Thursday, January 18, 2007

List of Social Bookmarking Sites

Nowadays alot of people is using social bookmarking sites to bring traffic to their website. Some says that when you create a new website, bookmark that website in a social bookmarking website so your website will be indexed in all search engines very fastly.


Once the social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, Furl etc became popular, alot of webmasters now developing social bookmarking websites. I have listed below few which I came over through the internet.

Backflip
Blinklist
Blogmemes
del.icio.us
Furl
Jots
Linkroll
Looklater
ma.gnolia
Maple
Markaboo
Rawsugar
Shadows
Simpy
Spurl
Wink
Netvouz

If you have created account in all these social bookmarking websites You can visit this website named http://onlywire.com/ where you can book mark a site to all above social bookmarking websites.

Google Updated Program Policy page

Before new year Google came out with an article in our blog name Google adsense ad and image placement. Now they have updated their Policy page with new look and also included the placement of images. Visit here to read their new look program policies. Also they have mentioned clearly in their Adsense blog.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Tips to get Best Results from Adsense.

I want to share with you some extra tips for getting the best results from your Adsense endeavors.

1. First tips is when you are running an AdSense channels, make sure that you are testing you ads placing in different position and find out which one is getting high CTR. To acheive a proper result try out the testing of the ads in the pages where have same set of traffic.

2. There are few areas where you can get high CTR than others. For instance, above the page footer, below the header, below the navigation bar, or on the top left hand side of your page are thought to be very good. Typically the area in the middle above the main content is thought to be the best. Check the google heat map about this.

3. Always provide quality content and make regular updates in your website such that you receive a steady flow of traffic to your website. This will help you receive more ad impressions and more clicks.

4. Keep in mind that visitors can enter your website through a number of different pages, so it is a good idea to incorporate AdSense on as many pages of your website as possible. This will increase your overall impressions and hopefully your earnings.

5. Be sure to blend the ads with your content or stand out from the rest of the content. You can test it out by placing blended ads in few pages and stand out ads in fews pages and can see the difference. Always try different shpes of ads available.

6. Positioning you ad blocks is important. Test the positioning of your ad blocks to ensure maximum click through rates(CTR). In different pages place diiferent layout of ads and find out which achieves the highest CTR. Finding the proper position for your ad blocks will be a key factor in your overall earnings.

7. Using different ad formats will provide different results for different websites. For instance in most cases the wider ad formats like the large rectangles have been proven to yield a higher CTR and be more effective than the slimmer skyscrapers and banner formats, but, this may not be the case for your website. That is why it is so important to test your results.

8. When you are trying to target specific keywords to attract a higher quality Google ad for your site make sure that the keyword is repeated enough in the page, so that AdSense knows exactly what the page is about. Be careful though. You want to make sure that the content still makes sense and is useful. Remember Google takes many different aspects in to consideration while serving ads.

9. When Google has no ads to display on your site they will automatically show PSA’s (public service ads). If you don’t want the PSA’s to show on your site, you can choose to have the ad block filled in with a solid color, use your own graphic or use the collapsing ad units code instead. You can visit out adsense alternatives to sign up for alterantive ads.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Adwords Tool to view targetted region ads.

The scenario is you planned to advertise your ad for certain regions. For example you are staying in India and planning to target the users from US, Canada and UK. After setting up your campaign, when you try to view your ads you cannot view from your location. Because the ads shown will be the ads targeted by india only. How to over come this problem? Here is a tool in the internet to resolve this problem. An SEO company named BV Evers.

They have developeda tool named adsearch to view ads of all targetted countries.
Most of the functionality is pretty straight forwarded.., only two small notes:
  • Please use the preview function to prevent yourself from accidentally clicking any ads, or from damaging any CTRs.
  • Just Click the BVE AdSearch logo (upper left corner) to return to the search form.

The above is the comment from the author about this tool.