getting better CTR. Demo

3. Use 468*15 and 728*15 link unit on top of the page, Below the Title of Your Page and also Put 120*90 Ad Unit Right Above or Below the Labels or Achieves.

4. Based on study it is proven that Large Rectangle, Rectangle , Leader Board and Wide SkyKeeper can Generate more CTR.

5. If you are using link units then i suggest you to use 4links link unit instead of 5links link unit, because the font size of 4links link unit is bigger then 5links one.

6. Use Large Rectangle and Rectangle Ad unit within your post or below header.

via geekblogger

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Meaning of CTR, eCPM and PPC in Google Adsense

ometimes many of the Google Adsense users and affiliate users get trapped when finding the definition and the facts for Terms CTR, eCPM and PPC in context of google adsense and affiliate networks , so here i am giving you brief note on What is The Meaning of CTR, eCPM, PPC in Google Adsense.

Let’s go through every term one by one.

1. CTR = Click Through Rate is the number of links clicked divided by the number of page impressions (Link Impressions), In most cases 2% clickthrough rate would be considered very successful.
2. eCPM = effective Cost Per Thousand Impressions is the number of page impressions in thousands calculated by dividing total earnings by the number of impressions in thousands.
3. PPC = Pay Per Click is an Internet advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content sites, such as blogs, in which advertisers pay their host only when their ad is clicked. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market. Content sites commonly charge a fixed price per click rather than use a bidding system, Although many PPC providers exist, Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the three largest network operators in the era of PPC, and all three operate under a bid-based model

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