How to Add Google AdSense Ad Banner Above the Header in Thesis

1. Visit the Adsense website at Google.com/adsense. Sign in with your Google account.

2. Click the 'My ads' tab. Then click the 'Get code' link for the Adsense banner you want to add to your blog.

3. Highlight the entire block of code using your mouse, and then right-click it and select 'Copy.'

4. Open your WordPress dashboard page and sign in with your account credentials.

5. Click the 'Editor' link under the Appearance heading on the left side of the screen.

6. Click 'Header' on the right side of the screen to open the header file.

7. Scroll down until you see this tag:

Click to insert your cursor right after this tag, and then right-click and select 'Paste' to paste your Adsense banner code into the header file.

8. Click the 'Update File' button to save your changes.

How to Compare Google Advertising Rates

Google Keyword Tool

1. Go to the Google Keyword Tool page. The link is available in Resources. You do not need to sign into a Google AdWords account, but you may do so, if you have one. It will not make a difference.

2. Enter a keyword into the box on the left in the 'Find Keywords' section. The keyword you enter should be relevant to a specific product or service you want to promote. In other words, use one of the keywords your target customers would type into Google when they are looking for a product or service like yours.

3. Select the box next to 'Only show ideas closely related to my search terms.' Click the 'Search' button and allow Google to deliver the search results. This displays a spreadsheet of keywords related to the one you entered, along with Google search data about those keywords.

4. Click the 'Columns' drop-down menu above the search results, and make sure 'Estimated Avg. CPC' is selected. This displays the estimated average cost-per-click for each keyword listed, letting you compare the Google advertising rates for the displayed keywords.

5. Click the top of any column to sort the related keywords by competition, global monthly searches and local monthly searches, to get further insight.

6. Repeat Steps 1 through 5 with different keywords -- and keep doing so -- until you have a general idea about the size of your market, competition and going rates for your related keywords.

Google Traffic Estimator

7. Go to the Google Traffic Estimator page. Again, you do not need to sign into a Google AdWords account, but you may do so if you have one.

8. Enter a keyword into the box on the left in the 'Get Traffic Estimates' section. Again, the keyword you enter should be generically relevant to a specific product or service you want to promote.

9. Hit 'Enter' to drop the cursor to a new line. Type another keyword related to your business. Repeat with as many keywords as you wish, then click the 'Estimate' button. This displays a comparison chart for all of the keywords you entered.

10. Click the 'Columns' drop-down menu and select every available option. Click the 'Estimated Avg. CPC' column header, to organize the keywords by cost-per-click. Click 'Estimated Daily Cost' to organize the keywords by total daily cost.

11. Organize and compare your related keywords by global or local monthly search frequency, estimated ad position on Google search pages, estimated daily click-through for ads containing those keywords, the amount of competition you face when bidding on ad placements, and local search trends.

12. Repeat Steps 1 through 5 as often as you think of new keywords. Over time, you will develop a sense of which keywords most closely relate to your business, pull in the most traffic and command the most sensible Google advertising investment.

How to Get Reinstated on eBay

1. Determine why your account has been suspended. eBay sends you an email explaining why it has taken this action. You may also find this information if you didn't get the email by logging into the messages section of 'My eBay.'

2. Pay off any outstanding balance that you owe eBay. Most suspensions are for non-payment. Clearing your balance should automatically reinstate your account.

3. Look for any other reason why your account is blocked. Other reasons can include a bad email address, unauthorized transactions or activity limits set on your account.

4. Contact eBay to resolve any of these issues. You can respond directly to the suspension notice via email, or you can contact eBay through the website.

5. Appeal any unpaid item strikes that appear on your account. Contact a seller directly if he placed a flag on your account. Otherwise, file the Unpaid Item Appeal Form with eBay and provide proof of payment (see Resources).

How to Unblock Stuff From Adblock

1. Open your browser and go to the website that is being erroneously blocked by Adblock. Click the arrow located next to the Adblock button on the browser's toolbar to open Adblock's drop-down menu. From the Adblock button's menu, click the 'Disable on ...' option to prevent Adblock from blocking content on any pages on the websites URL.

2. Remove any filters that regularly cause desired content to be blocked by clicking on the Adblock button in the browsers toolbar section. From the Adblock menu that appears in the lower portion of your browser, right-click on the URL of the page containing blocked content. Select the 'Disable Filter' option to disable active filters. Click the 'Refresh' button on your browser.

3. Click the drop-down menu arrow next to the Adblock button in your browser. Select 'Options' and then click the 'Add a different subscription' link. Select a filter subscription that only blocks items you wish to block.

How to Use WordPress Plugins to Enhance Admin Abilities

1. With any WordPress plugin, you first download the plugin from WordPress or from the plugin developer. You then upload the new plugin folder by FTP to the plugins directory of your blog (see links in Resources below).

2. To active the newly uploaded plugin, go to the WordPress admin panel for your blog and choose Plugins from the Dashboard menus. Find the new plugin in the list of available plugins for your blog and click the activate link.OK. On to the plugins you may want to use to improve your Admin panel.

3. Digital Fingerprint is a plugin that will help you detect the splogers who are scraping your content and passing it off as their own. This plugin places a digital fingerprint into blog posts. The fingerprint is only visible in the RSS feed, not on the website itself. You can search for the digital fingerprint using Google Blogsearch or any other blog search tool.

4. If you have a number of registered users who contribute to your blog, you will want Email Users. Email users allows you to send an email to the registered blog users. Users can send personal emails to each other. This is a free plugin, like most WordPress plugins, but donations are encouraged.

5. Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator generates a XML-compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. Each time your sitemap changes, the plugin automatically pings Ask.com, Google, MSN Live Search and YAHOO!

6. OneClick works with WordPress and Firefox. It provides a way to upgrade plugins and themes with, well, one click. You don't even have to unzip the plugins. It handles both the unzipping and the FTP upload.

7. Share This lets you add a Share This button to all posts automatically. This button offers a way for readers to save and share links to each article you write. The many ways to share include: email, e-mail, bookmark, social, network, digg, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, technorati, reddit, tailrank, furl, blinklist, blogmarks, newsvine, facebook, myspace, social, socialize, stumbleupon, aim, google bookmarks, windows live, and YAHOO! MyWeb.

How to be a Blogger

1. Plan FirstYou will need to plan the basics of this blog. You can just start it with one post and build from there. However, going in with a plan can help. For instance, to prepare yourself for blogging on a consistent basis you can study other successful blogs. Then you need to start asking some questions. Can you make money blogging? Can you spend many hours every week writing, promoting, and publishing?

2. Pick Your TopicYou will need to make this blog interesting. But, in actuality, to be a blogger all you really need is the determination to write what you want. That is the beauty of the blogging world: Your opinion counts. Find some of the more popular blogs with themes you like and then consider if you can do similar things in your own way.

3. Choose a Blog Hosting ServiceThere many sites that will make it easy to create and maintain your blog. The best, in my experience, is Blogspot. This service is free, provides templates, and allows you the freedom to not only write but make money doing it. You can even easily add Google Adsense to a Blogspot blog.

4. Publishing FrequentlySome writers begin blogs and post on them once or twice a month. That’s fine; you can be a blogger this way. But if you want to be a serious blogger, and if you want to make money, you will need to post often.

5. Watch Your Readers Come InIn the end, you will be the reason the blog succeeds or fails. Sometimes a failed blog is just a learning experience. Yet you can succeed in the blogging world by defining success in your own way. Maybe you are just doing it to find some readers for the book you wrote, or maybe you just really care about the issue you blog about. You will publish— and you will be read by someone.

How to Create an SEO Glossary

1. Draw up a list of SEO terms. Gather them by browsing SEO- and Web-marketing websites such as SEOBook, Virtual Grace and Kuno Creative, or online-marketing magazines such as 'Visibility' and noting distinctive terms and phrases such as 'click through' or 'broken link.'

2. Note familiar terms and phrases that have a completely different meaning in SEO marketing. 'Bad neighborhood,' for example, refers to a website that Google or another search engine has penalized for the tactics it uses to attract Web browsers. These terms confuse people who don't know the specialized SEO meaning, so it's worthwhile explaining them.

3. Write out the definitions of the phrases, using your own words rather than copying definitions from other sites. Limited amounts of borrowing don't violate copyright, but cutting and pasting on a large scale might.

4. Add some terms of your own if you think of any that are appropriate. The SEO-Theory website, for example, coins 'frogblog' for bloggers who manage several blogs and hop between them making lots of short posts.

5. Compile your definitions and words into a glossary and post it on your Website. If you define one term by referring to another, include a link in the definition that will take readers to the second term.