11 possible things that can kill your blogger blog

As like any other thing Google's growth via Blogger is astonishing, its the best platform for people who wants to start a blog without spending a cent . Once you get you hands on an adsense account, you can actually make money with out any investment. But like any other Google's product blogger blogs do have few drawbacks which you would have learned it by now. The Big G had already did various alteration in Blogger and they have hardened few standards.

They are not supporting adult blogs [you know what!] as they use to do, they have updated lot of features that needs little effort to understand before we lay our hands all over it. There is no special plugins like the wordpress people have, stupid xml template system with furious limitations. Along with these , now they have 11 reasons to kill your blog just like that.

If you go to this page blogger help forum , you can see thousands of bloggers crying about their blog getting deleted. Lot of so called experts will make their own suggestions and ideas here. If you face the problem, take a look.

Why do the delete/remove a blog?

Its very simple, Google's blogger do have certain restrictions in form of policy and if you violate, then you get nailed, no matter how much effort you did on that blog.This is the link to blogger's content policy page, you can take a look if you want to know much about it.

11 things to watch out :

Adult content :

Google doesn't want people to make money on adult contents, if you want to continue, then you must mention the blog as adult content blog in your setting so that blogger can warn people who enters the site. Since google wants to encourage positive experience for users and visitors, they don't want you to use nude pictures and videos or anything that is not for all audience. Please don't encourage incest or bestiality, keep it clean.

Child Safety :

They want all the blogs to be safe for children, they don't want to see a content that exploits children.
Child Pornography is not tolerated whatsoever, not only that they will delete your Google account , they will complain to respective legal authorities about your blog and you will find yourself behind the bars for good.

Hate Speech:

Everyday i happen to thousands and thousands of such comments in several videos i watch in you tube, though they are not doing anything about Google wants it's blogger users to keep it clean. Any speech against or supporting controversy issues will be put under scan. Do not write anything that encourages very bad things like, talking bad about certain race, religions , countries, etc.

Crude Content :

Never post images or videos those are graphically shocking. I have seen blogs with videos and images like people shooting others, beheading, gang rapes , public molestation, etc. please don't post these disgusting things as they violate the policy right away.

Violence :

Don't write any content that supports or encourages violence in any way. Posts like threatening others , death threats are not encouraged. Don't write articles that encourages gang violence .

Copyrighted materials :

Google is seriously working against this violation in policy, there are like thousand blogs that copy pastes others material just like that and sucking all the traffic. If you are posting anything like this , seriously dude, you are in trouble. Recently The new algorithm reduces rank/traffic to copied contents and if you continue to do the same, your all google account will be terminated.

Personal and confidential information:

Please don't post anyones personal materials like pictures, videos, address, phone numbers etc, without their permission. if they find out or someone complains about it, you will be sent to jail or your blog will be deleted[if not taken seriously]. One more thing is that if the information you are publishing is already been published in another blog or site, then this is not a violation.

Impersonating:

Please don't pretend to be someone else, never confuse your readers with false author name or pictures, if complained your blog will be killed. I have seen a blog carrying stolen articles under the name matt cutt bearing his picture !

Illegal activities:

contents like address to nearby drug supplier [trust me, i have seen posts like these], prostitutes etc is not encouraged. Don't write articles that encourages anything criminal or illegal.

Spam:

Please don't write spammy articles or comments, Google is having several algorithms that can smell a spammy blog or spammers a mile away. If you find spammy comments delete or put it in spam, don't publish it, since they want to keep the blogger clean, your content  will be removed or the whole blog will be killed.

Malware and viruses:

Don't post links are contents that transmits viruses, don't use infected js files in themes or templates. If you find your blog is infected , clean it ASAP and save your blogger blog.

Conclusion:

Please write articles that is clean and decent, stop writing blogs carrying porn activities and stop blogging pirated contents. Since Google wants to keep the users experience positive , they will go to any extreme end and will take any extreme decision to maintain their reputation. Everyday they are deleting several blogs , mostly they get to know such blogs by users complain. if you find any blog that violates all the above please report. Thank you.   
 

Adsense offers free consultation to its publishers via email- new contact options

I remember those days when Google's Adsense team supporting only publishers
who are earning more through adsense in other words people who earns them more] but , in recent days they are getting more and more closer to ordinary publishers like us and they want to interact with us and help us. They are making lots of tools and resources to help us in solving problems and earning more. They are even having Adsense academy to help us in educating few things that are quiet important.

So, Google once again got busy in making another feature possible for us, a new and personal contact options page for each publishers “who they trust”. Yes, thats right , you have to earn their trust before getting eligible for this so called “facility”.

So, how to find you are eligible?

The fact is that i even don't know the actual answer but i managed to find a “sort of actual answer” a possible way to know it. Go to google's support page and click adsense, in the right-hand side bar you will see “contacting support” click it and you will be taken to the contact options page or simply click this link contacts option page , in there if you see anything like this then you are not eligible and if you see this you are eligble to write them and get much quicker response for it.

Benefits ?

I seriously don't know, what is the difference between the normal way of contacting these people when in trouble and this new way of doing it. I belive its the detailed and quick response from them is the difference. Its absolutely free and you will get a special response making you to feel better by this way.

Contact through email :

Its kind of premium adsense feature but free for people who earned their trust. It doesn't matter how much money you earn or make them earn, its all about how much they trust you and then you will get this feature. Once you got it, you can access this facility
by clicking contact form mention in email support category
filling the form with email ID,Publisher ID, Your name along with the category of problem you are facing.
You can attach the screenshot, if needed.
Finally, start writing your story in the briefing section.

You will get the reply in two working days with a possible solution making your life easy.

Oh, almost forgot !

The link i gave you in the top “contact options page” this is a new page specially created for people like us to get a support in all kinds of problem with all possible contact option options respective to your problem.

1. It has troubleshoot for issues like
2. Account issues
3. payment issues
4. policy violations issues

you also have fix an issue option to troubleshoot all kinds of problems regarding adsense, so make use of it when there is a need.

If you find anything false in this article, please be my guest and help me in making it straight. Thank you..

protect your adsense account from invalid clicks - video tips

If you are a person who runs blog or website for money, Google's contribution in adsense is that they pay well for people like us who gets paid to publish ads. Here rises the biggest problem of all which is nothing less than a nightmare to Google and its brothers and sisters.
advertisement world would have been well known to you. Actually we know that G's adsense gets money to publish ads on your website from advertisers and pays you certain amount as commission. But the problem with

As they pay well for each and every clicks, some naughty and cunning thieves wants to make much more money out of it , which is not certainly legal. The trust between Google and its advertisers are in stake as these problems evolves each and everyday. The Big G is scratching its head each day to resolve such situation and these frauds are also working equally.

so , How do they do it ?

1. If you google, you can find few "so-called" companies charges you about 5$ to click ads in your site for the whole month.
2. There are like thousand facebook page in which bloggers like these makes friends with other bloggers like him/her who wants to make money in adsense and asking each other to click ads.
3. there are few scripts being sold in the dark market that clicks ads automatically with different ip's and timings.
and much more..

seriously, if you are in Google's position you will be scratching your head to death. They do have few tricks in their bag to save the day, that involves a highly trained technical nerds along with few powerful scripts and algorithms that can smell a fraud click/invalid click in a second. And still this is not our problem, because we are genuine and decent publishers who don't want to steal anyone's money.

Then what is the need of this article ?

Since they have a way to detect problem but that particular way do have a problem. These tools are not smart enough and just like any other tool they do have a flaws. Sometimes Google has to deny a decent click reliving that they came from bad network or the same IP address or bad traffic. This could be much worse, some times people who are jealous in your growth will click your ads so that you may get banned or your account will be terminated permanently.

To avoid these problems The team has a made few changes in their approach that may help you, here is a video presentation based on this issue..



Google will see your history before terminating:

Not a year ago, they use to terminate such account blind folded when they find your account is being used illegal. But now Google will go through your past records and activities including what you search for to verify whether this happened accidentally or wantedly. So instead of terminating your account they will suspend you, giving a chance to prove yourself as innocent, if so.

Continuous reports on notorious activity :

Google will be in touch with you every time when they find something so wrong with your account, They will provide you with all the details you required to explain yourself or resolve the problem. So always check your inbox for emails from adsense.

Getting a second chance : 

Since they just suspend your account, there is still hope for you to activate your account if there is a problem or if you got suspended for something you haven't done. There is a form in your adsense account to file a reconsideration request along with what went wrong and how you are not involved in this issue. If you do have a problem in filing a reconsideration request, i want you to read this article.

Conclusion :

even though we are aware of that Google don't like click frauds , sometimes we do get intimidated, but please don't . There are like thousand scripts , websites and facebook pages out there trying to help you in getting your account suspended, don't fall for it. Being patient is the main ingredient in this, so be patient and polite about this and protect your account. Complain google if you find anything suspicious. React quickly to google's complain about your account. Thank you..

PPC advertising - A simple introduction

so, how can i explain ppc ?. i can keep it simple or complicated as per your

requirement but the problem with me is that i want to keep everything simple . Maybe that's the reason why i get plenty of traffic these days.

PPC - Pay Per Click Advertising

To keep it simple, Every search engines these days keeps a free space in their SERP pages either in the right or left or in the top of search results that is generated by search engines as per keywords used . That particular space is for business people or individuals who are ready to pay to list their website or advertisement along with search results .

In this image you can see Google had listed these payed ads in the form of sponsored result along with natural and non-payed results.

so, how its done?

normally these ad space is sold in auction. the chances of being in the top relies on the most bid you do, still there is a another factor called "quality score " that will influence your rank in sponsored result .

Let me explain ppc with an example , consider your key word is "blogger" and your auction starts with few or more fellow bidders depending on the keyword you choose. The auction will go like any other auctions and say you have won and end up in an agreement to pay $.20 for every click you get.

if hundred people click your website in sponsored result and enters your website , then you have to pay $20 . so the amount you have to depends on the clicks you get , i hope that explains payper click .

Advantages of payper click advertising

1. ppc can help you in targeting certain level of audiences . you can target them by geo location , time and even user segments.
2. ppc can help you in measuring your ads performance . with this you can see which ad worked and which didn't, so that you can refine it for better chances .
3. this will help you, your business and website visible to all searchers searching for your niche  or keyword .
4. no matter whether your campaign is small or big, you will get good result quickly and cleanly as you want it to be.
5. the more money you spend the more visibility you get. since ppc allows you to choose time,location and many other factors to target, the wastage will be very low. 

like any other PPC do have draw backs, but this will happen only when you haven't planned well. ok, let us see
for first timers ppc is quite a confusing process . you should know what you want and what are the features available for you to use.
if you want a company to Do the PPC stuff for you, make sure that everything goes under plan and they are not pulling anything from your pocket.
if you failed to get a desired result , this will affect your pocket and you would lose lot of money.

other than these disadvantages ppc had improved a lot these days and thousands of business and websites are getting benefited each hour beyond your imagination.

this indeed a very powerful method to improve visibility but the problem is that they tend to backfire on you when not planned properly. Experimentation is another factor that you must consider in this method because this will improve your success rate with low cost.

Remember there is no such thing like secret formula for success in online marketing . spend time in analyzing and experimenting , this will help when you want to do it all by on your own.

Adsense ads below readmore - for jumbbreak users

I use adsense ads in all of my blogs like i am do in thebloggerseotips.org, using ads in between posts and sidebar seems to be more productive, but this time i want to share yet another productive method that is far better than the Google's method itself. I am talking about adding adsense ads below readmore>> link of each post. If you are using jump break option in Blogger post editor then this widget will be more useful, since the code is designed to hangout with <!--more--> tag of jump break.

so how it can be done ?

if you are not using jscript readmore in your blogger blog , Go ahead and continue with this tutorial

1.   Go to Blogger >> Template >>
2.  Save your template, before you do something.
3.  Edit HTML >> check expand widgets
4.  search for </head>, and paste this code right above it.
   

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>

     5.  Now, either above </body> or </head> or below <head>, paste this code

<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){

$(&#39;a[name=&quot;more&quot;]&#39;).before($(&#39;#ww-google-ad&#39;).html());
$(&#39;#ww-google-ad&#39;).html(&#39;&#39;);

});
</script>

If you prefer to display ads below readmore>> andEnd of the post then remove 5th line of the above code.

     6.  Now , search for this code

<data:post.body/>

     7.  below it paste this code..

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div id='ww-google-ad'>
<br/>
<center>
ADD ENCODED ADSENSE CODE use 5links unit or 480 x 60 for more profit</center>
<br/>
</div>
</b:if>

     8.  Before pasting the adsense code, dont forget to encode/parse them, search Google by parse adsense code, i am sure you will find a page, i am working on creating a parse tool on my own.

The real author for this tutorial is unknown so i can't claim this tutorial or i cant put anyone's name under author. As far as i know the person who coded this is Ahmad Nazir of MBT.  

How To Use Search Queries in Webmaster Tools – Google’s Video

We are all aware of Google webmaster tools and the reason the reason why Google wants all the webmasters to embed their site with GMT. The features of the GMT is so helpful and powerful that can assist you in many ways and can help you in bringing your blog or site to the top or atleast to a reasonable position in search engine result pages. The tools like Url parameters , disavowing and lot other fantastic features are explained in these articles

We haven’t discussed anything about search queries feature provided by GMT, so I thought it would be better if I can share certain things that can help you in improving your sites performance in Google search.

Google’s View about “SEARCH QUERIES”Crawling, indexing and Ranking is the three important and obviously the only three things a search engine do with your website and final phase is generating results. So the Search Queries option in GMT gives you all the information about Google Web search queries that have returned from your site.



I hope the video explained about everything about “search queries” , Lets try to understand few more things.

Search Queries Data in GMT :How to view Search Queries

1 : Go to Webmaster tools >> sign in or sign up >> Add your website if not added already, Else click your site
2 : On the left menu you can see the "Traffic" and Then click "Search Queries"

Data Included in top Queries tab

Queries : The total number of search queries that had returned pages from your site at the given period of time.

Impressions : It denotes the number of times your site appeared in search results based on the queries along with the percentage in decrease / increase in the daily average comparison.

Clicks : Once your site is displayed in search result page, the number of times a user clicked your link for a query is given here.

CTR : so called ClickThrough Rate denotes the percentage of impressions that resulted in click , so if the impressions is high and clickthrough rate (CTR) is low, then you have to work a lot in your search engine optimization.

Average Position : It’s the average of the position of your site in search results compared with previous result or calculation.

The Top Pages tab has the same data table as the queries , the only difference is that the calculations is based on pages of your sites.

Conclusion:

Understanding your audience is a key thing while trying to earn money from blogging, this tool exactly provides you a helping hand in this issue. Check your top performing query and low ones, start optimizing low performing ones so that you can get more traffic out of it. As I said before, if your impression is more and CTR is less you need to concentrate in SEO. Just like top queries, top pages should give you all the informations about your pages, make use of it too.

Now you have all the data related tour sites performance based on queries and also you now posses the knowledge on how to interpret them. Make use of these data and Graph to tweak your sites performance. I hope this article had helped you a bit, if so please don’t forget to share.

Custom Robots Tags: Settings Inside Post Editor

Blogger introduced custom robot header tags almost an year ago, the reason why i chose to write about this now , is that most of the newbie bloggers using blogger.com doesn't know about this. By enabling the custom robot tags we have the power to noindex text and images along with other important tags like "no archive ", "no follow" etc.  "  You can enable this feature under search preference option in settings.

Settings >> search Preferences >> Enable custom robots header tags

once you have enabled this option, you can see them in your post editor allowing you to choice how Bots can crawl your post.

Once enabling this option, you can check these check boxes as shown above to enable few features, lets try to understand the options.

1. All : Don't restrict any indexing or serving, this is the default option for homepage,archive and search pages.
2. noindex : Don't index or show this page in the search result and cached links in search results.
3. nofollow : Don't follow any links in this page or article.
4. none : This is similar to noindex or nofollow .
5. noarchive : Don't archive it or show cached links in search pages.
6. nosnippet : Don't show snippets in search engine result page.
7. noodp : Don't use metatags from any open Directory Projects for titles and snippets from them.
8. notranslate : Don't allow translate or options like that in search engine results
9. noimageindex : Don't  index image in this page.
10. unavailable_after : Don't show this page in search results after specified date and time, since we have to mention this on our own, you must specify date RFC 850 format Example : 12 FEB 2013 10:15:00 PST

Why should we consider using "Noindex" and "Nofollow"?

Google's panda and penguin strongly suggest you to use no index if you are copying or if you have to copy someones article , as you know "noindex" will make Gbot to stop indexing this article and makes your page invisible for search engines, by this you avoid penalty.

Nofollow can be used in the situation where you are trying to link to some external links that are low ranking one or not related to your article, by using this tag, you prevent GoogleBot from following the link or crawling the link to avoid penalty.

Using Noimageindex and Notranslate :using "Noimageindex" will prevent Gbot from indexing your image, for example, if you are running a blog for personal needs like sharing images to your family members and no one else,  now your images will not be shared by search engines and images search engines.

Notranslate works similar to this, if you want you website or page to be viewed and understood by people with specific language , you can use this option.

Using nosnippet and noarchive:

In search engine result page [SERP] you can see that Google presents all the result with title, url and description as snippet. if you don't want this type of result in when displaying your page, using this option will be good idea.

similarly Using "noarchive", the search engines wont archive your page [i,e] saving your website or page in cache.

Why can't i see the Flags in view-source ?

Normally these flags are stored in the HTTP header fields that is not viewable in source page, to view this you can make use of Firefox's or Chrome's built in tools.

• in Firefox >> web developer >> web console >> NET
• in Chrome >> Tools >> Developer Tools >> Networks
• There you can see the url of your page, once selected
• you can see the two sections in the sidebar , one request header and response header
• Under the response header, you can see some thing like => X-Robots-Tags :all,noodp,noimageindex or the flags you used.

How over optimization is done for a Blog or site ?

Right From 2011 to this date Google had made two major updates in its search engine algorithm and also did 50 other minor changes its approach. The reason for these updates is to track down low quality contents and sites plus websites doing over optimization by means of black hat methods. If you are both the webmaster and the author of your blog , you would know how you do search engine optimization for your blog, if you are just the webmaster and author who leaves seo in the hands of consultants and "so-called" experts you should consider reading this article.

so, What Exactly is over-optimization ?

actually, i don't see the difference between over optimization and black hat seo, but speaking in general, anything that involved the following is "over-doing it" !

1. keyword density
2. keyword stuffing
3. bad inbound and outbound links
4. cloaking and hiding texts and links
5. setting up doorways [multiple redirect]
6. interlinking multiple sites of different niche.

Keyword Density:

As is i said in my previous article about "how to write a high quality article" , you should consider using more keywords in your article, you should not use your keywords more than 3 -4 times in an article. There are few firefox addons and lot other offline tools for you to help in detecting keyword density in your article.

Tools like Seo Yoast can detect the percentage and warns you if you have more than the allocated amount. some says to keep the density anywhere between 2-3% or 3-5% but my recommendation is to keep it between 2-4% and do not exceed, since Google is changing these numbers then and there, its better to keep them low.

Keyword Stuffing:

Another "you-are-over-doing-it" problem is the keyword stuffing, probably you can avoid it by minding your keywords flow, use them twice or thrice in an article,  stop using the same post title as permalinks . keep in mind what keyword you have used in your title and url, while using Anchor texts in your article don not use those keywords.

bad inbound and outbound links :

I don't know whether they are using these words "inbound" and "outbound" these days. Inbound links are the backlinks and the outbound links are the links that will take your visitors to another site. Normally the bad inbound links are the backlinks from a low ranking or zero ranked website and also backlink from a site not related to your niche.

outbound links or the external links that you use in your article to take your visitors to refer about particular information you have given, sometimes we use them, so that your visitor may know where he can find more. The bad practice is , linking to low PR sites, sites not related to your niche, harmful and porn sites etc.

Do not pay anyone or get money from any one to put links in high PR sites that is not related to your niche.

Cloaking and hiding Texts :

The reason why people do this very often is to make Googlbot confuse, these texts and links will be kept hidden from visitors and visible to GBots. The reason is very simple, they want to promote their keyword or link with out getting too much attention and to manipulate search engines. Keep your links and text visible for human eyes.

 Setting Up Doorways :

The thing about this method is that, a webmaster creates a landing page with lots of keywords and they do fantastic seo to make their page visible in search result page , once the visitor enters through the snippet, they will be taken to various pages and finally they will be landing in some other page. The redirect work will be so fast that you don't even know its happening.

The reason why they do that is to increase visitors / pageviews for various pages or parallel sharing of pageviews. Google hate these kind of multiple redirects. 

interlinking multiple sites of different niche

The online bloging business is turning out to be more profitable than any other business, due to this fact many webmasters create multiple blogs and interlinks them with one another no matter what their niche's is. They also copy or rewrite articles and rotate them in these blogs to get more traffic and income. keep in mind that Google is using human quality raters to detect such websites and to nail them.

 You must understand that, Google is not keen about one particular thing, they are hiring indirect and direct employees to help their search engine do better, tons and tons of algorithms and human eyes are going through every website and yet people are finding loop holes, though they could be lucky you may not.  So here are the few things  i wanna list, i am sure that many more points are missed, if you know any please share it with us..