5 Tips to Optimize AdSense for Search


Whether some of you have implemented the AdSense for Search on your site or you are on the verge to get started with AdSense for Search on your site, these 5 tips to optimize AdSense for Search on your site will give you some idea to make your AdSense for Search useful for your site user. Tips #1:
Place the AdSense for Search box at the visible places. You need to place the Adsense for Search box at easy to find location such as below your site's header, after your posts, at the sidebar, in the navigation bar and so on. You need to make sure that your search box are placed at the same location on all your pages because it will help your site users to find the search box and look for information easily.
Tips #2:
COnsider adding 2 search boxes on content rich pages. If you have pages that are having long post and require scrolling down a lot, then you could put 2 AdSense for Search on those pages. This will help your reader to easily find the search box and navigate your site. Tips #3
Host the AdSense for Search on your site. This means that you can create the result pages and ads on your site. The result page will have the same template as your site and if users can't find the thing in the search results, they can still navigate to other section of your site. Tips #4
You could add a search box within the result page that you host on your site. This will give an advantage when users are trying to search for other stuff. Users can use the search box on the result page to search easily. Tips #5
Customize the Ads placement on the result page. You could place the AdSense Ads on the top and right sidebar of the result page which will be great place to get more clicks and make more money.
That is all the 5 tips to optimize AdSense for Search on your site. I hope it will be useful and help you boost your AdSense earning.

Free Blogger Template Pinky Girl [XML]


I found that some of the blogger templates I created are not really suitable for girls' blog. So, I decided to create a girlish blogger template which I called it Pinky Girl Blogger template. The template is pink in color and I created the "Love" logo using Adobe Photoshop. I choose pink color because pink color is more suitable for girls. I hope girls will like this blogspot template.
Pinky Girl blogger template has 2 columns and the sidebar is at the left.
If you are new in changing blogger's template, you could read the "How to install new Blogger's Template" to learn how to install your favorite blogger template to your blog.


>>DOWNLOAD PINKY GIRL BLOGGER TEMPLATE<<
Notice: Please "Right-click" and "Save Link As..." to download Misty Grass. This blogger templates are suitable for all blogs of blogger.com and the blogger template is in the xml format.

Draw Clouds and Sun using Photoshop


Drawing using computer is never an easy task and most of the time, we rather use paper and pencil to draw then using computer to draw. The Adobe Photoshop has made our life easier to draw using computer no matter your computer runs on Mac or Windows. In this post, I will teach you how to draw clouds and sun using photoshop.
Part 1: Clouds:


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1. Start with "File">>"New">>Width: 1024px and Height: 768px.
2. Draw circles and make them overlap each others to form the shape of cloud. You can see the the cloud I created in the picture.
3. Now, hold "CTRL" and then use your mouse to select all the layers of circles like the picture above. After selecting, "Right Click">>"Merge Layers".
4. After merge, you will see all the layers are combined into 1 layer. Use the circle tool, "Right Click">>"Blending Options..."
5. In "Blending Options...", select "Gradient Overlay">>"Reverse". Click "OK". Make sure you select the "Black and White" gradient.
6. Now, you have completed the first cloud.



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7. Right Click on the layer and click "Duplicate Layer". You have duplicated the cloud layer.
8. Use the "Move tool" to move the duplicated clouds so that you can see 2 clouds.
9. After moving the duplicated cloud layer, you will have 2 clouds on your workspace.

Part 2: The Sun:


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1. Select the "Circle tool" again and change the fill color to "Yellow".
2. Draw the Sun using the "Circle tool" and you will have the picture above.
3. Move the layers of "Clouds" above the "Sun" layer. In my case, my "Clouds" layers are "Shape 12" and "Shape 12" copy while my "Sun" layer is "Shape 13". Yours might be different.

4. After moving the layers, you will have the picture above and congrats, you have completed the "Clouds and Sun" photoshop tutorial.

Free Blogger Template Gradient Blue [XML]


Here is another new template I have created and I give it a name, GradientBlue blogger template. The template is having 3 columns, 2 navigation bars and 3 columns footer. I find it hard to find a template with with gradient template especially in blue gradient. So, it inspire me to create a template using the gradient blue header. I am going to create different color gradient for the header and I hope this tempate can match the need of different bloggers. You can read about "How to install new Blogger's Templates" if you are not sure how to do it.
In order to use the navigation at the top-right of this template, you will need to "Add HTML/Javascript" and then use the code below:



>>DOWNLOAD GRADIENT BLUE BLOGGER TEMPLATE<< Notice: Please "Right-click" and "Save Link As..." to download Misty Grass. This blogger templates are suitable for all blogs of blogger.com and the blogger template is in the xml format.

How to Add Related Post Widget to Your Blogger's Blog


I saw a lot of Wordpress blogs are having the related posts function after every post. I am curious why blogger does not provide such function for blogger's blog. So, I started searching the internet to search for answer. I found a lot of posts that teach bloggers how to add related post to their blog but a lot of them are not working until I found a blog which has a full functioning code to enable blogger's blogs to use the related post function.
In order to place use the related post function on blogger's blog, you need to make several changes to the HTML code of your blog.
1. Login to you blogger.com account and then go to "Edit HTML".
2. Check the "Expand Widget Templates".
3. You need to find the following code:

4. Copy all the code below and paste it after the code .

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5. Finally, click "Save Template". That is it, your readers can now enjoy the newly added related post widget on your blog.

Free Blogger's Template: Carbon Fiber [xml]


Finally, after trying and working for 2 days on a new free blogger's templates, I have completed the Carbon Fiber.xml blog design. I hope you will like this template. What is so special about this design:
1. 3 columns blogger's template.
2. Carbon Fiber header design.
3. 2 navigation bar. (One is at the top-right and another one is the one below the carbon fiber header.)
4. 3 columns are integrated into the footer of this template.

In order to use the navigation at the top-right of this template, you will need to "Add HTML/Javascript" and then use the code below:

Change the links into your own links. The maximum number of links allow at the top is 3 links but depends on the length of the link name. If you sue long name for the link, you could only use 2 links. "How to install new blogger's template on your blog?"
This template is free to all visitors and readers. You can download the template using the link below.


>>Download Carbon Fiber Blogger's Template<<
Notice: Please "Right-click" and "Save Link As..." to download Carbon Fiber. This blogger templates are suitable for all blogs of blogger.com and the blogger template is in the xml format.
If you are looking for more blogger's templates, you could visit "Freebies" category for more freebies.

How-to: 5 Less Known Tips to Increase AdSense Earnings


When we start to place AdSense Ads on our site, we are starting to try to make money from our site. The start is often the hardest time and making money from Google AdSense requires some tips and tricks to help you success in AdSense. I have 5 tips to share. I am sure it will be a lot different from those tips your read from internet. These 5 tips are less known by AdSense Publishers.
The 5 tips I am going to share in the later part of this post will be some tips from profesional AdSense Pubishers. So, I am sure it will work like wonder and help you make money faster from Google AdSense.
Less Known AdSense Tips #1:
AdSense Policies doesn't allow us to place images next to(up, down, left and right) AdSense Ads. One of the way we could make this possible is to add "Image Only" AdSense Ads next to your "Text Only" AdSense Ads. You could use image banners from other affiliate sites next to AdSense Ads too.
You could easily improve the click through rate of your AdSense Ads and of course make more money.
Less Known AdSense Tips #2:
More white space around the AdSense Ads is helping the AdSense Ads performing much more better. A lot of Pro-AdSense Publishers are having a wide white space around AdSense Ads. This is mainly because white space can help to make AdSense Ads more appealing and get more clicks.
Less Known AdSense Tips #3:
AdSense Publishers prefer using "Text Only" AdSense Ads on their site and totally neglect and forgot about Image AdSense Ads. A lot of internet users are already blinded by "Text Only" AdSense Ads and no one will click on "Text Only" AdSense Ads at all.
So, why not give Image AdSense Ads a chance to perform on your site? I am sure you can get some clicks from users. Text Only AdSense VS Image Only AdSense.
Less Known AdSense Tips #4:
Changing and testing AdSense Ads on your site is task that you need to try out yourself. You will need to find the best performing AdSense Ads on your site. You need to know that another sites are successful with the AdSense Ads format and placement on their sites do not mean that the same Ads format and placement will work on your site. Do not place AdSense Ads like this.
Less Known AdSense Tips #5:
"Less is More!". Using less AdSense Ads unit on your site will result in the best earning per click. The more AdSense Ads on your site will result in more lower bid advertisements to appear in those AdSense Ads units. Thus, you will make less money. So, try to use less AdSense Unit on your site, in return, you will make more from Google AdSense.
That is all the 5 Less Know AdSense tips. The most important thing to make the most money from Google AdSense is to get a lot of targeted traffic to your site, without traffic, these 5 tips will not work their best.