Google Adsense is one of the best ways to make money online. All you need is to build a blog and monetize it. This was my thoughts when I started blogging. Definitely Google Adsense is one of the best ways to make money online, But it is not easy for a newbie blogger to earn a fair amount via Adsense. I was using Adsense for the past one year and only recently I got my first check. I have committed so many mistakes which resulted in lesser earnings. Today I am going to share my experience with Adsense for the past one year and some tips that improved my earnings.

I have read so many articles about improving Adsense earning. But the biggest mistake i did was ignoring some simple tips that i found in many articles. So please follow these tips even if you find some of them unimportant. These simple tips can really make a huge difference in your earnings.

Content is the King

Ad Placement Guidelines

Blending Ads with your Template

• Avoid borders on ads
• Avoid putting ads under widget titles like " Sponsored Ads "
• Use font size and colors effectively to style the ad units.

Use Link units Effectively

Ad Size Matters

Do Keyword Research

Occasional research

All you need is Hard work and a Little Patience !

Speak up your thoughts and suggestions as comments ! :-)

Most of the websites have a search box to search within their sites. But what if its not there ? How to search within a site without using search boxes ? You can do this with Google Chrome. In one of my previous post [ How to search faster in Google ] i told you how to filter Google search results from a particular site or domain. This tip is an extension of those tricks and uses the same Google search filter techniques. So lets see how to do this :-)

• Open Google Chrome 
• Right Click on address bar and select edit search engines
• In the window under the Other Search engines area fill the following 
• In the Add a search engine text box type a site
• In the Keyword text box fill sas . This keyword is used to start the search. You can use any keyword you like
• Fill the Url text box with the following code and you are done !!

You might have seen announcements on shutting down of some of the Google services in the past few months. As the company is continuing with its spring cleaning of features and services that are not performing well, Lets have a look on those announcements and some of the alternative services you can think off.

Google launched this service in 2005 and it was a great success.The Reader served as good tool for the people to stay connected with their favorite websites. But over the years the usage declined and the company has decided to shutdown the service on July 1, 2013.

If you are a Google Reader user back up your data with Google takeout before July 1. Some alternative feed readers are Feedly , Bloglines , FeedSpot, Newsblur etc.

With the same reasoning the company will be retiring its Online advertising Program , Affiliate Network on July 31st. In the closure notice Google suggests the advertisers to take advantage of other CPA-oriented tools like Product Listing Ads,remarketing and Conversion Optimizer to keep their online advertising.

The company launched the Google + Games in August 2011 offering titles from Rovio, zyga etc.Yesterday with the launch of Play game services, Google announced the shutdown of Google + Games on June 30 , 2013.The users should contact the developers for alternative destination sites for the games.

SMS Search was a service that lets users send search queries by text message to a short number and the search results would be returned back as text messages. Google has silently rolled back this service a few days back. An alternative for this service is 4INFO, even though it is not as efficient as Google SMS Search.

What's your new page rank ?? Comment :-)

• If you are using Gmail's Old Composing Interface, You need to switch to Gmail's New Composing Interface for using this feature.For this click on compose button and you will find a link "Try out the new composing experience" next to the labels tab.Click on it and you will be redirected to the New Interface
• Compose the Message and hover over the plus icon at the bottom of the compose window, which will open the insert menu. 
• Click the Google Drive icon  In the window that appears.
• You can Upload Your File in the menu that appears.You can also send a file which is already Uploaded in your Google Grive.
• Send the mail and You will be asked to share the file before sending the mail.Click on Share and Sent and you are done :-)

Many of you might have felt some difficulty in saving the HTML/JavaScript Gadget in Blogger after writing your code. I have felt the same so many times and i found a way out.

In my observation the problem arises when the code i tried to add starts with <script> module . So I added a <style> module tags above this script. And the gadget saved Successfully. So try this methods

• Case 1: If your code already contain <style>.....</style> module, put it before the <script> ....</script> module.
• Case 2: If your script doesn't contain a <style> module, Put a <style>.....</style> module above the script. You don't need to add anything inside the <style> tags.
• Note : If case 2 doesn't succeed try giving maximum space in between the tags.

Tip 1 - Search query should be short and to the point.

For example if you want to find the name of the actress in the film twilight, A search query like”actress in twilight” will fetch you good results instead of “what is the name of the actress in twilight“

Tip 2 -Word Order is important

For example, The search results for queries “Blue sky” and” Sky blue “ are entirely different.

Tip 3 - Use Filter by color to filter your image search results

For example, if you want to search for a circuit diagram you can apply the color filter black and white. This will yield your desired results.

Tip 4 - Filter your search by filetype

Eg. If you want to search for android tutorials in pdf files .Use the query as filetype:pdf android tutorials
Other Compatible filetypes with this commad are doc, docx, ppt, pptx , txt, csv, dat, kml

Tip 5 - Remove Unwanted search results using (–) minus sign

Eg. If you want to search for galaxy and you want to avoid information about Samsung galaxy phones getting crowded in the results then your query will be galaxy –phones. Note there is space before minus sign

Tip 6 - Searching for exact phrase

If you want to search for an exact phrase, put the phrase inside double quotes “ “
For Eg. If you want to know about a quote Poetry begins with a lump in the throat. Your query will be“Poetry begins with a lump in the throat”

Tip 7 - Adding more results in your search using OR

To search multiple words simultaneously use OR in between.
For Eg. You want to search about super capacitors. Another names for super capacitors are ultra capacitors , pseudo capacitors etc. So you can improve the search results if you query as super capacitors OR ultra capacitors OR pseudo capacitors

Tip 8 - Search inside a particular site

If you want to filter you results from a particular site you can use the query site:sitename
For example You want to search about penpc in xtrabits.in , Then your query will be pen pc site:xtrabits.in
Also if you want to limit your search inside a particular domain,say .com sites then you can use your query as pen pc site:.com

Some useful Google shortcutsTo Know the showtimes of movies in your city For eg. Calicut

• movies calicut To know the capital of a country For eg. Germany 
• capital of Germany To know the weather information of your city eg. Mumbai 
• weather Mumbai To know the weather information by zip code eg 90712 
• weather 90712 To know the time at a place For eg. India 
• time in India To Know your flight status For eg : Air India 216 
• air india 216 To convert a quantity in another units for eg.212 Fahrenheit to Celsius 212F in C

All these tricks are put together in this video by xtrabits.in (Our Partner blog) Watch this :-)