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Tutorial # 17 - How to make the content of your Blog useful

How to Make Boring Content Interesting!
1.       Publish regular updates: The more you blog, the more traffic you'll get.
2.      Think of your audience: A good way to build an audience is to speak to one in particular. When you keep your audience in mind, your writing gains focus. Focus goes a long way toward repeat visitors.
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Tutorial # 16 - How to Connect your Google+ Profile or Page


Step 1: Go to the gearing icon at the right top corner, and click on "Connect to Google+"

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Step 4: Now the blog is connected to your Google+ profile. There are various options regarding posting the blog's content to your profile. You can also connect your blog to a Google+ page.

Step 5: If you want to link your blog to a Google+ page, first you have to create a page unless you already have one.

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Tutorial # 15 - How to Promote your Blog



Unpaid Ways of Promoting your Blog

1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO): SEO is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's unpaid results - often referred to as "natural," "organic," or "earned" results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.

Some of the ways for SEO are given below (See # 3, 4, 5, 6) (See Tutorial # 48 for further ways for SEO)

2. Connect your blog to Google+: Switch your Blogger profile to Google+ to take advantage of automatic sharing, the Google+ blogging community. You can also connect you blog to the page. (SeeTutorial # 16)

3. Write quality content and do it well: No one wants to stumble over bad writing and terrible grammar. The content must be genuine and useful to the audience (See Tutorial # 17)

4. Keep search engines in mind and add your blog to Blogger's listings: Take advantage of Blogger’s Search Preferences features to make sure it easier for those seeking your content. You can also add your blog to our listings it shows up in "Next Blog", "Recently Updated", and other places. It's like opting-in to traffic. (See Tutorial # 18)

5. Appropriate use of Custom Robots: They allow or disallow crawlers to index the webpages in the website. (See Tutorial # 19)

6. Appropriate use of Permalinks: Permalink is a URL that links to a blog post. (See Tutorial # 20)

7. Enable Email This Post: If you enable “Email Post Links” on your blog, people will be able to forward your posts to friends. This might not have an immediate impact on your site stats, but it enables others to publicize your blog for you. (See Tutorial # 21)

8. Submit your address to blog search sites and directories: People look for blog content at Technorati every day, are you on their list? You should be. Submit your blog's URL to Technorati, Daypop, Popdex, and any such other site.

9. Put your blog URL in your email signature: Think of how many forwarded emails you've seen in your day, and just imagine the possibilities.

10. Be an active commenter: If you come across a blog you like, why not leave a comment? This way, others who read and are interested in your comment and click back to your profile and check out your blogs.


Paid Ways of Promoting your Blog

Google AdWords: (See Tutorial # 22)
Facebook Ads: (See Tutorial # 23)

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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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