tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363829702011-04-21T20:31:18.630-07:00My experiments, my experiences, my advice, news that could be useful to you all. My Adsense Life in a nutshell.Dijonoreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36382970.post-1166263488539264052006-12-16T01:47:00.000-08:002006-12-16T02:16:57.233-08:00

Google is not that bad when it comes to ideas for improving our click through ratios. This is what I saw at a forum:I just read a report (Full Article) discussing the occasional appearance of "favicons" in the text ads provided by google.I did myself notice one such favicon but was too slow to get a screen-shot for you all. When I see one again I will capture it so you can see what I am talking

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Since the time I have been an adsense publisher there has been one rule that has been very clear for me: A rectangle ad unit is probably the best unit if you are serious about getting your ads clicked. Its not as if I have not experimented, I have tried almost everything but finally always seem to conclude that the large rectangle properly integrated is always the best bet.Optimization for any

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I was reading an article in the New York times when I saw this idea that could well be a very interesting tool to increase your earnings.If you use third party advertisers not including Adsense and YPN then you will know that the bids for the ads on your pages will be dependent only on the number of visitors you bring in. The kind of money you get is dependent totally upon your traffic.Well the

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Well last time I had told you that I will teach you how to write the perfect link request. For most purposes related to SEO I prefer to use the SEO Elite but this is one case where I would rather not use it. While people are becoming more and more aware about SEO and nobody will seem to have a problem with giving you a link; mass mailing is really not the solution especially if you want to find

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The single most important thing that can shoot your search engine rankings through the roof is the anchor text of the inbound links that you receive to your site. Atleast thats true as far as Google is concerned. Most people think that the most important thing to get a good serach engine ranking is optimizing their page for the keyword of their choice. And they use various techniques like making

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Most of the people who read my blog have been adsense publishers for some time butyesterday a guy wrote into me asking me the best way to apply for adsense. What kind of a website should his first one be in order to make sure that his application is not rejected and is actually approved as fast as possible.Well fact is that the best way to get selected as an adsense publisher is not through a

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Q. What is the fuss about?A. In every adsense publisher's unending quest for making Google's ads look like their own content, one of the most valuable tools are image. An image next to the link of your ad will make it look like a link recommended by you. A very colourful or striking picture can take the viewers eye away from the 'Ads By Google' notification around the ads as the eye is naturally

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I've been a google premium publisher for over a year now, and have had an income ranging from between $50k to $100k per month.Last week I logged into my account to see the 'Your payments are currently on hold' message, and the required action was to e-mail google, which I did.Just received my e-mail back saying that after an investigation, it was found that there has been over $200k worth of

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Life seems to be more and more easy for adsense publishers everyday. In those good old days if you wanted to place an image close to your ad unit then you had to know how to create a table or use the img tag. But no more. Simplicity has been further simplified. Tools are available that will place that image where you want it without even knowing what html means.One such tool that I saw was the

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A few days ago news had gone around that Google had bought the domain Adsense.com which was actually true. Earlier on it used to lead to the Adsense Consulting Marketing company. Rather unexpectedly the url lead to the Google home page that is the search page but now it has been re-routed to the Google Adsense page which was earlier to be found at google.com/adsense.This move was first made

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I was amused to read an article from Online Ad Swami about a tool which was supposed to save you from your adsense account getting cancelled. If you are vey happy thinking that it might be a tool to save you from fraudalent clicks then think again. This tool actually saves you from clicking your own ads!!!!This tool is will block all adsense ads from your browser when you are editing the page.

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Until now advertisers had the option of asking Adsense to place their ads on a specific site. This feature was known as site targetting. Now advertisers also have the choice of displaying ads according to the channels you have provided.When you try to create a new custom channel there will be an option "Targeting: Show this channel to advertisers as an ad placement". By checking this option

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One of the most frequently used techniques used to disguise ads is the use of images next to the ad unit. For example if a series of pics are placed closed to a rectangular ad unit then they look like links which lead to whatever the pics show. Or alternatively if you keep a series of pics at the top of the page and then keep a leaderboard underneath it then too it looks more like the navigation

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Was reading the newspaper today when I saw an ad with an offer that went something like this: Work at home. Earn 15000 rupees a month. Only an internet connection required. It was useless for me of course as I do not have net at my place but I thought ki it wont do me any harm to ask them what it was about. I realized that they were paying the money for clicking on various ads given out by

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Today i was checking out some adsense forums when I read about this site. Well on first glance itself you know that something is wrong and that something is probably the ad at the top. Notice how Ads by google is written in brackets. There is no ad unit or format that displays the ads by google text in this manner. Then if you try to move your mouse over the ads you will notice that they change

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Yes its true, Google has plans of entering the so far uncharted waters of print advertising. This new idea is a step towards their goal of developing a single system through which their advertisers can publish their ads in any medium of their choice. This creates a rather curious situation for newspapers. They are suffering fom decreased revenues and sales because of the internet and it seems as

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After all the integrating that you have done the most obvious give away could be the advertise on this site option. If you do not have more than 5000 viewers a day then advertsiers wont be interested and it would be useful to remove this.To remove the link:•Log into your AdSense account.•Click the "My Account" tab.•Go down to "OnSite advertiser Sign-Up and click edit.•Uncheck the box include me

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All of you out there know that Google's Page Rank (PR) is one of the most important factors in search engine optimization. So its important for every self respecting publisher to do what he can in order to make sure that they have the highest possible PRs for their sites. Now let us try and understand how this works. The basic principle that governs your page rank is the number of sites that link

Dijonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36382970.post-1162644543432655942006-11-04T04:37:00.000-08:002006-11-04T04:49:03.443-08:00

Like most people I never read through Google's Adsense terms and conditions. So I was rather alarmed when I learnt that Google Ads cannot be placed on a site which gives a direct link to video or audio streaming. Which means that you cannot have adsense on your pages if you have a link that maybe a download link for audio or video. I saw this at Google's Forums.Read more about it here.

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Every now and then adsense publishers go crazy over the latest list of high paying keywords. Although they are an exercise in futility as far as I am concerned people do like to see this. If you are fairly confident about your search engine optimization abilities and website promotion then you may want to have a look at it. View the list here.

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This is a screen shot of his ads. In order to view it just double click on it.For those not in the know ( low probability if you are even remotely interested in India) India Uncut is one of India's best and one of my favourite blogs. Since the time I signed up for adsense placement and ad integration are about everything that I can think about. So when I visited India Uncut a couple of months ago

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For people like me web 2.0 was not a good thing at all. Earlier you could just sit down and create as many sites as you wanted. But with interactivity becoming the buzz word all such ambitions came tumbling down. The web along with being more reawrding for the user has become more taxing on the publisher. So it was refreshing when I read about this guy creating a web 2.0 project in 24 hours. To

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Digg has been a wonderful discovery for me as it has increased the amount of viewers i get on my blog by about a factor of ten. But I started noticing a peculiarity, almost nobody seemed to be interested in my ads.While Digg is excellent for getting a number of backlinks the users seem to hate clicking on ads. My CTR is just 0.01% if you consider users from Digg.Then why be there on Digg? Just

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Going through today's newspaper I read about the restrictions that will be put on medical tourists coming into the country. While all the ideas were insane and were carefully crafted to destroy the fledgling industry, the most absurd rule among them all was that only blood relatives of the patients may be allowed with them. Now what can be more absurd? What possible problem can the government

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One of the most absurd tendencies that I have seen in upstart adsense publishers is their tendency to try and find lists for the highest paying keywords and their almost always futile attempts at making money from them. What they do not realize is the fact that the list is not just available to them, it is also available to the hundreds of adsense gurus out there. These are the people who have

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Well if you have been folkowing my blog, you must have read that Muslims are vastly under represented in all fields of society. Sorry to say that I was wrong. Fact is that there is one field where they are over represented: Prisons. Figures from 8 states put the figure at an alarming 26% which is much more than their percentage of the population.What this reflects is the failure of the so called

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If you are an Adsense publisher and you had adsense for search on your website or blog, there must have been days when you wished to know what exactly did viewers on your page search for. This would have helped you not only in knowing whether the content your users want is available on your site or not.Finally all your problems have been solved, well almost. Google has started displaying the top

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One of the most absurd things that I have seen people do after getting Adsense on their blogs is nothing. Ya thats it. They prefer to do nothing at all. They just sit there and expect the revenues to flow in. At the most they make sure that their blog is regularly updated. But this is not at all enough and it is because of this very reason that only 1% of adsense publishers are paid above 50$ a

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Technology has proved to be a rather damning thing as far as teachers are concerned. Kids are using their mobile phones to cheat and they have to somehow stop this. So what do they do??? Simple. Stop the mobile phone services in town for an hour. Thats what i call an idea. About as insane as they come.Yup district authorities in Meerut, Karnal and Saharanpur have shot off letters to cellular

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Hey I recently heard about this site called Flixya which allows you to share your videos that you have posted on sites like You Tube and Daily Motion. The twist in the tail is something like this: You get payed for that.The Story goes something like this: Ads are posted on your videos and just like other video portals here too you can watch videos rate them etc. When people come to visit your

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Finance Minister Chidambaran recently stated how he would like to convert the millions of government employees who are savers into investors. One of the easiest ways to do this was to use the pension funds as an investment in the Stock Market. This seemed like a stroke of genius as far as i was concerned because of the way it would have increased the worker's wealth. Fact is that the Indian Stock

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In its incessant efforts to improve Adsense for its advertisers Google has come up with a new plan. New is not actually the right word it has been planning to do this since some time now.Ok no use maintaining suspence with somethin like this. Till now Adsense publishers were paid by Google according to the number of clicks they received on their ads. This led to widespread click fraud. People

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Seems there is no way you can stop the sexplosion all around you. Even robots are not spared and if they keep on creating stuff like this then the day may not be far when men start preferring Robots over women.

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I dont know if the guys at google read my blog or not but if they did then this one is going to flatter them. Well this is the story of how my friend tried to break the terms of agreement that came along with being an adsense publisher and how he got royally screwed for that.Well it all started out very logically. My friend figured out that even if he himself clicks on his ads they are counted in

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After being roundly criticised the world over the Modi government has reason to cheer. According to the Justice Rajinder Sachar Muslims in government jobs in Gujarat are not that badly represented with respect to their population. The stats for Gujarat are something like this: Muslim population share 9.1%, share in jobs: 5.4%. So what you may say what about the other 4%. This is where it gets

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Virginia Hefferman explains that the reason for this videos phenomenal success is the fact that its not in any particular language. As a large number of You Tube users are from Asia and they do not know english they must have found this as one of the most obviously enticing things on You Tube. I personally do not feel that its true, maybe it is this famous because of the kind of humour: its very

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Evolution of Dance

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Today morning was very satisfying on two counts. First I had my morning cuppa with my newspaper. Two days without your newspaper can be horrifying. The second was today's headline. That was about the fire at the Reliance refinery. Now the obvious question that arises is how does that cheer me up? Well it goes something like this.The major reason for pollution as well as our dependance on other

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Yours truly, who has styled himself as the modern day Sherlock Holmes dug a bit and found out that none of them had any contacts at all. CW knew a motley crowd of Rabaris, who are well known all over Ahmedabad for their ability to start a fight without any cause whatsoever. And for such practical purposes I plan to introduce myself as a distant relative of A K Antony.

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Not having an internet connection at my place forces upon me the ritual of marching off to a cyber cafe. Generally its a rather drab affair but yesterday was a very good example of how contacts are created. For starters let me introduce to my Cyber Cafewala hereby referred to as CW. CW is a character to say the least. He is the only guy in the whole of Ahmedabad who demands identification

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The recent ruling by the Supreme Court which stated that reservation shouldnot extend to the creamy layer of the Scheduled Casts and Scheduled Tribes has invited rather sharp reactions from the political community, some of them are as follows:"The Supreme Court has taken a decision. We have to study it and then we will act."-That was our PM. Ambiguity Personified."Remedial legal and

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