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Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Last month Google has introduced EFT ( Electronic Fund Transfer ) payment option for Adsense publishers in India. Since the program is still in beta mode, there are so many confusions and queries about this. This post contains FAQ's and there answer's based on my experience with the new EFT payment system. I am not planning to include basic questions in this post. Please see Adsense official FAQ's for basic understanding on EFT payments.
Also Read : Increase Adsense Revenue : Tips for Beginners
Also Read : Increase Adsense Revenue : Tips for Beginners
How to set up the EFT payment system ?
- Click on the gear icon in the top right side of Adsense account home page.
- Select Payments ->Payment settings
- Select Add New Form of Payment and fill your bank account details
How to fill the account details ?
- Account Holder Name : Enter your name as given in your bank passbook.
- Bank Name : Enter the full name of the bank. For example if your bank is SBI , write it as State Bank of India.
- IFSC Code : This is a unique code for identifying a bank - branch in India. Every branch will have their own IFSC Code. There are several website where you can find the IFSC Codes of banks. But before proceeding please verify it with your Bank officials or Banks's official website.
- SWIFT - BIC Code : This is a code that identifies a bank-branch which is equipped to handle international payments through wire transfer. You can find the SWIFT Code in the official website of your bank. Sometimes you may not find the SWIFT-BIC Code of your branch in the bank website. In that case contact your branch for the SWIFT Code of the Central branch through which wire transfers to your branch is done.
- Account Number : Enter your bank account number as given in your passbook. Be careful while entering this.
- Intermediary bank details (optional) : Contact your branch for this information. From my experience i think you don't have to enter this, at least for SBI.
How much time would it take for receiving payments via wire transfer ?
I got my payment within 2 days from the date of issue. This time period may vary for different users. Anyway it would be less than the Adsense check arrival time ;-)
How much money will be deducted as service charges ?
For SBI it was around Rs .50. This may not be same for you. It will depend on your bank and the amount.
How much is the exchange rate ?
Exchange rate may be different for different banks. It was around Rs. 61 per USD for SBI.
Conclusion
I am extremely satisfied with the new EFT payment system. I got my payment within 2 days from the date of issue, instead of a long 30 days in the case of standard check delivery. Thank You Google !
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.
Tips to improve Adsense 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
Unique and high quality content will definitely improve the blog traffic and hence your earnings. You can't earn a fair amount by writing something and putting ads around it. Blog traffic matters a lot.
Ad Placement Guidelines
Positioning of ads is another important matter. Avoid putting all the ad units in side bars or headers. Put main ads inside your blog post and remaining in the sidebars. Go through the Ad Position Heat Maps published by Google to get good results. Ads placed above the fold will earn better. Try this Above the Fold App from Google to make sure that your main ad units are appearing above the fold.
Blending Ads with your Template
Blending ad units with your template will improve your earnings. This does not mean formatting ads to mimic ads or misleading the users to click on ads. These are against Adsense program policies and your account may get banned. So please go through Ad Placement Policies before implementing these tips.
- 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
Three link units per page can be placed in addition to the existing three standard AdSense ad units on a page. When users click on one of these links, they're brought to a page of Google ads related to that topic. Though you won't receive earnings for clicks on these links, you'll be paid for user clicks on any of the ads on the resulting page.
Ad Size Matters
Use recommended ad sizes. This is really important. I would prefer 336 x 280 Large Rectangle than other sizes.
Do Keyword Research
Do a good keyword research before deciding your post title. Even the word order is important in Google search. [ See Related Post How to Search Faster in Google ]. Use Google AdWords keyword Tool to find high paying keywords. You can also see the previous search trends for a particular keyword using this tool. This will help you to improve your blog traffic.
Occasional research
Do research with different Ad units and Ad styling. Try different ad positions and analyse the earnings occasionally.
All you need is Hard work and a Little Patience !
You might have heard of big bloggers who are making huge amount of money every month. Inspiration from their stories is good :-) But please understand that they didn't start earning this amount right from the next day they monetized their blogs. They might have taken years to prove their blog's reputation and hence their huge earnings. So don't get disappointed, work hard and wait for your day. :-)
Speak up your thoughts and suggestions as comments ! :-)
Today i found a great mistake i did with my blog. When i tried to access by site by typing technicate.in in my browser, i got a 404 error saying page not found. Then i tried www.technicate.in and everything went fine. I forgot to redirect technicate.in to www.technicate.in. By this simple mistake i might have lost lot's of traffic to my blog. Obviously this problem will come only if you are using custom domain in blogger. So make sure that you have redirected your non www domain to www domain. Let see how to do this in blogger.
- Goto Settings-Basic
- Under Publishing tab-Blog address, Click Edit
- Tick Redirect .yourdomain to www.yourdomain
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Check whether you have done this or not . A single tick can affect your blog severely :-)
Please note : If you are using a sub domain for your blog. Giving this redirect will send traffic from your main domain to sub domain. Please be careful with sub domains. Read the option before applying this.
Share your stories as comments below :-)
Today social media has become an important element in blog promotions and traffic building.Each and every websites or blogs now have their own social media profiles. Previously i have shared a few social media widgets for blogger.In this post iam going to share an updated version of those widgets with change in animation. This widget has zoom in animation made with CSS3. See a Demo here and let's add this to blogger.
Related Widgets
Installation
- Open your Blogger Dashboard
- Goto Layout and click Add a gadget
- In the window that opened, select HTML/Javascript
- Now copy and paste the below code in the HTML/Javascript window
<link href='https://googledrive.com/host/0ByP5-IaubR8ndEdnRGFIWWpVTG8' rel='stylesheet'/><center><a href="https://twitter.com/Clubtechnicate" target="_blank"><div class="twitter-out social-popout img" title="Follow Our Updates On Twitter"></div></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Technicate" target="_blank"><div class="facebook-out social-popout" title="Like Our Facebook Page"></div></a><a href="https://plus.google.com/110734205749057524809?prsrc=1" target="_blank"><div class="gplus-out social-popout" title="Follow us on Google Plus"> </div></a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/technicate" target="_blank"><div class="supon-out social-popout" title="Grab Our RSS Feed "></div></a></center>
- Replace the red highlighted usernames with your respective social media usernames and save the widget
A privacy policy is a statement that declares a website's or blog's policy on collecting and revealing information about a visitor or simply it tells the visitors what information you collect and what you do with that information. There are plenty of good reasons to have a privacy policy for your website or blog. There are numerous articles on the web, listing those reasons. Lets see how to create privacy policy for a website with least effort.
Major Contents to be included in your website's privacy policy
You websites's privacy policy should contain detailed information about:
- Personal and Non Personal information's collected from the user
- How you collect it and How you use them
- Will you share those collected information with third parties
- Web cookies you use
- Third party websites associated with your website
- Advertisements appearing on your website
- How you will notify the readers if there is a change in your privacy policy in the future
- Your contact details
Make your own privacy policy
Have a look at our privacy policy. it is a bit lengthy right ? Don't worry it's really easy to make your own privacy policy.There are several online privacy policy generators available on the internet.You just have to create an account, answer the questions about your site's behavior and your privacy policy will be generated. If you want to edit some portions, do it and publish your privacy policy. I would suggest these online privacy policy generators.
Social media is one of the major ways to get targeted traffic to your blog or website.Adding social media buttons to your blog will definitely increase your followers on those sites and hence your reach. Some time before i have shared social media widget for blogger with slide over animation made with CSS3. Today i am going share another social media widget with spinning roll over animation. See a Demo here. Lets see how to add this to blogger.
Installation
- Open your Blogger Dashboard
- Goto Layout and click Add a gadget
- In the window that opened, select HTML/Javascript
- Now copy and paste the below code in the HTML/Javascript window
<link href='https://googledrive.com/host/0ByP5-IaubR8nZWs3TVF6SW1wMG8' rel='stylesheet'/><center><a href="https://twitter.com/Clubtechnicate" target="_blank"><div class="twitter-roll social-roll" title="Follow Our Updates On Twitter"></div></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Technicate" target="_blank"><div class="facebook-roll social-roll" title="Like Our Facebook Page"></div></a><a href="https://plus.google.com/110734205749057524809?prsrc=1" target="_blank"><div class="gplus-roll social-roll" title="Follow us on Google Plus"> </div></a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/technicate" target="_blank"><div class="supon-roll social-roll" title="Grab Our RSS Feed "></div></a></center>
- Replace the red highlighted usernames with your respective social media usernames and save the widget
You are done !!! :-) Problem with Installation ? Feel free to ask your questions as comments below :-)
We are always anxious about the traffic sources to our websites or blogs. Traffic sources means, the website linking to our site.We are bothered about those websites since the quality of the link has a major role in setting our blog page rank and web status.So how to find out the sites linking to our website ?
Blogger has inbuilt option to see the traffic sources under stats tab.There you can see the referring url's, referring sites etc.. classified on a time basis. But the information is limited. You cannot see the quality of links and often you cannot see the pages from which your site is linked.
Google Analytics
I hope by now you have an analytics account for your website. Google Analytics is good tool to monitor your web statistics. Analytics will tell your traffic sources including the locations to the depth of cities, search queries, the websites linking to your site , bounce rate , visit duration etc.. If you have not signed up for analytics yet, do it now itself .
Open Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer is another tool for monitoring the external links.In blogger, under the referring url's i saw a site linking to my site. But i was unable to find from which page of the site that link is coming. In that case I found this tool very much useful.No signup is required for using this tool. Under the linking domains tab you can find the domains linking and the pages from which the links are coming.
So if you want to monitor your traffic status use Google Analytics and if you are particular about external links i recommend site explorer.
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