Earn More: Google Adsense Optimization Techniques

Google Adsense Optimization

We have already discussed the most important SEO techniques for blog posts in our previous posts. And today, am writing about some Google Adsense optimization tips for earning more from Adsense program.

As we all know, Google Adsense is the favorite and most widely used blog monetization method of bloggers. Especially for technology blog Adsense is the best way to earn some money.

As SEO optimization techniques could improve your ranking on Search Engines, Some Adsense optimization techniques are there to double your Adsense earnings.

And it is very important to follow the Goole Adsense policies. This article does not include any techniques that affect your Adsense account or blog negatively. 

The techniques explained below are:

• Use high competition keywords
• Limit number of Adsense ads per page
• Use better Ad positions
• Country targeting
• Never forgot Smartphone readers
• Use recommended ad units

Keywords

The targeting keywords or blog niche plays an important role in the Adsense CPC. CPC stands for Cost Per Click, that is the amount you have debited to your Adsense account for a single click. The most searched and high competition keywords might have high CPC as advertisers might pay high for such keywords. 

The Google Adwords Keyword Planner is the best tools for analyzing the competition of keywords and to plan your keywords.

Limit no of Ads per Post

Limit the total numbers ads in a page (PAGE, not an article) to three or less. Google officially declared that using more than three ad units on a single page will drop your Adsense earnings as the competition for advertisers is low on that particular page.

Optimize the Ad Positions

The position of advertisements is an important factor in determining the CPC of a click. Ensure the checklists below

• The Reader doesn't need to scroll down more to see ads
• One Ad near the logo, one at the starting/middle of post one on the sidebar works well.
• Advertisements are placed on most noticeable positions.
• Advertisement never overlaps the content - Important as it is against the Adsense policies.

Country Targeting

Try to target countries like US, UK, Canada etc. Clicks received from the US, UK and such countries pay more. 

You could set the targeted country as the United States through Google Web Master Tools.

Never forgot Mobile/Smartphone Users

Never forgot the smartphone users as the popularity of smartphone Internet users is much more than PC users (People use the smartphone for surfing the Internet than PCs). Put one or two mobile-friendly ads in your articles as blog sidebars may be not available for the mobile version of your blog.

Use mobile-friendly blog templates for a better user experience for your smartphone readers and it might help you to improve your ranking also as Google has introduced the Mobilegeddon update. 

Use Recommended Adsense Units

Google recommends some ad unit sizes. Use these unit sizes. Google pays more for such units. The recommended unit sizes are mentioned in the "Create ad" page of Adsense.

Have more white hat techniques for Adsense, leave a comment to let everyone know.

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Guidelines To Follow Before Accepting a Guest Post

Guest blogging is one of the effective and most common tactics to get some quality referrals, backlinks and hence potential visitors to your website and also bloggers who accept guest blog posts could get some relevant content to their blog at free of cost.

Here we are discussing some guidelines you must follow before accepting guest posts from other bloggers or content writers. 

They are:

• Never provide access to your website
• Say NO if you are not satisfied with the article
• Say Not if it is duplicated content 
• Quality of linked domain
• Basic criterias for article

Never Provide login Access to your Blog

Proving access to your blog for writers or content contributors is NOT a good practice, even if it is limited author access. Newbies of blogging are making this mistake commonly. Your blog is your property. 

Accept guest blogs via Email or other chat software. 

Say NO if you are not satisfied

You have the right to say a clear NO if you are not satisfied with the content. If it doesn't meet the basic criteria, reply the author with your requirements.

Also, if it contains a backlink to an external website, do a quick Google to ensure the linked website is indexed in Google (use the keyword "site:domain.com"). If Google shows some results with that domain, it is an indexed. 

Say NO if it is Duplicate Content

If the entire or portions of articles are published elsewhere in the World Wide Web, it will affect your website's quality and hence authority of your domain. 
There are many free plagiarism checkers available on the Internet (eg: copyscape.com).

Quality of Linked Domain

The Majority of free articles might contain backlinks to its sponsor website or profile of content writer. Do a quick Google search using the keyword "site:example.com" to ensure the linked domain is ranked/indexed on Google.

The Basic criteria to accept a guest blog post:

• The word count might be 300-500.
• Content be relevant to your blog niche.
• Content be unique.

If you need relevant guest posts to your blog with any niche, do let me know at mail@sajith.in

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How to Drive More Traffic To Website Using Quora

Did you used Quora ever? Quora a question and answer social website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community users. Quora is developed by two formal Facebook employees, Adam and Chalie.

Quora for Bloggers

What Quora can do for your Blog? Quota can be used as a traffic source to your blog or website and also it helps you to increase Search Engine Ranking of your website or blog by building backlinks from your Quora answers. 

Create a Quora profile and link it to your website and also research on Quora for questions related to your blog niche and start answering with links to the relevant pages of your website or blog. Never put backlinks to your website for Blog only for SEO benefits. The links might be relevant for the readers. 

Quora for Brands/Companies

If you are a Company executive who responsible for website traffic, link building and engagements, Quora can be used for all these. Search Quora for questions asked by real people and start answering them and with a link to your website. It might help your website to rank higher on SERPs.

Quora for People

Quora is one of the best solution or social community to get answered your question from the experts. All answers are filtered by both their robots and volunteers (think what Wikipedia does). And also everyone can vote for an answer if it sounds good and solved your the particular question.

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High PR and DA Blog Submission Websites List

Getting high PR and DA blog submission websites for promoting your blog must be a time consuming and tedious job and earning backlinks from low quality and websites might affect your blog badly. 

What is Page Rank (PA)?

Page Rank is a link analysis algorithm used by Google to determine the relevance and importance of a webpage and one of the search engine ranking factors.  Every webpage is given a Google Page Rank score between 0 and 10. Web pages with the score 10 are the most relevant and authoritative websites.

Read more about Page Rank here:

What is Domain Authority (DA)?

The domain Authority score is a measure of the power of a domain and one of the search engine ranking factors. DA is calculated using the factors, Age, Popularity and Size. 

Read more about Domain Authority here:

In this post, I am sharing high PR and DA blog submission websites. All these websites are handpicked and authoritative.

#	Website	PA	DA
1	http://blogville.us/	4	46
2	http://fuelmyblog.com/	4	42
3	http://www.bloggingfusion.com/	5	56
4	http://www.blog-directory.org/	6	44
5	http://www.bloglisting.net/	4	59
6	http://www.spillbean.com/	3	35
7	http://www.blogtoplist.com/	6	72
8	http://technorati.com/	7	99

This list should be updated time to time and if you have any other blog submission website suggestions, feel free to list them in the comment box.

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Best Marketplace Websites to Earn Money Online

There is no question that millions of people have discovered the benefits and freedom of professional freelancing. Being a Freelancer you could work from anywhere, at any time and you could choose how much time and how much want to work. And you are your Boss!

As the number of freelancers grows, the number of freelance resources and marketplaces have increased as well.

Here's some best websites/marketplaces to find work and earn some money as a freelancer.

1. SEOClerks

SEOclerks is my personal favorite. Even if this website mainly focusing, on gigs related to SEO, Digital marketing, Content writing etc, it also allows others as well. And searching for works is also simple as creating gigs. Read more about SEOclerks.

Signup Now for SEO Clerks

2. FREELANCER

The freelancer is one of the biggest freelance network.

Join Freelancer Now

3. ELANCE

Elance helps you  get connected with talented freelancers and to get some freelance works. 

Join Elance Now.

4. FIVERR

The buy and sell methode of FIVERR is same as SEOclerks and gig amount is strating from $5 onwards. Unlike SEOclerks, Fiverr is a general market place.

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