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It depends on the kind of site you got. Some sites have trouble getting a 1% CTR. Others have no trouble getting over 10% CTR. Check the links at the end of the FAQ for tips on optimizing your site.

Labels: adsense, optimization

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Google has not yet crawled all the pages of your website.
Your page may contain sensitive content for which relevant paying ads will not be displayed.
Your website is using session IDs in the URL.
The AdSense code was placed within an IFRAME.
Your web pages are behind a login.
There are too many URLs added to your account filter list.
Your web page may not contain enough content.
Your site content is primarily in an unsupported language.

Your site has restricted access using a robots.txt exclusion. If you would like to grant Google's crawler access your pages, you can do so without granting permission to any other bots. Simply add the following two lines to the top of your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

Your website is using frames. In order for Google to serve better targeted ads to the content on your website, select the Framed page checkbox from the Ad layout code page when generating your ad code.

Labels: adsense, optimization

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What is this? See four icons just above this line? This is it!

A lot of people asked me if I am familiar with any Blogger plug-in similar to Sociable for wordpress. Unfortunately my answer was always no. There are however tools to implement social bookmarks in Blogger but either they redirect you to another site or are just those one-button-wonders which never works as imagined.

Long story short; here is my javascript version with currently only four social networks but more will be added depending on interest shown by You dear visitor :).

How to use it? Copy link of your post in url field and press socialize!

preview:

copy/pasta below in front or at the end of your post:

 pretext (optional)

 url (it's a must)

 title (if none script will assign an appropriate one)

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Technorati
StumbleUpon
DelIcioUs

Labels: blog, bookmarks, javascript, traffic

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Seeing as I never blogged about this, I thought that this would be a great time to talk about the new way of using AdSense for Search - from within your own webpage! Originally, when someone does a Google Search, they are taken to google.com and you can customize the colour and logo but it didn't feel like your own site. However, if you click "Open results within my own site" within More Options, you can choose a page for your search results to land on. You just need to make a landing page for the search results with your header footer and various sidebars and place code in that page where you want the search results - simple. This time you will get 2 sets of code however: one for the search box and one for the results page. And best of all, it works with all the features such as competitive filtering and such like so if you have a site (not like a blogger blog) you should convert now. Enjoy (note: I am going to be blogging more often now).

Labels: adsense, search

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When you make a Blogger template, you can place ads in the sidebar and on top. However, the positions of the ads are static. The main point is that you cannot place an advert inside a post. Correct?
Incorrect! Using a bit of Javascript techno-wizardry you can place AdSense ads in the middle of your Blogger posts easily. I don't promise, but it should increase your CTR. Let me show you how:

• Log in to Blogger and go to Template
• Find the <$BlogItemBody$> tag in your template
• Replace it with:

Copy this code

• Replace <!--PLACE YOUR AD CODE HERE--> with your real Adsense code you want to put in
• Now in every post place <!--adsense--> somewhere in the HTML (click Edit HTML) of the post where you want the ad to appear!

That's it! If you implement this you should hopefully get a greater CTR and therefore more cash and the method is within the ToS. This only displays the ads on item pages. If you want to display them on all pages then get rid of the ItemPage tags but watch out that you only have 3 ads per page. If you forget to put the tag in, your ad will appear just before the article. Enjoy, just please don't forget to link back here.

Labels: adsense, blog, javascript, optimization

Google has announced a new API for AdSense (beta of course like everything else Google). I got really excited as I am a developer and thought it would be cool. It's sort of cool but wasn't quite what I was expecting.
For a start you need a minimum of 100,000 daily page views which rules out most people.
The purpose of this API is to set up and configure AdSense ads for your visitors without them leaving your site and going to the AdSense website. From your site you can sign up new users and choose ads for them. While they are using your site to place their ads, you will receive a (currently undisclosed) revenue share of what they make. Sweet!
Using the AdSense API, you can enable users to perform a variety of AdSense functions without leaving your website, including the following:
- Create an AdSense account
- Manage an AdSense account
- Create and modify AdSense for content ad units and link units, AdSense for search boxes, and Referrals
- View detailed reports to monitor performance and earnings

The AdSense API is mainly geared at web hosting, wiki, blogging and web publishing sites as they can be portals for the people using those sites to put AdSense in their content and make money. It can be accessed by SOAP so can be accessed by most modern programming languages like Java and C#. I haven't checked the terms and conditions but you should be able to make this into a desktop application.
Hopefully it will become more open and I will be able to give it a go.

The Google spider indexes your pages to find keywords. You can check your webpage's keyword density using the keyword tool below. As you know, having keywords in your text is the most important thing to get well targeted ads. I already posted on ways to implement keywords and content.
Just visit web address below and your content will be analysed and your keywords ranked.
Form is located at http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html

Labels: keywords, optimization