Invalid Traffic Google Adsense?

Invalid Traffic Google Adsense?

For those of you who happen to earn a regular income from google adsense, you may no longer surprised to see earnings reports adsense slightly different from the reports adsense revenue before, until now report google adsense revenue is equipped with a value of invalid traffic AdSense for contains, which will cut the total income that you get the google adsense.

This report is still relatively new, Google officially announced this notice via the official page of the blog adsense on  June 22 2015, stating that the report adsense for this time will be slightly different, in the income statement adsense for now you will see the value of the pieces which will reduce the amount of your adsense balance if any invalid activity that you put adsense on your blog.

Here is a sample screen shots showing the invalid activity report google adsense for content that I took directly from the official google blog page:

You may be experiencing the same thing as illustrations above, total adsense income you earn will be reduced by the value invalid trafic- adsense for content.

Cause Invalid Traffic?

So where did the traffic invalid value is calculated ?, based on information from the google adsense, that the value of such pieces could arise mostly from invalid activity (Invalid activity).

Some actions that can lead to invalid activity on google adsense is as follows:

a. If you click on the ad itself inadvertently

Click on the ad inadvertently sometimes occur and adsense can , unlike the case with you click on your own ads on purpose, if successfully detected you do so then banned on google adsense account could happen, but if you click you are considered an accident, most likely the click value will not be recognized and will be categorized as a value of invalid clicks that will reduce your adsense income.

b. Their indications you tell others to click on ads

One thing that could be considered as if you tell others to click on ads, such as too many shares on social media manually so that raises the number of visitors who come from social media, if there was a visitor of non-organic (visitors who come from non-search google) who do click on ads, it could just click the detected invalid, google could assume that your request to click on ads on others, so that if it is not banned click value will be considered invalid and the value of clicks will not be counted as your income and the value of clicks in the end will reduce the overall balance adsense income you earn.

c. Click the Not intentionally done your blog visitors

Value against adsense clicks actually be counted if that clicks on the ad is really interested in the ads are clicked, sometimes for a few things could have adsense ads go click inadvertently by visitors, so profesional adsense technology that can detect a click whether'm right click deliberate or just accidental click (click not expected).

It can happen when a visitor clicks on the ad and the ad pages appear before the visitors were already pressing the back button on the browser, if it happens like that google can detect as invalid clicks, so that the value of clicks are detected as accidental clicks will reduce your overall adsense income.

d. Deceptive software (Bot) who click ads automatically

Various forms of fraud might just happen, but any form of cheating google already  very well, one form of cheating google adsense that may occur is the use of software that seems to act as a visitor to your blog and then to click the adsense ads on your blog automatically, if it happened like that of course adsense ad clicks will not be counted. and the value of clicks will be returned to the advertiser or advertisers.

e. Their bomb-Click

 Bom click sometimes happen to your adsense ads, click bombing click activity is constantly in very many that may be made by certain parties against adsense ad unit code that you install. bombs click can actually be detrimental to the advertiser or the advertiser, but adsense is now able  by imposing a system of smart pricing (if indicated their clicks are not normal to the ad continuously, the system adsense will impose the CPC is very small, to avoid losses which would be caused by the advertiser).

Click value obtained from click bombs could be categorized as an invalid click value that will reduce your google adsense income.

How to Cope with invalid traffic

It has been mentioned earlier that according to google invalid traffic mostly caused by invalid activity or invalid activity on your google adsense ads, to address the incidence of invalid traffic then we as a publisher should be able to cope with things that could invalid activity, some of which are as follows:

a. Avoid clicking on your own ads

Click on the ad itself sometimes unintentionally done, and weeks to issue this one google can , but should you need as much as possible can avoid click advertising alone, not to frequent, if not, then maybe google it as an act clicking and willful, and your account may be banned ads.

To avoid accidental clicks you can install the plugin adblockplus on your browser, so that adsense ads will not appear on your blog, or you can plug google publisher plugin for browser google chrome,  ad will be protected by specifically why ads can not be clicked on the browser you use.

b. Careful design Drop Down Menu float

If you present the dropdown menu in your template should be careful with the dropdown menu to drift, if by chance you put adsense on the bottom of the menu, when the dropdown menu is clicked, the popup menu can cover adsense ads that you install and this could lead to ad ter-click is not intentional either by yourself or by your visitors.

c. Be careful with the placement of ads

 When placing adsense ads do not be too close to things that can be clicked for (link or a button, or writing with a command to click), it could be because too tightly visitors means clicking on the ad turns out ad clicked, causing unwanted clicks and this can lead to invalid clicks, advertising that could provoke accidental clicks not only can lead to invalid activity but could also violate the policy adsense and could culminate in nonaktiv account your ads.

d. Source traffic that is not true

There are so many ways to increase traffic but specifically for adsense blog should be pursued traffic coming from search engines (organic traffic), here are some traffic that could lead to traffic invalid:

- Placing Adsense blog url in an email message

- Put your blog url in chat messages

- Share url posting on several social media manually

If you do the things above can so you will be considered to ask other people to visit your blog to click on ads that you post ads. Thats Invalid Traffic Google Adsense?

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How to Install adsense ads on top of the post

Adsense is still a favorite advertising medium in the world, for the online business world, especially in Indonesia, adsense players come from all walks of bloggers, there are already proficient with the blog world and get to know what is google adsense ?, but some are still new to the world of blog and also google adsense, let alone manage adsense knowledge blog also there that is really still a layman, I took the title of the article about how Installing the unit code adsense ads that appear in all posts, maybe the title a bit strange for bloggers who are proficient, but I accidentally took the title as it is intended for bloggers who are new to the world of blogs and adsense, because it turns out there are many among the bloggers they successfully received, but they are still puzzled how to manage adsense ads they already have, starting from information google webmaster tools for search query, I happen to get query more or less like the query above, so yes I decided just to take the title above, who knows there are many who are looking for the keywords that are appropriate title above, especially for the new players in the world AdSense.

How to Install AdSense Ad Unit Code to appear in all post

Actually, to install the code AdSense ad units there are two ways that we can choose, both ways of course it will automatically create your adsense ads appear on all pages of posts, the first way is to use the widget, the second way is by entering the code unit adsense ads directly the blog template is concerned, the first way of course my opinion is the most convenient way, and you can try, but perhaps if we choose the first way drawback is adsense ads only can we plug in accordance with the areas of the template that we can install the widget, we can not advertise at will because the widget is generally only can we put on certain areas according to the blog template that you use.

Yet another case with the second way, we put an ad unit code adsense manner on the outboard in the blog template, this way seems to me the best way dynamic that you can choose, because the adsense ads can be placed anywhere according to your desired location, the following is how to put adsense ad unit code to appear in all posts:

1. How to Install Adsense Ads via Widget

This method is the most convenient and fast, to advertise this way, the steps are as follows:

a. Sign in to your AdSense account, and then copy the code adsense ad units you want to install.

b. Log in to your blogger account, please submit your blog to be fitted with adsense ad unit code.

c. In the menu bar to the left select the "Layout"

d. In the layout of your blog layout, please select a site layout that you will install adsense ads anta, Tekam words "Add Gadget".

e. In the dialog that displays a list of gadgets, please find and select the gadget "HTML / Javascript"

f. Paste the AdSense ad unit code in the text box provided, then do not forget to press "Save".

You can choose other locations for the code on adsense unit using the above ways, please choose another location, preferably for security to the advert least up to 3 ads only with variations.

Until the above step above means you have successfully installed a unit code adsense ads on your blog using a widget, and the ad will automatically appear on every page of the article or post.

2. How to Install Code AdSense ad units via the Code Templates Blog

For this second way, is the way that I think is the most dynamic, because the ad can be installed dimanamun according to what you want, but if you use this method, the ad unit code adsense should you parse first, the aim is for the ad unit code adsense acceptable the blog template you use, if not generally adsense ads will be rejected, the error can not be saved, because it contains characters that are not permitted by the blog template code.

For this second way, for example, I'll try to put adsense ad unit code, above and below the post under the title after posting. the steps are as follows:

How to Install adsense ads on top of the post.

To put adsense ads on top of posts under the title, would not want this manner must be taken by placing ads on your blog template, because the widget is not available to put ads inside posts, and remember to how ads should you parse first in order to be accepted template blog, steps are as follows:

a. Sign into your Google AdSense account, then select and copy the code adsense ad unit that you want to use.

b. Parse the code, how, please go to freeformater.com, please copy your AdSense ad unit code in the box provided, and press the parse button, you will get your adsense ad unit code is parsed, allow code to parse the results of our first parking there.

c. Now, please go to your blog account, select your blog, and on the left side menu bar, please select, menu templates and then press the "Edit HTML" mode to display the HTML editor.

d. Do a search by pressing CTRL + F and search for

e. Download your adsense ad unit code parse results in blogcrowd.com,

f. Put the adsense code, right above the code , using the following html code:

Save your template, up to the stage of the above means you have successfully installed the adsense ads directly above the post after the title, and the ads will automatically appear on all posts.

How to Install Adsense ads below after posting

Almost the same as the above ways, the steps are as follows:

a. Sign into your Google AdSense account, then select and copy the code adsense ad unit that you want to use.

b. Parse the code, how, please go to Blogcrowd.com, please copy your AdSense ad unit code in the box provided, and press the parse button, you will get your adsense ad unit code is parsed, allow code to parse the results of our first parking there.

c. Now, please go to your blog account, select your blog, and on the left side menu bar, please select, menu templates and then press the "Edit HTML" mode to display the HTML editor.

d. Do a search by pressing CTRL + F and search for

e. Download your adsense ad unit code parse results in blogcrowd.com,

f. Put the adsense code, just below the , using the following html code:

Save your template, up to the stage of the above means you've managed to put adsense ads right under after posting, and the ad will automatically appear on all posts.

Whatever you choose to melatakan unit code adsense ads, pay attention to the number and combination of adsense ads should you post on your blog, both methods you can try, but you should still pay attention to the rules google adsense, if it will have no effect to account google adsense your greatest risk is banned, to add the articles I suggest please read also: 11 causes banned on google adsense.

So that I can share about How To Add AdSense to appear in all posts, may be useful.

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How To Earn Money From Blogging

How To Earn Money From Blogging

Blog one medium that we can use to articles, discuss a problems or share something that is much sought after, be it for just personal use or for public consumption, share anything articles most likely to be read by, alternative blogs be an option for it -things above because a lot of free blog service providers that we can use, only with an internet connection, will and knowledge online and be able to run an article, a blog can we have without spending a dime.

The goal of creating a blog can vary, there were just a hobby writing articles, there were just sharing and other purposes, but we need to know for now we can use a blog to generate revenue in the form of money, right? whether it is true we can get money from just blogging ?, the answer is Yes it is true we can make the blog as an alternative to earn income,  today many of the bloggers who had just become a part-time blogger, blogging activities just to fill Any spare time, now turned into a full time blogger, blogging all the time, even some that were originally working in an office or have a main job now no one would dare to quit her job just to choose to become a full time blogger. they felt the blog is reliable to make money and could even exceed the income from blogging offline income from their job.

How to earn money from a free blog through google adsense

Google AdSense

There are several advantages of choosing blogging to earn money, one of them is they are not bound by time, which has the most important they could achieve earnings targets, but it is close to the family and can be done at home.

How To Earn Money From Bloging

Then, How can the activity of blogging can get revenue?, For most laymen would probably be little to ask, where to start, this article I specifically presented to you who really want to understand how blogging to earn income, following the steps that you can follow:

1. Have a blog

Of course the first step is to have a blog, both paid and free, for the initial phase of a better start to create a free blog, like for example, we could start a blog on blogspot.com or wordpress.com, if interested blogspot, one guideline to create a blog on blogspot you can read articles about how to easily create a blog using blogspot.

2. Choose a Niche or blog topic

Step two is to determine the topic of the blog, which is a topic of focus for the articles that we publish through blogs, preferably when choosing a topic preferred to choose a topic that is completely controlled, for example if you are proficient in SEO problems should choose a main topic about seo, if you are adept at messing your computer can choose the technical tips and tricks about computers and so forth,

3. Start to Make Consistent articles in

The next stage after you have determined the main topics for your blog is that you have to start making articles that match the topics you specify, you should make an article on an ongoing basis, if they can afford one day an article it would be better if not at least 4 articles each month was enough , the more you often make the article so it would be better to monetize your own blog or to make your blog can earn.

4. Sign up as a Google AdSense publisher.

In fact many ways that we can use how to earn money through blogs, but in this article I want to discuss google adsense as one of the alternatives that we can use to earn money through blogging, if you still lay about Google AdSense, please read the article about what was google Adsense?, let you have a picture, after that you can apply through the facilities provided on your blogspot to become a google adsense publisher, please read the references on google adsense trick accepted in one list.

Once you are accepted into a publisher google Asense, you will be facilitated with google adsense account, through the facilities of google adsense account you can get the code google ads that can be affixed to the blog you have, how google adsense, is if there are visitors who click on ads adsense that you plug means you will have accrued value of the CPC (cost per click) or cost-per-click advertising, the value of the smallest for each click is $ 0.001 and the most even up to $ 10 per click depending on the type of ad that was clicked , every dollar you earn will be sent and recorded on a virtual account google adsense contained in facilities google adsense account, when the amount of money you earn has exceeded the threshold for payment, then you can withdraw money, the minimum value to be disbursed is $ 100

5. Attract Visitor or blog visitors.

The next stage on the agenda you to monetize your blog, after your blog has a number of articles quite a lot and your blog is already installed Adsense ads that attract visitors, many ways that we can do to get more visitors to your blog, either through optimization seo, good optimization seo onpage and optimization seo onpage, either through media campaigns for free by utilizing social media such as facebook, twitter and social media more, or promotions directly from mouth to mouth, you can find a lot of references to pledge how to attract visitors, more visitors who visit your blog it will get better.

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Differences Google Adsense Account Hosted and Non Hosted

Here is a Google AdSense account differences NON-hosted and hosted? - Google adsense one advertising medium free from google highly trusted and proven to pay the publisher in the form of dollars, in Indonesia itself many of the bloggers who already pursue google adsense is a long time, until they've been getting a lot of dollars from adsense considerable, especially now google adsense support for Indonesian language blog, so complete has been a lot of people, especially bloggers Indonesia Indonesia which falls to be a google adsense publisher.

To become a google adsense publisher of course it is not easy as easy as winking, but the condition is very easy, one prerequisite is to have a blog or youtube account, but still, even though we already have the conditions to be admitted to google adsense publisher will generally experience a period of review blog or video that we have registered in advance, if the blog or video that we list comply with them and did not violate the policy team google adsense, it is likely that our blog will be accepted and we became publisher adsense, and if otherwise, we have to accept the bitter truth is rejected by adsense raw.

Differences Google Adsense Account Hosted and Non Hosted

When we successfully received and approve a publisher, we will be given adsense account page to help us manage adsense ad units that we can be attached to the blog along with Virtua account to record any revenue we managed to get.

Differences Hosted and Non Hosted Accounts Google Adsense?

When we register to adsense blog, you can use berflatform blogspot blog, using youtube account or using the website or personal blog that has a top level domain (.com, .net, .org, id etc).

Of the types of blogs or sites that we list, we will get to know two terms, ie google adsense and google adsense Hosted Accounts Non-Hosted Accounts, then what is the difference between the two? explanation is as follows:

1. Google Adsense Hosted Accounts

Google adsense hosted is a google adsense account obtained if our blog to google adsense is a blog berflatform blogspot, or a youtube video where the two had we kethui joint is owned by Google (read: one hosted by Google), if the registration google adsense successfully received the you will get the kind of google adsense account hosted.

Hosted google adsense account is google adsense account which can only be used for sites that one ownership with Google (the hosts), for this is because adsense is advertising media, then hosted a google adsense account can we put on the blog berflatform blogspot.com and also video on youtube.com

The following characteristics Hosted Accounts google adsense:

a. Ads can only be installed on a blog with blogspot.com flatform and vidio youtube

b. Google adsense ads hosted can not we put just on the site Top Level Domain (personal sites registered with .com, .org, etc.), if it is to remain mounted need user authorization process first.

c. An easy way to be accepted by google adsense, registration must be using one of the sites hosted google, can use a blog or vidio youtube.

Please Read: 2 Easy Steps List google adsense through blog

 d. For Adsen Hosted Google Account, enough with just one account adsense ad adsense only can we spread or we put on our blog the other, but must berflatform blogspot.com blog, or video should be on youtube, ad placement can be done directly without conditions ,

e. To have Google Adsense Hosted Accounts can be registered via blogspot.com or youtube account

Please Read: How to register Google Adsense through blog

f. Google Adsense Hosted less sensitive and also not easily be banned. Differences with Non-Hosted Google Adsense account. but we have to remain in compliance with applicable regulations google adsense

2. Non-Hosted Google Adsense Account

Non-hosted Google adsense is a google adsense account obtained if the blog that we list on google adsense is a non blogspot blog or personal blog with a top level domain (.com, .net, .org, .net, id etc), if google adsense successful registration is accepted then you will get the kind of non-hosted google adsense account.

Or it could be a google adsense account Non hosted is a google adsense account hosted but it has changed the authority of users become regular or google adsense registered on the site name non-hosted, google adsense non hosted can be used at sites non-hosted (ie: sites which is not one of ownership by google), please see: How to Install adsense on non hosted site

The characteristics are as follows:

a. Adsense ads can we put on all the flat form except wordpress blog

b. Adsense ads can we put on the Site at the Top Level Domains (.com, .net, etc.)

c. Registration google adsense non hosted very difficult to approve

d. Non-Hosted Google Adsense is very sensitive to violations submitted by the parties themselves and easily google banned. unlike google adsense hosted.

 Similarly, the information that I can share to you about Google AdSense Account Differences Hosted and NON Hosted?, May be useful.

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What is Pageview Click CPC CTR CPM Estimated Earnings

When we interact with google adsense we will get to know some of the terms frequently encountered when monitoring developments adsense revenue that we have, some of these terms include the Page Impression, CPC, CTR, CPM and eCPM, is actually a term that is the information analysis that is given by google adsense for the publisher, menanyangkut data relating to adsense income they get.

# 1. Page View

Page View / Page impressions or impressions can we translate "Emergence page", is a number that indicates how many times the page containing the ad unit code displayed by visitors to the blog or website, its value is not affected by the number of ads that we put on the page, if ad we put on the page displayed ad unit consists of 3 pieces, then those pages perform as many as 10 times, then page impressionnya still is 10.

The term Impression not just on google adsense, but this term is also known for a webmaster tool, if google adsense impression is the number of pages containing unit adsense ads appear, while in webmaster term impression with regard to julah page was found by search engines based on keywords used as search criteria, the more the impression then that indicates that a page in our blog easily found by search engines.

# 2. Click

 To define clicks blessings with adsense ad unit is that the click here mengandunga meaning accumulated many clicks each ad unit adsense that we install.

# 3. CPC (Cost Per Click)

CPC is a term we often hear in google adsense, CPC (Cost Per Click) is the cost offered by the advertiser (advertiser) for each click on the ad, whenever the adsense ads in the visitor clicks the dollar that we will get a number of the CPC for the ad. the greater the value of the CPC, the greater the odds that we get a dollar from those ads.

Many factors could affect the value of each ad adsense CPC, including the number of ad pages, ad type is selected, the source of visitors, etc., determines the information on the CPC, please read Tips also maximizing google adsense revenue

Google is very secretive CPC value for each ad, only the advertiser and the google adsense who know more about CPC value for each ad unit, but for now there are tools that we can use to predict the value of the CPC, CPC value for each ad unit differ another depending on specific keywords, one tool that is highly recomended to find keywords that have a high CPC value or better known by the term high paying keywords are SEMRush, how you can read about How to find high Paying keyword on google adsense.

# 4. CTR (Click Through Rate)

CTR (Click throught rate) is the ratio in percentage form transform and calculate the number of clicks and the number of units adsense ads in question appear, if your ad appears 1000 times, then these ads get clicks number of 10 times the value of CTR it can be calculated as follows ( 10/1000 x 100%) = 1%, so if in 1000 appearances, the visitor clicks the ad earns 10 times, mean values ​​for these ads CTR is 1%.

CTR values ​​can indirectly inform, the behavior of normal clicks on an ad unit, and CTR referenced google nor the publisher to monitor the behavior of a normal click on the ad unit is concerned, the normal value for CTR is 0% to 5%, or it could be more of it depends on the number of clicks on the ad, but jikal CTR values ​​of more than 100% means it is already indicated their action is not normal, such cases could occur because of the bomb-click, click continuously in the same ad more than one time, we must continue to monitor and be aware if the google adsense account we get information CTR values ​​with values ​​greater or less than 100%, if indicated their acts of fraud or bomklik risk is adsense account we banned, CTR values ​​above 100% can occur if the number of clicks outnumber these ads appear.

# 5. RPM (Rvenue Thoushand Per Impression)

RPM is the result of the division between the number of publisher revenue by the number of page impressions (per 1,000) which he got from the ads. For example, a publisher earned $ 200 from 50,000 impressions would have a value CPM of $ 4 (the value obtained from the calculation of [amount of income / (impressions / 1000)] = (200 / (50,000 / 1000) = 200/50 = 4.

# 6. Estimated Earnings

Estimated Earning is the estimated amount of income that we earn from AdSense ads that we put, the value of estimated earnings is the product of the amount of click with CPC, the greater the value of the CPC will further bersar also estimated earnings will we get, then also the greater number of clicks the ads will be greater revenue we earn.

Similarly, some of the terms that I can bagiakan to you about Page Impression, CPC, CTR and eCPM Adsense, may be helpful.

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Should my website be popular or should it be good

Should my website be popular or should it be good

Anyone building and maintaining a website wants it to succeed – however one’s “success” is measured.

But, clearly, success means for the most part one’s website should get traffic because no matter what one’s definition of success (sales, leads, additional business of some sort), a website with as much traffic as a lonely country road won’t do its owner much good.

So, should my website be popular or should it be good, as in authoritative, filled with plenty of fresh, compelling content which speaks thoroughly of one’s business or organization?

Building a website to rank high in search engine queries is something the pros have long called, search engine optimization, or SEO. Tricks were often used to achieve that high page rank in searches. But those days are, for the most part, over. In fact, SEO is a term (if not practice) that quickly slipping into the short history ebooks of online marketing.

Google, the world’s biggest and most used search engine, has for the better part of the last year and a half been rewriting its search algorithms to both punish cheaters and reward websites with good content – authorities on a given subject.

Matt Cutts, Google’s chief of spam police and one of the leading Google gurus on search, released yet another video last week explaining further how authority – knowledge, well produced and fresh content – is far better for one’s website success than merely trying to achieve popularity. In fact, it will do you well to review all of Cutts’ videos at the Google Webmasters YouTube Channel.

The short version of Cutts’ message is this: well-produced, authoritative content is going to naturally drive more inbound links to one’s website and the number of inbound links will rank one’s page higher in search inquiries based on one’s subject of expertise. Got it?

If you know home remodeling – just for an example – post informative, thorough and compelling content about home remodeling Google crawl spiders will reward you with search engine love.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to SEO Keyword Research Using FREE Tools

Choosing keywords can easily become an overwhelming and costly part of your content creation and SEO strategies. And that’s why in this post, I’ll lay out a step-by-step strategy you can use to find the best keywords for your website or blog…using only FREE tools.

A Step-by-Step Guide to SEO Keyword Research Using FREE Tools

Each marketer will have his or her own unique process for finding keywords, so if there are other tools or strategies you want to incorporate into this process, please do! This guide is just one way to find popular and relevant keywords; not the only way.

For the purposes of this article, I’ll assume we’re looking for a keyword to target on the home page of a fictitious bakery. However this process can easily be replicated when looking for keyword ideas for blog posts, product pages or virtually any other type of content. The basic step-by-step guide to SEO Key process will look like this:

1.   Brainstorm

2.   Choose the most relevant keywords

3.   Investigate traffic volume and level of competition

4.   Find synonyms and variations to supplement your content

Step 1: Brainstorm potential keywords.

The first stage – brainstorming – is one of the most important, but is also one many marketers gloss over. Rather than jumping into the keyword research process with one or two keywords or phrases in mind, take some time to compile an exhaustive list of topics or themes related to your business or products. For instance, if I was a professional baker, I may list keywords like ‘baker San Diego’, ‘bakery California’ or ‘best cakes San Diego’. At this point there is no right or wrong; simply get down as many possible keywords as you can think of that are related to your business. Some strategies you can use to brainstorm possible keywords include:

• Industry journals or magazines
• Your own marketing materials
• Asking your sales team or other staff for suggestions
• Checking out which keywords your competitors are using on their sites

Ubersuggest is a great free tool to use at the beginning of your brainstorming process. Simply type in a keyword or topic, and receive hundreds of related keyword suggestions. If you find a term you’d like to investigate further, simply click on it to receive more suggestions that use that term as a base.

Using the example above, let’s say my bakery specialized in wedding cakes. I type in ‘wedding cake’, and then notice that ‘wedding cakes san diego’ is included in my list. I click on that link to drill down and find even more specific terms I can use:

Remember: At this point you’re only brainstorming. This list won’t give you any indication of how popular a term is, or how difficult it will be to rank for. At this stage, you’re just looking for terms that will be broadly relevant to your business, products or content.

Step 2: Select the Most Relevant Keywords.

Now it’s time to choose the most relevant keywords from your list. Ask yourself: If I was a customer looking for my product (or content), which terms would I be mostly likely to search for? And which ones would be most likely to drive sales? (hint: more specific, ‘long tail’ keywords will often result in higher conversions). After considering all the keywords on my list, I’ve decided to do further research into the following, highly-relevant terms:

• Wedding cake San Diego
• Best wedding cakes San Diego
• Bakery San Diego
• Cakes San Diego

Step 3: Use Google’s AdWords Keyword Planner to Check on Volume and Competition.

Now that I’ve determined that ‘wedding cake San Diego’ is the term I’d like to focus on, it’s time to figure out whether that term is:

a)    Worth targeting (i.e. it gets enough monthly searches), and

b)   Possible to rank for (i.e. there aren’t a ton of other sites trying to rank for it).

Go to the Google Keyword Planner and sign in or create an account (you must have an AdWords account to access this tool, but signing up is free). For our purposes, choose ‘Search for new keyword and ad group ideas’ once you’re logged in.

 On the next page, enter in the keyword or phrase you’re thinking of targeting. In our case, we’re going to try ‘wedding cake San Diego’.

Next, be sure to select the ‘Keyword ideas’ tab, NOT the ‘Ad group ideas’ tab. The Keyword ideas tab will give you two pieces of critical info about your keyword or phrase: the average monthly search volume, and the level of competition.

After plugging in ‘wedding cake San Diego’, I see that while it doesn’t have much competition (“Low”), it only receives around 110 monthly searches. While this may be a good term to include on my site, I likely won’t want to commit to targeting such a low-volume keyword on my home page.

Moving down my list of relevant keywords, I run searches for ‘best wedding cake San Diego’, ‘bakery San Diego’, and ‘cakes San Diego’. This process reveals that the most popular and least competitive of my relevant keywords is ‘bakery San Diego’.

Step 4: Find Keyword Variations and Related Terms to Incorporate Into Your Content.

As Google’s algorithms become more sophisticated, sites that do a thorough job of covering all angles of a topic tend to rank best. This means that each piece of content you produce should include not just one or two main keywords, but many different variations, synonyms and long-tail phrases related to your topic.

One way to brainstorm these related terms is using Google’s Related Search function. Here’s how to do it: Type your chosen keyword into Google Search, and then scroll to the bottom of the page. You should see a section titled ‘Searches related to…..’. These are other words or phrases Google deems relevant to your chosen keywords.

For instance, when I run a Google search for ‘bakery San Diego’, I get related searches like ‘bakery San Diego hillcrest’, ‘bakery San Diego convoy’ and ‘bakery San Diego downtown’. While these phrases likely don’t have enough search volume to justify targeting them as my main keywords, they are phrases I can incorporate into my content to capture related long tail searches.

 And there you have it! A Step-by-Step Guide to SEO Keyword Research Using FREE Tools! Using this process, we’ve been able to find one main keyword for our homepage (bakery San Diego), which we know has a decent number of searches and low competition. We’ve also been able to find some related search terms that will help us rank when it comes to long tail search.

Keep in mind that no process or tool is perfect: for instance, the Google Keyword Tool is notorious for underestimating the search volume of a particular term, and only provides results based on exact match type. However, the tool still provides a good, basic foundation for narrowing down your keyword choices. Thats A Step-by-Step Guide to SEO Keyword Research Using FREE Tools

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Should I Add Google AdSense Ads on My New Blog?

Should I Add Google AdSense Ads 

on My New Blog?

Are you one of those budding bloggers who is not monetizing his blog and is skeptical of doing so? If so, I have also walked in your shoes. In the early days of my blogging career, I did not take advantage of AdSense or any other ad platform. Perhaps the reason many of us stay away from monetizing our blogs is that we are protective of our image, and we fear being judged by our readers.

I was talking with one of my budding blogger (BB) friends, and he told me that he has an approved AdSense account, but he is not putting AdSense on his blog.

Our conversation went on for a while and came away with a suspicion that many other bloggers share my friend’s feelings about advertising on a new blog.

My question remains, why wait to monetize your blog? Making money from your blog doesn’t make you a less passionate blogger or a greedy blogger. It is simply taking advantage of an opportunity to earn money from one of your passions, and to develop your dreams. Ask yourself if that is a disgraceful thing.

If you have a blog that can be monetized, start monetizing it now. Chances are good that you may not make more than $10-$100/month, but at least you are earning some money doing something you enjoy.

When an advertisement that is related to your content and your niche runs on your blog, whether on the sidebar, or on the header, or elsewhere, you are helping your readers by providing a place for him to obtain a product he may be interested in purchasing.

For example, I write extensively about blogging, web hosting and making money online. I share my personal views and experiences. Many readers are here because they like to read about my experiences with different products that I use, and it is very possible that they would like to try these products or related products. They are reading my posts, after all, because they have an interest in the niche that I write about. So this is why I keep web hosting and WordPress theme banners on the sidebars and headers of my posts.

There is no right or wrong time to begin monetizing your blog if you have an interest in doing so.  And as long as you do so in such a way that you will not be hampering the readability of your blog, there is no reason why you should not start monetizing as soon as you feel your blog is ready.  Bear in mind that it is best to place only one or two ads on a page. While it may seem counter-intuitive, fewer ads = better CTR = more money in the long run.

So if you have an AdSense account and a blog, start trying some ads on your blog. Start with one or two ad units, and stay focused on the quality of your blog, delivering good information to your readers, and producing a quality blog overall.  You never know – you may end up making a living from your blog!

What’s your opinion on the monetization of blogs?  Feel free to share your thoughts with us using the comments section below.

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How To Add Keywords in Blogger Posts

How To Add Keywords in Blogger Posts For Optimization?

If you have original and SEO friendly content in your blog, then no doubt you can surely get high ranking in search results.

Writing SEO friendly blog posts is not much tough as beginners think. How To Add Keywords in Blogger and We just need to focus on some places where we can add keywords in our blog posts to make them optimized for search engines.

Don’t forget, optimizing blog posts for search engines is not mean to compromise with content quality. We have to add keywords in a proper way so that it looks natural for our readers and for search engines too.

I’ll outline 6 best locations to add keywords in blogger blog posts. Hope you would like to know them.

Optimize Blog Posts By Adding Keywords Smartly

Before I cover today’s topic, you must need to know that adding too much keywords in blog posts is not good for our blog health. We should keep its density about 2% or less for better optimization of our blog posts.

The locations I’m going to tell you to add keywords are the safest and best locations of our blog area. If you want to get your blog posts rank high in search results, then don’t miss to target below locations:

• Starting and Ending Para of Content

Whenever you write new post for your blog, always remember to add your main keyword in first and last paragraph of your content’s. Both the locations are best for this purpose and search engines also look for keywords in these two places to decide the ranking of our blog posts.

We can add more targeted words in the form of phrases between the content to make it more SEO friendly.

Note: Don’t use same words again and again. Better to use multiple and relevant words. Using multiple related word not only protect our content from keyword stuffing penalty but also help it to appear high with multiple search terms. Hence more targeted traffic to our blog.

• Image Name, Alt Tag and Title Tag

We all know that images plays best role in explanation of the topic. But using images we can also optimize our blog posts even better.

We just need to optimize our images before inserting them into our posts. The better we optimize the images, the better our posts will optimize for search engines. Read below mentioned post to know best 6 ways to optimize images.

6 Tips To Optimize Images For SEO

If we talk about adding targeted words in blog posts using images, then let me tell you that image’s name, title tag and alt tag are the best and prominent places.

• Title Of Our Posts

Our post titles are the top most places to add our targeted keywords. You may listen that we should use catchy post titles to attract more readers. But with catchy post titles we should also remember to add our keywords there.

Meaningful post titles grab more audience. Not only from social sharing sites, but from search engines too.

So, always try to use meaningful and catchy post titles to boost your posts traffic.

• Permalink of Posts

Permalink is the URL of our blog posts. It’s a killer location to add really targeted keywords.

By default, permalinks create on the basis of our post’s titles. But we can use our custom permalinks to add our keywords.

To add custom permalinks go to your Post Editor > click on Permalink from the right side menu and choose Custom Permalink. Add your main keywords there and press Done button.

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Note: Always try to use only targeted keywords in permalinks. Other non important words should be ignored.

• Post Labels

Post labels not only used to categorize our blog posts. If used smartly then we can take their benefits to optimize our blog posts too.

Stop using non keyword rich names for your labels. Named them correctly and put your really targeted words there.

If you had forgetten to insert your keywords in label’s name, then don’t worry. We can rename them too.

• Post Comments

Many bloggers are unaware with this trick that we can use our blog comments too to add some keywords in our blog posts.

Yes, you heard it right. There are lot of benefits of blog comments and if we use them effectively then no doubt we can get higher ranking in search results.

Whenever you reply your reader’s comment on your blog, try to add some keyword phrases in your reply in a natural way that looks obvious while reading.

Final Words!

This is my strategy to add keywords in blogger blog posts. And truly said these methods really help me to gain higher rankings in search results. I had shared all the working ways to optimize blog posts.

Now I would like to ask you a question: How To Add Keywords in Blogger and How you add your keywords in your posts for SEO?

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