Tips To Avoid Your Google Adsense Account From Getting Banned

As many of you already know, Google Adsense is the most popular and most generous advertisment service from Google that gives you recurring income. However, some people don't bother to read the Adsense policies and they usually violate AdSense Terms and conditions without knowing, as a result they wake up with their accounts disabled. Many times fraud clicks are the main cause. But there could be many other reasons for an Adsense account to be disabled. So, if you want to keep your Google Adsense account safe, please read and keep in mind the following rules:

1. Never use adult, violent or advocating racial intolerance content on your site.
2. Never copy paste any article from any other website. Google can easily find out which one is original.
3. Never click on your own ads. Google can analyze all the clicks made on your ad units.
4. Never place above your Adsense ad units texts like "Click on ad below", "Please click below" etc. instead you can use label headings as "sponsored links" or "advertisements".
5. Never say your friends to click on your ads on social networking websites like Facebook
6. Don't put unwanted links, pop-ups on your website. Keep interface quite neat and clean with proper navigation and all. Google also looks for the quality standard of websites.
7. You must have a privacy policy page which must contain a description about the use of Google AdSense on your website. This is the latest policy introduced by Google. Many webmasters don't know about it which results in their account getting banned.
8. Hide Adsense ad units from Contact and Privacy Policy page (read here to see how you can do that) Place ads only on Content Pages. Advertisers pay only for content based ads.
9. Never display Adsense ads in floating boxes with images or texts that could overlap or cover the ads. However, you can use floating text, images on your website under the condition they don't play with your Adsense ads.
10. Never place more than 3 ad units and 3 ad links or 2 adsense search boxes on any web page.
11. 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. Read more about this here
12. Do not send your Google adsense ads code to anyone.
13. Never place your Google ads any unit under any drop down menu, if you do so you are Violate Google Adsense TOS.
14. Never place Adsense ads on empty pages (pages with no content), pop-up pages, error pages, contact forms or registration pages.

These rules are the minimum requirements for maintaining a proper and healthy Adsense account.
Whenever when needed, it is better to ask for adsense help from the learned staff of Google Adsense. At least you'll get authorized and very helpful tips from them! Good luck and be wise ;)

Add Google Adsense to Blogger Header (Above the Title)

In the past tutorials ( See: Social Media Buttons beside Adsense ads & Adsense inside Blogger Header ) i've shared several tricks for Adsense ads placement that may help you to increase your adsense earnings. Now, i will show you how to add Google Adsense above your header, for instance just above the title of your Blogger blog. This can be done by adjusting your template to give you the option of adding more than one widget to the header area.

Add a new element to Blogger header

1. If you are using the old Blogger interface: 

• Go to Dashboard - Design - Edit HTML - (make a backup) Expand Widget Template 

If you are using the new Blogger interface: 

• Go to Dashboard - Template - Edit HTML - Proceed - (make a backup) Expand Widget Template 

2. Next try to find (CTRL + F) this piece of code:

<div id='header-wrapper'>

...if you can't find that one, search for this one:

<div class='region-inner header-inner'>

3. Immediately after one of these lines, you'll see this code:

<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>

4. Replace the values in red like in this example below:

<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='3' showaddelement='yes'>

5. Save the Template.

Adding the Adsense ad unit above the Blogger header

1. Navigate to Design > Page Elements and view the new option to add a gadget to the header area

2. Click on Add a Gadget link and select the Google Adsense gadget.

Choose the type of ad unit you want. For this example I chose a new linked 728x15 ad unit from the dropdown format menu for an AdSense ad that would sit above the blog title. Configure colors if necessary. Color blending is usually done automatically by Blogger according to the color schema of your template.

3. Click Save

Now View your Blog to see your new Google Adsense unit. If all is going well, your new AdSense ad unit should appear something like in the image below:

This is a very good Adsense placement, i'm sure you're gonna like it

If you have a any questions, please feel free to ask below.

How to add a gadget/widget inside your Blogger Blog header

Maybe you have seen that many blogs have AdSense Units or other ads and widgets in the header section of the blog, the most popular format being the AdSense 468x60 ad unit - see in the screenshot below:

But how we can add something inside blogger header - be it a Adsense unit, a search bar, social media buttons or a widget? By simply adding a section in the header. First off, to give space for the extra gadget to fit in, our blogger header should be resized.

A. Resize blogger header

Step 1: Go to Blogger Dashboard >> Design >> Edit HTML and backup your template

Step 2: Check the "Expand widget templates" box

Step 3: Find (CTRL + F) this piece of code:

/* Header
----------------------------------------------- */

Step 4: Replace it with this code:

/* Header
----------------------------------------------- */
.header-left{
display: inline-block;
height: 35px;
width: 350px;
float: left;
}
.header-right {
display:inline-block;
float:right;
}

Change the pixels in red with the image's height and width of your blogger header and change float: left; to float: right; if you want to change the position of your logo.

Step 5: Find the below code:

<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>

Step 6: Replace it with:

<b:section class='header header-left' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>

Now "Preview" your template, you will find that the background color of Blogger's header is not visible or it's missing. To bring it back, you need to add some more snippets:

Step 7. Find the following code:

    </div>
    </div>
    <div class='header-cap-bottom cap-bottom'>
      <div class='cap-left'/>

Step 8. Just above it, paste this:

<div style='clear:both;'/>

Note: if you can't find the code from step 7, search for this instead:

      <b:include name='description'/>
    </div>
  </b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>

... and paste the code from step 8 just below it.

Step 9. Save Template.

B. Add extra gadget/widget section to Blogger Header

Let's go one step forward and add an extra gadget section within Blogger header in new template designers.

Step 1: Go to Dashboard >> Design >> Edit HTML and backup your template.
Step 2: Find for the below code which you have implemented in previous step:

<div style='clear:both;'/>

Step 3. Paste before/above it, the following code:

<b:section class='header-right crosscol' id='header-right' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='yes'/>

Step 4. Now find:

]]></b:skin>

Step 5. Paste just above it, this CSS code:

.header-right {
display:inline-block;
float:right;
width:400px;
}

Change the width that is marked in red color. Increase or decrease the pixels according to your needs and positioning new header section.

Step 6. Save Template.

Now all you have to do is to go to Design >> Page Elements tab and add a new gadget to the newly created extra header section in Blogger. You may find that the extra gadget section is created just under your Blogger header as shown in the image below.

Don't worry about its position, the widget now should appear side by side.

If you have any questions or need some help, leave a comment below. 

Adsense Ad Code Converter

This tool automatically converts javascript ad code into the correct format so you can embed it directly into your new xml Blogger template. It’s perfect for converting AdSense, AdBrite, Chitika or any other javascript ad code you may have.

Instructions: paste your Adsense code in the empty box and then press on the "Convert" button.

How to put Adsense ads on Blogger/Blogspot

If you want to earn money from your site/blog, Google Adsense is the most popular service to monetize your blog or website content. When implemented, Adsense will display targeted Google ads on your blog and they can generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis.
Of course, to display ads on your site, you should first Sign Up to Google Adsense program.


Before adding your ads, keep in mind that Adsense allows only up to 3 ad units, 3 link units and 2 search boxes per page.

In this tutorial i will show you the three ways you can add Adsense ads to your blog.

1. Adsense Gadget

Use this method to add ad unit as a widget, in places outside the blog post area. You can position it by simply dragging it in Page Elements, just like any other widget. To add the Adsense Gadget, go to:

1. Blogger Dashboard >> Design >> Page Elements >> click on the "Add a Gadget" link
2. From the pop-up window, select AdSense Gadget:

3. Configure ad format and colors.
4. Click Save and you're done.

2. Inline Ads

This will display an ad unit at the end of each post. To show ads between posts:

1. Go to Design > Page Elements and click the Edit link in Blog Posts gadget box.

2. Check the "Show Ads Between Posts" box.

3. Configure ad frequency, ad format, and colors. Live preview is provided beneath the settings.
4. Click Save.

3. Adsense code

The most notable benefits of using this method are:

• You can place ad anywhere in your blog
• You can add the code anywhere in your blog template - in your post content or page.
• To find out which format perform the best, custom channels will help you to track the performance of specific groups of ad units.
• You can choose types other than ad unit i.e. link unit, search box.

To create an ad unit:
1. Go to Google Adsense website.
2. Click on My ads tab, go to Ad units and then press on the "New ad unit" button.

3. Choose your ad type, choose format and colors and assign channels.
4. When you have finished editing, click on the Save and get code >> button and copy the code provided.

To add an ad unit to your blog, you have the following options:

• Paste the code in a HTML/Javascript gadget
• Paste the code in a blog post or page, or
• Paste the code direct in your template. (if you choose this option, first you should convert adsense ad code)

If you have any more questions, leave a comment below.

How to create Google Adsense Account

Google Adsense is the most popular option for monetizing online content, but many bloggers don't know how to create a Google Adsense account. Creating a Adsense account is very easy thing to do and for being accepted you just require a website or a blog indexed by Google, which should contain minimum 10 pages and most important, not violating Google Adsense policies.

Apply Account Approval

You have to create a Google Adsense account before you can be approved.
To do that, go to the Adsense homepage www.google.com/adsense and click on the "Sign up now" red button. Now you must complete the Adsense registration form:

Step 1. Select your Google Account to continue
Step 2. Tell us about your content: enter your main website/blog URL where you want ads to be displayed and then select your website content language.

Read and pay attention to the following Google Adsense policies, because if you break the rules your account might be disabled later. And sadly, you have small chances to get it back...

1. I will not click on my ads nor encourage others to do so. 
2. I will not place ads on sites that include adult content, including pornography. 
3. I will not place ads on sites involved in the distribution of copyrighted materials. 
4. I do not already have a Google AdSense account. 
5. I will not place ads on sites that include incentives to click on ads.

Check "I have read and agree...", and then press "Continue"

Step 3. Submit your adSense application: select your account type and enter your personal information (country, your real name, address, phone). These informations will be used when you will receive your payment. Now press "Submit my application" to finish with the registration.

After submit the form Google will review your blog and your registration. Wait maximum 2 weeks to get your Adsense registration approved... or rejected. Google will send you an email to your inbox if your account has been approved.

Good luck!

Google adsense optimization tips

What is Google Adsense? 
Google Adsense is a free program run by Google that allows you to display Google adverts on your blog/website and pays you everytime someone clicks on one of these ads. Just submit your blog to Google for approval and after your content has been approved, you are ready to place Adsense ads on your website.  But beware, Google Adsense doesn't approve any sites! According to Adsense policy you are not allowed to do the following things:

1) Do not click on your own Adsense ads by any way.
2) Do not increase Adsense ad impressions with some automating tools.
3) Don’t ask others to click on your ads.
4) Don’t alter the Adsense code other than fonts and colors.
5) Don’t put Adsnese code on adult or prohibited content.

Some basic optimization tips can double your Adsense revenue, so i've added a list of some of the best Google Adsense Tips and Tricks for making more money from the Google Adsense program.

Tips to Increase Google AdSense Earnings

1) Place the Adsense ads above the main fold that user can see your ad units without scrolling down on your site. This will increase your Ads Click Through Rate (CTR)

Because browsers and screen sizes vary, Google has created a nice tool that allows you to enter any URL, and check whether you've implemented your ads above the fold.

2) The best performing ad units for AdSense are:

250×250 Square
160×600 wide skyscraper
336×280 large rectangle
300×250 medium rectangle

Use them wisely. I suggest you to place 250 x 250 size ad units at the top of every post and align it at the right or left side of the post content. The 160×600 ad format can easily fit in the sidebar of your blogger blog.

3) You can use the following “heat map” provided by Google to analyze other top performing ad placement slots. You should concentrate on the areas with darker orange color which represents the hot spots of the ads slots. (see in the image below)

4) Text ads are good for the first Google Ad unit. I also recommend you to place a 300×250 unit in the sidebar (or somewhere below the fold) – these generally serve CPM based ads and will help you monetize visits from places like Digg and StumbleUpon.

5) Ads placed in-between the content can also perform well. If you have small posts then put ads at the top of the page content. If you have big post then ad units placed at the bottom or middle of the post.

6) Do not use borders to your text ads or use them wisely.

7) To blend, choose the colors that match with the colors of your website: for example if your site background is black, you will put the same background for your Adsense ads. If your links are blue, then select the color blue for Adsense links. If your titles are red, then make your Adsense block titles red.

8) To complement, use colors that already exist on your site, but don't match the background and borders exactly where the ads are placed.

9) To contrast, choose colors that stand out against the background of your site. Contrasting is recommended only for sites with dark background, so we suggest using an ad style with white background, white borders, and blue titles. (google hints)

10) Use link units near the site navigation bar. The main advantages of this placement, are that they can perform well and you don't need too much Ad space on your site. This way, your site looks clean and also, your visitors will be annoyed.

11) Study your keywords and the target ads to these keywords. Usually, Google Adsense crawler searches for the first or second paragraph to target ads to that page so don't forget to add your page-targeted keywords at the beginning of your post.

12) MFA (made for AdSense) sites are websites created around AdSense keywords, and often, these are poor quality sites with little or no original content. Use Allow and block ads feature to block low paying or irrelevant ads showing on your site. And be careful when you're doing this, sometimes one ad unit can give you $0.01 in one country and $1 in other country.

13) Use Google Adsense ad preview tool to view what ads are showing on your site.

14) Many times you can earn you more adsense revenue from Image search engines than with the regular web traffic. Upload good quality images and use text captions with alt tags to make sure that blog images rank good in Image Search results.

15) Add a search box at the top left region of your blog and use the word "search" in the submit button otherwise visitors might be confused and might not notice it. If you use a second search box, put it at the bottom of your pages.

If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.
Good luck!

Add Social Bookmarking Buttons near Adsense Ads

 The main advantages of this widget is that you can increase your Adsense impressions along with CTR - and of course, fill up the empty space besides Adsense units, making your blog look more beautiful and professional.

Adding these social bookmarking buttons at the top of your blogger post, will make things easier when your readers will want to share your posts via the networking sites. The widget includes buttons for Del.icio.us, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Digg.

Steps installing this widget:

1. Login to your Blogger Dashboard, then go to >> Design >> Edit HTML (firstly, make a backup of your template by clicking on the "Download full template" link)

2. Search (CTRL + F) for the following tag in your blogger template:

]]></b:skin>

3. Then just above it, paste the following CSS code:

.ads{margin-bottom:10px; border-top:solid 1px #DEDEDE; padding-top:10px; font-size:13px;}
.ads-right-min{border-left:solid 1px #DEDEDE; height:250px; padding-left:10px;}
.ads-right-min a:link,
.ads-right-min a:visited,
.bottom-share-links a:link,
.bottom-share-links a:visited{
font-size:12px;
color:#222;
display:block;
height:22px;
line-height:22px;
margin-bottom:16px;
padding-left:32px;
}
.ads-right-min a:hover,
.bottom-share-links a:hover{color:#666;}
.mini-tech{background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRuR61MtaFslFSv08cuoRY3u3cpVWMaW9tlFENX5ffktFbAdALepxAEIPn0Ae7Av-tBu1_D4BkbQ5MVaNcuBB0nw3911-NIPndB2hg0JsQ3zuupTY0EycaRYioD8WvWYXHCEl0vTf8Wd9w/s1600/technorati.gif) no-repeat;}
.mini-facebook{background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNcIH3tAs0ou_PDUomeuWaCIsI_2XAiDbM0DtRzEzHZqaoLJdPnzeM1OqJmFJsSjTKZpbo1QRW6UosQ1m_DjYu3pVaCAw9xXe8X0HiDR7f8NRkXiYEz9PPK1nm61whf3gyG-yKEnQ3rml/s1600/facebook.gif) no-repeat;}
.mini-tweet{background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijgj_l5zFkgP0ePGCOradiORnNAjYKj7mFLeoTn9VWiy3ZmtjqDhddyR__pXXsaO62ijYDI0shSdpPXGozTzYE8XWhyphenhypheng4rqVkhIw_eTWhY8bpK6q7aPyKPDV4Y-_m4iwMpH_-NroRaQStT/s1600/tweet.gif) no-repeat;}
.mini-del{background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgN-flp9ltC0yZ1NB7clolKpeXTvafreLiDpNhlUNZxglFRcCBH5TMy-MWM68EBjhehA12nQUp2BsYa6UZB53ehvz-20qIkCrCDJlMNI0I_T0Asap1yS74qeZFNy-6_A9zsLMrQZV0NTK/s1600/delicious.jpg) no-repeat;}
.mini-stumble{background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPBY2SfhyphenhyphenZ97w9e_HIKna9NA345Ga9mvF6q3WKZbaMqFOdhQEhM6Sw2FZNeFyMrSxZvTMBZGEjmSlMvT28dxwjQG8AbJe4Tr3GrYKZl4RLQ_K7AnSScp2lWFgfSnXrzZc3DiUbuY5grzar/s1600/stumbleupon.png) no-repeat;}
.mini-digg{background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMNDB8UKb5asmNtvO8SUuK0NaW8j5e-IqtmnDFb-I7dE3oNNfhaFOCQyKfK52nrzAK2CR5apJmGK1ZauxfdGKmokhUydGRCttKHdVHCg5KwYPHcL7EDEOKdTIvx9AsuPIZy3m_nXxx00M/s1600/Digg.png) no-repeat;}

4) Next, search - using "CTRL+F" - for the following line:

<div class='post-body entry-content'>

 If you can't find it, search for this one:

<div class='post-body entry-content' expr:id='&quot;post-body-&quot; + data:post.id'>

5) Add the following code directly below it:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div class='ads'>
<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%'>
<tr>
<td width='354'>
&lt;script type=&#39;text/javascript&#39;&gt;&lt;!--
google_ad_client=&quot;pub-YOUR PUBLISHER ID&quot;;
google_ad_host=&quot;pub-1556223355139109&quot;;
google_ad_width=300;
google_ad_height=250;
google_ad_format=&quot;300x250_as&quot;;
google_ad_type=&quot;text_image&quot;;
google_ad_host_channel=&quot;0001&quot;;
google_color_border=&quot;FFFFFF&quot;;
google_color_bg=&quot;FFFFFF&quot;;
google_color_link=&quot;0000FF&quot;;
google_color_url=&quot;008000&quot;;
google_color_text=&quot;000000&quot;;
//--&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;script src=&#39;http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js&#39; type=&#39;text/javascript&#39;&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;
</td>
<td><div class='ads-right-min'>
<a class='mini-del' expr:href='&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add To Del.icio.us'>Add This To Del.icio.us</a>
<a class='mini-tweet' expr:href='&quot;http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading &quot; + data:post.title + &quot; &quot; + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='Post this article on Twitter'>Tweet/ReTweet This</a>
<a class='mini-facebook' expr:href='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Share On Facebook'>Share on Facebook</a>
<a class='mini-stumble' expr:href='&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Stumble This'>StumbleUpon This</a>
<a class='mini-tech' expr:href='&quot;http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=&quot; + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='Add To Technorati'>Add to Technorati</a>
<a class='mini-digg' expr:href='&quot;http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Digg This'>Digg This</a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</b:if>

Replace YOUR PUBLISHER ID with your AdSense account ID. You'll find it with the Home tab, on your "Account settings" page. It will look something like this:

pub-5623269265862168 (copy only the numbers and then paste them)

6) Save your template... and check out the post pages to see the changes.

Wrap text around Adsense block in left or right corner

Maybe you have wondered how to wrap text around an adsense block. If you have observed, many wordpress blogs have ad units embedded in top left or right corner of the post content:

This Adsense ad unit in top left or right corner have highest CTR on most of the blogs. Adding this ad unit is very simple and requires a bit of code before and after your regular Adsense ad script.

If you want to add a ad unit in top right corner of your post, then just include the following bolded red lines in your ad code:

<div style="float:right;">

Your Adsense ad script

</div>

If you want to place ad unit at left corner, just change the float tag to "left":

<div style="float:left;">
Your Adsense ad script
</div>

The most appropriate for this ad placement is 250×250 square ad unit. Placing AdSense unit in the middle of the post, may disturb the reading flow, so i recommend to have ad units at the beginning of the post.

If you have any query adding this ad unit in your blog post, just leave a comment.