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Tutorial # 14 - How to apply for Google AdSense account for Blogger

Step 1: Click on "Earnings"

 You may click on the Earnings tab from the drop-down menu on your dashboard.


Step 2: You’ll then see the AdSense overview page. If you haven’t signed up for AdSense yet, click Sign up for AdSense or log on to https://www.google.com/adsense/signup

However, sometimes your blog doesn't qualify for AdSense, as shown below

In this case you have to click on "Learn more" in order to know whether the following Terms and Conditions of Google AdSense have been fulfilled.

Do you have a website?
You'll need one in order to participate. Click here to promote your site/blog and to read tips for creating great content so you'll attract users and advertisers to your site.

Are you at least 18 years old?
As noted in their Terms and Conditions, we can only accept applications from applicants who are over 18.

Does your site comply with our program policies?
Check that your site complies with our policies before submitting your application. Keep in mind that they may change their policies at any time, and per their Terms and Conditions, it's your responsibility to keep up-to-date with them.

Has your site been active for at least six months?
In some locations, including Pakistan, India and China, they require your site to have been active for at least six months before it will be considered. They've taken this step to ensure the quality of their advertising network and protect the interests of their advertisers and existing publishers.
Click here to get your account approved specifically in Pakistan.

Spend time writing posts, not thinking about ads
Integrating AdSense into your blog is easy. Once your application has been approved, you can decide where the ads appear on your blog.

Your style
Customise the appearance and location of your ads to fit the style of your blog. The content and ads should not overlap to each other.

 Step 4: Select whether you'd like AdSense on the Google Account you're currently signed in to, or you'd like to create a new Google Account


After signing up, you will see this

 Step 5: Complete the application form, review the information you've provided, and then agree to terms and conditions

Ads will not appear on your blog until your application has been approved. Once you receive confirmation that your application was approved, you can control the ways the ads show up on your blog through the settings on the Earnings tab at anytime. It’s up to you whether or not to show ads, and where on your blog to display those ads (sidebar and posts, just sidebar, or just posts) if you’re using Traditional templates. Dynamic Views users can skip this step, as we’ve already optimized ad placement for Dynamic Views templates.
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Tutorial # 13 - Introduction to Google Adsense

Turn your Passion into Profit

Google AdSense is a program developed and run by Google that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve automatic text, image, video, or interactive media advertisements. As the word "Adsense" implies, the program has the "sense" to show only those advertisements on your website or blog which matches with the content of your site. The ads also depend upon the class of audience and the their geographical location. These advertisements are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google. They can generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis.

AdSense is a free, simple way to earn money by placing ads on your website/blog.

Features of Adsense: A few reasons why more than 2 million people have chosen Adsense
- Ads are reviewed to ensure they’re high quality and relevant to your content or audience, even when viewed on smartphones and tablets. The result? You can earn more from them.

- Block ads you don't like, customize where ads appear, and choose which types fit your site best.

- Tap into the largest network of online advertisers who are bidding for your ad space so you get the most for your ads.

- Block ads you don’t want, choose where ads appear, and change the look and feel of text ads to match your site. You can even control the categories of ads you allow. Your site, your rules.

- Connect with your audience wherever they are with the audience: Mobile is built into AdSense. Responsive ad units automatically adapt to different screen sizes so you can create a great user experience and continue to earn revenue when people view your site on a smartphone or tablet.

- Get the real story with Performance Reports: Performance metrics help you see where the right tweaks can increase profits. You can also get your stats on the go with the AdSense mobile app.

- Compare and learn with AdSense Experiments: Quickly create, run, and analyze A/B experiments without changing your code. AdSense Experiments lets you compare one of your ad settings against a variation to see which performs better.

Google AdSense Account needs to be approved, and once it is approved, you are able to post ads on your website/blog and earn money. You'll also be able to have access to the AdSense report:

AdSense Report
Once you start generating AdSense impressions, you'll begin earning money when people click on ads that appear on your blog. To see earnings information, go to your Earnings tab and click on the View Dashboard link.

All time
If you're an existing AdSense user, you'll notice that Blogger created a new channel (with the URL of your blog) in your account. If you have had AdSense ads on your blog before using Blogger’s AdSense integration to insert ads into your blog, note that all time will retrieve data only from the time you connected Blogger to your AdSense account.

This does not affect your overall AdSense reporting, available directly from AdSense.

Terminology
The AdSense report visible from the Earnings tab contains basic information about how many ads have run on your blog, how many clicks were generated, and how much revenue you've earned. Each term in the report is defined below:-

- Page views: A page view is generated every time a user views a page displaying Google ads. We'll count one page view regardless of the number of ads displayed on that page. For example, if you have a page displaying three ad units and it's viewed twice, you'll generate two page views and six ad unit impressions.

- Clicks: The number of times the ads were clicked on in the given reporting period.
- Page CTR (Click-through rate): The number of ad clicks divided by the number of page views.
- CPC (Cost per click): The average amount paid by the advertisers for each ad click.
- Page RPM (Revenue per mille): This is revenue per 1,000 page views. RPM = (Page views x CTR x CPC)  1,000
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Tutorial # 12 - How to write Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, and Terms & Conditions for your site

Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, and Terms & Conditions pages increase the credibility of your website or blog. However the main purpose of increasing the credibility of your website is to make the Google Adsense account to get approved as it being one of the conditions to be fulfilled for publishing Google ads in your site or blog.

There are examples of each of the following in which you need change the name, web address and date before using for your blog:-

Privacy Policy
The owner of this blog does not share personal information with third-parties nor does [Website] stored information is collected about your visit for use other than to analyze content performance through the use of cookies, which you can turn off at anytime by modifying your Internet browser’s settings. The owner is not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without permission.

Blog Comments Policy
The owner of this blog reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to this blog without notice due to:-

1. Comments deemed to be spam or questionable spam;

2. Comments including profanity;

3. Comments containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive; and

4. Comments that attack a person individually.


These privacy policy statements are made on [Date] and may have a change on the futures with or without notice. You should read this privacy policy on this page when updated.


Disclaimer
[Website] does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any information's, content or advertisements contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded or accessed from any of the services contained on this website, nor the quality of any products, information's or any other material displayed, purchased, or obtained by you as a result of an advertisement or any other information's or offer in or in connection with the services herein.

You hereby acknowledge that any reliance upon any materials shall be at your sole risk. [Website] reserves the right, in it's sole dis-creation and without any obligation, to make improvements to, or correct any error or omissions in any portion of the service or the materials.

THE SERVICES AND THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED BY [Website] ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND [Website] EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS IN NO EVENT SHALL TO [Website]

BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHAT'S OVER WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS AND THE PRODUCTS.

[Website] respects the rights (including the intellectual property rights) of others and we ask our users to do the same. [Website] may in appropriate circumstances and in it is sole dis-creation, terminate the accounts of users that infringe or otherwise violate such rights of others.


Terms & Conditions
All content provided on this blog is for informational purposes only. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site.

The owner of [Website] will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information.

These terms and conditions are subject to change at any time with or without notice.
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Tutorial # 11 - Understand the HTML or XML Code of the Blogger Templates

All the templates or themes are based on HTML or XML Code which can be amended in order to make changes in the templates as per your requirements. Now the question arises how to amend it. Thus, first we have to make an understanding of the HTML or XML Coding so that we would at least be able to amend it a bit.

Every template has a different code because of different design and interface. If we have a basic understanding of HTML code, we will be able to amend all such templates to some extent. The templates available by default does not require to be amended because many of changes can be made in through "Layout" and "Template Designer" including background, fonts, widths, color, etc.

However the downloaded templates can't be amended in such ways, thus we have to go to HTML editing.

Step 1: Download a template from a website (e.g. btemplates.com)

Step 2: Select an appropriate design for your blog


Step 3: Download the template (.zip) file


Step 4: Unzip the file
After unzipping the downloaded file of the template, you will get the two important files namely:-

- Config.txt or Documentation.txt (or by some other name), and
- Template .XML file (MXfluity.XML in this case)

Their purposes have been explained in the picture below. The Config.txt file explains you how to amend the main components of the templates like menus, sub menus. This is the most easiest part of coding. You may add a new item in the menu bar by just copying the complete line of a menu item code starting from till in a relevant position. You just need to change the name and link included in the line.


Step 5: Upload the XML file of the template
(See Tutorial # 3 - Changing the Blog Template or Theme)


 Step 6: Go to Dashboard > Template, and Click on "Edit HTML"


Step 7: Now just have a glance on the coding of the blog template

You need to save the template in your computer before making any changes. Expand the code by clicking on all the triangles on the left-hand side (one has been marked below for your understanding).


Once you are gone through all the coding of the template, you must be able to comprehend some of the components of the code. With reference to the complete line, to some extent we are able to understand of which component in the interface it is talking about, like for example:-

- "px" refers to some margin, length, font size, gap, boundary, etc.

- "#363636", "#333", "#FFF", or "#8F8D8D" refers to a color in the HTML code. In order to identify the color, you may go to www.w3schools.com. This website also helps you in the choosing the color as it provides you the HTML code of each and every color.

- "float" helps to align or position a text or image to left, right or center.

In all the coding including the above three example, we can use the "Hit and Trial Method" to identify effect of any line, code or segment on the template. But make sure that the original template has been saved as back up arrangement.

However, here we can use another method which helps us in identifying the code line of each and every component in the interface.

Step 8: Go to the Home/Landing page of your blog and press Ctrl + Shift + I (or F12 in previous versions) in case of Google Chrome.
A new window known as Developer tools will be open as shown below. In the "Elements" tab you may find the HTML code of template.


The part of webpage will be highlighted when you place the cursor on the code line of the respective part. This makes it easier to identify the part which is represented by the code.


Step 9: Let's change the background of header from white to red





Step 10: Just check it out; and make such other changes using the preceding steps

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Tutorial # 10 - How to Prevent or Disable Copying of Text on your Blog Posts

Step 1: Go to your blog’s dashboard, then its layout and add an HTML/JavaScript gadget at any place (e.g. any of the two encircled)

Step 2


Step 3: Paste the below code in the HTML/JavaScript gadget


<script type="text/javascript">
var omitformtags=["input", "textarea", "select"]
omitformtags=omitformtags.join("|")
function disableselect(e){
if (omitformtags.indexOf(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase())==-1)
return false
}
function reEnable(){
return true
}
if (typeof document.onselectstart!="undefined")
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")
else{
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onmouseup=reEnable
}
</script>


After adding the gadget, save the layout settings. Now your blog posts’ text is protected from being copied and the gadget shall not be visible in the blog.
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