To submit your blog to Google, simply go to the online submission form, shown below, and enter your blog’s main URL. It’s usually your blog’s home page, and you should include the http:// part of your blog’s URL (for example, http://www.myblogdomain.com). You can enter any additional information or keywords that you want to provide, but they don’t affect your submission or appear with it after your page is indexed. Then type, in the text box, the spam-blocker text that appears on your screen and click the Add URL button. It’s that easy!

A blog post can be just a few sentences or many paragraphs. Some blog posts include an image and no text, whereas others might contain a complete tutorial or an online lesson teaching readers how to accomplish a task. Think about your audience (or at least the audience you want to have read your blog content) as you write your blog posts and create content that would appeal to them. The variety of blog posts in the following list gives you a starting place to help write your own blog posts.

✓ Current events: Write about something you heard about in the news.

✓ How-to or tutorials: Share your expertise in your blog topic by writing a tutorial or instructions to help your readers accomplish a task or an activity.

✓ Interviews: Contact a prominent person who works in a field related to your blog topic and interview her for a blog post.

✓ Link love: Find interesting blog posts across the blogosphere that are related to your blog topic and publish a post that provides links to those posts to help your readers find new blogs and to help you connect with other bloggers.

✓ Lists: Write your top five tips or suggestions or your top ten must-have products to help your blog readers. Alternatively, write a list of don’ts or a similar list of warnings.

✓ Opinion: Write a post that simply provides your opinion on an issue or event.

✓ Photos: Post a photo related to your blog topic.

✓ Polls: Ask your readers for their opinions by publishing a blog post that includes a poll or survey.

✓ Reviews: Write a review of a product, an event, a book, or anything else related to your blog topic.

Before you can start a blog with Blogger, you need to create a Google account to access the Blogger software.
To create your Google account (and Blogger blog), follow these simple steps:

1. Visit the Blogger home page.
Enter the URL www.blogger.com in your browser.

2. On the Blogger home page, click the Create Your Blog Now button

3. In the Email Address text box, type your e-mail address and then retype it in the Retype Email Address text box. The e-mail address you use doesn’t have to be for a Google Gmail account. You can use any e-mail address to create a Google account to access Blogger. The e-mail address you enter is the one you use to log in to Blogger, and it’s the one to which Blogger sends your username and password if you forget them.

4. Enter a password in the Enter a Password text box, and then reenter it in the Retype Password text box.You can change your password later, if you want. Google shows you, just beneath the Enter a Password box, how strong your password is after you enter it. Make sure to use a strong password — one that includes letters and numbers or special characters. Also, get into the habit of changing your password periodically.

5. Enter your display name in the Display Name text box.Your display name is shown at the bottom of each of your blog posts, indicating that you’re the author of the post.

6. Type the letters displayed in the Word Verification box. This security procedure ensures that new Google accounts are created by human beings rather than by automated spam systems.

7. Select the check box in the Acceptance of Terms section to indicate that you accept Blogger’s terms of service. You can click the Terms of Service link on your screen to read the complete document.

8. Click the Continue button. The Name Your Blog page opens on the Blogger Web site

You should set several formatting configurations before you start writing and publishing blog posts, such as time, date, and language options. Select the Formatting tab from the Settings navigation bar to display the Formatting page, shown in the figure below.

Then follow these steps to configure how your blog posts are displayed to visitors:

1. Select the number of posts you want to display on your blog’s home page by choosing these options:
• From the Show drop-down menu, select Posts or Days to display a designated number of posts on your blog’s main page or a designated number of days’ worth of posts on your blog’s main page.
• In the Show box, enter the number of posts or days’ worth of posts you want to display on your blog’s main page based on the setting you selected from the Show drop-down menu.

The number of posts you show on your blog’s home page is entirely up to you, but remember that people don’t like to scroll too much. Displaying 5 to 10 posts (depending on post length) on your home page is a common target to keep your blog readable.

2. From the Date Header Format drop-down menu, select in which format you want the dates to appear on your blog. This date appears at the top of your blog, above your posts, to remind visitors what day it is.

3. From the Archive Index Date Format drop-down menu, select the format of the dates used in the Archive Links page element on your blog’s sidebar. Older posts are automatically archived so they’re easily accessible from the Archive Links page element in your blog’s sidebar. It’s up to you to decide how you want your archived posts to display in your sidebar. Choose the date format that you prefer by configuring the Archive Index
Date Format setting.

4. From the Timestamp Format drop-down menu, select the format you want to use for the publication date for your blog posts. A timestamp appears at the bottom of each blog post that tells readers
when each post was published. Changing the Timestamp Format alters how that date appears on each blog post.

5. Select your time zone from the Time Zone drop-down menu. Selecting the correct time zone ensures that your date header and timestamps synchronize correctly to your location.

6. Select your language from the Language drop-down menu.
Blogger is available in a variety of languages. Make sure that you select the correct language for your blog.

If you’re serious about search engine optimization and prepared to invest some money into keyword analysis, you can open an account with a keyword research Web site like Wordtracker. Simply go to the Wordtracker home page and click the Sign Up link (see below).

Wordtracker offers a wide variety of tools and reports to help you narrow the list of which keywords you should focus on in your blog posts to maximize potential traffic.

Other options similar to Wordtracker include the ones at www.Wordze.com and www.KeywordDiscovery.com. Like Wordtracker, each of these sites requires paying a fee, but free trials are available so you can test drive-them before you pay anything out of your pocket.

I have some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into Adsense. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past.

Here are 5 proven ways on how best to improve your earnings.

1.Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format has the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the clickthrough rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be to your advantage.

2.Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3.Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4.Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5.Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that person will be viewing already. Note also that there are many other Adsense Ads sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique.

Google, being the undisputable leader in search engines, is placing a high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search results.

Most especially now that the company is public property. In order to keep the shareholders and users of its engine happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance.

For this same reason, doing the wrong things in the Adsense and other forms of advertisements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will result in a severe penalty, may get you banned and even have your account terminated.

Here are some you must avoid:

Hidden texts. Filling your advertisement page with texts too small to read, has the same color as the background and using css for the sole purpose of loading them with rich keywords content and copy will earn you a penalty.

Page cloaking. There is a common practice of using browser or bot sniffers to serve the bots a different page other than the page your visitors will see. Loading a page with a bot that a human user will never see is a definite no-no. This is tricking them to click on something that you want but they may not want to go to.

Multiple submissions. Submitting multiple copies of your domain and pages is another thing to stay away from. For example, trying to submit a site under two separate URL’s is the same as inviting trouble and even termination. Likewise, this is a reason to avoid auto submitters for those who are receiving submissions. Better check first if your domain is submitted already. If you see it there, then move on. No point contemplating whether to try and submit there again.

Link farms. The search engines know that you cannot control your links in. But you can certainly control what you link to. Link farming has always been a rotten apple in the eyes of search engines, especially Google. That is reason enough to try and avoid them. Having a link higher than 100 on a single page will classify you as a link farm so limit your outgoing links.

Page rank for sale. If you have been online for quite some time, you will notice that there are some sites selling their PR links or trading them with other sites. If you are doing this, expect a ban anytime in the future. It is okay to sell ads or gain the link. But doing it on direct advertisement of your page rank is a way to get on all of the search engines’ bad sides.

Doorways. This is similar to cloaking pages. The common practice of a page loaded with choice keyword ads aimed at redirecting visitors to another “user-friendly” page is a big issue among search engines. There are many seo firms offering this kind of services. Now that you know what they actually are, avoid them at all costs.

Multiple domains having the same content. In case you are not aware of it, search engines look at domains IP’s, registry dates and other data. Having multiple domains with the same exact content is not something you can hide from them. The same goes with content multiplied many times on separate pages, sub domains and forwarding multiple domains to the same content.

Many of the above techniques apply to most search engines and is not entirely for Google only. Simply put, you should only build your site for the human users and not for bots.

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Adsense is really making a huge impact on the affiliate marketing industry. If you are losing rather than winning in the affiliate program you are currently into, maybe it is about time to consider going into Adsense marketing and start earning cash through them.

Google is readily providing well written and highly relevant ads that are closely chosen to match the content on your pages. You do not have to look for the ads yourself as the search engine will be doing the searching for you.

You will be able to concentrate on providing good and quality content, as the search engines will be the ones finding the best ads to display. You are still allowed to have Adsense ads even if you have affiliate links on your site. It is prohibited, however, to imitate the look and feel of the Google ads for your affiliate links.

1.Choose one topic per page. It is best to write content for your page with just a few targeted phrases. The search engine will then serve ads that are more relevant.

2.Using white space around your ad. This can make your ad stand out from the rest of your page so visitors can spot them easily. There are also other choices of colors you can use, provided by search engines, which can harmonize the color of your ad with the web page color.

3.Test your ad placement. It is recommended to use the vertical format that runs down the side of the web page to get more positive results. You can also try both horizontal and vertical formats for a certain period of time to see which one will give you better results.

4.More content-based pages. Widen the theme of your website by creating pages that focus more on your keyword phrases. This will optimize the pages for the search engines. It can not only attract traffic but also make them more relevant for the AdWords to be displayed.

Most webmasters know that Adsense generates a sizeable source of additional advertising income. That is why most of them use it to go after high paying keywords.

Many are now realizing that good money is made from this source of revenue. Try the simple mathematical computation of multiplying those clicks for every page on your website and you get a summation of earnings equivalent to a monthly residual income with that effort you have made.

Google Adsense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant and text-based Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money in the process. The ads displayed are related to what your users are looking for on your site. This is the main reason why you both can monetize and enhance your content pages using Adsense.

How much you will be earning will depend on how much the advertisers are willing to pay. It will depend also on the keywords required. If the keywords the advertiser have chosen are in high demand, you could receive more dollars per click. On the other hand, low demand keywords will earn you just a few cents per click.

How can you start making profits out of your website using Adsense?

1.Sign up for an Adsense account. It will only take a few minutes of your time.

2.When the site is accepted, you will be receiving a clip code to include in your web pages. You can insert this code on as many pages or web sites that you want. The advertisements will start appearing immediately.

3.You will be earning a few cents or some dollars per click when someone starts clicking on the advertisements displayed on any of your web pages. Trying to earn false revenues by repetitively clicking on your own ads is a no-no. This will result in a penalty or the possibility of your site being eliminated. The money you have already earned may be lost because of this.

4.View your statistics. Adsense earnings can be checked anytime by logging into your web site account.