Wednesday, April 2, 2008
How to Add an RSS Feed on Blogger
An active Blogger.com account
An active Blogger blog
Step 1:
Log into your Blogger.com account. This will take you to your Blogger Dashboard, which is a list of all of your blogs on the site along with controls for customizing them.
Step 2:
Select "Layout" for your desired blog. The "Layout" tab will be displayed, providing a graphical representation of your blog, including the area where blog posts appear and areas where you can add customized elements.
Step 3:
Click on "Add a Page Element." Another window will open with a list of elements that you can add to your blog. Select "Add to Blog" underneath the "Feed" element, which opens a "Configure Feed" dialog box.
Step 4:
Copy the RSS link URL from the external blog. Most blogs place their RSS link as either text or an RSS icon somewhere on their blog. Clicking on this link will open a Web browser page with the feed URL, often a Feedburner.com address. Select this link and copy it to the clipboard.
Step 5:
Paste the RSS link URL into the "Feed URL" box of the Blogger "Configure Feed" dialog. Select "Continue." If you make a mistake, click "Cancel" and start again.
Step 6:
Save your changes. After clicking on "Continue," a dialog box will open showing the title of the blog feed you are publishing, an option to select how many items you wish to display, and check boxes to show "Item dates" and "Item sources/authors." Make your selections, review how the feed will look on your blog, and select "Save Changes" when satisfied.
Step 7:
Place your new feed. The feed you just added will show up as the top item in your list of side page elements. Left-click, hold, and drag the feed element to move it to a different slot on the side, or to the top or bottom section of your blog. When satisfied, click on "Save." Then click "Preview" to see how your new feed appears. Use "Clear Edits" to undo the changes and start over.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
12 Effective Tips & Tricks to Maximize Google Adsense Revenue
12 Effective Tips & Tricks to Maximize Google Adsense Revenue
The first name which comes to everyone while talking about PPC Program is Google adsense.
It is by far is the most popular contextual advertising program used by publishers worldwide. It has variety of revenue generating programs starting from Pay per click ads, adsense for search,
referrals for Firefox with Google toolbar, Picassa, Google Pack. But does everyone earn a lot from it? Many think that just copying and pasting the adsense code will fetch a huge amount of money,but that’s a mistake. There are some effective tips to increase Google Adsense CTR.
The following optimization tips can help you increase your Google Adsense dollars:
1. Make sure the ads that are appearing on your site are closely related with your
content. For doing this create open topic one page, use your keywords in page title, also
check your keyword rich content and then mark some of your keywords as bold or italic.
2. Increase your keyword density. If you use the proper keyword density in your content,
you will attract more targeted ads. Your visitors are far more likely to click on a relevant ad.
Targeted ads usually pay more per click too.
3. Use Online Keyword research tools like Overture Keyword Tool, Google Keyword
Research Tool and Goodkeywords.com. You can also try the free trial of Word Tracker and
if you like, pay for the service. Other excellent paid keyword research tools include
NicheBot and KeywordElite.
4. Use wide ads (336x280, 300x250 or 250x250). Because there are the best performing
ads.
5. No Border ads. One of the best ways is to erase the borders of Adsense ads and make
them merge with the website’s background color.
6. You can embed your Adsense ads in your content. You should surround the ads with
the content of the page. This is where your visitors will be looking, so you should also give
them ads to read and maybe click on if they're interested.
7. Place an image near your ads because user tends to look at this section.
8. Rotate Google Adsense Ads Colors to Reduce Ad Blindness. To prevent regular users
from ignoring the ads, you can officially rotate up to 4 different types of color palettes for
your adsense ads. When you are selecting the color scheme for the adsense ads,
press the Ctrl key, scroll up or down with the arrow keys and select multiple color schemes
with the SPACE bar.
9. Track your ads. Google gives you up to the ability to track ads by web page or by the
type of ads displayed. They give you up to 200 custom channels for you to use.
Experiment with different ad types and positions to see which suites best.
10 .Use the Adsense for search box. It's always a good idea to give your visitors the ability to
search your site. If you use Adsense’s search box, you would be paid for visitors who click
on the ads in the search results page.
11. Do not rely on one website. The more sites you have, the more ads have the potential to
get clicked.
12. Use site maps. Use Google's site map. It visits your site and will crawl it much sooner that
any other submission process.