Thursday, July 26, 2007

Adsense Earnings RSS Feed

This is a rather simple script that will create an RSS feed with your daily Adsense earnings, making it easy to track them via your regular feed reader.

Click here to visit Adsense Earnings RSS Feed site

Top 10 Ways to Get Awesome Web Traffic Using Blogs

Like many important people before you - perhaps you've underestimated the power of blogging. Blogs can be used, not only as the single easiest way to get a listing in the search engine for your desired keywords, but also serve the fantastic purpose if building a relationship with your quickly growing list of readers, listeners and viewers.

After a light lunch today, I was left in the greatest mood. So I figured I would sit down and share with you 10 ways you can share my success and popularity using blogs.

1. Use a keyword specific blog title and description. When creating your blog, I just used the free service www.blogger.com you're asked to title or name your blog and give a short description. Take this chance to think a little.

Ask yourself:

a) Who do you want to read your blog?
b) What is your interest or topic - what will you enjoy writing about?

If you have a poetry blog for example - use the word poet or poetry in your title and description. You can research the popularity of your keywords use Overture's free tool here: http://inventory.overture.com

2. Try to update often (short daily entries work great) using hand written or bot generated keyword rich informative content. Give your visitors something they want to read. I love to write so I create all my original posts, but if you have a site that needs traffic or a topic that you don't know much about you can set up an automatically updating feed using other people's blog posts, or articles. Each entry is seen as its own html page, so the engines see your blog as a multi-paged site, that is updated regularly and rich in links and keywords.

3. Create an interesting profile. Searchers and fellow bloggers love the fact you're a real person, this helps to build personal relationships. Again, put a little time and effort into this one. Tons of people peek at your profile, and Blogger.com keeps track of all your views, so open up and share a little. Everything on your profile page is taken as a searchable keyword. Things like: what you like to do, your favorite movies and music, etc. Each one will get you listed under that topic in the blogger.com directory.

4. One way to jump right in and get visitors and feedback immediately is by posting to similar blogs and linking back to your blog. Say you have a poetry blog: you can use Blogger's search tool and your keyword - in this case "poetry" or "poet." (Another way to get a quick high listing is to search Google for example "poetry blog.")

You can post a comment on their blog, just a short personal remark will do. Keep it polite, no one wants to hear negative criticism. Blogs are more personal than chartrooms or forums, and often contain personal views and opinions of the author, so don't go stepping on toes. The point is to make contact, build relationships, and exchange links. More links to your blog equals more free targeted traffic for you.

5. RSS is your friend! Create an RSS feed, by hand or using Feedburner. This gives your readers the option to subscribe to your blog with just a click. What this means to you is 100% deliverability of all the content you write by the readers request - your posts are sent directly to your subscribers via their RSS reader otherwise known as an aggregator. They are personally notified every time you post to your blog. And best of all, no spam complaints ever, and they get every update you make - no blockers or filters. Total word freedom!

6. Spread your feed by submitting to RSS directories. This is a one time deal, and you can either search and do it manually or use the tool I used: RSS Automator (it finds and submits to tons of different directories for you).

Only submit each blog once. This is a lasting deal that could mess up your good standing if you do it multiple times. So to be sure you get a listing, only submit to directories once. (This is not the same thing as pinging; you can ping every time you update your blog.)

7. Ping your blog every time you update using pinging services like pingomatic.com and pingoat.com. This lets the directories know you have updated and added a new post to your blog.

8. Create a personalized or branded RSS reader/aggregator. Talk about top of mind awareness. You don't have to be a programming genius for this one (though it helps.) There are a couple services that for a small one time fee will customize a reader for you, with your logo, header and graphics, and preload it with any media you want. So with this you're sure to be seen and remembered every day. Check out one of the best services here: http://www.tristana.org/publishers/specs

9. People love to read you, but hearing you is even better. Give Podcasting a try - there are tons of ways to get started here. I would personally recommend http://www.Libsyn.com for all your Podcasting needs. It uploads, stores, hosts, and sets up the RSS and pings for you. Like Podcasting for dummies. Then just submit your podcast to different directories and readers like Apple iTunes, and ipodder.org.

10. Radio is great but now you can create a following by imitating the idiot box. Give your subscribers another way to obsess using Video-meets-Blogging or "The Vlog." This is a medium that is far from saturated. The possibilities are endless, and you're only limited to what you limit yourself. Though it has not been promoted too widely, the new Apple iTunes Podcasting feature supports Vlog subscriptions as well.

By: Jason and Skye Mangrum

How to Promote you Blog

You need to promote your blog in order to get traffic for your blog. If you get more traffic you will get more click on your Adsense and of course you will earn money. So there are something that you need to do to promote your blog.

1. Promote on newspaper.

2. Promote mouth by mouth. Tell your friend about your blog

3. Submit your blog into search engine. Do not waste your time to submit into many search engine. Just submit into major search engine like Google, Yahoo, and Live Search

4. Submit into blog directory, web directory, or RSS Directories as possible.

5. Use forums to put your signature, it will help your website to get some traffic from.

6. Trade links with other sites that are relevant to your website or add a link directory for this purpose. Programs such as Zeus and Axandra might help you.

7. Leave your thoughts and comments on other blogs with your blog url listed in the signature. But make sure that your comments are relevant to the topic and the topics are relevant to your blog.

8. Ping it, every time you make a post. Use Use some services such as ping O Matic

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Adsense Discussion

Official

* Inside AdSense blog - Official blog that posts new tips and information about new AdSense features.

Google Groups

* Adsense Help - Google group for adsense support. Only posts from user AdSensePro are approved by Google.

Google Adsense Forums

* Adsense Chat - Read Adsense News, Adsense Article, review user site, adsense toolbox, and discuss everything about Google Adsense.

* Adsense ID - Google Adsense Forum for Indonesian People.

* Digital Point Adsense Forum - Discusses Adsense payments, guidelines, stats and reporting and much more.

* Google Community - Talk about Google Adsense on Google Community.

* Rave Now - Discuss Google Adsense with Rave Now community.

* Site Point - Forum for Google Adsense from Site Point.

* Webmaster Talk - Discuss all about Google Adsense.

* Webmaster World Adsense Forum - Discussions around Google AdSense.

Six AdSense optimization tips for forums

Google Adsense Blog give show you how to optimize your forum with Google Adsense

1. Format is important for multiple ad units
Placing a skyscraper above the fold on the left side of your forum seems to produce slightly better performance than other positioning. However, when using multiple ad units throughout the page our horizontal bias still favors the leaderboard. See the Forum Heat Map below for more details.

Six AdSense optimization tips for forums


2. Display your ad units where repeat users will notice them
A leaderboard at the very top fits nicely next to the logo, but forum regulars tend to skip the header and go straight to the meat of the thread. Placing your ad unit above or below the first post can be more effective.

3. Place a leaderboard immediately after the last post
This provides users who make it to the end of a thread with a ‘next step’ when the content ends. If you place it after the footer, though, folks will move to the next thread before they even see the ad!

4. Use horizontal link units
Link units offer a wider range of relevant topics for users to browse. A horizontal unit can be placed near the top of your forum just below the header.

5. Opt-in to image ads
Supporting image ads increases the pool of ads –particularly cost-per-thousand-impression (CPM) ads – bidding to display on your site. Since forums tend to have lower click-through rates (CTRs) than other types of sites, CPM ads can improve revenue without the need for clicks. Please remember, however, that CPM ads come in both text and image formats.

6. Be sensitive to your forum community
Forums are highly interactive, so be sensitive to your users when implementing your AdSense ads. Be sure to blend the ads nicely, so they don’t appear overly intrusive – but don’t blend them so well they mislead your users! Every forum site is different and you know your community best, so as always use your own judgment to create the most positive experience for your users.

How to Track your Adsense

You can track or analyze your Adsense using AdSenseLog. AdsenseLog will help you to improve your AdSense ad performance, using several monitoring, tracking and analyzing tools, all built into one easy to use software.

Automatic monitoring of your data. The check can be performed in any interval you want (e.g. every 10 minutes). AdSenseLog will alert you (With a sound, a pop-up window, e-mail or an SMS message) only when new data is available.

Track your data - extensive statistics: impressions, clicks, revenue, clickthrough, CPM and EPC. Daily, Weekly or Monthly views. Daily averages, best channels and many more options.

Analyze your data - let AdSenseLog analyze all the numbers, and provide you with the important messages - which channels need your attention now? what is the situation of your web site? How did my CTR behave after I made that change to the ad position?

Graph your data - Display many types of graphs, about every kind of statistics available, for your Content, Search, Referral and channel data.

Maximize your profit - Using the above mentioned tools, you'll be able to maximize your AdSense profits. Find your site's strengths and weaknesses, quickly identify trends and tune up your site. Watch your revenues climb!

AdSenseLog is safe to install. Your data and information is kept in your computer, locally, and never sent to Metalgrass software (or any other place). Check out our privacy statement.

Click here to visit AdSenseLog Website

SysSense - Personal dDesktop Google AdSense Monitor

SysSense is your personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray. You can monitor an unlimited number of Google AdSense accounts. A sound and/or system tray icon balloon can be configured to alert you when your statistics have changed.



Click here to download SysSense

Adsense Preview

The Adsense Preview Tool lets you preview the Google ads that may show on any web page using Firefox browser. With just a few clicks, you can see what ads may appear on your new web pages, or make an educated decision on whether to add AdSense to your existing site pages. The Adsense Preview Tool is installed in the main toolbar menu.

The Adsense Preview Tool

Remember this tool is for Firefox only. For Internet Explorer use the Official Google Adsense Preview Tool for Internet Explorer

Click here to install Adsense Preview

Adsense Notifier for Firefox

Adsense Notifier is a tool to display Adsense stats on your Firefox browser. You can see your Adsense earnings on the Firefox status bar when you use the browser. So you will not login to Google Adsense website each time you want to see your earning. The results is automatically update.

To use this tools you must install the extension first. After that restart you Firefox and submit your data into this application.

Adsense Notifier

Click here to visit Adsense Notifier

Google Adsense Sandbox Tool

Google Adsense has been the major earning source for many webmasters but one thing Google has always been criticised is that it does not allow the webmasters to know what ads are being displayed on their forum. The problem solved to some extent with Google releasing Google Adsense Preview Tool. But this preview tool was not sufficient for webmaster as its utility was limited. Now a new tool is developed by Amit Aggarwal of Labnol that is far better than the Google Adsense Preview Tool. It has been named as Google Adsense Sandbox Tool v 1.0 which work for all browsers unlike Adsense preview tool which can be used only for IE.

Google Adsense Sandbox Tool v 1.0 give you two options for adsense preview

1. Keywords: You just type in the keywords for which you want to preview Google Adsense in the "Type URL or Keywords" box and click the submit button.

2. URL: This is one of the major tool that Adsense Sandbox has. It allows you to preview all the adsense ads coming on a website whose URL is provided by you in the "Type URL or Keywords" box.

One of the main feature that I liked about Adsense sandbox is that it allows you to view all the ads that are being displayed on your website based on the Ad format such as 728 x 90, 250 x 250 etc. So that you can know what are the ads that will be displayed on choosing a particular ads format.

The other feature of Adsense Sandbox that Google Adsense Preview Tool also have is the geotargetted adsense preview tool. You can set the country in the adsense sandbox tool you wish the result should display. You can also set it to "Auto" which I think sets the country automatically according to your IP address.

One more important thing at the last which I know you might be thinking of. Will the advertisers be charged of this. The answer is Absolutely No. The Adsense Sandbox tool works by taking a random publisher ID so you will not get any earnings from viewing these ads just as in Adsense Preview Tool.

I think this tool could be a revolutionary tool in Adsense as it allows webmasters to have a more detailed looks on the ads being served by Google on their blog. Finally, my heartiest thanks to Amit Aggarwal who provided us with such a great tool.

See Google Adsense Sandbox

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Do Follow Blogger

I join Do Follow Blogger Movement from Tricia. Here are list of blog that have remove nofollow comment.

You can read about Do Follow Blogger here or how to delete No Follow here