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Blogger Hacks: Using an image as link for Expandable post hack



Here's an alternative link for the Expandable Post hack ( Summarized Post ). Instead of the "read more" link, you can use an image if you want to make it more visible. If you haven't implemented the Summarized post hack yet, you can apply it by following the instructions here. I prefer using an image cause it adds color to the overall design of your blog.

So here are the simple steps to follow on changing your "read more hyperlink" into an image.





1. First is to have your image or button as link for the summarized post. I recommend to make your button in Adobe Photoshop. I'll post ready to use "Read more..." buttons in the next update.

2. Go to edit HTML under layout tab.

3. Check the "expand widget templates" box

4. Search for the Read more line or the text you used as link for the summarized post



5. Replace it with this code:




<img src='IMAGE/BUTTON URL'/>



7. Preview your template.

8. Save.






18 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS



Google Adsense publishers often commit common mistakes that could ban their Adsense account. When you get ban, you can't register anymore. According to Wikipedia, Google AdSense is an advertisement application run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and more recently, video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis.

There are well defined terms of service to strictly adhere to when participating in the program.

When i browse others site, often see ads that violate the Terms of use(TOS) of Google adsense. I compiled some of the common mistakes of some bloggers and each and every one of it are very important. These adsense faq are all picked from the Program Policies, Terms and Conditions and FAQ itself and presented in a simplified manner.



1. Never click your own adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason. You know this one very well. This is a surefire way to close you Adsense account. Never tell your office associates or friends to click on them. Keep a check if your family or children are busy increasing your income by clicking your ads and indirectly trying to stop your income. Dont even think of offering incentives for clicks, using automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Adsense is very smart to detect fraudulent clicks. Check the ads which appear on your pages by the Google Preview tool if required.

2. Never change the Adsense code. There are enough means of adsense optimization & customizations available to change the colour, background or border to suit your needs. Do whatever you want to do outside the code, never fiddle within the ad or the search code. They know it when you do. The search code has more limitations to colour and placement, but you should adhere to the rules. The code may stop working and violates the TOS.

3. Do not place more than 3 ad units and 3 ad links or 2 adsense search boxes on any web page. Anyway, ads will not appear in those units even if you place more ad units. But this is the limit they set, so it is better to stick to it.

4. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same site which offer Google Adsense competition in their field. Never try to create link structures resembling the adsense ads. Never use other competitive search tools on the same pages which have Adsense powered Google search. They do allow affiliate or limited-text links. Update: Google has allowed you to run contextual advertising like Yahoo ads, Chitika etc provided the ads do not resemble Adsense ads.

5. Do not disclose confidential information about your account like the CTR, CPM and income derived via individual ad units or any other confidential information they may reveal to you. However, you may reveal the total money you make as per recent updates to the TOS.

6. Label headings as “sponsored links” or “advertisements” only. Other labels are not allowed. I have seen many sites label ads with other titles. Dont make your site a target in a few seconds gaze.

7. Never launch a New Page for clicked ads by default. Adsense ads should open on the same page. You may be using a base target tag to open all links in a new window or frame by default. Correct it now as they do not want new pages opening from clicked ads.

8. One Account suffices for Multiple websites. You do not need to create 5 accounts for 5 different websites. One account will do. If you live in the fear that if one account is closed down for violation of TOS, believe me they will close all accounts when they find out. You can keep track of clicks by using channels with real time statistics. They will automatically detect the new site and display relevant ads.

9. Place ads only on Content Pages. Advertisers pay only for content based ads. Content drives relevant ads. Although you might manage some clicks from error, login, registration, “thank you” or welcome pages, parking pages or pop ups, it will get you out of the program.

10. Do not mask ad elements. Alteration of colours and border is a facility to blend or contrast ads as per your site requirements. I have seen many sites where the url part is of the same colour as the background. While blending the ad with your site is a good idea, hiding relevant components of the ads is not allowed. Also do not block the visibility of ads by overlapping images, pop ups, tables etc.

11. Do not send your ads by email. Html formatted emails look good and allow placement of these javascript ads. But it is not allowed as per TOS. You do not want impressions registering on their logs from any email even once. They are watching!

12. Keep track of your content. So Adsense is not allowed on several non content pages. But it is also not allowed on several content pages too. Do not add it on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results. Also exclude any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content.

13. Do not alter the results after ad clicks or searches. Ensure you are not in any way altering the site which the user reaches to after clicking the ads. Do not frame, minimize, remove, redirect or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any Advertiser Page or Search Results Page after the user clicks on any Ad or Search results.

14. Avoid excessive advertising and keyword stuffing. Although the definition of ‘excessive’ is a gray area and is subject to discretion, yet Google adsense with correct placement, focused content and high traffic will get you much more income than other programs, so excessive advertising is not required. Keyword stuffing does target better focused ads, but overdoing it is not required.

15. Ensure you Language is Supported. Adsense supports “Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Danish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, English, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian and Turkish”. In addition, AdSense for search is available in Czech, Slovak, and Traditional Chinese. If your web pages language is not supported, do not use the code on such pages.

16. Maximum 2 referral button per product per page.With the launch of the google adsense referral program, you are allowed to put only 2 referral buttons for adsense referral, adwords referral, Google pack and Firefox with google toolbar referral. Update: This feature is closing Aug 2008.

17. Do not specify Google ads as your alternate ads. Several services like Chitika eminimalls allow you to place alternate urls, when a targeted paying ad cannot be displayed. This involved creating an simple html page and putting the ad to be displayed instead. Even Adsense allows an alternate url feature instead of displaying public service ads. But never use Adsense ads as alternate urls.

18. Do not confuse with adjacent images. It was a common policy to increase CTR by placing same number of images as the number of text ads, which falsely gave the impression that the text ads represented an explanation to these images. Inserting a small space or a line between the images and ads is not allowed. Make sure that the ads and images are not arranged in a way that could easily mislead or confuse your visitors. More.

Whenever in doubt, it is better to ask for adsense help from the learned staff of Google Adsense. They are very helpful!

Visit the Adsense Blog @ http://adsense.blogspot.com/






Blog Directories: Submit your blog


One way of improving traffic here getting visitors to your site is by submitting your blog to some directories. Here's a list of sites where you can submit your blog.













AllAfrica Blogs



https://allafrica.com/commerce/afdb/blog_catalog.html

All-Blogs.net


http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php
Answers


http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp
Australian
Weblogs



http://anthonyjhicks.com/aussieblogs/

Aviva


http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php
Blawg


http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=AddLink
Blizg



http://www.blizg.com/

Blo.gs



http://blo.gs/ping.php

Blogarama


http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/

Blogbib



http://www.blogbib.com/submit.php
Blogbunch


http://www.blogbunch.com/suggest/
BlogCatalog


http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html
BlogCensus



http://www.blogcensus.net/

Blogcode


http://www.blogcode.com/signup.php
Blogdex



http://blogdex.net/add.asp

Blogdigger


http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp
BlogDump



http://blogdump.com/

Blogflux


http://www.blogflux.com/add.php
Bloggernity


http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
Bloghop


http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm
Bloghub


http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
Blogintro


http://blogintro.com/?page_id=925
BlogLines



http://www.bloglines.com/

BlogMatcher



http://blogmatcher.com/u.php%20

BlogPulse


http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
Blogstreet



http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/add.cgi

BlogTree



http://www.blogtree.com/

Blogwise



http://www.blogwise.com/

Blog Universe



http://www.bloguniverse.com/radlinks/index.php

Blog-search


http://www.blog-search.com/blog-submission.html

BoingBoing


http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
BOTW Blog Directory


http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/submitblog.aspx
BritBlog



http://www.britblog.com/

Bulletize


http://www.bulletize.com/add.php?sid=0
Canadian Blog
Directory



http://www.blogscanada.ca/submitblog.aspx

Chordata


http://chordata.info/suggest.php
ContentsMatter


http://www.contentsmatter.com/add.php
CorzBlog



http://corz.org/blog/add.php

Crayon


http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html
Deskfeeds



http://www.deskfeeds.com/index.php?index=submit.inc&cat=0&name=

Diarist


http://www.diarist.net/

EastonWeb


http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
Feeds4all


http://www.feeds4all.com/AddRSS.aspx
Feedage


http://www.feedage.com/submit.php
Feedboy


http://www.feedboy.com/

FeedsFarm


http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html
FindingBlog


http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat=

Findory



http://www.findory.com/cgi-bin/blogory.cgi?blog=1

FyberSearch


http://www.fybersearch.com/add-url.php
Globeofblogs


http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php
Gobignetwork


https://www.gobignetwork.com/blog/AddBlog.aspx
iBlog Business Directory


http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html
Icerocket


http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog
Kmax Blog Links



http://www.kmax.ws/bloglinks.htm

LSBlogs


http://www.lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php
NewsGator


http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx
Plazoo


http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
Ploogle



http://www.plogworld.org/ploogle/

Popdex



http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

Portal.eatonweb


http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
Postami


http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php
Pressradar


http://www.pressradar.com/suggest
Rateitall


http://www.rateitall.com/suggest.aspx?WL=0&TopicID=20004
ReadAblog


http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
Redtram


http://www.redtram.com/pages/addsource/
RSS Network



http://www.rss-network.com/submitrss.php

Search4Rss


http://www.search4rss.com

Small Business Blog Directory


http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/directory/add.html
SmallBusiness.com


http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog_directory_company_blogs
Strategic Board


http://strategicboard.com/?s=h:addblog
Syndic8


http://www.syndic8.com/suggest_start.php
Tailrank


http://www.tailrank.com/import
Technorati


http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
Topix


http://www.topix.net/member/register

TruthLaidBear


http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
Wilsdomain


http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wilsdomain9b.php?op=newsubmit
Wingee


http://www.wingee.com/
Yahoo.com


http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/my/cgi_rss_submission





Blogger Hacks: Add addthis button to your blog


The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people, again…and again…and again. This simple yet powerful button is very easy to install and provides valuable Analytics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users. AddThis helps your visitors create a buzz for your site and increase its popularity and ranking.(www.addthis.com)


This very cool button is very powerful for boomarking and sharing your valuable posts with other people in the internet.


Adding Addthis button on the bottom of your posts:

1. Go to Edit HTML under layout and tick the "Expand Widgets box"

2. Search for the follwing line:

&ltdiv class='post-footer'>

or

&ltdata:post.body/>

NOTE:
If you have chosen the first code,
the add this button will be above the post body items( Scroll down and see where my addthis button is placed)

If you have chosen the 2nd code,
the addthis button will be at the bottom left part and directly beneath the post.


3. Simply add this Addthis code after this line. Done!