Showing posts with label Blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Monetize your blog with Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger

When you share your words, thoughts and photos on Blogger, you are sharing your passions with the world. Sometimes, you’re passionate about brands or products. Starting today, you can make money by promoting relevant products in your posts, gaining income for each new customer you introduce to your favorite brands.

This is a new way for you to monetize your blog, giving you control over the advertisers and products you promote, and better connecting your readers with the things you love.


To get started, go to the Earnings tab on Blogger, and click “Get Started”. If you have an existing AdSense account and the content of your blog matches available ad categories, you're already set. Select an affiliate ad from the “Advertiser Products” widget that appears in the Post Settings panel in the post editor. If you don’t already have an AdSense account, sign up.


When you post about a brand or product from a featured advertiser, the Google Affiliate Ads for Blogged widget will help you to display an affiliate ad in your blog, which can be a text link, a product image, or a banner. You may earn commissions when someone clicks on your ads and makes a purchase on the advertiser’s site, going beyond “payment per click” to “payment per action” and extending the influential relationship you have with your audience.

Get started with Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger today to monetize your blog and bring your readers to the products you love.

Off-Page SEO – 7 Tips On How To Build BackLinks

Well a site cannot get expected traffic without doing seo in the world of completion. After introducing on page seo. Now come back to introduce off page seo and basics of off page seo. As the word off page seo shows to do seo staying off from own page. Means to optimize a website from other sources. In simple a short we can define it as link building or creating backlinks. Off page seo helps site to get rank in search engines. 

Fairly Off page seo is to create and build backlinks from several of ways. Off page seo is a hungriness of backlinks.”There so many ways to do off page seo or creating backlinks but now, let me show you how to build links to your pages:
1. Profile Pages
Build Profile Pages in the top Social Media sites like:
Google+ Profiles-         https://profiles.google.com          (A Must)
Facebook Pages –         http://www.facebook.com/pages/            
Twitter Profiles-         http://twitter.com     
LinkedIn Professional Profiles – http://www.linkedin.com/company/professional-profiles                   
YouTube Channels –         http://www.youtube.com/channels            
Quora Profile –        http://www.quora.com 
About.me Profile –          http://about.me
2. Guest Posting  
Another powerful way to get backlinks is guest blogging.
In addition to building back-links to your site/page, it is an effective way to drive massive traffic to your website. So, if you are not using guest blogging as a link builder and instant traffic machine, I highly recommend that you start using it.
It is also advisable that you guest post in high traffic and preferably   authority sites in your niche.
Now, the obvious question that comes to your mind is hot to get these high traffic sites who accept guest blogging.
It is very simple …
Just use any of the following search queries in Google…
“Keyword Phrase” + “become a contributor” OR “contribute to this site”
“Keyword Phrase” + “guest article”
“Keyword Phrase” + “guest blog”
“Keyword Phrase” + “guest blogger”
“Keyword Phrase” + “Guest bloggers”  Let me show you with an example …
Let’s say that your website is about “investment”, then in order to find investment sites that accept guest blogging, enter the
following search query into Google search box
“Investment” + “guest blogger”
Once you hit the search button, you are going to get
Once you get the list of sites, scan each site to get the potential
sites that accept guest blogging.
Then browse the potentials sites to find out the guidelines on how to submit your guest post.
3. Directories  
Another way to build back-links to your site is to submit your site to web directories that aggregate links.
I would also like to point out that you focus on authority sites like DMOZ or web directories related to your niche.
Here are the search queries that you need to use to find web directories in your niche …
“Keyword Phrase” + “add a site”/”submit site”/”suggest site”
“Keyword Phrase” + “add URL”/”submit URL”/”suggest URL”
“Keyword Phrase” + “add listing”/”submit listing”/”suggest listing”
“Keyword Phrase” +”add your business”/”list your business”
“Keyword Phrase” + intitle:”directory”
“Keyword Phrase”+ inurl:”directory”
Let me illustrate with an example …
Let’s say that you have a site about “Skin care”, then to find potential sites for link building, enter the following search query into Google search box
“Skin care” + “add URL”/”submit URL”/”suggest URL”
Hit search and you are going get a list of sites to submit your link. Browse each potential site to find out on how to submit your link.
4. Blog Commenting
The other powerful way to drive instant traffic and links to your website is by commenting on other blogs.
Commenting is mainly aimed for 3 main purposes:
  • Drive instant traffic to your blog
  • Build a link
  • To establish a relationship with other blog owners.
The aggregate effect of commenting on other Blogs is paramount. Therefore, you need to find high traffic, preferably authority Blogs
which are related to your niche and  leave valuable and relevant comment.
As I have pointed out again and again, make sure to focus on blogs related to your niche and preferably high authority blogs.
The beauty of Blog commenting is …it is very simple.
Let me show the search query used to find blogs that allow commenting
“Keyword Phrase” + “add comment”  “Keyword Phrase” + “post comment”
“Keyword Phrase” + “leave comment”
Let me show you with an example …
Let’s say that you want to find blogs related to “weight loss”, then all you have
to do is to enter the following search query into Google search box
“Weight loss” + “add comment”
Once you hit search, you are going to get a list of blogs that allow blog commenting.
So, go and leave your comment …
5. Niche Forums 
Forums are great way to build back-links to your website. So, in this section, I
will show you simple ways to find forums that can help you build links to your
site.
But, I want to make very clear that …
You need to build links from forums in your niche. Don’t also forget about the
quality of the links we have discussed before.  Here are the search queries that
you need to use:
“Keyword Phrase” forum
“Keyword Phrase” discussion boards
“Keyword Phrase” “sign up OR register OR join”
“Keyword Phrase” “Powered by phpBB” OR “powered by vBulletin”
6. edu or .org Back-links ( Highly Recommended ) 
If you have been online for some time, most probably, you already aware that EDU back-links are very powerful way to boost your search engine ranking.
So, if you want to boost the search engine ranking of your site, make sure to build links form edu sites.
Let me show you how to easily find EDU back-links which are used by your competitors.
Please follow me …
For instance, if you want to find blogs for .edu back-links purposes, you can use
the following search query.
Site:.eduinurl:blog “post a comment”
And, if you want to get .org back-links, you can follow almost the same
procedures used to find .edu back-links.
Simply, Change .edu with .org
7. Re-Purposing Your Content 
The easiest way to get back-links quickly is to convert or re-purpose your
website content into another format.
Some of the ways are:
  1. Collect some of your website articles, compile and change them into PDF format. Then post to Scribd and Docstoc.
  2. Change your articles into power point presentations and submit them to        slide share document sharing sites.
  3. Change your articles into an audio series and submit it to or iTunes  (podcasts).
  4. Change your web content into video series and submit it to video hosting sites like Vimeo and YouTube.

5 New SEO Friendly Blogger Templates


Blogger is another biggest blogging platform after WordPress. Many bloggers blogs on Blogger blogspot to make money, sharing experience and so on. For the professional blogging, you must useSEO friendly template which helps you to bring more traffic and more income to your blog. I’ve got some few SEO friendly, adsense ready and professional Blogger templates.
And here are they:

Thesis Blogger Template

Thesis Blogger template is the most used template in 2011. Originally, Thesis is WordPress theme and converted to Blogger template by Hack Tutors.

Platinum Blogger Template

Platinum is clean looking Blogger template which can be used for any niche.

Flash News Blogger Template

Flash news contains 2 column and and featured post widget ready on the top. It can be used if you blog is related to technology and news.

Social Eyes Blogger Template

Recently, Hack Tutors released Social Eyes Blogger template which is awesome!

Blogussion Blogger Template

Demo – Download
Blogussion is originally converted into Blogger template by Suraz from HackTweaks.com
These all Blogger template sare popular and SEO optimized which helps you to get more traffic and visitors to your blog. Surely, your visitors will return back by using such Blogger Templates.

Google Translate Widget with Flags for Blogger


Google translation for your blog is now made easy with the use of flags. Add a Google Translator widget with mini flags to Blogger.
With the help of Google Translate and by adding flags to it, this widget in HTML, allows your visitors to translate your site and blog in their own languages.

Features:

  • Translate widget with mini Flags for Blogger
  • Coded in HTML, no JavaScript used so that it can also be viewed with Lynx based browsers which are unable to load script files.
  • This Widget can translate any language to readers preferred language that are supported by Google Translate.
  • I have included 10 languages in this widget. They are: Chinese(Simplified), Portuguese, English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.
  • Available for both English and Non-English blogs.
  • Animation effects for modern browsers. (New)
Tested on a French language blog.
How to add this widget! Just click any one of the "Add to Blogger" Button.

Translator Widget with Mini Flags for English blogs

Translator Widget with Mini Flags for Non English blogs

Site Translator widget with Flags 1





Let me know if it helped you or if you have any problems or bugs with it.

5 Tips To Drive Lots of Blog Readers


If you’ve ever created a blog before, then you know that the saying, “build it and they will come” just isn’t true. However, you can get more people interested in visiting your blog by following these five tips…
1. Offer good content.
By “good” content, I mean you should blog about topics that your audience wants to know about. To find out what they want, just follow these steps:
* Find out what types of information products they’re already buying – then write blog posts on the same topic.
* Use a keyword tool to find out what topics people in your niche are looking for.
* Drop by busy niche forums and other blogs to see which topics are generating the most views and discussion.
* Survey your readers to find out what they want.
2. Update frequently.
Sometimes people start a blog, post a flurry of articles and then abandon the blog for months at a time. If you allow dated posts, then your visitors aren’t likely to come back again if they notice that you don’t update regularly.
What you need to do is commit to posting to your blog at least once a week. If you don’t want to be chained to your blog like this, then create the content ahead of time and automatically “drip” it to your readers. Or, hire a ghostwriter to both create the content and post it.
Point is, you need to post often to keep your blog from looking like a deserted island.
3. Create regular features.
Here’s a great way to turn a one-time visitor into a repeat visitor. Specifically, by creating “regular features” and multi-part blog posts that your visitors can look forward to.
Example: Maybe you create a seven-part article about how to make money with pay per click marketing. And maybe you space it out so that you’re posting one or two articles per week. You can bet that your readers will return at least once a week just to finish reading the series.
Another way to get more visitors is by creating a regular feature, such as a “tip of the week” feature or even a “questions from our readers” feature.
4. Write about hot topics.
One way to get a surge of traffic and increase in your blog is by writing about hot or even controversial topics. You can include relevant keywords and “ping” the blog directories (like technorati.com) to make sure that those who are searching for the hot topic see your post.
Another way to leverage a hot topic is by joining in on the blogosphere conversation. Simply find a popular blog discussing a hot topic, and use a trackback to add your response.
5. Get someone influential to endorse your blog.
Finally, you can get others to visit your blog by first getting someone influential in your niche to endorse you (and your blog). You can do this indirectly, such as by offering to be a guest author on the other person’s blog. Or you can ask your joint venture partners to directly endorse you on their blogs and in their newsletters (and you’ll return the favor).
It’s free advertising. But it’s also extremely powerful, because you’re using social proof to increase your readership.
You just discovered five proven ways to get others to visit your blog – and to visit it again! Your next step is to take action.
Starting today, apply these tips… and then keep an eye on your traffic logs!
About the author: Hung Hong is a Mechanical Engineer from Vietnam.He spends most of his free time using internet and love to writing about Affiliate & Online Marketing, Blogging & Make Money Online. You can reach him through his personal website JVPrime.Com and HungMarketing.Com.

How to Insert AdSense Code in Blogger Post Body

One of the known tips for improving the performance of your Google AdSense ads is knowing where to place the ads. In this guide, we shall discuss the modification you can make to your Blog template to have your Google AdSense ads appear between your post title and post body, or between your post body and post footer. Also, we shall have the AdSense ads appear on every individual post.

Choosing a best placement for your AdSense ads will attract more attention; attention leads to clicks; and clicks bring you AdSense revenue. Easier said. While people may have theories on where the ideal AdSense spot ought to be, there is really no standard answer because it depends very much on your Blog's layout, contents, theme, etc. If you have been following the changes made to our Blog, you would agree that we are no guru at this. We had merely placed the ads where they fit aesthetically and not where they will get the most attention. Nevertheless, if you would accept our two cents' worth of opinion, try to put yourself in the minds of your readers. Ask questions like why readers visit your Blog, which section of the Blog are they most interested in, and whether placing an ad at a particular area will distract, annoy or please them.

Many people believe that having AdSense ads just before or after the Blog posts will best optimize their performance. For the purposes of this article and to give you an idea how it would look, we have inserted the AdSense code into our template to have the ads appear immediately below the article and before the post footer. If you think you would like to do the same for your Blog, the following are the steps you should take.

Update: A section on Using Blogger Feature to insert the AdSense Ads after every post.

Using Blogger Feature

If you merely want an Ad to appear after every post or every few posts, use this Google feature instead. Go to Template -> Page Elements and you see in your layout the heading “Blog Posts”. Click the “Edit” link at the bottom right corner. You will see this screen.

We assume you have a Google AdSense account. If you don't, you can create one using the same login through your Google account. You will be assigned a Publisher identity number which shall appear in all your AdSense codes.

Tick the “Show Ads Between Posts.” You can select whether to show ads after every post or after several posts. In accordance with AdSense TOC, a maximum of 3 Ads will be displayed. Choose the ad format and color scheme. Save the changes and refresh your Blog to see the Ads.

While using this Blogger feature is simple and easy, you may want more control over the position of the Ads. For example, you may want it between the title and posts rather thanafter the posts. The following guide will show you how you can do that.

More Ad locations

Log in to your Google AdSense account.


Go to AdSense Setup -> Products and choose “AdSense for Content”.

Next, select “Ad unit” and follow their instructions on picking the size of ad, color combination, and so on, right till the end when they automatically generate a HTML code for you. Copy this code and paste it into Microsoft Notepad. (If you are a WinXP user, click the Start button at the bottom left corner of your screen. Under All Programs -> Accessories, you should see the MS Notepad icon.)


Change the AdSense code

This heading may sound misleading. We are not at all altering the code but converting some of the characters to character entities. We have to parse the AdSense code so that it can be included into your Blog template. This is not against AdSense rules because after the code is inserted into the template, when you view the source code of the template, you should see the exact same AdSense code that Google has generated for you. Indeed, if it is anything different, it means that you have not parsed it correctly and should review the code again. Parsing the code essentially involves replacing the following HTML characters:-

< with &lt;
> with &gt;
" with &quot;

Your final Google AdSense Code should look something like this:

- You could use this tool : Encode

&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;!--
google_ad_client = &quot;pub-0000000000000000&quot;;
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
google_ad_format = &quot;336x280_as&amp;amp;quot;;
google_ad_type = &quot;text&quot;;
google_ad_channel = &quot;&quot;;
google_color_border = &quot;FFFFFF&quot;;
google_color_bg = &quot;FFFFFF&quot;;
google_color_link = &quot;000000&quot;;
google_color_text = &quot;000000&quot;;
google_color_url = &quot;000000&quot;;
//--&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
src=&quot;http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js&quot;&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;

Insert code into template

Login to your Dashboard. Go to Template -> Edit HTML and click the box next to “Expand Widget Templates”.



 Block copy the entire HTML code for your site that you presently have and save it in a separate text file in MS Notepad. You can also click the "Download Template" link to backup the template. This is one of the two necessary steps whenever you want to change the template. The second step is to “Preview” the new changes, and save the changes only when you are satisfied. The backup you have saved in a text file will come in handy when you accidentally click to save the changes without previewing them. With a backup, you can easily restore the template to the prior state if need be.

Now search for post.body through your browser's search function (Ctrl+F for Firefox and IE). You should see these lines:

<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

If you want the AdSense ads to appear between the post title and post body, add the following codeabove the orange lines. If you want the AdSense ads to appear immediately after every individual post, add the following code below the orange lines. The code to add is:

<div style='float:left;'>
AdSense Code
</div>

The AdSense Code is the one you have amended above in MS Notepad. Do NOT save the template, but click the Preview button to see if you like the placement of the AdSense ads.

Do you want to have the AdSense code on the left of your text as shown in this screenshot?


Choose the smallest AdSense format like 125x125. Insert the AdSense code here:

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
<div style='float:left;'>
AdSense Code
</div>
<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

If you want the Ads on the right of the text, like this:


Insert the code as follows:

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
<div style='float:right;'>
AdSense Code
</div>
<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

Set the AdSense ad margins

If your AdSense ads are too close to the edge, you may set a margin in the style tag. To give you an idea how wide the margin should be, you can see the sample in our other Business Fables blog where the left margin is set to 30px. The code used was:

<div style='float:left; margin-left:30px'>
AdSense Code
</div>

Should you want to align the AdSense ad to your text, you can specify a margin or padding around the entire AdSense code. The code you can use is:

<div style='float:left; margin:5px 10px 15px 20px'>
AdSense Code
</div>

The first number 5px is for the top margin, 10px is for the right margin, 15px for the bottom margin, and 20px for the left margin. You should of course change these values to suit your template.

Preview the template and if you are satisfied, save the template and refresh your Blog to see the new positions of your AdSense ads.

Have a good blog!
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