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.

Less AdSense Ads, More Money

I am struggling to get more readers and traffic to my blog. Of course, getting traffic is a tough game for blogging but when traffic start coming it will continue to come without stopping. I am going to share some of the results of my testing of AdSense placements and AdSense Formats on my blog. I found a great way to increase AdSense earning from my blog. "Less AdSense Ads, Same Amount of Traffic, Make More Money."

Blog Success = Great load of Traffic + Good and Proper Monetization Techniques + Good User Experience + Provide Good Contents

In order to success to make money using your blog, a great load of traffic is really needed and traffic to your blog is the key to your blog success. You need to use proper monetization techniques to monetize your blog. So, reduce the number of AdSense Ads on your blog, it will help you make more money.
In addition, you will need to give your blog users great user experience whilc they are reading your blog. This will keep them coming back to your blog for more information. SO, provide great contents to your users everytime you write a new post.
As a result of "Less is More" concept, I remove some AdSense Ads from my blog and added an AdSense ads on the first page of my blog. I am going to try out the new placements for another 1 week time. I hope to see great improvements soon.

eBlog Entrepreneur: Free Blogger's Template [Misty Grass.xml]

I will be giving away freebies on my blog. Some of the freebies are money prizes, free e-books, free icons, free logos and free blogger templates. I am going to create all of these free stuff myself and I am sure that you can only get it on my blog unless there are other blogs linking my blog. Today, the first freebie will be free blogger template which I have created using about 1 day. I hope you will like it.
You could see the design of blogger template I created at the picture below. If you like it, you could download it using the link and follow the step-by-step instruction to install new blogger's template to your blog.


>>Download Misty Grass<< 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 Install Blogger Templates

There are a lot of nice looking blogger's templates available on the internet. I am always searching for blogger's templates and I am building a list of great blogger's templates to help me find templates easily. If you would like to look at some of the great templates I collected over the internet, you can visit "Blogger's Templates" at the navigation bar of my blog. You might come across a great template and you like that template very much. The problem is "How to install the blogger's template to your blog?". This post will guide you step-by-step to help you change your template easily.
Several Precautions before Making Changes to Your Templates:
1. Back up your templates before changing.
2. Copy important stuff at your sidebar before you make changes to your template.
You can copy and paste those stuff(codes)at your blog's sidebar in notepad for safety purpose because sometimes, changing template will cause deletion of widget at the blog's sidebar.
Step-by-Step Guide to Install New Blogger's Template to Your Blog:

1. Login to your blogger.com account and then "Layout">>"Edit HTML".
2. Click and tick the "Expand Widget Templates".

3. Then, click on "Browse" to choose the Blogger's Template XML file from your computer and click "Upload".
Notice: Sometimes, a warning message will appear to tell you that some widgets will be deleted, click on "Confirm and Save".Make sure you follow the steps in PRECAUTIONS before you confirm and save.
4. Now, you can click on "PREVIEW" to view the changes or "SAVE TEMPLATE" to save the new template on your blog.

Congratulation, you have completed the process to change your blog's template.

How to Make Money From Your Photos

I know that a lot of internet users like us are using sites like Facebook, Friendster, MySpace, PhotoBucket and so on to upload photos and share our daily life with friends. Some of you might be having thousands of photos on those site. Personally, I have only around 100 photos photos those sites. We can make money from our photos. There are some sites that offers photo storage services and those sites are paying members to upload photos.
Making Money For Uploading Your Photos:

• ShutterStock.com
• DreamsTime.com
• Ziddu.com
• ShareaPic.net
• Fotolia.com
• iStockPhoto
• BigStockPhoto.com

There are plenty more sites to make money using your photos.
What I think and What You think:
Yeah right, I don't have good cameras and I don't have skills, I will not make money from those sites.
I am on the way to try out this new method to make money. I hope it will work and help me make money.

Image AdSense Ads VS Text only AdSense Ads

I am constantly seeking more and more ideas about Google AdSense and I am having some testing on the effectiveness of AdSense Ads on my blog. Now, I am testing AdSense Image Ads and AdSense Text Only Ads. I want to see the performance and effectiveness to make money on my blog by comparing performance of both of the different AdSense Ads formats. What is the good and bad things about Text Only AdSense Ads? What is the good and bad Image Adsense Ads? I am making a comparison between both of the Ads formats.
AdSense Image Ads:
It makes your blog looks more beautiful and more attractive. If you are lucky and have enough traffic to your blog, you will be getting a lot of clicks and make a lot of money from your blog.
If you do not believe this, you could have a look at some of the high traffic sites like Friendster, Neopets, Gaiaonline.com and so on. You could see that they are using Image AdSense Ads on their sites and they are making thousands and thousands of dollars from their sites.
At some points, Image AdSense Ads are getting more clicks and make more money than normal Text Only AdSense Ads.
Text Only AdSense Ads:
Text Only AdSense Ads are used by millions of websites and you can see them on millions of blogs. People are slowly and gradually become blind to the Text Only AdSense Ads.
Bloggers and webmasters are trying to use a lot of tricks to get their AdSense Ads clicked by visitors on their sites. They are always changing the color palettes, changing placements and so on.
They are some great sites and blogs are making money using Text Only Ads. You could see a great example of AdSense Pro Earner at ShowMoney.com. of course, you will need to do a lot of optimizations for the Text Only AdSense Ads to make a lot of money.
So, which formats are great and gets the most clicks and make the most money for AdSense Publishers? The answer will be revealed after the test done on my blog.
So, stay tuned for the performance results of Image and Text Only Google AdSense Ads on eBlog Entrepreneur.

How to Create a Glossy Button using PhotoShop

Today, I am playing with Adobe PhotoShop again. I spend my time trying to figure out how to create a glossy button using photoshop. After testing here and there, I manage to create a simple glossy button within half an hour but the time to create this post is 3 hours. It is quite simple to create a glossy button but the steps are quite long to do it. You could read more about how I create the glossy button in the later part of this post and I will guide you step-by-step to create your own glossy button too.
How to create glossy button Step-by-Step Guide:
Step 1:

Open your Adobe Photoshop and then click on “File”>>“New”. Create a width 400 pixels and height 400 pixels workspace.
Step 2:

Create a new “Layer”.
Step 3:

Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool and draw your button on the workspace.
Step 4:

After drawing your button, right click on your button and choose the “Blending Options…”.
Step 5:
Step 5 is the most important and the longest step, so please be very careful to follow properly.

i) Select the “Drop Shadow” and make the adjustments like the picture below.

• Opacity: 35%
• Distance: 0px
• Spread: 0%
• Size: 7px

ii) Select “Inner Shadow” and make changes according to the picture below.

• Opacity: 20%
• Distance: 0px
• Choke: 0%
• Size: 85px

iii) Select “Bevel and Emboss”. Then, make changes according to the picture below.

• Depth: 100%
• Size: 0px
• Soften: 0px

iv) Now, select the “Gradient Overlay” to make changes to gradient and colors.

Change the colors to:

• #000099 at 0%
• #6666ff at 100%

Step 6:

Your button now will look quite nice in gradient blue. Now use your mouse pointer to point at the “Shape1”. Hold “Ctrl” and “Left Click” to select the shape. Your shape will now look like below.
Step 7:
Create a new layer again.

Now, select the Rectangular Marquee Tool.

Then, use the marquee tool to draw on the workspace like the picture above.


Select the paint bucket tool and make sure the color is white #ffffff. Look at the picture above.

Fill the selected area with the white color. Then, change the opacity to 15%. Your button should look glossy now.
Step 8:

Now, create a new layer for the words in the button.


Select the “Text” tool then draw on the workspace to type your text for the button. Move the text and place it at the proper place within the button

Congratulation, you have created a glossy button of your own using Adobe Photoshop.