Popular Post Widget

image Previously i write  a post about how to increase your Blog's Page Views, it's said that one of the technique to increase your blog's page views is to put popular post widget on your blog page. Popular post widget let your readers know what is the WOW article you have on your blog, based on how many comments it's received. Recently i found this useful Popular Post Widget. And i want to share this Popular Post widget with you all.

Popular Post Widget code

<script type="text/javascript">
function pipeCallback(obj) {
document.write('<ul style="text-transform: capitalize;">');
var i;
for (i = 0; i < obj.count ; i++)
{
var href = "'" + obj.value.items[i].link + "'";
var item = "<li>" + "<a href=" + href + ">" + obj.value.items[i].title + "</a> </li>";
document.write(item);
}
document.write('</ul>');
}
</script>
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_render=json&_callback=pipeCallback&_id=a7d3195528df5e96181a3d2712266226&url=http%3A%2F%2FYOUR_BLOG_ADDRESS_HERE_WITHOUT_http://&num=10" type="text/javascript"></script>
<a href=http://ezpctips.blogspot.com target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Popular Posts Widget</span></a>





to enable this popular post widget on your blog, you have to make a little change on that above code. First you have to change the red color text in the code with your blog URL without http:// (For example if your URL is http://ezpctips.blogspot.com then you have to change the red text code with only ezpctips.blogspot.com . Next important thing is the bold text code, by default it sets to display 10 popular posts on your widget, you can change th enumber of popular posts you want to display by modifying the bold number code above with any number you want.
Once you are ready to put your code on your template, Go to your dashboard-Layout-Page Elements and click Add a new widget, next you have to choose Add HTML code. Copy paste your code above and click save to save your setting.




For a little preview, your popular post widget should look like this:


Post one (18)
Post two (14) etc.

If you encounter problems with this tutorial, let me know so i can help you to fix it. Thanks
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How to Increase your Blog's Page Views

image Page Views is one of the important parameter to gauge a blog's popularity. Blog Page Views indicate the amount of page(post) which are read by a visitor per one time visit. Blog with high popularity, or have many useful content can achieve 5 page views average, it means user who visit his/her blog averagely read 5 of their posts on his/her blog. You see how important Blog Page Views is. There are so many ways to increase your Blog's Page Views, and i will explain it for you.

How to Increase Blog's Page Views

Here are 5 easy steps to increase your Blog's Page Views:

  1. Show your Related Posts/Article
    It is classic but sometimes it works. This is the most common way to increase your blog page views. You can show The Related Posts at the bottom of each post you have. Readers tend to read posts which are related to the previous post he have read.
  2. Interlink Within Posts
    What is Interlink? It means your blog contains links whic point to other page of your blog. I have tried this method and this is very good. Besides it will help you increase your Blog's Page Views, it will give you high quality backlink to your blog.
  3. Popular Posts
    Every blog has popular Posts. Popular Posts is the post which has high exposure from the readers. By putting Popular Posts widget on your Blog Page, you have more chance to increase your Blog's Page Views. In my point of view, Popular Posts divided by two: Popular Posts based on how many comments does the post have, or how many times the post is read by user. You can practice one of them on your blog to help increase your Blog's Page Views.
  4. Writing series of Posts
    Every successful blog has one thing in common: Series of posts. They provide tutorial/tips 'n trick in many series. They don't only provide many series posts, but they provide helpful tutorial (such as SEO stuffs, writing course, or even weblog contest). It compels readers to stay tuned on his/her blog. Of course the blog's Page Views increase dramatically.
  5. Be Interactive!
    This is the different between blog and static website. Blog has more value of interaction to readers than static websites have. Be Interactive with your readers, answer their questions, make a poll, or even give them prize can make good interaction between blogger(you) and your readers. In my opinion, daily updated posts also make good interaction between blogger and readers.

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Adsense CPC : Increase Adsense Earnings?

Adsense CPC or known as Adsense Cost per Click is the first thing we have to research if we want to increase our Adsense Earnings. We always emphasize high Adsense CPC before we are going to choose which keywords will boost up our earnings. Is there something wrong with it? No, actually not. But many people only focused on that Adsense CPC without paying attention on other factor which will influence their Adsense Earning.

So, what is the other factor influence our Adsense Earning? Well, according to the adsense support page, I found at least 5 important factors influence our earning (Including the Adsense CPC itself).

  1. Traffic
    Yep, Traffic is the most important aspect! If you have a blog with high Adsense CPC, it’s not worth it, if you don’t have high traffic. And the traffic itself divided into many kind of traffic, there are organic Traffic (traffic from search engine), referral (might be from links or advertisements), or direct traffic. Each kind of traffic has different quality. Some says that organic traffic (traffic from search engine) is the most valuable traffic. Why? Because from organic traffic we can expect high click cost. But, no one sure about this idea, there are other factors which influence our earnings besides Traffic, especially Organic Traffic.
  2. Cost-per-Click (Adsense CPC)
    Aha, we come to this aspect. Adsense CPC. What is it? Adsense CPC is the amount an advertiser pays each time a user clicks on his/her ad. So, the Adsense CPC is determined by the advertiser (you can check out how to analyze Adsense CPC here: How to find high paying keywords). If the advertisers willing to pay more for their ads, it means that ads has high CPC, if it get clicked by user(s), it will give you high amount of earnings.
  3. Clickthrough Rate (CTR)
    Clickthrough Rate is the number of ads is clicked divided by the number the ads is shown. Example, if your ads is clicked 10 times and that ads is displayed 1000 times then you get 1% of CTR. The number of CTR will vary depends on the websites or blog. But the average CTR is below 4% CTR and above 0,5 CTR.
  4. Effective CPM (eCPM)
    Known as Earning per 1000 impressions. eCPM helps you estimate how much will you earn per 1000 impressions you have. The formula of eCPM is rather easy= the earnings you got one day divided by the number of ads clicked multiply it by 1000. Keep in mind that this is only an estimated value.
  5. Content
    Whoop. Save the best for last dude! The content of your blog/websites is important factor too! If you have good content, it’s easier for crawlers to provide the right targeted ads for your blog/websites.

The combination of all those factors will help you get higher earnings on Adsense. So do not only focus on one aspect of factors. Do not emphasize Adsense CPC only, but optimize all aspects for your better earnings. Good Luck.

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Content is the Reason Why I come back to your Blog

image "Content is the King", "Great Content=Great Traffic", "Great Content=More Comments"

We often heard those quotes all time. The masters of blogging always say like that. Good Traffic come from your great Content. But, some of blogger feel it's just difficult to make a good content/post for their blog. And finally, the things end up in plagiarizing other people content/post. Uhh, that sounds bad huh? I hope all of you have known that Search Engine hates plagiarized content. So the trouble become bigger. On the one side we have to make great content but we can't, on the other side as blogger we also have to update our post continually. So how can we solve this? Let me tell you the techniques that i use to solve all those problem.

Here are the sequence that i use to make at least simple but useful content for my blog:

  1. Find your Inspiration
    Well, i think this is the most difficult part for me. If Einstein said: success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. For me on make good post, it is more to be 50% perspiration and 50% inspiration. With just a mediocre topic for your today post/article you want to share with your reader, it is very useful for you! So how to get that WOW inspiration? Do some research on Search Engine. See how other people write their ideas, and you can copy their idea but you should develop it with your own style of writing.
  2. Gather infomations of your topic as much as you can
    How come we make good post/content if we don't have MUCH information about our niche/topic? For me it's prohibited to bluff your reader with your fake info. Even in some case if you feel you are expert at your topic, it's not the reason you don't have to research about your topic on internet. You have to see how other people write about your topic you expert on, analyze it, and be different!
  3. Spew and Review
    Once you have had that WOW inspiration and you have enough info about what you are going to write. Try to write down all of your idea without paying attention with your grammar or language structure (unless your blog is about language learning). After you finished, review it and do some editing that fits you.
  4. Sighs!
    Voila, your job is done! Feel satisfied with your work now, but do it better next!

Okay guys, that's the technique i use to make my content. If you like it you can pratice it, but if you think my technique sucks, it's okay! i believe that every people has their own style of doing their job. Success!

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Traffic Estimator - Analyzing the Value of your click

image Previously, i have told you about how to find high paying keywords using Keyword Tool External . That free tool must give you inspiration and such great infomation about what high paying keywords suit your topic/niche. But, have you ever felt that sometimes you have loaded your posting with high paying keywords, but your click value is too cheap or low? You were wondering why could this happen, but nobody gave you better idea. Haha, i know your pain folk! Honestly, sometimes i feel the same way, i have loaded my posting with high paying keywords, but every click to my ads displayed there cost too cheap. But why do we always complaining about this? complain doesn't solve the problem right? Just now, i found this great free tool (maybe some of you have discovered this before), it's called Google Traffic Estimator this easy free service let you know the exact volume search of your keywords, Estimated CPC, and the best part is it gives you the Estimated Ads position, Estimated click per day, and also Estimated cost per day. Great Huh? keep reading guys!

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First you have to go to : https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox

  1. Enter Keywords, as usual, you should enter what keywords that you want to know the search Volume, estimated ads position, estimated click per day, and also estimated cost per day.
  2. Choose Currency, Select the currency of your estimated CPC.
  3. Choose Daily budget, i don't know exactly what this section for. But i guess that this for analyze the amount that advertiser want to spend money to their ads. Leave it blank if you not sure.
  4. Select targetting, allow you to select Language and Location targetting. I guess i know what should do in this section =)
  5. Select Countries, allow you to select specific region, or country. I suggest you to select All Countries and Territories option since your visitors are coming from every country of the world.

 

 

::. Analyze !

After you set all of those setting, just click continue to know the result of your previously entered keywords.

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Once you will see screen shot just like above, you'll see that in my experiment, i entered google adwords as my keywords, well let's analyze it one by one. The search volume of this keywords is rather high, it could be seen by looking at the Search volume bar. the estimated Avg. CPC is High, it range about 1-2 dollars (as they said, estimated means that this is not a precise amount), next you could see where this keywords displayed in an Ads, the same way as Estimated Clicks per day, and estimated cost per day.

So now you don't have to complain about your cheap value of your click anymore. Google gives us many great tools. All we have to do is to optimize those great tools to increase our earning. And don't give up on Adsense. Good Luck all!

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How to Put Adsense Ads Between Post

image How to Put Adsense Ads Between post, is often being asked by many blogger who want to increase their adsense CTR. Do you know what CTR means? CTR stands for Click-through-rate, in other words the number of times your ads clicked divided by the number of times your ads is shown. There is so many ways to increase Adsense CTR, such as, you can do less ads = more earning theory, optimizing your Adsense Ads positioning, or showing Adsense Ads between post. If you have observed Adsense heat map , you should know that placing Adsense Ads between post means that your Ads get more chance to be clicked (it's called heat section).

::. Put AdSense Ads Between Post

(if you practice this tutorial, your adsense ads will be displayed between the blogpost in your homepage. notice that if you have readmore hack on your template, this tutorial might not be work)

  1. Sign in to your blog account, and go to the layout management, Page Element. image
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  3. Click the Edit link on your Blog Post Section
  4. A pop-up window will be opened, and check the 'Show ads between Posts' image
    Notice that if you haven't configured your blog account with your adsense account, the check box will be dissapeared or unactive.
  5. Configure your ads format.
  6. Save the change. And you should see the result.
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Entrecard - Alternative to increase blog traffic

image I will start this time posting with a question: If you are a blogger, are you satisfied with the number of your traffic so far? I guess the answer is NO. People always need more and more, so do blogger. But the problem is, how can we increase our blog traffic with no money but reliable? I believe 'reliable' is relative depends on each person. But if you seek formula to increase your blog traffic free of charge. Maybe i can help you. Entrecard gives you a lot of features that can increase your blog traffic. We can discovered many blog with entrecard, even we can advertise on other member's blog which has higher alexa rank than ours. Keep reading this posting and i will explain you how to use Entrecard to increase blog traffic.

 

::. Step-by-Step

  1. Go to www.entrecard.com
  2. Click on Sign Up tab menu.
  3. Once you have to fill the form with appropriate information.
  4. On the entrecard style. You can select which type you like. You can select silver, green, orange, or even upload your own logo (the logo must be 125x123 JPEG or PNG file).
  5. Click Sign up button on the bottom of the page.
  6. Next you have to choose your widget. Take a look at those widget, select one you think it's good for your blog template, copy the HTML code and Next.
  7. After that, all you need to do is just waiting for the approval. If your blog is updated consitently , i have no doubt that your blog will be approved.

::. Increase your Blog Traffic with Entrecard

Entrecard is a free blogging network that helps you build traffic, get more readers, and network with other bloggers. Basically all you have to do is just visit (read: DROP) to other member's blog so you can earn Entrecard point (EC point). Each time you visit other member's blog, you gain 1 EC point. And what's the use of EC point? EC point is very useful, because if you have EC point, it means that you can advertise on other's members blog. The cost of advertising on other member's blog is various. The cheapest is 2 EC point but the most expensive costs 16384 EC point.

There is an Etiquette in visiting other member's blog. It is you should leave a comment on the last post of the blog before you click DROP button on their widget. It's not necessary, but it would be great if you do it so you can gain many comment on your blog.

::. Campaign

I said earlier that the basic system of entrecard is earning EC point through visiting other member's blog. How to do that? Well, it's very easy. here's the steps:

  1. Go to the 'Campaign' tab menu.
  2. Next you will see various Entrecard categories, you can select anything categories you want to visit. But i prefer to select category that same with my category.
  3. Click the category.
  4. There you go. Visit the site by site.
  5. Each time you have visit the site, all you have to do is just click DROP button on his Entrecard WIdget.image
  6. After you click that Drop button, you will see a 'Thank You' appeared and the 'Drop' text dissapeared.
  7. Visit as many site as possible. But the limit is just 300 sites a day.

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, i hope this tutorial helping you to understand how to increase traffic with entrecard. If you still don't understand about how to use entrecard, you can go to http://entrecard.com/docs/ . Thanks, good luck!

 

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5 Reason Why People Fail in AdSense

image At the beginning, many people are very attracted with adsense PPC program. They think it would be easy to have a decent income from it. But as the time goes by, most of them think that it's not that easy to make money with AdSense. Some of them even thought that AdSense is just a scam program. Well, that was a little example about how difficult earning money in Adsense. But, many of you have not discovered yet why most people fail in their AdSense journey. And mytheory come with this topic about 5 Reason Why People Fail in Adsense. I take this topic from the author of MWolkBlog who has discovered the bittersweet of adsense. Check his opinion out:

5 Reason Why People Fail in AdSense

1. Failing to understand that It is not get rich quick scheme - This is the single most biggest reason why people fail in adsense. People think it is get rich quick method where you can make instant money in matter of months but it is not. Infact very good number of people don’t even make it $100 after months.

2. Gives too much value and time on SEO and Link Building - Lot of people spend time in building backlinks and exploring SEO and all kind of stuff which don’t help them staying focused. I don’t think learning SEO and doing link building helps beginners to make money from adsense, just stick to basic and write quality content.

3. Do not put quality content - Instead of putting useful quality content, people starts copying content from everywhere or start posting poor quality articles, this kind of content don’t take the site very far in organic traffic and eventually the person quits.

4. Not being consistent enough - I had talked about Consistency in second point, this is very important, you can’t make money in any business unless you are not consistent enough. You need to keep on doing same over months after months, and only then you will see the results. If you keeps on quitting after few months, you won’t find yourself reaching very far from where you had started.

5. Uses wrong methods and eventually gets banned - People who work unethically and don’t know what they are doing, they are surely on the way to failure in adsense. Involving in click fraud, automated traffic generation, giving away warez and not following google adsense TOS will most likely result in ban, eventually putting all your effort into vein.

Well, it was an eye-opening opinion right? At least it was for me. Especially the second Reason. He said that lot of people only focused on SEO thing, and they do not even focused on writing a good content. Personally, Building SEO of your webpage/weblog is as important as building quality content, but keep in mind that you have to be focused on both stuffs. If you feel it's hard to implement, try to do the basic first like write quality content, not copy pasting other's article to your blog.

Good Luck on AdSense!

Taken and edited from MWolkBlog .

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Google Adsense Tools

image Sometimes as a blogger who sets up my blog with AdSense. I found some difficulties of improving my adsense earning and marketing. Although i have tried and feel satisfied with stuffs like Google Adwords tool, adsense filter. Sometimes i still need more service which can improve my adsense earning, or can help me to search the right keyword for my next posting. Thus, i keep searching and searching and i finally found some of great and Free Google Adsense Tools. All of them are easy to use, magnificent, and useful. Check it out!

FREE Google AdSense Charts & Graphs

FREE Google AdSense Charts & Graphs Generate all sorts of nifty charts with your AdSense CSV data export (requires a Google AdSense account of course). Now that AdSense allows for reporting per channel, it would be useful to chart the data in a multidimensional line chart. So this free tool allows you to do just that. Currently it offers eight different types of charts for your data

FREE Google AdSense Sandbox Tool

FREE Google AdSense Sandbox Tool This tool will show you what Google AdSense ads will be displayed for any webpage on the Internet. This is a handy little utility if you would like to see what sort of Google AdSense ads based on content or keywords. Simply enter the URL or keywords in the box below, and you will see up to 20 sample AdSense ads for the URL or keywords

FREE Search Engine Back Link Tracking Utility & Backlink Tracker Tool

FREE Search Engine Back Link Tracking Utility & Backlink Tracker Tool Search Engine Optimization Tool - This is a completely free utility can be used to check search engines for the number of back links to any specific URL over time, which as you probably know is critical when doing search engine optimization. The functionality of this tool has been rolled into the Keyword Tracking Tool (you can have a single account to manage keyword and back links)

FREE Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool

FREE Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool Search Engine Positioning Tool - This utility can be used to check search engines for keyword ranking and track search engine ranking for your various keywords over time, which as you probably know is critical when doing search engine optimization.
In order to use this tool, you need to create a username and password (which is completely free), since it tracks your data historically, we need to know which data is yours.

FREE Keyword Suggestion Tool

FREE Keyword Suggestion Tool This is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often. Enter a search phrase below to see how often it's searched for, as well as get suggestions for alternate (but similar) keywords. Then, once you know the keywords you want to target, you can use our free keyword position tracking tool to monitor your placement progress.

FREE PageRank Toolbar Widget For Macintosh

FREE PageRank Toolbar Widget For Macintosh One thing I've wanted for awhile is a Google Toolbar for Macintosh (mostly because I want to see the PageRank of a site I'm browsing). So anyway, to make a long story short, I hacked together a Konfabulator widget that monitors what page is active in Safari and shows you the PageRank. That's about it... Was really made for myself, but figured others could use it.
So if you want to use it, you need to install Konfabulator and you need to throw my PageRank widget into your Widgets folder. Konfabulator's website has a demo version available for free. After that, you can buy it from them or I've seen it for sale on eBay as well.

FREE Yahoo! Web Rank Tool

FREE Yahoo! Web Rank Tool This tool will show you what any website's Yahoo! Web Rank is (without needing the Yahoo toolbar). Check Any Site's Yahoo! WebRank . What is this good for? Maybe you simply want to check your Yahoo WebRank without needing to install the Yahoo toolbar. Or maybe you are not running Windows with IE 5.0 or higher, so you can't install the toolbar.

All those tools are easy to use, and it's free of charge. If you are a serious blogger who want to increase or improve your adsense earning, you should give it a try. Good Luck!

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How to Use Google Analytics for Analyzing our Traffic

image What service do you use to analyze your blog traffic? is it FeedJit live traffic? Sitemeter traffic counter? or anything else? And what you get from those service? Yes, you only get a little amount of information about the traffic of your blog. So, why getting an enormous amount of information about the traffic of our blog is necessary for us? Well, there are so many answers such as we can set our goal (the amount of traffic we want to achieve), we can improve our SEO or SERP, even we can maximize our AdSense Earning! Thus, this time i give you a little basic knowledge of using Google Analytics (for blogspot user only!)

::. Step-by-Step

  1. Sign Up
    Yes, just like the other services, we need to sign up first to get our unique identity to log in. Go to Google Analytics, click the sign up button. But, if you already have a google account use your email and password to sign in. Next, you will be brought to a window which allow you to insert the URL of your blog you want to analyze. Also give the blog account name which is easy for you to remember. Notice that you can also analyze more than one blog with google analytics. Next step is select the country your site based in, and select the appropriate time zone. Click continue, in the next window give your contact information and click continue. Click Yes to show them that you agree with Google Terms of Service. Click Create New Account.
  2. Insert Google Analytics code to Your Blog
    image Find the </body> tag, and put your Google Analytics code above that tag. Save your template.
    Keep in mind each time you change your blog template, each time you change your blog template, you should copy paste your Analytics code to your new HTML code again.

 

 

 

::. Analyze your Blog Traffic and Performance

There are so many things provided by Google Analytics, with it you can easily check how many visitors you reach per day, where do they come from, or which content of your blog is the most popular. And I will give you a little explanation about getting an overview about your blog traffic.

  1. First off, sign in to Google Analytics with your account
  2. Once, you will see the overview of your account. click the link and you will be brought to the advance mode.
  3. There, you can see your blog report in details by clicking 'View Report' Link.

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That is a little tips about using Google Analytics for you who never use it before. It's a powerful tools. And you should give it a try if you want to improve your Traffic. GOod Luck!

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