Author: Satish

Author of Technotip.com & Technotip.org Personal Blog ThinkWithSatish.com

Your AdSense a/c might be in danger

We were looking at our AdSense account and wanted to test a feature in it…” Allowed Sites “.  Login to your AdSense account and click on the “AdSense Setup” tab, there you can see the option “Allowed Sites“, click on it.
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There choose “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account“, there, list all the URLs where you are using your AdSense Ads and click on Save Changes. Now just leave it and visit the same page again after a week.

Below the Save Changes Button, there will be a list of “Unauthorized Sites“, which will be using your adsense codes!

Actually its cool right, someone using our ad codes and helping us earn more! But wait, just see who are using your ads? Technotip.org is still a new blog and I was shocked to see even the porn sites Using our ad codes! and many other URLS which required password to access. We just rescued our AdSense account from getting banned, by using “Allowed Site” feature.

allow-certain-sitesJust opt into “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account” option and make sure that your ads are not used on illegal sites.I don’t know what these people will get by including our adsense ads on their blog. By listing our URLs ourselves, we will rescue our AdSense a/c. And by using “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account”, we will not get paid for the clicks and impressions from other URLs displaying our Ad codes.

Do not forget to list these URLs:-

1. Your sites/blogs/forums. If all these are in the same domain, then just give its homepage URL once.

2. 209.85.171.104 — Google Translator

3. stumbleupon.com — As people may open your blog from within Stumbleupon to vote/stumble your article.

And keep checking your adsense account to see all those sites which are using your ads, if you see one which is not offensive(Ex:- like Google Translator etc), then just include that URL in your list.

By this you will be securing your account.

Have you used this feature of Adsense? Does this make sense to you? If you have not used this feature, then we recommend it to you all orelse you will be putting your account under risk without your knowledge.

iPhone 2.0.2 Software Update for latest version of iPhone 2.0

1. Connect your iPhone to your computer.
2. When iTunes launches, select your iPhone under Devices in the Source List on the left.
3. In the iPhone Summary tab, click Check for Update
4. Click Download and Install. Do not disconnect your iPhone until the update has finished..

Its easy, just follow these simple steps.
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1. Connect your iPhone to your computer.

2. When iTunes launches, select your iPhone under Devices in the Source List on the left.

3. In the iPhone Summary tab, click Check for Update.

4. Click Download and Install. Do not disconnect your iPhone until the update has finished.

With the free iPhone 2.0.2 Software Update, your iPhone does even more. Extend its capabilities with innovative applications you download directly from the new App Store. Get push email, calendar, and contacts from your Microsoft Exchange server at work. And use great new features in Mail, Contacts, and other applications.

Code to redirect basic html page

redirectWe have seen many plugins and 301 redirection … bla bla bla in wordpress and many other blogging platforms, to redirect the users automatically from a webpage to another webpage or from one domain to another.

Ex:- You have shifted an article to different page and now you want your visitors to automatically get redirected to the new page, instead of showing the link “click here to Enter” etc and expecting your visitors to click that link and read the article.

But many people using basic html face problem using the redirection. They need to manually create a link to navigate to different pages..this can be avoided by using these simple codes

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=http://www.google.com/”>

This code should be placed between head tag. And replace http://www.google.com/ to whatever URL you want your visitors to be redirected.

Another method is to use this code…

<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>window.location=”http://www.google.com/”;</script>

Here also replace http://www.google.com/ to whatever URL you want your visitors to be redirected.

Using such redirection may not be SEO friendly, but use it when its very much needed.

But people using WordPress, blogger etc, please do not use this type of redirection. There are many SEO friendly redirection methods that you can incorporate and save your Search engine juice.

Traffic strategies: PART 1

There are many strategies to get traffic to our blog.
Today lets see some other hidden and effective technique to get the traffic, that we have experimented with and have been proven to be effective on this blog.
Using Ad Networks to get the traffic!

There are many strategies to get traffic to our blog, like

Today lets see some other hidden and effective technique to get the traffic, that we have experimented with and have been proven to be effective on this blog.

Here it goes:-

Using Ad Networks to get the traffic!

Yes, we have put Bidvertiser ads(an adnetwork which places the ads of highest bidders) on this blog, which have bought many visitors(who are advertisers) to Technotip.org.

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We are also using “Project Wonderful”, which is a CPD(Cost Per Day) adverting program. And we have set 0.01$, per day for advertising on 125×125 ad spot. This has bought a lot of new readers, who keep coming to this blog to see for new contents and to bid on the adspot whenever there is a post getting more traffic.

Project Wonderful is also based on bidding system, so setting the minimum bid to 0.01$ is not at all a lose. Advertisers will bid more and more as the blog becomes famous. And there will be traffic flowing in, as advertisers will keep searching for the least amount to bid. They will endup to our site by searching for below any value and above 0$. By this technique our blog is shown in almost all search results.

Bidvertiser provoid 20$ for free when anybody signup as their advertiser for the first time. So our visitors get a chance to display their advertisement on this blog upto 20$ for FREE. This offer from Bidvertiser attracts many readers to stay around us to get such offers.

And as we all know, AdSense also has the option of targeted advertising. That is, targeting specific website/blog for advertisement. This also brings some more traffic.

But care should be taken not to dump the blog with just ads. People will be visiting our blog for reading the valuable content and not to see or click our ads!

More over, the advertisers, advertise on our blog, if they are interested in that niche and the advertisement is somewhat relevant to the niche.

So far Technotip.org has managed to get many readers from this technique. And more importantly these readers will be having the capacity to purchase things from your/our advertisers. “As advertisers are looking for good conversion and not for clicks”. So we can call these readers as potential readers of our blog.

Which strategies have proven to bring more traffic to your blog ? Please share your experience in the comment section.

Google AdManager is now open to all AdSense a/c holders

Previously Google AdManage was a BETA product and Technotip.org was lucky enough to get an opertunity to try it.
But now, its open to all, if you have an AdSense account, you can sign in to Ad Manager today.

Previously Google AdManage was a BETA product and Technotip.org was lucky enough to get an opportunity to try it.
But now, its open to all, if you have an AdSense account, you can sign in to Ad Manager today.

“A Google AdSense account is a technical requirement for creating an Ad Manager account.”

Its a very good service and you can manage all your advertisers in a well organized manner.

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Google AdManager is used to:

  • Manage your online ad sales and inventory.
  • Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory.
    Simple, intuitive user interface: Decrease training time and trafficking steps with simplified tagging and inventory management.
    Google serving speed and reliability
    Ensure quicker ad delivery and fewer reporting discrepancies.
    Significant cost savings!
    Pay no I.T. infrastructure, maintenance, or bandwidth costs.

Google AdManager might look like a complex thing to use, but it will be OK once you get used to it. Its all easy. You need to know, the uses of each option and you will be an expert to use Google AdManager.

I am sad for one thing here..i.e., OpenX. OpenX is also a script based software, which almost performs all the functions like Google AdManager, but it will be hosted in our own server and thus it will consume our bandwidth whenever a request is sent to it. On the other hand Google AdManager is hosted in Google’s fast servers.

Just follow the link and signin using your AdSense account…click here.

And for more information about Google AdManager, please visit AdSense blog.

Get 20$ FREE Advertising credit of Bidvertiser, using paypal a/c

We could see that, many people use their paypal account for the internet transaction, than their Credit Cards. And many people contacted us about this issue, after reading this “Best Pay Per Click Network- Bidding System” article.
So we thought of writing about it, for more clarification….

We could see that, many people use their PayPal account for the internet transaction, than their Credit Cards. And many people contacted us about this issue, after reading this “Best Pay Per Click Network- Bidding System” article.

So we thought of writing about it, for more clarification….

There is an option to use PayPal. (In case you use PayPal, there is a minimum deposit of 20 USD in order to claim the 20 USD free bonus).
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To fund your account, signup as Bidvertiser Advertiser. Goto “Advertisers Center” tab and hit the “Manage funds”—>”Add funds” tabs. Then select the amount that you want to transfer from your PayPal account. You can fund 20$ or 50$ or 100$ or 150$ or 200$ or 300$, the choice is left on your budget.

Select the amount and then click on “Add Fund” button. Then you will be taken to secure payment server of Bidvertiser, there you click on the ” prefer PayPal” link in the top of that page. Then you will be taken to PayPal billing page or you can login to your paypal account(see below screen shots) to fund your Bidvertiser account.
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Once you start advertising and your 20$ + 20$(Free) gets finished, then you can just pause all your ads.
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Do not miss this opportunity to advertiser with Bidvertiser, with FREE 20$. You can actually get lot of benefit from Bidvertiser Advertising, as you only pay when somebody clicks on your ad. No CPM costs will affect your money and you can display your ads on thousands of websites. Signup as Bidvertiser Advertiser and get one of the best Adverting deals.


Small Problem with Yahoo Buzz! and its Quick Solution



After Yahoo Buzz! was officially launched, we were eager to start using it on our blog, and experience the buzz. But from the first day itself we could find that, we could not submit our stories to Yahoo Buzz!
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wrong-method-of-submission-yahoo-buzzAnd the same error message is being shown now also. So what is the use of Yahoo Buzz! releasing to public? They could have solved the problem before the official launch.

Anyway, we could luckily and unknowingly found the simple way to submit the story to Yahoo Buzz!
The above error message comes only when you try to submit any story by right clicking on Yahoo Buzz! button and opening it in new window….!

Do not submit any story by right clicking on buzz! button and opening it in new window, it will show you the error message. So just directly click(Mouse – right click) on the “Buzz!” button and it will open in new window and you will be taken to the proper page to submit your story.
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Many of you might be knowing this, but still I thought to share it with you, because I saw in many blogs and they were writing that Yahoo Buzz! is not at all working from the day they are open to all. But now you also know that(atleast after reading this post), its not true. Yahoo Buzz! is working fine, but Yahoo! surly need to make some improvements to it.
And as I have observed, both way of submission works fine for those who had got the opportunity to test Yahoo Buzz! before it was released to the general public. And as I just investigated it a bit, I found that the source code that they are using to display the Yahoo Buzz! button is different then that used by the general public!
Hope Yahoo! will soon consider the interests of the general public also, as the population of general public in much much much more than its selective members!
That was just my thoughts flowing while writing this article…..
Please share your experience so far with Yahoo Buzz!. Its difficult to tell about any service so early, but still you can share your early experience with it in the comment section, and lets all learn something out of everybodies experience.
Also (Vote)Buzz! this story to Yahoo Buzz!, if you find it useful.