Hacks n Tips for Bloggers

How to insert google ads between posts

Written by Basis-Consultant on 8:23 PM

Blogger provides option to insert google adsense ads between posts.
They don't earn much anyway.
I am just adding this for information as they might be profitable for you.

Here are the steps you need to follow

1. Log into your Blogger at http://www.blogger.com .
   
2. Goto your blog's Template tab and click on the Page Elements link.
   
3. Click Edit in the Blog Posts section.

4.Click on the Show Ads Between Posts, you can choose the ad format and the frequency the ads appears like after every 1 or every 2 posts and customize the colors & save it.



Here is a video Tutorial

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How to parse Adbrite Code for Blogger

Written by Basis-Consultant on 10:17 PM

How to change adbrite code to embed in a blog on blogspot.com
To parse adbrite code to embed it in blogger's post you have to replace

& with &
< with &lt;
> with &gt;
" with &quot;

But its becomes problematic if you start replacing < , > or " before replacing &
You first replace & with &amp;
then start replacing others.

Use notepad to replace them
open notepad paste your adbrite code in notepad and press ctrl+h



click on replace all and all of & will be replaced by &amp;
Now start replacing others and your adbrite code will be ready to embed html of blogger template.

here is a video tutorial on how to replace the code

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Add Search Engine to earn more revenue

Written by Basis-Consultant on 8:46 PM

Adding Search Engine to your blog not only earns you more revenue but also enhances user experience. You can earn from the search results of google. Google has linked its adsense with google custom search. Google CSE provides many options and gives more flexibility than the default search provided in google adsense search. It has highly customizable look & feel. You can refine and crawl into the links attached in that website partially or fully. You can even embed the search results in you own blog or host them on a page on google. You can search only website you find useful and omit all other websites in web or emphasize on websites you have mentioned. You can even add your own logo to the search engine. It is a fully customizable. See the post below about how to optimize search boxes for earning more revenue and enhancing visitor experience.

Inside AdSense: Optimizing your search box

How is your adsense revenue determined?

Written by Basis-Consultant on 8:00 AM

The targeted traffic concept rules indeed which depends on quality of your content.
Here is a post on google's Adsense blog about how Adsense and Adwords are related. Adwords is for webmasters who want to improve their business. Adsense is for who sell ads on their websites.

If you send more targeted traffic to your advertisers they will bid more to place ads on your blog/website and your adsense revenue will be more. If your website brings less targeted traffic adword bids on your blog/website will be low hence your adsense revenue will low. SImple to get more revenue through google adsense program try to build website with full of useful information which inturn brings targeted traffic.

Inside AdSense: Relating AdSense to AdWords

Be careful when posting Ads on Pages with Images

Written by Basis-Consultant on 10:06 PM

Here is a post on official google adsense blog mentioning how to place ads on a page where there are images. Violating google TOS is one of the way you can get your adsense account disabled. You can place images or post images in your blog but they should not look like they are related to ads or you should not line up images as if they are part of the ads. Below is an example of violation of TOS.
Note: Image is from Google's Blog

So be careful when posting images in your blog or webpage.

Tools that are useful in Choosing a niche or topics.

Written by Basis-Consultant on 10:01 PM

There are some tools which are useful in determining a niche.

Google Keywords tool
Use this tools to write on which material or topic. Write on topic where there are more searches and less information available. By this your page will be at the top of the SERP (Search Engine Result Pages)

Google Traffic Estimator
Use this tools for choosing a niche. Just type keyword of your niche and know how many clicks are being made per day.

By the way how to use them? Get the keywords related to your niche or topic on google keyword tool and paste them in google traffic estimator. Now see which of the word are being paid highly and write on them.

Parsing Google Adsense Code or Adbrite's code or any Javascript for Blogger

Written by tailender on 2:38 PM

You need to parse google adsense code or adbrite's code if you need to add this code in the post's main body or between the title of post and post body or between the post body or post's footer.First you have to convert you adsense code or adbrite code or any other javascript before putting it into the template.

To parse the code you have to replace

< with &lt;
> with &gt;
& with &amp;
" with &quot;

For changing adbrite code I suggest you first replace & then start replacing ",< and >

Now goto layout button and check edit html button and place this code between those post-body and post header sections or post-footer sections.