[How-To] Increase your Adsense Earnings by Optimizing Adsense

Adsense is definitely the bread and butter for many publishers and for those of you who would like to become so, its very important that your Adsense Ads are Optimized to help you get more.

 

Adsense Optimization can help you earn more.

This post describes some easy to implement Adsense Strategies which can help you gain more from your Adsense Ads.

The three most discussed and easy to implement Strategies for Increasing your Adsense Earnings are

1.) Show Bigger Ad Units on your platform, be it your website or your blog.

Bigger Ad Units, perform better as compared to the smaller Ad Units. They tend to get more attention from the user and therefore helps you increase your CTR. Below embedded video from Google talks about the same. 

Google Adsense Blog says 

Publishers often ask us what the best ad sizes are to include in their site’s design, and we always point them to these three:

• 300×250 medium rectangle
• 728×90 leaderboard
• 160×600 skyscraper

2.) Get your Color Schemes right. 

Its important to get the color schemes of your Ads right. Your color schemes should complement the color of your website. 

In short, Google Says

When you design your AdSense ads, keep these tips in mind:

• Use colours that either blend with or complement your site’s colours. Make the ads a part of your site.
• Use lighter colours for borders, or no border at all.
• Try rotating colours or occasionally switching the location of your ads on the page.
• Save sets of frequently-used colours as a palette.

3.) Ad Placement Matters

Even if you have the above two points covered, your ads might still not perform well if they are not placed at the right place. You need to place your ads where users will see them.

Google has these tips for you to get better revenue from your Adsense Ads

Great positions for placing your ads include:

• Above the fold of a page (the section of the page a user can see without scrolling)
• At the end of an article
• Aligned with content

Also Read: How does Google knows if you are a Adsense client and clicking on your own ads?

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List of Major IP Addresses Blocks By Country

Nirsoft, the creators of WirelessKeyView, software which can help you get your Wireless Keys in case if you have forgotten them, have now released the Major IP Addresses Blocks by Country. 

For countries in europe and in the middle east, the name of the company/Internet provider that own these IP blocks is also displayed. In order to show only the major IP blocks, only IP blocks with 4096 addresses or more were added to the list. For United States, only IP blocks with 65536 addresses or more were added to the list.

You can access the complete list on Nirsoft’s Website.

What is an IP Address? How can i find my IP Address?

IP Address is in short, the address of your computer. Using this address it is identified over the internet and your local network. Since these numbers are usually assigned in country- or region-based blocks, an IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a computer is connecting to the Internet.

If you are interested to know your IP Address, read What’s your IP Address?

 

How to Use this List? Can you give some Example Usages?

Well, to take practical scenarios, First example to take from this list is that it can be used to identify the location of a particular IP. This could be the IP of the person who sent you a mail on your Yahoo Mail account or IP of the person who sent you a mail on your Gmail account. 

The other example usage can be testing your web application for geo-targeting. If you have a web application which geo-targets content based on the end user’s IP address, you can use any of the IP Address listed against the country of your choice and test your Web Application. This can be done by enabling and Modifying the X-Forwarded-For header in the HTTP Request. To do this, you can either use Fiddler or Modify HTTP Headers.  

The X-Forwarded-For (XFF) HTTP header is a de facto standard for identifying the originating IP address of a client connecting to a web server through an HTTP proxy or load balancer. This is a non-RFC-standard request header which was introduced by the Squid caching proxy server’s developers.

Also, if you are a geek, you can develop your own script to figure out the location of a particular IP Address using the IP Address Blocks given in the list released by Nirsoft.

Can you List any other website which helps me find the location of a given IP Address?

Yes. Try out IP2Location. 

 

Also Read: How does Google knows if you are a Adsense client and clicking on your own ads?

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Are You A Startup in India Looking out for Legal Help?

If you are a Startup looking out for Legal Help in India, or a startup in India looking out for quality Legal help, try out NovoJuris.

 

NovoJuris provides Legal Services

What is NovoJuris?

NovoJuris is the brainchild of Sharda Balaji. Over years, having worked in various companies across a broad range of industries, she found a need for accessible legal advice on an ongoing basis. For most small and medium business, being compliant with all the applicable laws is a confusing effort. NovoJuris was started to address this problem with innovative “Solution based counseling” process. NovoJuris started operations on February 14, 2008.

What is this  Solution based Counseling?

As in today’s world Legal complexities are increasing and so is the enforcement. For any given business, there are numerous laws applicable. As a Startup you might not be aware of the various laws and enforcements applicable in your area of business. With Solution Based Counseling, Novojuris partners with you in formulating the best working solution for your business issues keeping the legal requirements in mind.

As a Startup, Is there any packaged service i can look at with NovoJuris?

 

As a Startup, you can look at the StartupStart package offered by NovoJuris, which gives you access to the following

• Advising you on the right legal form (Sole proprietary / partnership / limited liability company) to adopt
• Helping you with the capital structure of the company along with one-time professional tax consultation
• Incorporation of company
• Getting you ready with Permanent Account Number (PAN)
• Provide you with initial agreements like Corporate Non Disclosure Agreement and Employee Service Agreement

 

The other good place to meet and interact with like minded Entrepreneurs is Open Coffee Club, Check out the Open Coffee Club, Bangalore FAQ.The other startup in the Legal front which can also be worth having a look at is AdvocateKhoj.

Is their any other interesting startup in the Legal Services space you are aware of? 

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PC Decrapifier Lets You Cut the Crap from your PC

If you have got a new laptop or a desktop or even for that matter a new version of Windows, and you are experiencing a latency when it comes to the boot time of your laptop or desktop, this post will help you get rid of the crap which comes installed by default. Crap, as these are those softwares which you will most probably never use; but they do block up your memory. You already know how to free up some memory on your PC by disabling Windows Messenger, if you dont use it.

PC Decrapifier is designed to detect and delete all such annoying software. Don’t worry, you will always get to see what has been detected; if there is anything you want to keep, you can always retain it.

PC Decrapifier works with all versions of Windows XP and Vista. You can also get the complete list of softwares which a PC Decrapifier can remove.

 

PC-Decrapifier lets you cut the crap from your PC.

In short, PC Decrapifier does let you get rid of the bloatware which simply clogs up space and memory of your PC during boot time.

Though, you can always remove such programs from your Control Panel’s Add/Remove Programs feature, but this tool lets you get a list of most of the crap which might be sitting on your PC without even you knowing about it.

Also Read: Top 3 FREE Antivirus Applications

Top 3 Anti Spyware Applications

 

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Gizmine lets you buy all those Funky Japanese Gadgets

Gizmine, the newly launched Japanese Gadget and LifeStyle Store lets you buy all those funky and wierd looking Gadgets which you often usually see either in Sci-Fi films or in the streets of Japan.

Engine Hub at Gizmine

Gizmine, has been started by Doug Krone, the founder of Dynamism.

Gizmine has an interesting collection of Gadgets within Watches, Headphones, iPod Accessories, Speakers, Audio and Video gadgets. Also intrestingly, it sells Apparel and Calendars.

At the Website, you can do a filtered search either by Popular Items, New Items, By the Color of the Gadget or by Price. 

 

Some of the many gadgets available at Gizmine

Try it out and you might just like it. I do have a wishlist from Gizmine, if any of you feels like helping me get a part of that, let me know 😉

Source: Gizmodo

Also Read: [How-To] Get more from your iPod Battery

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[How-To] Add Flickr Photos to your Word Documents with Ease

What do you do when you have to embed an image from Flickr into your Word Documents? Download the image from Flickr onto your own computer and embed it using Insert Image feature of Word. If you are also the one who does the same thing and wastes a lot of time and bandwidth doing all this download and insert, their is good news for you.

 

Flickr4Word is a Plugin for Microsoft Word 2007 software that allows you to insert Flickr photos into your posts. All you need to do is install this software and get started.

 

Flickr4Word lets you embed Flickr Images into Word with Ease.

The plug-in enables you to search all your content, photosets, or search by tags.  It is available for free and can be downloaded from Codeplex.  For developers, the code is also made available if you want to contribute fixes and features (that comply with Flickr API terms of use).

Also Read: [How To] Convert PDF to Word files for free

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BestBuy and MacMall jump in with Black Friday Deals

After Amazon, MacMall and BestBuy have announced their Black Friday Deals and its amazing to see the kind of discounts being offered right now.

This year, MacMall faces stiff competition from BestBuy who is offering a number of $100-$150 instant discounts on Macs. This compares favorably to MacMall which tends to combine both instant discounts and rebates. 

BestBuy and MacMall announce Black Friday Discounts.

Check out the full list of discounts offered by MacMall here.

I have been waiting to see what kind of deals Apple bring out for all after Amazon announced Black Friday Deals.

Source: MacRumors

Also Read: Amazon’s discount stores open up for Black Friday

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Sweden has most number of Broadband IPs per Capita. China leads in Attack traffic

As per the recently released State of the Internet Report by Content Delivery leader Akamai has detailed information about various topics from Attack Traffic to Fastest International Countries.

Akamai’s State of the Internet Report which can be downloaded from here mentions Sweden as the country with Highest Broadband IPs per Capita. While, South Korea is amongst the fastest International Countries. The report mentions China as the country with maximum originating Attack traffic.

Akamai's State of the Internet Report claims Sweden to the country with highest Broadband IP's per Capita.

 Check out the complete report on State of the Internet, Q3 by Akamai.

Also Read: US Elections attracted 8,572,042 internet users per minute

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Orkut meets Gtalk

Orkut now has a fully integrated chat engine. In order to get started with Chatting over Orkut, you dont need to install or open seperate window. It all happens as it happens within Gmail. 

Orkut Integrates chat feature with Gtalk.

If you are worried about people bombarding you over Orkut chat, this is what Google Orkut Blog has to say

I’m sure many of you (especially you social butterflies with hundreds of orkut friends), are concerned about being bombarded with chat requests every time you go online. Not to worry! To get you started, we’ve come up with a formula that automatically predicts which of your orkut friends you probably want to chat with, and only tells those people that you’re signed into Google Talk. Our formula takes a bunch of things into consideration, giving preference to people who you’ve labeled as ‘best friends’ or written scraps to recently, and people who have friends in common with you.

With Orkut enabling Google Talk, these are the features that you can go through

• chat with your orkut friends in real time from directly within orkut
• control which of your orkut friends can chat with you
• chat with your Google Talk and Gmail chat contacts
• visit different orkut pages while keeping your chatboxes open

You can also check out the below embedded video from Youtube, which explains how Gtalk chat works in Orkut.

It will be interesting if Orkut adds the Video Chatting like Gmail as well. Another item to the wishlist.

Also Read: Gtalk adds Invisible Mode

Gmail Launches Voice and Video Chat.

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WordPress 2.6.5 is up for grabs now

WordPress has released the latest version to the existing 2.6.3 version. The latest release has fixes for a couple of security issues which only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x.

 

Wordpress releases 2.6.5 version.

The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php andwp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.

2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests. For a list of changed files, consult the full changeset between 2.6.3 and 2.6.5.

Also, interestingly WordPress has deliberately not released the WordPress 2.6.4 release to avoid confusion with a fake 2.6.4 release that made the rounds a few days back. 

Please note WordPress doesn’t have a 2.6.4 version and if you happen to be running one of that, you better abandon it as soon as possible. WordPress also says, there is no 2.6.4 version and there will never be a WordPress 2.6.4 version.

Download WordPress 2.6.5

Also Read: 30+ Tools to Turn WordPress into a Personal Hub

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