Monday, April 14, 2014
How to Put Your AdSense Code in Facebook
AdSense Code Set Up
1. Go to adsense.google.com and log in to your Google AdSense account.
2. Generate your AdSense code in your account by clicking the 'New Ad Unit' button from the 'My Ads' tab.
3. Customize the appearance and settings for your ad display. Click the 'Save and Get Code' button when finished.
4. Select the code snippet and copy it into the computer's memory buffer.
5. Open an HTML document in a text editor and paste the Javascript code at a location you want to show the advertisements.
6. Upload the file to your Web hosting server. Copy or record the full Web address to the uploaded HTML file. You will use this hyperlink later in the Facebook app as the 'Canvas URL.'
Facebook App Setup
7. Go to developers.facebook.com, log in to your account and then click the 'Set Up New App' option in the top right corner.
8. Type a Facebook application name and accept Facebook's terms and conditions.
9. Confirm your Facebook Developer account via credit card or mobile phone.
10. Fill out the required information necessary to create the app and click the 'Save Changes' button when finished.
11. Click on the 'Facebook Integration' tab and add the required details for 'Canvas Page,' 'Canvas URL' and 'Canvas Type.' When finished, click 'Save Changes' button. The 'Canvas URL' is the Web address that points directly to the file you uploaded to your hosting server.
12. Click on the 'View App Profile Page' option located on the left side of the screen. On the next screen, click the 'Add to my page' link on the left column. A pop-up dialog box will appear.
13. Choose which page or pages you would like to add the Facebook app to and then click the 'Close' button. Your AdSense ads should now display as a tab on the Facebook page you selected.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
How to Earn Money with Pay To Click
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SAFETY FIRST! If you don't already have your computer protected, go to http://pack.google.com and get yourself a copy of Spyware Doctor. It is a free product. Download it and set it up to run once a day to make sure you don't pick up any nasties.
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Go to your search engine -- like google or yahoo -- and type in 'pay to click sites' or 'PTC sites'. You will find reviews of many sites and you can decide which ones to join.
3.
GET PAID! Most of the sites will pay you to either your Paypal account or your AlertPay account. These accounts are free and you can transfer your earnings from them right to your bank account.
4. Bookmark your PTC sites and visit them once or twice a day. Click the ads and remember to request payout once you have reached the required number of clicks.
5. You can earn more by referring your friends. When they register using your special link, and they click an ad, you will receive a tiny bonus for each one of their clicks. Kind of like free money! :)
How to Add a Top Menu Bar to Your Old Style Blog in Blogger
1. Sign into Blogger using your Google account credentials. Click the 'Design' button under the name of the blog you want to edit.
2. Click the 'Add Gadget' button, then select 'Text/HTML.' Paste the following code into the blank field:
Navigation Option 1
Navigation Option 2
Navigation Option 3
Navigation Option 4
Replace the sample links and titles with the actual URLs and titles of the pages. Add additional elements to add additional links to the navigation menu. Click the 'Save' button.
3. Select 'Edit HTML.' Scroll down to the
element and click your mouse on the line before this code. Paste the following code in:.basictab{
padding: 3px 0;
margin-left: 0;
font: bold 12px Verdana;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: left;
}.basictab li{
display: inline;
margin: 0;
}.basictab li a{
text-decoration: none;
padding: 3px 7px;
margin-right: 3px;
border: 1px solid gray;
border-bottom: none;
background-color: #f6ffd5;
color: #2d2b2b;
}.basictab li a:visited{
color: #2d2b2b;
}.basictab li a:hover{
background-color: #DBFF6C;
color: black;
}.basictab li a:active{
color: black;
}.basictab li.selected a{ /*selected tab effect*/
position: relative;
top: 1px;
padding-top: 4px;
background-color: #DBFF6C;
color: black;
}Edit the codes for colors, the names and sizes of fonts and any other elements of the menu's style you want to change. Click the 'Preview' button to preview how the menu looks on your blog and make changes as necessary. Click 'Save Changes' when you are ready to make the changes final.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Does the Content Network Affect CTR?
Definitions
Click-through rates refer to the percentage of visitors to a page who click on your ad. For example, if 2 out of 100 people who visit a Web page click on your ad, your CTR is 2 percent. Because the rate changes so much from ad to ad, you need to test all your ads individually to see which ones get the better click-through rates. However, Google does recommend 1 percent as a reasonable starting goal.Content networks are groups of website owners who publish ads that are provided by the network owner. The website owners place a special code in their Web pages to serve these ads. Examples include Google AdSense, AOL Advertising and Chitika.
Importance
Getting a high click-through rate can be important in some situations. For example, Google uses CTR as one factor in your Quality Score, which can increase your number of ads while lowering the cost per click. CTR is particularly important if you are paying by the impression instead of by the click. This is because you are paying for your ads no matter how seldom someone clicks on them.
Ad Placement
Compared to search-engine advertising, several factors could reduce the CTR on content networks. The first factor is ad placement. Search-engine ads that appear in search results generally appear near the top or on the side of the results. Conversely, website owners in content networks can place their ads almost anywhere on the page. Some publishers even place their ads at the bottom. Because many surfers never even see these ads, such placement negatively affects CTR. In addition, different networks can produce different CTR rates because they have a different group of publishers.
Keyword Targeting
When advertising in search engines, you select which keywords to bid on and can track which keywords are getting the best CTR. With content networks, you are typically at the mercy of the ad-serving technology. This means that sites producing a low CTR will continue to show your ads despite the poor performance. However, services such as Google allow you to select your desired ad placement and other options when using the content network. By testing these options, you can attempt to reduce the negative effects on click-through rates.
Warnings
The conversion rate is also important to your bottom line. For example, if you pay $1 per click, you would have to sell one $100 item every 100 visitors to break even. That is just your gross sales, so you have to consider other expenses. According to a Google study, the average conversion rate on its content network was lower than search-engine conversions by about 28 percent. However, in the case of Google, that number was offset by a similar decrease in costs per click for network ads.
How to Calculate Revenue Maximization
Three Steps to Revenue Maximization
1. Determine who your customers are. A convenience store’s customers might consist of people driving by the store. Our convenience store owner should determine the distinct characteristics of these customers. Are they travelers or commuters? What is their most frequented destination? Travelers driving to Wichita, Kan., might have different needs than morning commuters going downtown. Most customers would not drive too far out of their way to find a convenience store, location is extremely important for maximizing revenue.A clothing store’s customers might also consist of foot traffic, but potential customers could be anyone attracted to the store’s styles. A clothing store owner would want to determine gender, age, size, and cultural preferences of customers. The owner could then purchase a mailing list from a marketing firm to send out catalogs.
2. Determine the most effective advertising media. Communicating with your customers requires learning when and where they might want to purchase your product. Our convenience store owner may determine that his customers purchase his product while driving in their cars. He might benefit most from purchasing billboard advertisements.Our clothing store owner might determine that her customers are career-minded women in their mid-20s. She learns that over 50 percent of this demographic group has a Facebook page. Therefore, she might create a Facebook page for the store, or, purchase advertising space from Facebook.Most businesses, regardless of what type of advertising is chosen, should set up a website where customers may find out more information about your product. Other types of media are radio, newspaper, television, email, and telemarketing.
3. Determine the right price for your product. Determine how much control you have over the price of your product. This requires defining your competitive market. There are four types of competitive markets: monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and perfect competition. Monopolies exist when there is one supplier. In many communities, the local power company may be the only option for electricity, meaning that the power company has a monopoly over that market. An oligopoly is when there are few suppliers in the market. One example of an oligopoly is the cola industry. While there are several smaller suppliers, the market is dominated by Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Monopolistic competition is an industry where there are many suppliers with slightly differentiated products. The t-shirt industry is an example of monopolistic competition. There are many t-shirt companies that sell t-shirts with slightly different features. Perfect competition is an industry where there are many suppliers selling identical products. An example of perfect competition is the stock market. A share of Microsoft stock is the same product no matter who the stockbroker is. The lone company in a monopoly has the most control over its price, while the company participating in a perfectly competitive market has virtually no control over price. Most companies fit in a monopolistic competitive market.Our convenience store owner participates in a market close to perfect competition. While he might be able to distinguish his store slightly from his competitor across the street by offering cleaner bathrooms and homemade cinnamon rolls, he cannot price his fuel higher, as customers do not differentiate this product.However, our clothing store owner, who participates in monopolistic competitive market, must do more research to determine the best price for her products. She can research competitors with similar customers and products to determine best price, or she can test the market by offering different prices for the same item to determine which price maximizes sales dollars.
How to Change the Spacing After Removing the Sidebar in WordPress
1. Log in to WordPress and select 'Editor' from the 'Appearance' theme. Click the 'Stylesheet.css' file.
2. Scroll down to 'Content.' Peruse the sub-division for the name of the 'div' that bordered the side bar when you had it on the page. If the sidebar sat on the right, this is likely to be 'contentleft;' while if you deleted a sidebar that was on the left side of the page, the div in question was 'contentright.'
3. Open the 'page.php' file. Scroll down to the element that specifies parameters for the div you need to change, be it or and add the follow element within the brackets:style='width: 920px;'So that it looks like this:Click 'Save.'
4. Click 'Save.' Open the blog in a new window or tab to see that the main section of the page now occupies its entire width.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Google Ads Information
Google AdWords
Adwords is Google's advertising program for advertisers to place their ads on the Internet. Advertisers can choose to have their ads placed only on the Google search website, or on the network of AdSense websites. Advertisers pay a fee to Google each time someone clicks on their ads. This is called 'pay-per-click' advertising. Advertisers select keywords for their ads, and bid on how much they are willing to pay. When someone searches on Google, ads relating to the keywords the visitor typed are shown above the search results and on the sidebar of the Web page. Advertisers with the highest bids are given priority.
AdWords Policies
Google requires that its AdWords advertisers comply with guidelines in the phrasing of ads. Google requires that ads are clear and accurately describe what they are advertising. Ads that do not adhere to the guidelines will be rejected. For example, words must be spelled correctly. The ads must also use acceptable grammar and spacing. Misleading ads are also unacceptable to Google. For example, if a product is being advertised in an ad, the product must be available on the website it links to.
Google AdSense
AdSense is Google's program for publishers who want to place ads on their Websites. Publishers can decide what types of ads are placed on their websites. Choices include text ads or images, banners, boxes, and search fields. Publishers decide where the ads are going to appear on their web pages. They can also filter out ads from specific advertisers, including competitors. Ads placed on the web pages are matched with the content of the page. When a visitor to the website clicks on one of the ads, Google shares a portion of the revenue they receive with the website publisher.
AdSense Policies
Google has strict policies for publishers using AdSense. If a publisher violates the policies they can be banned from AdSense. Publishers cannot click on ads on their own web pages. They cannot encourage visitors to click on ads. Google also has policies on what types of websites can contain AdSense ads. For example, ads cannot be placed on pages that contain, or that link to sites that contain, pornography, violent content, pages promoting racial intolerance or illegal activity and sites that sell drugs, alcohol or tobacco.
Adwords Costs and AdSense Revenue
The cost of running AdWords ads varies widely, from a few cents per click to over ten dollars, depending on the keywords you are targeting. Generally, the more often a word or phrase is searched for on Google, the more expensive the ad will be. Google will provide estimates based on the keywords you are targeting. In AdSense, the amount you earn for each click is a percentage of what the advertiser pays. At the time of publication, this is 68 percent for content ads, and 51 percent for search ads. Google provides publishers with a daily report showing page views, clicks and revenue.
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