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All About ‘Matched Content Unit’: Google Adsense

In 2015, Google launched Matched Content Unit to help increase user engagement and time spent on the site by promoting relevant content present within the site. According to Googles own research based on the real-time data this matched content unit increased number of pages viewed by 9% and the time spent on site by 10%.

Note:
1. You can’t cross promote your articles/contents from 2 different sites. Matched content recommendations that are generated for each site will be internal to that site.
2. Matched Content units generate recommendations from pages that have Google ads or Matched content units on them.

Matched content units work on mobile, tablet, and desktop and are mostly responsive(the images and text within the unit content) in nature. If your articles do not contain images then text only format will be displayed.

Eligibility for Matched content unit

Eligibility	What it means
Not currently eligible to use Matched content	Your site doesn’t yet meet minimum requirements for traffic volume and number of unique pages.
Eligible to use Matched content	Your site meets minimum requirements for traffic volume and number of unique pages.
Eligible to use Matched content and show ads in between recommendations	Your site meets minimum requirements for traffic volume and number of unique pages, and it can be well monetized.

It has 2 criteria, minimum requirements for traffic volume and number of unique pages. The exact number for traffic is not known but we believe a site with as low as 400-500 unique visits per day is eligible provided it has enough unique pages – because these matched content units must show relevant related content without which it is of not much use to the visitors.

Check eligibility

Log into your adsense account. Go to Settings -> My Sites -> Matched Content.

Here it shows the domains which work well with Matched Content. You can create a Matched Content unit in My Ads section and use this list to see which domains will show good recommendations from pages on that domain.

Add Matched Content To Your Site
Go to MyAds, click on New ad unit button.

Select ‘Matched Content‘. To your right hand site you get options to customize the look and feel of your matched content unit. Here you can also opt-in or opt-out of ‘Monetize with Ads’, under Ad options settings.

Next you can also set its font family, title and background color. You can also set the width and height of the matched content unit or else select responsive unit. Save & Get Code. Paste the code inside your website / blog wherever you want this ‘Matched Content Unit’ to appear.

Responsive Matched Content Unit
Matched content units are optimized based on the container size. You can use the preview tool available inside your adsense account to see how the unit changes across different sizes.

Tips on Matched Content Unit Placement

For best results, place your matched content unit directly below your article or in the sidebar.

Earn with Matched Content Unit
You can also show ads, so you earn money while promoting your content. Simply opt-in to show ads and Google will start showing relevant ads to your users whenever it’s appropriate.

We’re already seeing 3 ads along with our own content recommended in Matched Content Unit on one of our blog.

Matched Content Unit on Technotip.com
We got approved for using Matched Content Unit on one of our sites Technotip.com You can check the unit below each article. We’ll update this post after going through the performance report of this Matched Content Unit on our blog.

Let us know if you need to know anything about these units ..I’ll be happy to assist you with whatever I know.

Get Your Phone IMEI Number From The Web

IMEI(International Mobile Station Equipment Identity) is a 15 digit unique number, using which law enforcement authorities can track your phone with the help of network service providers. If you loose your phone and do not have access to your phone bill or the box, there is still a way to recover the IMEI number.

How to get IMEI number?
If you still have your phone, you can dial *#06# to get the 15 digit number. If you have already lost the phone, you can get it by logging into your google account – which you used in your phone to access Google Play Store. Now go to Google Settings. Click on Expand All or the android icon and you’ll get the IMEI number and other details of your phone.

Watch on YouTube.

What to do with IMEI number?
You can register an FIR(First Information Report) and ask service providers to either track the phone or block it, so that no one else can use their service on your phone.

Nexus 6 and Android 5.0 Lollipop

After lot of speculation and rumors / specs and image leaks, Google finally announced Nexus 6 smartphone, Nexus 9 tablet and Nexus Player streaming media device, all running android 5.0 lollipop. Android L was already showcased previously in June 2014 and android 5.0 is the most stable release.

Order it here
Flipkart: Nexus 6
Amazon India: Nexus 6
Amazon: Nexus 6

Lollipop
Android 5.0 is also the first version of Android that’s been optimized for 64-bit architecture. This is important because chips with more bits can handle more memory, which means that a 32-bit chip is designed to handle memory addresses of up to 32 bits while a 64-bit chip is designed to handle memory addresses of up to 64 bits. Obviously, this will enable hardware manufacturers to go with more powerful 64 bit tablets and smartphones.

android 5.0 lollipop will be available on the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, and Google Play Edition devices in the coming weeks.

Nexus 6 Specs
Nexus 6 is an addition to large screened mobile devices – along with iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
Nexus 6 with 6-inch QHD Display has 2560×1440 pixels resolution.
2.7 GHz quad-core processor (Snapdragon 805) is supported by Adreno 420 GPU
storage variants: 32GB and 64GB (No external MicroSD card slot for storage expansion) for $569 and $649 respectively.
16 GB variant will not be available unlike Nexus 4 and Nexus 5.
3GB of RAM.
Dual front speakers – similar to that found in Moto G 2nd gen.
Capacitive touchscreen.
5.96″ AMOLED Display.
Dimensions: 82.98 mm x 159.26 mm x 10.06 mm
16:9 aspect ratio
Gorilla Glass 3
Weight: 184 g

Battery
3220 mAh Battery – with Motorola’s Turbo Charger support(6 hrs worth of charging in 15 min).
Standby time (Ambient Display on ) up to 250 hours
Standby time (Ambient Display off) up to 330 hours
Internet use time (Wi-Fi) up to 9.5 hours
Internet use time (LTE) up to 10 hours
You get over 24 hours of use from a full charge.
Video playback up to 10 hours

Ports
Micro USB 2.0
Nano SIM
3.5mm audio

Sensors
GPS
Accelerometer
Gyroscope
Magnetometer
Ambient light sensor
Barometer

Camera

f2.0 lens and 13 megapixel primary camera with optical image stabilization, HDR+ support for better capturing using the Google Camera app(which comes pre-installed).
It also has 2 MP secondary camera. Nexus 6 comes with Dual LED ring flash and 4K video capture at 30fps.

Pre-order / Purchase Nexus 6

Available in 2 colors: Midnight Blue, Cloud White

Order it here
Flipkart: Nexus 6
Amazon India: Nexus 6
Amazon: Nexus 6

Google Nexus 6 is going to be available for pre-order from October 29th. The pre-order will be made available on AT&T, Sprint, Best Buy, U.S. Cellular, T-Mobile and the official Google Play Store.

Wire Transfer(EFT) In India: Google Adsense

Finally Google Adsense team made EFT available for all the accounts which are eligible for payment. I can already see the joy of publishers when they see their adsense account payment system being upgraded to receive their earnings via EFT(Electronic Fund Transfer).

Payment Hold

Once your account is upgraded, your payments will be on hold until you fill the payment method form.

Bank Information
To start with wire transfer we must obviously first give Google our bank details. So after we enable our payment mode we must fill:

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Account holder name, Bank name, Account number are the ones every one of us understand. Along with this we also need to provide our branch IFSC code and SWIFT code.

Indian Financial System Code (IFSC)
An IFSC is an identification code for your bank and branch. It should contain 11 letters and numbers. For more details, contact your bank.

SWIFT Bank Identifier Code (BIC)
A SWIFT-BIC is a unique identification code for a particular bank or branch. It should contain 8 or 11 characters. For more details, contact your bank.

Not All Branches Have Swift Code
Every branch in India has its own, unique IFSC code. But not all branches have SWIFT code. When I contacted our bank’s( SBI – State Bank of India ) branch manager, he told he has no idea about SWIFT code ..and continued to tell me that we can receive money from other country just by using IFSC code and MICR code.

MICR – Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
Typically MICR code can be used to extract following informations:
Cheque Serial Number
Account Number
Branch or city code of a bank
Transaction code

So MICR isn’t of much use in EFT.

SWIFT Code Solution
Swift code is available only in branches which facilitates currency conversion services – like Forex trading etc. So get the Swift Code from your banks nearest branch which facilitates currency conversion service.

That is, go to your bank branch and ask which is the nearest branch of that bank which facilitates currency conversion or which has a Swift Code. Now ask nearest branches Swift Code and enter it in your adsense payment form. Done. [ You need not fill the ‘intermediary bank details’ and other credit details – they are optional ]

Note: With this introduction of EFT to Indian publishers, Google has removed paying via Cheques. So no monthly snail mails any more 🙁

Before Deleting Your Google Plus Account

If you had any pages associated with your current Google Plus account, make sure to add a manager to it. After 7 days of adding a VIP manager, you can transfer it to him before deleting your account. In most cases, the other account would be your migrated Google Plus account.

No Google+ pages that you own will be deleted. If you don’t want to own a page any more, you can delete it. Deleting a page is permanent. You can also transfer ownership of a page, using the page’s settings.

You might have thought Google plus is following you everywhere now or might have transferred your account, and want to delete your old Google plus account, without deleting other Google services associated with that email address.

Take care of these before deleting Google plus account
1. YouTube
Check if it’s associated with your YouTube account. If so first disconnect it orelse all your uploaded videos and comments will be deleted too.

2. Google Plus Pages
If you had any pages associated with your current Google Plus account, make sure to add a manager to it. After 7 days of adding a VIP manager, you can transfer it to him before deleting your account. In most cases, the other account would be your migrated Google Plus account.

You can continue to manage any pages you currently manage. Your name and email address will be visible to the owner and the other managers of any page you manage. You can also remove yourself as a manager of a page, using the page’s settings. If you do, you’ll no longer be able to act as that page or take any kind of administrative actions. However, all of your past posts, comments, and other actions will remain intact.

3. Know that, all the +1’s you did around the web will be lost.

4. Authorship
If you used your old account to verify your authorship, make sure to redo it with the new account too. Authorship won’t be transferred with your Google Plus account transfer.

Some of the things which will go with your Google Plus account

Your circles will be deleted, but people in your circles will remain in your Contacts.
Your +1’s will be deleted.
Your posts and comments will be deleted and won’t available to the people or communities you shared them with.
Any profile information that you did not make public will be deleted.
Many Google+ social and sharing features will be disabled for you on other Google sites.
Content from other services, such as videos, will no longer be visible to people in those circles.
No photos will be deleted: you can still access them in Picasa. To delete them, go to Picasa Web Albums.
Your connections to third-party services will not be affected. To manage them go to Connected accounts settings.
Your chat buddies in Google Talk and Gmail will not be deleted.
Your Google+ Local reviews will not be deleted: They will be marked as private and accessible in the “My Places” section of Google Maps. You will be able to delete them there.
No communities you created will be deleted, unless you’re the only member.
Google Buzz and all Buzz posts will be deleted.
Your public Google profile will be removed.
Deleting your public profile will not affect the status of your Google Account.

Deleting Proceedure
Log into your Google account, go to settings Scroll down to find link to: You can keep the Google Account and delete the Google+ feature. Scroll down and select Delete Profile and Google+ features.

If you still have Google Plus account, you can add us to your circle!
ME: Satish
Our page: Technotip

Got My Nexus 7, and I’m Loving it!

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On social media and other online forums people wait for Nexus device owners to reveal their first hand experience of new android versions. I always wanted to own one, due to the fact that I love android operating system and want to feel the new version changes as soon as possible. But like many of us, I too couldn’t afford to keep buying new devices which release with the release of new android versions. When Nexus 7 tablet PC was released, I was keen to purchase one, but to my disappointment it wasn’t available in India(Play Store) yet.

Some Features
1.2MP front primary camera
7-inch LCD capacitive touchscreen
1280 x 800 pixels resolution
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (upgradeable) operating system
1.2GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor
16GB internal memory
4325mAH battery
NFC (Android Beam)
Wi-Fi Enabled
1 GB of RAM
Manufactured by Asus with 1 year warranty for device

Google Nexus 7 Tablet In India
As always before purchasing Nexus 7 – 16GB WiFi Tablet, I did read some of the reviews and many had told that it’s an awesome device, but the sound quality isn’t good and WiFi signal is always low compared to their other devices. I’m not a big fan of music, I listen to it maybe 15 to 30 minutes max – but as far as my experience with the device, sound quality is awesome and WiFi strength matches that of my Sony Xperia Arc.

I especially love the display and the smoothness – due to the presence of 1.2GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor and 1 GB RAM. No lagging what-so-ever! Gaming freaks would surely fall in love with Nexus 7.

Nexus 7 (2013 model)
New Nexus 7 2nd generation tab is better than this in specs, but again, for Rs. 9000 it’s a steal. I’m totally in love.

My Needs
I wanted this device badly, so that I could read a lot of ebooks, but after getting it in my hands, I’ve started loving music even more, a little bit of games and more time for social networks.

Seriously, social networking and reading on Nexus 7 is far better than doing it on my Dell Studio XPS

Cons:
Nexus7-charger-usb-connector
It should have got a better charger port and a better connector wire: sharp edges might damage the screen. And the Nexus 7 16 GB variant doesn’t have support for 3G – but we can root it and make use of USB sticks to access internet on the go, without WiFi. Other essentials like, tablet case, ear phone etc has to be purchased separately. But for Rs 9k, it’s still a great deal 🙂

Best Tablet and Best Price
I was looking for an alternative as the price of Nexus 7 was high when it was released. But later Amazon started selling it for lot less and the 16GB WiFi only model got out of stock soon. Later FlipKart started selling it for lot lesser – I grabbed it immediately!

Pros
Superb display.
Long battery life.
No lag while playing games and using applications.
..and lot of amazing features as listed at the beginning of this article

Note: FlipKart is running 10% cash back offer for a limited period. If you take advantage of this, you would get Nexus 7(WiFi only) 16GB model for Rs 9000
Know more on our forum

Once you have Nexus 7, its safe to get a case to protect it from accidental damage. Look at this official Nexus 7 Case

android updates: The Best Part!

I like the fact that, Nexus devices are among the first to get new version android updates. I updated my device immediately to android 4.3 and am eagerly waiting to experience android KitKat – version 4.4