Adsense between Blogger Posts

1 Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com .
2 Visit your blog's Template tab and click on the Page Elements link.
3 Click Edit in the Blog Posts section.
4.Check the box next to Show Ads Between Posts. You can then select how often you'd like your ads to appear, such as once after every post or once after every other post.
5.Please note that right now, it's only possible to insert Google ads using this widget, and not AdSense for search boxes or referral units.

Via Adsense.blogspot.com

Which ads are blocked most often?

My normal internet activity involves visiting Technology, Finance sites, use gmail, Google search, once in a while visit sites where I can download stuff.

While I predominantly use Google products, its interesting to see how many ads were blocked in my ad blocking program. See the number of times ads were blocked over a period of 6 months. This site is supported by ads as well - so I woudn't really recommend it - I know there is a contradiction there :(

Just click on the above image, its self-explanatory.

Google Adsense Aribitrage

I've been always fascinated with Arbitrage - it exists in Stock Markets where you try to find price differences in stocks in different exchanges or between 2 merging companies.

There is one other kind of arbitrage which has become fairly popular - the Google Adsense Arbitrage - its where you bid $1 for a keyword, direct the traffic to a landing page with ads that pay $2 and get the profits.

Michael Gray in his 3 part article explains how Arbitrage works, the things you need to watch when you arbitrage.

Read here

Google Adsense Bonanza

You don't see any adsense referrals on this site - the reason ofcourse is that Adsense referrals hardly generate any revenue.

Google has changed that now,

For Adsense

• When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns their first $5 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5.
  
• When that same publisher earns $100 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payment, you will be credited with an additional $250.
  
• If, in any 180-day period, you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than $100 within 180 days of their respective sign-ups and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a $2,000 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).

AdWords Referrals:

• When an advertiser you refer spends $5 within 90 days of sign-up (in addition to the $5 sign-up fee) you will be credited with $5.
  
• When that same advertiser spends $100 within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with an additional $40.
  
• If, in any 180 day period, you refer 20 advertisers who each spend more than $100 within 90 days of their respective sign-ups, you will be awarded a $600 bonus (bonus payments are limited to 1 per year).

Via Adsense Blog

How to setup a blog & make money - Part 2

If you haven't read the first part of this series, you should now!

Show it to the world

Once you have setup the blog, comes the difficult time where you understand what your readers really like. However, to understand what they think, you need more visitors - So, we are in deadlock situation

Your new blog would be indexed by Google in about couple of days - which basically means appear on Google Search when someone searches for content that appears on your blog.

Labels, Tags - The new Blogger platform supports labels/tags which is basically used to make the searching job easier for the search engines

Technorati is another place where you should claim your blog - which means that you list your blog on that site and tell the Wolrd tht you own it. TECHFLOCK has a technorati page which shows the sites which link to this blog, ranking etc. Lower the ranking, the better. See the most popular blogs

Money Money Money

If you thought was that it was easy to put up a blog and make money - you are COMPLETELY wrong. Money flow can be slow and low - but usually depends on the number of visitors you get to your blog. Most of the bloggers prefer Google's Adsense program which is easiest to setup and get some ads on your site. Google Adsense is a targeted ad system - which means ads displayed are based on the content you write. There are other options such as Text Link Ads which is a flat link based ad system.

After you signup for Google Adsense, you will get Ad Code which you will have to put on your site - Again, the Blogger help would be a good reference on how to integrate those ads on your blog. You will be sent a check from Google once you earn 100$ or more.

My personal advice is to not think of the money to start off, just concentrate on the content and money will flow in - its the same as in all the other disciplines.

How to setup a blog & make money - Part 1

The other day, someone I know asked me How do I make money through blogs. This article will give a overview of how to setup a blog and sprinkle in those ads that will fetch you some moolah. While I don't claim the blog I am writing to be making loads of money, I can certainly tell you how to start off.

This is a beginner's topic, if you know it all, move away...

If you are still here, lets go....

• Write about something you know
  
  Whenever you plan to start a blog, its very desirable that you know what you are going to put in it. For example: Techcrunch mostly talks about Web 2.0 startups and the services they offer. If you know Opthalmology, offer your readers something that others don't or atleast a subset. Basically, what I am saying is be sure of what you are writing and you have enough content and updates to keep it going in the long run.
  
  
• Update as often as you can
  
  People like updates and learn new things. So, you keep your site updated as often with interesting tidbits of information. Provoke them - see the Basic Networking Commands article a little below in this page if you want an example . Non-Controversial is not good enough :-D.
  
  Hey guys, I do know about netcat, arp, arping ...etc etc. I also know about ettercap which can be used to sniff a on switch based network. Thanks for all those comments - I am sure a lot of people benefit from those very insightful comments :)
  
  Sorry for deviating. So, in summary, you write something interesting, thought and comment provoking :) and most importantly useful.
  
  
• Learn as you go
  
  Believe me, you will never make it popular when you begin. It will take time, as long as a couple of years! Be patient and at it always! You will also discover on what to write that brings in you those visitors gradually. For Example: I learnt that, people like to read content filled articles than tidbits and tips that I used to provide on this blog before. Understanding your reader is part of the process.
  
  
• Set up a blog
  
  For beginners, I would certainly recommend Google's Blogger - You will need a Google Account for that. Think of a name to suit what you write. Once you setup the blog, you will be transferred to the Blogger Dashboard from where you can Start Posting Articles. Google maintains an excellent Help section which you should look at as often as you can especially you are new to blogging.
  
  Once you get started with the above things, we will look at how to put in those money making ads in our next part of the series
  
  
  ..To be Continued ..
  

Money Money Money!

Arrington - $60K/month - maybe people pay to get into his site!

Pavlina - $30K/month - Read how humble his beginning was

Agarwal - $25K/month - WOW! This guy earns more than Bollywood stars - Rs 1.3 cr per year ?

Rowse - $16K/month - Not much known

And then there are other biggies

TLA - Text Link Ads - Blogger Support

Text Link Ads or popularly called TLA and one of the alternatives to Google Adsense has added support for the new blogger. So, publishers, go ahead and loot the advertisers :) - hey - you know I don't really mean it - :D

Free cellphones for all - it's coming soon

Via Google IF You accept targeted advertising!

news Via CNN

Google Adsense Biggest Earners

This includes just the individuals and not corporates


1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month

2: Kevin Rose: Digg.com - $250,000 per month

3: Jeremy Shoemaker - $140,000 per month

4: Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month

5: David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard - $100,000 per month

6: Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com - $30,000 per month

7: Joel Comm - $24,000 per month

Via John Chow

Google Custom Search engine

Google has launched a customizable search engine. Both corporates and individuals can sign up and tailor the search engine to index sites & prioritize results. Google Adsense has been integrated with the customizable search engine as well.

Jump to custom search engine!

Spike the vote - cheat digg

As sites get popular and potentially change the way people start looking at Internet - you get these "cheat" sites which claim to help you utilize the cheat. Be it Adsense ,Ebay or now Digg. Spike the Vote creates a community and diggs each other's stories so that they get it on the front page

Spike the Vote works on a point system. Each day I give you a mission with several stories to Digg. 20% of your mission involves digging stories submitted by users in this community, while 80% of of your mission is completely random. This is to eliminate footprints and keep things anonymous.

You earn 1 point for each story Dugg. Once you earn enough points, you can trade them in for Diggs on your own stories.

I wonder if all these really work and Digg would come up with a way to prevent/blacklist such methods.

Give me back my Google

Givemebackmygoogle strips all the sponsored links that you get from google searches.

Google Adsense for Blogger Beta

Having trouble adding Adsense to your beta blog ?

This is how you do it