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Tutorial # 22 - How to apply for Google AdWords

Well it seems that using Google AdWords is very difficult to understand but it isn't so. Even a beginner can start promoting his blog with it, all you need is a way to pay and follow this tutorial. So lets begin, follow below steps to start promoting your blog through Google AdWords.


Step 1: Go to blogger dashboard and navigate to Campaigns. Then Click "Start Now"

Step 2: Type your Email, Select your country, Select your time zone and your currency(in which you will pay for advertising).
Step 3: Click on Create Your First Campaign.


Step 4: Give a title to your campaign, Select the type of ads either Standard or All features, Choose networks and devices(on which ads will show up e.g computer, tablets, mobile etc).


Step 5: 
Scroll down the page and move to Locations, here you have to choose the countries in which you would like to show your ads. Choose All the countries or your own country or if you want to target specific country then choose Let me select. If you choose Let me select then type the name of the country in the search box below and select it.


After location you have another option below "Languages" so check the languages in which you would like to show your ads. Be sure that the languages you select aren't only languages but these languages will decide that on which Google domain your ads will appear.

Say that you choose English, now your ads will be shown on the Google domains which have English language e.g. Google.co.uk, Google.com, Google.pk.

It doesn't mean that your ads will not be shown in the countries you choose.

Step 6: There are three things that you have to deal with, one is to choose a bid strategy, budget for your ads and other is to ad extension to your ads.

Choose Basic options in bid strategy because Advanced options are difficult to understand.

In bid strategy area you have two options:
1. Adwords will set my bids to help maximize clicks within my target budget.
2. I'll manually set my bids for clicks.
Choose I'll manually set my bids for clicks because if you let Google to choose bids for you then you will get more and more traffic but have to pay high rates.



After choosing I'll manually set my bids for clicks you will have two options:-
1. Default bid.
2. Budget.
In the default bid type the rate which you will pay for each click(PPC).

Tip: For a quick boost in traffic while spending lowest amount set $0.02 as default bid.

In budget area type $1 or $2 no matter what you type but it is just a limit in which you will pay Google Adwords. For example if you set a budget of $1 and default bid $0.02 then you will get 20 clicks for 1 dollar and after that your ad will stop running because your daily budget is consumed. If you don't get 20 clicks in a day then your remaining budget will be used next.


Ad extension is an optional feature to include relevant business info with your ads e.g location, sitelinks, call info. So if you want to use this feature just check any of the given option and follow instructions to proceed away.


 Step 7: Click on Save and continue and you have successfully created your first campaign now its time to create an ad group which will include you ads so follow next step.

Step 8: Give a name to your ad group and below it design your ad look. You can see a preview of your ad on the page.

Step 9: Scroll down and write your keywords in the given text area as shown in below photo. Write 10-20 keywords on after other.


Step 10: After writing keywords click on Save and continue to billing as shown in below image


Step 11: After selecting your country, click on Continue. Then you'll get to Billing Settings.


Step 12: Select account type as individual and fill up your info. E.g your name, address, phone number etc and scroll down the page.


Step 13: Select Automatic payments in How you pay option


Step 14: Check the Yes, I agree the above terms and conditions and click on complete sign up.
Congratulations! you are done successfully. You can read more about Google adwords below e.g how to create more campaigns or edit the existing one, how to change billing info and account info and also how to cancel your account any time.

How To Make Changes In Settings?
Although payment settings and other settings are configured and saved at the time of setting up account but later you can change your payment as well as account settings. To change your account settings just click on the settings button on the top-right-corner of the page.


To create more ads and ad-groups just navigate to campaigns and click on  +CAMPAIGN 
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Tutorial # 21 - How to enable "Email this Post" option under every post

Step 1: Email This Post enables your blog readers to share your posts with others. To enable this feature, go to the Layout tab on your blog and click "Edit" on the blog post widget.

Step 2: Then, on the window that pops up, scroll down and check the box for "Show Email Post Links."

Step 3: When readers view your blog, they can click the little envelope icon at the bottom of your post to email your post to their friends.

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Tutorial # 20 - Appropriate Use of Permalinks

Permalink is a URL that links to a blog post.

Step 1:
When you write a post, Blogger automatically generates a permalink for your post from its title. If you prefer to use a custom permalink, you can do so via the “Permalink” option in the Post Settings box. See figure below:

Custom URLs are usually used in order to make it SEO-friendly.
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Tutorial # 19 - Appropriate Use of Custom Robots

Step 1: Go to Settings > Search Preferences

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions regarding which links of the site are to be searched (or indexed) about their site to web robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders; they are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Search engines such as Google use them to index the web content); this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol. In short Search engines are robots.



Step 2: What to put in robots.txt content?
1. To exclude all robots from the entire server

User-agent: *
Disallow: /


The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots.




2. To allow all robots complete access

User-agent: *
Disallow:
(or just create an empty "/robots.txt" file, or don't use one at all)




3. To exclude a single robot

User-agent: BadBot
Disallow: /




4. To allow a single robot

User-agent: Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /




5. Disallow particular post by using robots.txt file

User-agent: *
Disallow: /yyyy/mm/post-url.html

Here yyyy and mm refers to the publishing year and month of the post respectively. For example, if we have published a post in year 2014 in the month of December then we have to use the below format.


User-agent: *
Disallow: /2015/12/post-url.html

One thing you should keep in mind that it is case sensitive. So the best method is to copy the exact URL, remove the Blogger address and paste here for best results. Otherwise, it will create trouble for your blog.




6. Disallow Particular Page(s) by using robots.txt file

This method is same as to disallow the crawling of the particular post. You just need to copy the URL of the particular page(s) you want to block, remove the domain name and use in your robots.txt file like the below code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /p/page-url1.html
Disallow: /p/page-url2.html
Disallow: /p/page-url3.html


This is normally used to prevent the "Privacy Policy", "Terms & Conditions" and "Disclaimer" pages from being crawled by Googlebot and other crawlers and spiders.

Custom Robots Header Tags
Its scope is narrower as compared to the above option.
As far as robot header tags are concerned, all pages on a blogger blog are classified into three categories:

Home Page – This category includes a single page, the home page of your blog.

Archive and Search pages – Archive pages are those which list multiple blog posts (or snippets) on a single web page. These are the page accessed by clicking the ‘Older’and ‘Newer’ links at the bottom of the home page and all pages reached by clicking these links, or the pages accessed by clicking the Year or Month links in the blog archives.
Search pages are those which open on searching in a blogger blog. These pages also show multiple blog posts on a single page.

Pages and Posts – These are the blog post pages or standalone blogger pages. These pages show only a single blog post and the associated comments.


It does not provide you the opportunity to write your codes instead it is confined to the following options (See picture above), along with their brief definitions:-
- all: No restrictions are placed on the robots. They are allowed to crawl, index and serve content. This is the default value.

- noindex: The page shouldn’t be indexed i.e. it shouldn’t be shown in search results.

- nofollow: All links on the page containing this directive will be treated as nofollow. The page will be indexed but the linked pages will not be crawled. Note that if there is another web page somewhere on the internet having links to those pages marked as nofollow by you, then those pages will be crawled. The nofollow directive simply states that ‘Do not index the linked pages because I have linked to them. But, if someone else has linked to them and has not marked them as nofollow, then you are free to index them’.

- none: Equivalent to both "noindex" and "nofollow".

- noarchive: Google caches certain web pages and shows a link to the cached pages in search results. If noarchive tag is specified, then the cached link will not be shown in search results.

- nosnippet: Along with links to webpages, Google search results also shows a text snippet to give the searcher an idea of the contents of that page. If nosnippet is set, then text snippets will not be shown for that page in search results.

- noodp: The Open Directory Project (dmoz.org) is a human created directory of websites and webpages. The human editors also add descriptions for these webpages. Sometimes, Google uses these descriptions (and other information) to improve the text snippets or other information shown in search results. If the noodp tag is set, Google will not use metadata from ODP.

- notranslate: If the language of the user is different from the language of the webpage, Google shows a link in its search results for translating that page. If notranslate is set, then such links won’t be shown.

- noimageindex: If set, the images on that page will not be indexed. This is similar to nofollow tag. If the same image is present on some other page, then that image may be indexed.

- unavailable_after: The webpage will not be shown in search results after the specified date and time.


If the feature is turned on (e.g., you’ve selected Yes), then you will see a similar interface in the "Post Settings" section of the Post Editor.
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Tutorial # 18 - Meta Description and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Step 1: Make your blog searchable and 'listed'


Step 2: Go to Setting > Search preferences for further SEO settings. Click on the all the Edits

Step 3: The setting of blogger's search preferences are described  below

If the feature is turned on (e.g., you’ve selected Yes for "Enable search description?"), then you will see "Search Description" option in the "Post/Page Settings" section of the Post/Page Editor as shown in the image below:


You must specify a search description for your blog including each post and page, otherwise search engines will establish one for you based on your blog’s content. This also helps in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). For further guide on SEO, click here

For Crawlers, Indexing and Robots see Tutorial # 19 - Appropriate Use of Custom Robots
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