Wednesday, May 21, 2014
How to Add Bidvertiser Ads to Your WordPress Blog
1. Sign up for a publisher account at Bidvertiser. Submit basic contact information and confirm your email address to get started.
2. Log into your account and add your websites. Once they have been approved, click the radio button next to the site you want to work with and then click the 'Choose Template' button.
3. Decide which size ads you want to use. This will depend largely on what part of your blog you will place them on. Vertical banners are usually best for sidebars, and full or half banners work well for ads within posts or in the header or footer. When you have decided, click the corresponding radio button.
4. Customize the colors for your ads. You can use one of their color palettes or create your own. When you're done, click the 'Get Ad Code' button and copy your code.
5. Log into your blog's admin panel, and click 'Presentation' and then 'Theme Editor' to add ads to the header, footer or single post. Click the link for the section you will be adding them to, find the area where you want your ads, and paste the code in.
6. Click 'Sidebar Widgets' instead of 'Theme Editor' if you're inserting the ads into your sidebar. Add a text widget if you don't have any available by selecting a larger number from the text widgets menu and clicking 'Save.' Then drag the text widget from the Available Widgets area to the place where you want it on the sidebar. Click the configuration icon, paste the code in, close the dialog box and click 'Save Changes.'
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Adding a Site Meter to My Blogspot
Register a Site Meter Account
1. Visit the Site Meter website.
2. Click the 'Sign Up' link. The Sign Up link is on the left navigational bar.
3. Scroll down and click the green 'Sign Up!' button.
4. Enter the requested information. Enter your blog's URL and name. Select a codename of your choice and click the box indicating you agree to the terms and conditions. Click 'Next.'
5. Complete the form. Enter your email address, title, ZIP code, country and gender. Click 'Next.'
6. Review the displayed information to confirm it is correct. Click 'Next.' After you click next, a sign-up confirmation screen displays.
7. Log in to your Site Meter account. Visit the Site Meter website and enter your codename and password into the indicated fields, located near the top of the page. Click 'Login.'
8. Click the 'Manager' link and select 'HTML Code.'
9. Copy the text from the box below the 'Site Meter JavaScript HTML' header. This is the code you paste into your Blogspot account.
Adding the Code
10. Visit the Blogger website and sign in to your account. Enter your email and password, then click 'Sign in.'
11. Click the 'Design' link next to the blog you wish to add the Site Meter code to.
12. Click the 'Add a Gadget' link in the location you wish to paste the code. Press the '+' icon next to the 'HTML/JavaScript' option. A pop-up window appears with 'Title' and 'Content' fields. Paste the Site Meter code into the 'Content' box. Type a title of your choice into the 'Title' box.
13. Click 'Save.' This closes the pop-up window.
14. Click the 'Save' button to the right of the 'Add and Arrange Page Elements' text to save the changes. The Site Meter will display on your Blogspot website.
How to Improve Your Google Adsense Earnings 4 Ways
1. Increase your website's traffic. Regardless of what you do to optimize your website for AdSense, only a small percentage of visitors will click advertisements. Increasing traffic will generate more ad clicks. You can add new, relevant and valuable content regularly. You can also promote your website through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
2. Change the location of the AdSense units on your website's pages. Google recommends placing an AdSense unit immediately above the primary content of a page, above each post, below it or on the left side. Because websites place advertisements on the right side of the page, users often ignore this area. Place your AdSense units near the content.
3. Alter the size of the AdSense units that you use. Google recommends the Leaderboard (728 x 90), Wide Skyscraper (160 x 600) and Large Rectangle (336 x 280) units. Each of these units can display several advertisements simultaneously, increasing the likelihood that visitors will find interesting ads. Experiment with each size and record the results until you find the size that brings the highest revenue for your site.
4. Blend the colors of the AdSense unit with the content of your website. Match the text and link colors with the colors that you use in your website's design. Visitors will ignore an AdSense unit that uses different colors because it stands out as an advertisement.
How to Make a Google
1. Plan your website. Before making your Google-friendly website, you need to plan it out. Just like a business needs a business plan, a website needs a website plan. What will you make your website about? What website host will you use and how much time and money will you invest in your website? You need to make sure that you write your website plan and details down. Research as much as possible before starting your Google-friendly website.
2. Find a website niche. This is a very important part of making a Google-friendly website. Finding a website niche means that you need a website topic that will help drive traffic to your website. Find a topic that isn't too competitive and that people online are searching for. Your website will need to have a lot of new original content, though, to fit into a niche.
3. Find your website host. After your website niche is decided and you have plenty of website development knowledge, you can find your website host. Many online web hosting companies offer free websites and hosting. Research website host details and ask questions. How much space will you have on your website? Do they provide website templates? What are the hosting fees and guidelines?
4. Buy your custom domain name. A custom domain name is the name of your website that doesn't include your hosting name in it. Custom domain names are recommended for a Google-friendly website. Google indexes and ranks custom domain names faster and better than regular free domain names.
5. Write a lot of website content. Websites that have a lot of useful content are usually Google-friendly websites because Google search engine searches informational websites. Include as much information as possible in your website and build many pages to it. The more web pages that are built, the more pages there will be in Google search results, which means more website visitors will be directed to your site.
6. Learn search engine optimization, or SEO, and apply it to your website. SEO is very important if you want Google to index -- list and rank your website -- in the search engine results. Pick good keywords, meta tags and page descriptions if your website host allows you to.
7. Make sure your website has good navigation. Your visitors should be able to get around your website without having to search around to find the available web pages. A website navigation bar is recommended for a Google-friendly website. Google likes websites that provide easy navigation to their website visitors.
WordPress Feed Vs. FeedBurner
Feed Creation
Generally, WordPress is superior to FeedBurner for feed creation because WordPress creates all of the feeds that you could possibly need for your website automatically. By simply creating a link, you can give your readers a way to subscribe to feeds for all of your content, or selected tags, categories and authors. However, FeedBurner is not particularly complicated to use: you create a FeedBurner feed by navigating to FeedBurner.com and entering the address of your website's RSS feed in the field on the bottom of the page.
Advertising
If you have a Google AdSense account, you can add advertisements to a FeedBurner feed much more easily than you could with a WordPress RSS feed, simply by clicking 'My Ads' and 'Feeds' on your AdSense account page. AdSense automatically detects the FeedBurner feeds that you have not added advertisements to yet, and offers to add them. Adding AdSense to your feed gives you an opportunity to earn revenue from the feed even when readers do not click through to your website.
Familiarity
All FeedBurner feeds use the same interface, and Google has its own feed reader that subscribers can use to read updates. Although Google's feed reader is also compatible with the feeds that WordPress generates automatically, a reader who has only ever used FeedBurner and Google's feed reader may not know that. Readers who are already familiar with Google's products might be more likely to subscribe to a FeedBurner feed than to a WordPress feed.
Statistics
WordPress does not give you the ability to track the usage of your feeds, so you have no way of knowing how many people are reading your feeds or whether readers act on them. FeedBurner has an extensive array of analytics available that allow you to see at any time how many subscribers you have, how often subscribers click through to your website and where your subscribers come from. These statistics allow you to see how successful your feed is in attracting and keeping readers.
Monday, May 19, 2014
How to Add My Own Template to Freewebs
1. Navigate to Webs.com and log in to your account using your username and password.
2. Click on the tab titled 'My Account' at the top of the Webs landing page.
3. Click on 'Advanced Settings' and choose 'Downgrade my Account to HTML only Mode.' This is necessary in order to make your template, which is coded in HTML, compatible with the site. You can upgrade your account to its previous settings at any time via the same route.
4. Click 'Save' on the 'Advanced Settings' page. Return to the Webs home page.
5. Click 'Pick a Free Template from Freewebs.' In the top, right-hand corner there is a search box with the words 'Search All Templates' embedded. Underneath the box, click on the button that says 'Click here if you want to upload or build your own.'
6. On the newly opened page, select 'Build and Edit' from the top left. A window titled 'Site Manager' will open. From here click on 'Upload Tools.'
7. Click 'Upload Website Template' and use the 'Browse' option to find the template on your computer. Click 'Upload' to add the template.
How to Restore a Deleted Ad Account
1. Never appeal immediately. Spend some time considering the best approach.
2. Read through the cancellation e-mail from the advertising network carefully and be clear about the reason for cancellation.
3. Study the advertising network's program policies and terms and conditions thoroughly and identify where your website or blog may have breached them.
4. Correct all problems with your website before appealing. If in doubt, err on the side of caution.
5. Write your appeal. This must clearly demonstrate your understanding of how and where you breached policies and detail the action taken to correct the problems.
6. Provide supporting information such as server logs if you are appealing against cancellation due to invalid clicks. The advertising network will need to be sure that you have identified the source of the clicks and have taken action to prevent them from happening again.
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