Correct AdSense placement enforcement: No ads below blog title allowed

We all know that Google AdSense ads placement below a post title just above the post content is one of a heat spot. At least that was what Google documented before. There is guidelines months ago that suggesting putting ads below post title is a no-no as it could implies the ads as not ads . The guidelines clearly stating "ads shouldn’t be placed under a title or section heading in a way that implies that the ads are not ads ". It seem now Google team try to enforce the guidelines, one blogger was contacted to follow this guideline.

Quickonlinetips was contacted by Google about the Adsense placement below post title, and as a result quickonlinetips now put "Advertisement" word above the adsense ads that placed below the post title.

Do I need to follow putting advertisement word above the ads ?. Currently I'm preparing for it, however I think my Adsense ads that placed below the post title is slightly different ( as the guidelines shown ). Mine were formated in banner style instead of square and it is quite distinguishable from the post content. Lets see, I'm working on it to fulfill Google guidelines requirements.

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August 28, 2008

Adsense setup for feeds

You may already noticed this feature on your adsense account. Although monetizing feeds isn't new, having this feature from inside adsense account is just great. The setup allows all adsene setup items, including ad type, position, channel and colors plus the frequency of ads and post length that you wish ads to show.

Up to now, you need to inform Adsense team your Feedburner account to get your feeds account in Adsense for feeds, no self service available yet. If you dont have feedburner account, you can create new feed and get the ads displayed.

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August 15, 2008

Good bye Olive, Oldest blogger passed away

Last year this blog wrote about oldest blogger that this blog author ever knew, Donald Crowdis; which was apparently not the oldest blogger. The oldest blogger is Olive Riley from Australia, aged 108 years. Olive Riley had passed away on 12 July 2008. What Olive Riley has done is such an achievement, she embracing internet in her 106 th year. You know what ?, she called blog as blob, and her blobbing is inspiring, a true blogging spirit.

Good bye Olive ..... wish Mr. John McCain could blobbing like you did ...

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July 15, 2008

Top three Contact Form wordpress plugins for effective blogging

Here are some Wordpress plugins that helps you creating neat contact form for your blog. With these contact form plugins for Wordpress, creating custom great looking and spam free contact form for your Wordpress CMS is now even easier.

Instead of hiring PHP programmers to do the task, here you can choose contact form Wordpress plugins which is best for you.

Cforms II

This plugin called Cforms II allows you to create all sorts of contact forms. It allows you to create many fields and many types of input boxes; check boxes, select boxes,password boxes, radio buttons and so on. You are even can create multiple contact forms throughout your blog or on the same page with convenient ways. It's support AJAX/Javascript, CSS Styling and has administrator console interface.

WP-LightForm

Dubbed as the prettiest Wordpress contact form, WP-LightForm is an AJAX.PHP contact form which includes spam protection, form validation and custom form elements. Developed based on LightForm, its utilises FormCheck form validation and Niceforms for custom forms elements. See Wp-LightForm demo.



Dagon PHP Form Mailer

This plugin is a Wordpress plugin version of Dagon secure PHP form mailer script. It's offering a wide range of features, including multiple instances, support many fields in any order, support multiple recipient, optional auto reply, an image verification. It is also support 22 languages and protection against email header injection. ReCaptcha integration is also supported.

Please note, if you are also integrating ReCaptcha to your Wordpress comment system and want integrate ReCaptcha with your contact form plugin, you need to do tweak on the the PHP script to only call ReCaptcha API function at once.

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May 29, 2008

Scribefire 2.0 released: a lot new fatures

Scribefire is a Mozilla Firefox extension that lets user blogging easily, and integrated with browser. Now with Scribefire 2.0 , users are offered with a bunch of features for easy blogging pleasure.

I've been using Scribefire for blogging for a year, and love it. Scribefire as a Firefox extension, make it easier to blog without even leaving your browser. Recently Scribfire announced the release of Scribefire 2.0, which includes huge features improvements since the last release.

Major improvements are :

• Tabbed editor windows. Now create multiple blog post within Scribefire is easier. Just click the new tab button, and new editor windows will open.
  
  


• Quickblogging. Quickblogging feature is for quick modification for existing blog post. Just point your browser to your blog, Scribefire quickblogging toolbar will appear. Simply click buttons in the toolbar, whether you want to add images, video or quotes. Then you are asked to click the post's title to do the editing.
  
  
  
  
• Post timestamp. It was only Scribfire for Firefox 3 that has timestamp feature, now adding post timestamp included on all Scribefire. Click the 'options' button to modify timestamp, check the 'modify timestamp' and timestamp you wanted.
  
  
  
  
• New promote window. Promoting your blog post to social bookmarks media is now even easier. Scribefire added new 'Share/Promote' window to help users sumbiting their post to Digg,reddit,Del.icio.us and other social bookmarks.
  
  
  
  
• Flickr and Youtube integration. Users are now easily can add images and videos using Flickr and Youtube integration feature. By activating Flickr and Youtube integration users can search a keyword for Flickr images or Youtube videos, choose an image or video and Scribefire will prompt for a caption for it and simply click a button to insert it into a post.
  
  
  
  

Now you can see that Scribefire offers features thats makes you blogging easily without even leaving your Scribefire window. Before, I was off to Firefox window to search an image on Flickr or to Youtube site to get a video for my post, now I don't need to leave my Scribefire to do that. One thing I currently wondering is the licenses of images searched by Scribefire. I did my Flickr search image through 'advance' option in Flickr website to get Creative Common Attribution Licensed images to be used for my blog posts. Does Scribefire Flickr search result are Creative Common licensed images ?. Yes, I can check the license of the images on the Flickr website, but that wouldn't great as Scribefire is a blog tool thats boast 'easy blogging'.

I believe folks at Scribefire are keep on developing Scribefire, and I do hope new features to come. The developer team is working hard to make sure everything is done properly and bugs are fixed.

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April 22, 2008

How to flag a blog with a hidden navbar ?

Although it is legal to hide the blogger navbar, there is a drawback caused by this. It is difficult for a user to flag a blogger blog that are found as splogs or against Google TOS.

If found the navbar is hidden and you want to flag to that blog do the following steps :

1. Find the "blogID" in the blog html code ( you can view the source of a blog with your browser)
2. Note the number after the = (sample "blogID=12345678"), 12345678 is the blogID
   
3. Now open the blogger navbar with the blogID number you find above, http://www2.blogger.com/navbar.g?blogID=12345678
   , replace 12345678 with the actual blogID
   
4. When the navbar appears, click the flag button.

Alternatively, you may want to follow some tips from quickonlinetips.com on how to complain and report spam bloggers blogs.

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January 21, 2008

Top 50 most influential bloggers listed

So you just started blogging, northxeast has listed 50 most influential bloggers on blogosphere you can read for a reference. All with their own niche, from political blog, internet marketing to software developer.You'll found many great names on blogosphere such as John Chow, Steve Pavlina , Dan Rowse etc. All of them are bloggers with major audiences.

"There are literally millions of bloggers out there, each of them with their own voice and style, and yet in the blogging world, a handful stand out. These are the movers and shakers. When they speak, the blogging world listens. These are our Fifty Most Influential Bloggers, and if you don’t know them, you need to."

Why are they worth to know ? Well, it is because lots of things you can learn from them. If you are serious in blogging and willing to build better blogging learning curve, these people are expert on their own, people you need to watch and listen to. Take their own success stories as an inspiration of our own success. Enough bullshitting , just read on.

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September 14, 2007

Mobile blogging, threat for mainstream media?

A blogger was kicked out from a stadium because he was posting live updates of the U.S's NCAA baseball tournament. It is said, this guy activities on blogging a live updates of the game infringe the broadcasting rights which were exclusively owned by ESPN and CBS . It just unbelievable.


Blogging is believed brought such a tremendous inevitable changes on journalism, citizen journalism and community journalism were born. Such technology are now available to support the mobile blogging. Now you can found tons videos report through Youtube, there are also gadgets such as cell phone for mobile blogging that fully support citizen journalism.

Citizen journalism is just gaining its own inevitable popularity, are they threatening mainstream media?. I saw a sheer limitation on what citizen journalists can and can't do.These days, the public decides who gets publicity, not the media.

In the future, you might be prohibited to bring your phone or digital camera to a tournament because it may violate exclusive broadcasting rights of a media. What a life.

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July 12, 2007

Blogspot blogs integration with Feedburner

Another improvement by Google after they acquired Feedburner, Google has announced the one-click redirection for Blogger Blogspot blogs of their native Blogger feed to FeedBurner feed.

Why this is important, right, you probably noticed that many blogspot bloggers are offering more than one feed address on their blog, native Blogger feed and Feedburner.This results in some subscribers not being counted. Feedburner has many features you can effectively use to measure your subscibers.



To start redirection just log in to Your Blogger account, select Settings|Site Feed, enter your Feedburner feed address and save. Don't forget to set Feed Setting to 'Full'. Check Quick-Start for further details.

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Why you should not live by the Google ?

What will you do to get incoming traffic to your blog ?.
Do SEO and get indexed and crawled by Google.

Bloggers are trying hard to generate more traffic to their blog with various traffic generation methods, SEO, link building popularity and more. All of this efforts was done with one mission, generating incoming traffic, getting visitors and readers.

Generating traffic from search engine results is the most important thing bloggers will do, but if you are overdoing it, it is likely you will put yourself in to Google penalty box. You will lose your search engine ranking. Yes, Google is unpredictable, once said "the search-quality team makes about a half-dozen major and minor changes a week to the vast nest of mathematical formulas that power the search engine". Google concern is quality search. Don't play fire with Google, sooner or later you are going to get burn.

At least that was what happened with Jhon Chow recently when he was pushing it all to the limit, he lose his search engine ranking. It was happened my times, and I saw it many times by myself. 'make money online' search result was not always pointing to John's blog, it was floating around. John Chow is in the Google penalty box and is hoping Google will restore his page ranking soon.

There are few thing we don't know about Google and Google team is very clever, they are acting immediately when they found something is beyond the normal.

When you are stepping out way too far, and When you are on the top, it is likely a lot of people would jealous on you. Yes at least there are another threat you should aware of in term of search engine power. The Negative SEO , as Philipp Lenssen pointed out that your competitor could do harm to your search engine page ranking. Someone is posting a lot of spam-like links all around the web links to your blog or site, links back is jumping in short period, hence, they make you look naughty in front of Google.

Still thinking play with SEO is always safe ?, yes Google penalty box might be rarely happens if you do things right, but the latter, the competitor negative SEO attack, it is uncontrollable aspect.

As John Chow said 'Live by the Google,Die By The Google'.

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July 4, 2007

Am'I really meant to making money online ?

Reading other bloggers earning reports, I have to admit it was jaws dropping. Regardless, their earning is verifiable or not, it does develop awe amongst newbies or six-figures earner wannabe, including me.

First thing came to my mind at the time was a question, "Do they really earn that much ?". Then goes to, "How they really make it happen ?". Then I started to search the Internet for further information on this 'making money online' scheme. The findings was awesome. These guys are full time blogger who are really dedicating their time for blogging. They are good writers where a bunch of keywords are in each of their posts for search engine finding. They are always found things to write, information to share and ideas to develop.

It then dragged me to SEO, Adsense, SERP, CPC, CPA, RPU, Affiliate Marketing and any others terms I have to deal with for making money online. I have this blog, I don't have my own domain and hosting yet, but I saw there are many blogspot.com bloggers out there are great online money-makers too. So based on 'enough bullshitting too much' guide, I decided to use this blog for passive income source as many others blogger do. I don't think it is too late to get into this game, better late than nothing.

Apart from my attempt to make money online through this blog, I have my own side goals. I want to improve my English and my writing skill. Why I put those side target ?, yup, because my English is poor, considering English is not my native language, neither second language. It is a foreign language for us in Bali. My writing skill haven't improve lately, then now is a chance. My main goal is to earn money so I can afford my own domain and hosting and to pay my dial-up home internet connection.

For achieving these goals, I have done some SEO efforts for traffic generation, more intensive blogwalking and information finding. Believe me, I put all things purely based on search engine, there are no black SEO at all. I haven't use Adwords for generating traffic to this blog. I don't have enough money for Adwords deposit, just yet. I'm still learning on how to attract more visitor to this blog, the fact is the content is the one which could attract. Content means writing, good content means good writing, and that's I'm trying to do, by trying hard to constantly post every day.

Many grammar pop outs might be easily found on my posts, and my fellow readers did mention it and I thank you if you could help me to improve my English. Any suggestions are welcome to improve this blog.

So do you think I'm really meant to making money online ?

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July 1, 2007

Increase search engine page rangking. What you can do with your old blog posts ?

As you may be aware, that Google is monitoring over time how often you update your pages and add content to it. Google is monitoring the stability of site update as one factor for search engine page ranking. In order to update the content of your blog, all you have to do is to post, and post again.

Perhaps, when it comes for the time where you have no ideas what to write for your next blog post, you are trying hard to find topic for it. In your head, it's about maintaining better position and increase search engine page ranking for your blog.

This morning I came across to Blogherald.com for an article by Lorelle Van Fossen about tips to update and revitalize old blog posts to increase search engine page rank. It got me thinking about the possibility to revisit my old blog posts and rewrite it.

When you have no idea for a new blog post, rewriting the old blog post become a good solution. It doesn't mean that you just pull them and post it as is. What you can do is by making a new title that is more proper for current situation, fix and update information on it, some factual information at that time maybe not factual enough at present, fix the typos and more. Updating some links and remove the dead links, you know that Google is also hates dead links, so is your readers.

It is also mentioned, that giving a new perspective to the old posts and rewrite it with more better search terms keywords play in helping your blog got found by the search engine. Which is mean, traffic, and search engine page ranking.

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June 27, 2007

New language added on Blogger.com interface.

Since yesterday I saw interface on Blogger.com appeared in in Bahasa Indonesia. What a great improvements from blogger, thank you blogger. Blogger.com has deliver better satisfactory level for its users.

Even though it doesn't get me too excited, I believe that this improvement will bring a lot changes on Indonesian blogsphere, I hope more Indonesian will start to blog. It seems to be the language barrier is less significant cause on blogging these day.


Why this is so important for Indonesian ?, it is because English is foreign language in Indonesia, it's not like Malaysia,Singapore and Philippine where English is for second language. In other addition, it is believed that there a big numbers of requests or hopes that adsense would be applicable for blogs in Bahasa Indonesia. Well, Google is deliverer, lets wait and see.

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June 22, 2007

Asia Blogging Network, make money online through your written thoughts

Budi Putra, a full time Indonesian blogger who own several blogs such as thegadget.com, Budiputra.com and also a contributor for Asia Cnet.com and Endgadget.com launched Asiablogging.com (PT. Asia Blogging Network). With teammates Harry Sufehmi, Firman Firdaus, Ihklasul Amal, Kuncoro wastuwibowo etc, Asiablogging.com is targeting to put various niche under one roof. Topics is ranging from technology, business, sport, and science, to lifestyle, health, etc. Each topics and subtopics filed under special domain name with cool blog template design. No wonder, people behind the scene of Asiablogging.com are IT and Web 2.0 geeks. I found about travel which is covering Bali and also my city, Denpasar which few posts was posted by Graifhan Ramadhani.

As Budi Putra stated, “AsiaBlogging is a blog network from Indonesian for Asia,”, Asiablogging.com is targeting to embrace Indonesian writers and Asia generally. The first step is embracing Indonesian writers. Some of renowned writers already joined the network, such as Wimar Witoelar and Jennie S. Bev.

More than 300.000 active Indonesian bloggers commit their thoughts online, and this is the phenomenon Asiablogging.com is trying to embrace, to organise them under one umbrella and put them on better bargain position. Asiablogging.com bring 'paid blogging era' into Indonesian blogosphere. Bloggers is given an opportunity to write their own interests, in their own niche, and it is paid. A new way to make money online.

This is a new challenge for Indonesian bloggers, now put a side your adsense strategies and SEO efforts, give a try to Asiablogging.com . Post your written thought, and get paid. Don't worry about the hosting and let SEO part become Asiablogging.com job. :) .

But as Budi Putra said, "However, the main point is not about the payment", building blogging network is the main idea. Under one roof and better bargain position.

Cheers for Asiablogging.com

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June 7, 2007