How To Insert Adsense In Blogger.com Blogs

Recently Google published an easy one click method to publish Adsense ads on Blogger.com blogs. But if you want to earn more, you need to strategically place the ads. Let me explain both the ways to you.

First the easy way: Once you login to your Blogger.com dashboard and select a blog, you will see a tab named ‘Monetize’ at the top. Click on it and from there you can link your Adsense account with the Blogger account if they share the same Google account.
Once you’ve done that, adding the Adsense ads is just a simple click-here, click-there process. You can even choose how often you want the ads to appear, for example after every 2 posts and sorts.

To insert ads, you have to choose ‘Page Elements’ menu option under ‘Template’ tab. Once you’re there, you will see an outline of your template’ framework there. In the lower right corner of the ‘Blog Posts’ section, you will see a link to ‘Edit’ (see in the image here).

In the Edit page, you can find the option to insert Adsense ads automatically and can also choose the ad colors, format and sorts. Choose the one that best suits your blog and save. That’s it!

But the problem here is, you have very limited placement options like either at the top and bottom of posts or between a number of posts on the frontpage. I call these ‘bland’ positions and it will never attract any attention to your visitors leaving you no clicks or revenue. Also, it doesn’t allow any channel tracking option so you won’t know which blog is generating much of your revenue.

If you want to make more money, you need to strategically place the Ads and even a 2 pixel alignment change matter a lot. The best placement that I have tested to work is, placing a large block of rectangle ad 336x280 (text-only ad) right below the post title and then a horizontal banner of 468x60 size (text-only) at the end of the article even before the labels, tags and other information appears.

Obviously it is the title that grabs the attention of your visitor and that is the first thing your reader focuses on visiting your blog. Next is the stuff following and having a large block of ad there will greatly improve your CTR. Even if he ignores that and proceeds to read the content, if your article is interesting enough to engage him till the end of it, he will then exit your page through the banner ad shown right at the end of the article. This strategy has got me over 30% CTR many times and it also maintains high quality of your page.

Here’s how you place the ads strategically for more clicks and revenue:
First, login to your Adsense account and generate the code for both the blocks and temporarily save the code onto a notepad.
Basically wherever you place this code on your website/blog, it gets replaced by Adsense ads. In case of Blogger.com blog, you need to place this code directly in your template. But you can place them directly because they use a simple XML format for their templates and special coding like these are parsed into something else when you save them so the ads won’t appear. Hence, you need to make the Adsense code Blogger friendly. Simply visit this website and paste your Adsense code there to get a blogger friendly code and save it to notepad for the moment.

Now get back to your Blogger dashboard, select the blog and edit the template. Remember the ‘Page Elements’ menu option that we saw initially? Next to that, you will find an option to ‘Edit HTML’, select that and also on the option where it says ‘Expand Widget templates’.

Once you’ve done that, you will see the source code of your Blogger template there. Simply scroll through and find the code where it says: . You can use Ctrl+F to find this text there.

Paste you code just above and below that text. A large rectangle block above and a horizontal banner block below so the ads appear before and after the post content. That’s it, save the template, reload your blog after 10 minutes and you can start seeing Adsense ads in the best placements on your blog.

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How To Make Money From Automated Blogs

After I recently launched the most powerful Auto Blogging Software, there had been a lot of requests on the best practices and usage on the software to make more money from automated blogs safely. So here it is.

First of all, automated blogs are just like regular blogs and the only difference is you don’t need to take the pain in updating content regularly and the auto blogging software will grab content from various other websites you specify and posts them to your blog.

It might sound as “stealing content” but it becomes completely ethical when you give a link-back to the original article which the software can handle easily.

Where to start:
As every business begins with a keyword research, you don’t need to get deep into this. Just find a keyword that has some decent competition going around. You can find broad niches too and then split them into sub-niches on different sub-domains or different blogger blogs interlinked to each other.

For self-hosted WordPress type blogs, I would suggest having not more than 5-7 sub-domains and for Blogger.com, don’t have more than 5-7 blogs on one Google account. You can easily sign-up for another Google account from a different computer and have another set of blogs in it. The reason for not having more than 7 blogs is because it raises red-light in common sense as a normal person cannot have more than 5 blogs updated regularly and may lead to deletion of blogs.

I have around 5 blogs on each account and a total of 7 accounts all going well over 6 months without any problems so far. I don’t anticipate any either as I’m on the safer side by using different themes for different blogs or I try to make them look as genuine as possible.

For WordPress, I always use the unlimited hosting plan from HostGator as they’re the cheapest or at least worth for the price. I can host unlimited domains in one single account and they also have the best support team by far. Been using them for years and never had any issues. If you don’t have an account with them yet, I strongly recommend you get one. You can use my affiliate link to sign-up and get your first month hosting completely free!

Ok, so once you have an hosting account ready, start building blogs. For WordPress, choose a decent domain name with main keywords in the name and set it up with Hostgator. Use Fantastico to install WordPress. Then apply your favorite theme, install popular plug-ins, insert Adsense code and so on. I usually have them all in one package so right after I install a blog; I upload the package and enable them immediately from WordPress backend.

For free Blogger.com, creating a new blog is just as easy as clicking 4 or 5 buttons and you’re done. I recommend having an equal number of WordPress blogs and free Blogger.com blogs.

Setting Up The Software:
Okay, so once the blog is built, you’re going to find the source websites from where the content will be grabbed. Just do a simple Google search for your niche and you will find some top websites that have their content updated regularly. Grab their RSS feed URL and add it to the software. Likewise, repeat with other websites too. You can also read my short article on how to find feed sources for your blog.

I would recommend adding 3-5 feed sources for each blog you create.

So till now, you must have spent about 15 minutes in creating the blog and half hour to find feed sources and setting up the software. So roughly in less than an hour, you have a blog ready which can be updated regularly on a single click from the software.

Everyday you’re going to repeat the process and build more blogs. Don’t build more than one blog each day as it is easier to stay on track this way. Also, for the remaining time, focus on getting traffic to your blog.

Once a while, do some link-building, social book marking and this should be enough. I usually out-source this task but for the beginning you can do it yourself. Once a blog gets indexed and gets a steady amount of traffic, you can forget it for a couple of months. Later re-do the same link building and sorts to keep it alive in search engines but the content that gets updated regularly by the software should be enough for standing up in the search engines by itself.

Best Practices:
You should always focus on building more blogs. It is very easy to make $1 per day from one blog. If you have 50 blogs, it is $50 per day. Don’t just forget these blogs after creating and setting them up. Once a while do some link-building and social bookmarking as there is no point in having a blog without traffic.

You can use the single Adsense account for all your blogs in the empire. But when you’re blog count increases over 50 or when you start making over 100 per day on one Adsense account, I would suggest you apply for another one in a different name. Not mandatory but just to be on the safe side. You can then split the blogs between each account.

Always go with the best placements of Adsense. There are already a few High Adsense CTR themes available for download but they all don’t look good and makes it obvious as a MFA (Made For Adsense) type of website which Google won’t like much.

In my opinion, every theme is a High CTR theme and it depends on the way you place the ads. For example, place a large rectangular block of ad (336x280) just below the title and a banner styled (468x60) ad at the end of the content. And always choose to display “Text Only” ads so no image ads are shown. This has worked best for me.

Bottom Line:
Always focus on building more blogs. Don’t put all the eggs in one basket. Split all your blogs into different accounts and different platforms. And to every blog you build, don’t forget to do some promotion like link building and social bookmarking once a while. Once in 3 months should also be fine.

Always set the blogs to be updated with not more than 5 posts per day. You can easily set this in the software. Split each post with interval of 60 minutes or even more and they will get scheduled to be published on future time automatically.

Look out for more niches. Rinse and repeat the process. Closely watch the stats. If performance or visitors to any blog decreases, it’s time to do some social bookmarking. Stay tuned for more.

 

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