Keep AdSense Ads Out Of The Reach Of Children!

fraud-clicksAdSense is no more just an advertising service today, it has become the only source of income for hundreds of people who work hard Online day and night trying to receive as much traffic they as can as possible at their websites or blogs. Traffic blesses one with page impressions and clicks, which in return increases your AdSense revenue.  Because its all traffic that AdSense loves in the end of the day.
Most of you are well aware of AdSense terms of service and how strict the rules can be when it comes to “fraud clicks” or “Accidental Clicks”. Probably you might have not heard of accidental clicks that much as you hear of fraud clicks. So here goes a simple explanation for both of them

What are Fraud AdSense Clicks?

Fraud clicks are intentional clicks made on Ads running on a website using a software or man-made clicks. New Adsense account holders are often involved in this as most people under-estimate Adsense’s policy rules and monitoring algorithms.  Many people who loose there Adsense accounts think they can easily fool this Million Dollar company and its ability.

What are Accidental AdSense Clicks?

Accidental Clicks are those that are un-intentionally made on Adsense Ads running on your website. This can happen due to many reasons which are discussed below

  • Clicks made by you accidently while updating your site
  • Clicks made by your friends or family members using your computer
  • Clicks made by Kids at home While Playing Online Video Games!



But the most important amongst them are clicks made by kids. Adults in family can be informed and educated with your advertisement rules but how can you make a Kid understand that?
Most of us have a habit of setting our Website as the browser’s homepage. Even if you don’t have this habit still the website URL is stored in browser’s cache.  With at most one desktop computer in the house, its common that it will be used by every family member. Windows has an option of creating multiple accounts but some bloggers and well learnt web masters often don’t utilize this option. Even those who create multiple accounts, still prefer to visit there websites on each and every account while in hurry. Being addicted to monitor the status of our websites we often ignore which windows account are we logged in. Is it the one which is your personal account? or the one where you let your children or younger brothers and sisters play video games online?  I have seen that happening to my own account. My younger niece once got confused while playing a game at pbskids.org and she had accidently clicked the Back button of the browser and browsed into my blog’s homepage. I had left for prayers and when I was back I found the naughty sitting on my desktop computer and gazing at my Blog. I really don’t know how many times she might have clicked the attractiveEmoticons appearing on my Adsense Ads!
I shared my story because such accidental clicks can cause a great deal of loss to Adsense trust on you. So please make sure you create a separate protected account for you on your home computer. And never ever visit your blog on other joined accounts because it can really make your heart beat hard! :p

Google +1 button optimized for mobile web

The Google +1 button, the public sharing tool which was introduced to the internet a few months back has now been thrown open for mobile web as well,. This development with respect to mobile phones comes after Google + was introduced for the iPhone in the second half of July. With this, net savvy users can publicly share what they like or recommend while on-the-go.

The +1 button works in a two-way manner. With this, users can share pages they like, find useful, or want to recommend for possible future use to others. This can be done within their circles, restricted to people viewing the +1ed pages in the profile or it can be shared with everyone.

The other way round, this button helps improve the Google search process by showing +1 recommendations in a separate category in the search results. Thus, users can refine and simplify their search process by seeing what pages from their search have been +1ed.

Users can also control the visibility of their +1s. They can easily change the settings to restrict the visibility to a select number of circles, while blocking a few. Also, +1s can be kept hidden in the profile where no one will get a view of a user�s list, while they remain publicly visible.

According to the update, the Google +1 button will appear automatically to anyone using Android version 2.1 or above and iOS 4.0 or higher browsers.

How To Invite Friends In Google Plus & Create Circles?

It was once said that the biggest migration that ever took place was from MySpace and Orkut to Facebook and now it’s time for social media history to take a u-turn and the biggest migration to place from Google+ to Facebook is yet to occur. Just today we shared a tip on how can you join GooglePlus and today we will travel into this great new social software to discover some more tips step by step. You will learn in this tutorial on how to invite new friends to join Google Plus and create new circles for different social categories.

How to find and Invite Friends In Google Plus?

  1. Log into your account
  2. At the right side you will see suggestions. Click the link that says “Show All
show-all-link-in-Google
You can also   do this by clicking the Circle Icon that appears at top as shown below,
Find people on google+
  4.   In the new page you will find a list of friends that you can invite and add to Google Plus. Click the link “Add a new person
find-and-invite-friends
You will be asked for that persons Email ID. Just submit your friends Email ID (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, any ID you want!) , give your friend a name and add him to a specific circle. As shown below,
Inviting Friend in Google+
You will see a Green +1’d button appearing flying into the circle you chose, indicating that your friend has been successfully invited and added to your Circle. That’s it!

How to create Circles and add Friends to Circles?

On the same page where you invited friends you will see circles appearing just below the Profile Pictures. You will see a white circle that says “Drop here to create a new circle” Just click it and you can then easily create a new Social Circle by following easy instructions there.
Create Circles 
Why not watch a easy to follow video to know more about Google Plus Circles?
Hope this little info proves helpful to most of you. Have fun. Peace out! 🙂

Add a Search Box to Your Blog (Header)

One of the important widgets in a blog is of course a search box, you may leave the archive widget, but do not miss a search box. With increasing number of posts, it is of course not possible for your readers to find a post from the never ending list in your blog archive, in that case only a search box can help them to find what they want.

According to my own blog statistics, out of every 500 page impressions at least 50 impressions belong to internal blog search.

Adding a search box to your blog is very easy. Simply Go to Layout and click on Add a Gadget, and select it as Search Box.
But just in case you want to edit/modify the search box, then you should better add it as an HTML element.


So go to Blogger -> 

Layout -> click on Add a Gadget and select it as HTML/JavaScript

and paste this code in to it:

<div>
<form action=’http://bloggerstop.net/search’ id=’searchthis’ method=’get’ style=’display:inline;’>
<span>Search This Blog</span>
<input id=’b-query’ maxlength=’255′ name=’q’ size=’20’ type=’text’/>
<input id=’b-searchbtn’ type=’submit’ value=’Search’/>
</form>
</div>

NOTE: Replace the code in RED with your blog’s address. You may customize the widget by modifying the text in BLUE.
That’s it save the widget.



In case you want to display the search box in the Header region, just like BloggerStop, follow these instructions:

Log in to  Blogger -> Layout -> Edit HTML and mark the ‘Expand Widget Templates‘ box.
Now find (CTRL+F) this:

#header {
…..
…..
…..
}

And immediately BELOW/AFTER it, paste this code:

#header .searchbox {
text-align:$endSide; //$endSide = Right & $startSide = Left
margin: 25px; // Distance from right or left side
}


Now search these lines:

<div class=’descriptionwrapper’>
<p class=’description’><span><data:description/></span></p>
</div>


Add the blue code BELOW it, like this:

<div class=’descriptionwrapper’>
<p class=’description’><span><data:description/></span></p>
</div>

<div class=’searchbox’>
<form action=’http://bloggerstop.net/search’ id=’searchthis’ method=’get’ style=’display:inline;’>
<input id=’b-query’ maxlength=’255′ name=’q’ size=’20’ type=’text’/>
<input id=’b-searchbtn’ type=’submit’ value=’Search’/>
</form></div>

That’s it, save the widget and let your visitors freely roam around your blog !

Related Posts Widget in Blogger With Thumbnails

Now Like wise WordPress Blogger Users can also have Related Posts with Thumbnails in Blogspot Blogs.

To increase page views per user this widget can be very helpful, you can easily display the Related Posts with thumbnails below every post or below the post area with very ease.


For displaying the thumbnails you need not to worry about anything, this thing is taken care by the widget automatically, but you must have at-least one image in the post.


Follow the steps to display Related Posts Widget in Blogger With Thumbnails.

Step 1: First Login to your blogger dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML and check the “Expand Widget Templates” checkbox.
Step 2: Find the

              </head>

Step 3: Replace it with

              <!–Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start–>
              <b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘>
              <style type=”text/css”>
              #related-posts {
              float:center;
              text-transform:none;
              height:100%;
              min-height:100%;
              padding-top:5px;
              padding-left:5px;
              }
              #related-posts h2{
              font-size: 1.6em;
              font-weight: bold;
             color: black;
             font-family: Georgia, �Times New Roman�, Times, serif;
             margin-bottom: 0.75em;
             margin-top: 0em;
             padding-top: 0em;
             }
             #related-posts a{
             color:black;
             }
             #related-posts a:hover{
             color:black;
             }
             #related-posts  a:hover {
             background-color:#d4eaf2;
             }
            </style>
            <script src=’http://blogergadgets.googlecode.com/files/relatedthumbs21.js’         type=’text/javascript’/>
            </b:if>
            <!–Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End–>
            </head>

Step 4: Find the either line given below

            <div class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′>
            OR
            <p class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′>

Step 5: Put the code given below immediately after the above one.

<!– Related Posts with Thumbnails Code Start–>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘>
<div id=’related-posts’>
<b:loop values=’data:post.labels’ var=’label’>
<b:if cond=’data:label.isLast != “true”‘>
</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘>
<script expr:src='”/feeds/posts/default/-/” + data:label.name + “?alt=json- in-script&callback=related_results_labels_thumbs&max-results=6″‘ type=’text/javascript’ /></b:if></b:loop>
<script type=’text/javascript’>
var currentposturl=”<data:post.url/>”;
var maxresults=5;
var relatedpoststitle=”Related Posts”;
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs();
</script>
</div><div style=’clear:both’/>
</b:if>
<!– Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End–>

Now Save Template and View your blog you will find Results, if you don’t see the images then keep patient it will show you withing 24 Hours.


Note: You can adjust the maximum number of related posts being displayed by editing this line in the code.

var maxresults=5;


5.To edit the title of the widget you can change this line of code:

var relatedpoststitle=”Related Posts”;


If you have any issue please comment here.