Increase AdSense Earnings by Showing Ads in All Blogger Pages

It’s not only the traffics to your Blogger Blog but you should also use some tricks and techniques to boost your AdSense earnings and one of those tips is displaying AdSense Ads in all your blogger blog pages. This tutorial will show you the simple technique to increase your AdSense impressions with the same traffics to your BlogSpot.com blogs.

Most of blogger wants to display their AdSense advertisements either before/above or after/below their blog posts. However, the way they insert their AdSense Unit code does not show Ads on all blogger pages rather it only shows on item pages or Article/posts webpage.

Accordingly, new bloggers losing their 20-25 per cent AdSense impressions or clicks as a result of which they innocently makes less earnings from AdSense than what they deserve to earn from the same traffics to their blogger blog.

So, what are you looking for, just follow these steps and boost your AdSense earnings by showing advertisements on all blogger webpages i.e. Item, Home and Static pages, Archive or Index etc. Additionally, this simple tips will also help you to show the AdSense Ads on Responsive Blogger Template including both Desktop templates view as well as mobile template view of your blogger blog.

A) How to show AdSense Ads above the Blog Post and Page Titles:

If you are not showing AdSense Ads above the webpage title then use this steps and I am sure that your AdSense earnings will drastically increase.

Step-1:
Go to the Template Editor of your blog.

Step-2:
Find ]]></b:skin> and paste the following CSS codes before/above closing ]]></b:skin> tag.

.swt-adsense-ads {/* Added by Showeblogin */
margin:1em auto;
clear:both
/* SWT Tutorial at http://www.superwebtricks.com/?p=623 */}
Step-3:
Now, find starting <div class='post-outer'> tag. You will see it twice into your blogger template. The first one is for desktop template view and the next i.e. second is for mobile template view. You will have to copy and paste these HTML codes after/below the starting <div class='post-outer'> tag.

<b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost == &quot;true&quot;'>
<div class='swt-adsense-ads'>
AdSense Ad Unit Codes Here
</div>
</b:if>
Please do not forget to replace (AdSense Ad Unit Codes Here) with your own AdSense Unit codes.

B) How to show AdSense Ads above or beginning of the Blog Post/page contents/body:

AdSense-Ads-above-post-contents

Step-1:
Go to the Template Editor of your blog.

Step-2:
Find ]]></b:skin> and paste the following CSS codes before/above closing ]]></b:skin> tag.

i) To show AdSense Ads on the left side of your blog item contents:

.swt-adsense-ads {/* Added by Showeblogin */
position: relative;
float:Left;
margin:0 10px 10px 0;
/* SWT Tutorial at http://www.superwebtricks.com/?p=623 */}
ii) To show AdSense Ads on the right side of your blog item contents:

.swt-adsense-ads {/* Added by Showeblogin */
position: relative;
float:Left;
margin:0 0 10px 10px;
/* SWT Tutorial at http://www.superwebtricks.com/?p=623 */}
Step-3:
Find closing <data:post.body/> tag and paste the following HTML codes just above/before it. Actually, you will see <data:post.body/> in more than two places into your blogger template, the first one is for Mobile template view and another i.e. second one is for Desktop template view. Thus, paste these codes before/above the first and/or second closing post body tag of your blogger blog.

<b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost == &quot;true&quot;'>
<div class='swt-adsense-ads'>
AdSense Ad Unit Codes Here
</div>
</b:if>
Please do not forget to replace (AdSense Ad Unit Codes Here) with your own AdSense Unit codes.

C) How to show AdSense Ads below or at the end of the Blog Post/page contents/body:

AdSense-Ads-below-post-contents

If you want to show your AdSense at the end of your blog posts and other blogger webpage then follow Step-1 and Step-2 of heading B as mentioned above and then in step-3 just paste the HTML codes below/after the closing <data:post.body/> tag instead of above/before.

Analysis of AdSense Revenue with Responsive Screen Resolutions

In this digital world, a biggest change in mobile search results has been made on April 21, 2015 (My First Marriage Anniversary) by the apex authority of online contents i.e. Google. No one can ignore the updates made by Google as it is the world’s most popular search engine with a market share of 65.73 percent (NetMarketShare.com) as of April, 2015. Moreover, it also holds 90+ percentage of global mobile search.

Search Engine Global Market Share

Global Mobile Search Percentage

Did you know? Starting April 21, 2015, this mobile-friendly update will boosts mobile search rankings for webpages which are mobile-friendly i.e. sites which uses responsive template/theme. Thus, if you are not using responsive templates for your sites then you may lose potential customers or visitors.

Despite of the above fact if a webpage contains the high quality content (even it is not mobile-friendly), it could still rank high in SERPs. But, I don’t find any reason for not building your site for mobile users. See the screenshot of increasing trend for live mobile users of my site.





Live Mobile Visitors

From the above screenshot you notice that average 45 percent of visitors comes from high-end mobile devices.

Now come to the point that if you have approved Google AdSense account, you may earn some extra dollars by showing advertisements in your multi-screen websites. I have managed to make all my client’s blog/site responsive and during the implementation, I got some relevant points which may help you to increase your AdSense income.

Accordingly, I am discussing with all of you some relevant points relating to responsive websites and AdSense earnings. So, please read the following AdSense multi-screen strategies and boost your AdSense earnings:

1) Make Your Site Responsive for all device

As I already explained it very clear with all of you that if your site is multi-device supported, you will get at least 1/3 extra visitors for your site. And you know the simple thumb rule that-

More Users = Additional Impressions = Extra Earnings.

To make your website responsive, please analyse your Google Analytics data and choose the proper resolution for your site. It helps you lot to know which screen resolution is used by your site visitors.

Step-1: Login to your Google Analytics account and navigate the Reporting (Top Menu) linked to your website.

Step-2: Click on Technology (Browser & OS) under Audience sidebar menu.

Step-3: On the displayed report you will see the name of browsers used by visitors to your website along with various data in different columns.

Step-4: Click on Screen Resolution from the Primary dimension (see screenshot below) to get screen resolutions of your site users in descending order.

Analytics Screen Resolution Report

Now, you will be able to decide which media screen query should be used to create your site’s responsive template in more effective manner and dynamic ways. However, if you are unable to decide best screen resolution for your website, please contact me for further help.

2) Maximum Allowed AdSense Ads in a Responsive Site

This is very important phase because I personally notice that most of my clients makes mistake unknowingly and they never realise its bad impact on their AdSense earnings. Moreover, it may boost your earnings if followed properly otherwise may result in disabling your AdSense account.

Take an example of a blogger who have a WordPress/Blogger blog. He has started his blogging career by using either a simple or responsive template/theme in his WordPress/BlogSpot blog. After sometime he got his Google AdSense account approved for his site and place the AdSense Ad Unit code into templates.

He know very well that he can only place upto THREE standard ad unit in his site besides up to THREE link units and TWO search boxes. Hence, he can insert upto 8 AdSense Ad unit codes into a single webpage. But, he does not know the fact that only ONE large (i.e. 300×600, 300×1050, 970×250, 750×200 and 580×400 etc.) ad unit is allowed per webpage.

Additionally, he also missed the Ad limit per page for mobile sites. As per Ad implementation policies of Google AdSense, you may not display two or more AdSense ads on the screen at the same time on a mobile site. That means you are not allowed to place more than one standard ad unit for each and every page of your mobile friendly blogs/sites.

In other words, you may insert maximum 1 AdSense for content units, up to 3 link units and up to 2 search boxes in your mobile sites. But, I recommend all of you to place only ONE AdSense for content units and ONE link unit code and ONE search box into your mobile sites. If, you want further clarification make your comments and opinion below.

3) How to show AdSense Ads in your Multi-Screen site

Those website owners who uses separate sites for mobile and desktop users may easily comply with the Ad implementation guidelines of Google AdSense by inserting Ad unit code in accordance with the limit specified. However, if you are using responsive template for your website then you have to make some extra efforts for your mobile optimized (multi-screen) websites.

After the above discussion, I think you are now familiar with the restrictions made by Google AdSense for showing Ads in your mobile sites. Now, with the help of some HTML and CSS codes we will be able to comply the policy of Google AdSense. Here is the step by step guidelines to show AdSense Ads in your mobile supported sites:

Step-1: Login to your AdSense account and create Ad Unit.

Step-2: Paste your AdSense ad unit codes into Ad slot in your site by adding the following div class along with your all AdSense ad unit codes.

<div class="swtads adsformobile">
Replace this line with your AdSense Code
</div>
After successful adding the div class your ad codes will looks something like this:

<div class="swtads adsformobile">
<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
style="display:block"
data-ad-client="ca-pub-xxxxxxx"
data-ad-slot="xxxxx"
data-ad-format="auto"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>
</div>
Now, remove the term “adsformobile” from the particular AdSense Ad Unit code which you want to show for your mobile users.

Step-3: Finally paste these CSS codes into your website so that your multi-screen sites will display only one AdSense Ad for mobile visitors.

.swtads{ margin:1em auto;
clear:both}
@media only screen and (max-width:500px){
.adsformobile {display:none}
}
The above code will add some extra margin below and above Ads and prevent to displaying more than one AdSense ads for mobile visitors. Make your comments below to know more about these codes if you have some query.

4) How to see the AdSense Earning Report for Responsive Sites

After successful inserting AdSense Ad Unit Code into your multi-screen sites, you may now want to know the earnings from all platforms viz. Desktop, Tablets and mobile devices. There are two options to see the earning reports for your responsive sites.

4A) AdSense Earning Report through AdSense Account

Login to your AdSense account and click on Performance report menu from the top. Now, choose Platforms from the drop down options next to the report type as shown in this screenshot.

AdSense Earnings Platforms Report

4B) AdSense Earning Report through Google Analytics Account

The best part of this report is that you will be able to see which particular Webpage, City, screen resolution, Source/Medium, Hostname, Day/Time and Browser etc. is performing well for increasing your AdSense earnings.

Thus, follow these steps to see the detailed reports of AdSense Ads Clicks, revenue, CTR, eCPM, Impressions and page impressions etc. for your responsive websites. Note that to see your AdSense report through Google Analytics account you should have to link your AdSense and Analytics Properties. If you have not yet linked the same, please link the both account or contact me for help.

Step-1: Login to your Google Analytics account

Step-2: Click on the Reporting top menu

Step-3: Now, click on Behavior from the left sidebar menu and then select AdSense Pages under AdSense sub-menu. This will show you which webpage of your site performs well for your AdSense Income. You may also choose Overview or AdSense referrers for your earning reports.

Step-4: Click on All Sessions and click on check box to select any particular session for which you want to see the AdSense earnings and then Apply it.

There are about 21 different sessions available in the Google Analytics account viz. Bounced Sessions, Converters, Direct Traffic, Made a Purchase, Mobile and Tablet Traffic, Mobile Traffic, Multi-session Users, New Users, Non-bounce Sessions, Non-Converters, Organic Traffic, Paid Traffic, Performed Site Search, Referral Traffic, Returning Users, Search Traffic, Sessions with Conversions, Sessions with Transactions, Single Session Users, Tablet and Desktop Traffic and Tablet Traffic.

Most of my clients want to know their AdSense earning reports from the sessions, I already bold the same. But, I personally recommend you to analyse all sessions as because it will help you a lot to make analysis and future decisions for increasing your revenue from AdSense Ads.

Step-5: Click on the AdSense Revenue and select any option to Explore the AdSense earnings accordingly. Through this option you will be able to explore the report of AdSense Ads Clicked, AdSense CTR, AdSense eCPM, AdSense Impressions etc.


Step-6: Click on the Secondary Dimension and select any dimension for which you want to see the earnings report. There are 8 dimensions viz. Acquisition, Advertising, Behavior, Custom Variables, Ecommerce, Social, Time and Users. For better option just click on the check box to display dimensions as alphabetical list.

Hence, you will now see and analyse the AdSense earnings with your responsive screen resolutions.

How to change or convert AdSense Ad Codes for BlogSpot Blogs

There are mainly three ways to insert your Google AdSense Ad Code into BlogSpot .com blogs viz. a) Clicking on the “Earnings” tab in your blog dashboard; b) Through AdSense widgets; and c) Adding ad code directly into HTML/JavaScript Gadgets, posts, pages and templates.

As we know that the Google AdSense is fully integrated with Blogger. But, I surprised why my AdSense Ad units code was not showing the Advertisement within my own Google AdSense approved blogger blog itself.

Whenever I tried to insert the ad code directly into blogger template, it results either blank space or showing XML (Extensible Markup Language) and HTML error message like:

When try to Preview Template:

“Could not load template preview: Error parsing XML, line 835, column 15: Attribute name “async” associated with an element type “script” must be followed by the ‘ = ‘ character.”

When try to Save Template:

“Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.”

After scratching my mind half an hour, I come to know the fact that we can’t directly insert Google AdSense Ads code inside the blogger templates through EDIT HTML feature in blogger blog. We have to change the code using a simple trick by just replacing only the three special characters into string text formats:

The left angle bracket (<) replace with (&lt;)

The right angle bracket (>) replace with (&gt;)

The double-quote character (“) replace with (&quot;)

You may however use our one click HTML/JavaScript parser encoder tool to get rid of errors while changing AdSense code for your blog.

Mobile Traffic Monetization with Page-level Ads by AdSense

If you have an approved Google AdSense account and you are searching for different ad format to monetize your responsive website contents, then you should try a new ad format Page-level Ads by AdSense. In other words, you may now use Anchor or Overlay ads and Vignette Ads format besides standard ad size of Google AdSense.

You need to place same Page-level Ad code only once on each page that you want to show the ads and AdSense will automatically show Anchor or Overlay ads and Vignette Ads at optimal times and provide a good experience for your users.

It is a part of AdSense’s next generation ads that are designed to display automatically at the right time and in the right format. Did you know? The best part of Page-level ad is that you will show additional ads on your site that don’t count towards your AdSense per page ad limit. So, get started with AdSense Page-level ads today.

Why should I enable AdSense Page-level Ads?

This is most common question that why should you implement Page-level ad on your website where you have already placed responsive AdSense codes. You will get your answer after reading the features of this new ad format. Google Page-level Ads includes the following two ad formats viz. 1) Anchor/Overlay ads; and 2) Vignette Ads.

1) Anchor or Overlay Ads:
Anchor or Overlay Ads will stick to the edge of your site visitor’s high-end mobile device screen. In other words, these ads serve on mobile optimized webpages only. This Ad format shall not violate AdSense policy of implementing only three ads per webpage.

However, users may easily dismiss the same that means it provide good user experience. Note that the Anchor Ads are shown by AdSense automatically at optimal times to help increase your AdSense earning.

2) Vignette Ads:
Vignette ads are another ad format that appear on the full-screen of your user’s high-end mobile devices between page loads on your site. However, your site users can skip this AdSense ad at any time. This ad format doesn’t count towards your three ads per page limit.

This ad format shall also be shown by AdSense at optimal times to help increase your revenue. To provide best user experience, vignette ads are limited for per user and displayed when the user leaves a page, rather than when they arrive on one, so the user doesn’t have to wait for them to load.

Thus, there are mainly two reasons to implement AdSense Page-level Ads on your responsive site. The best reason is that Page-level ads will be displayed automatically when they’re likely to perform well and provide a good user experience. And the another reason to place Page-level ad on your site is that it should not be counted towards AdSense Ad Unit limit per page policy.

How to set up Page-level Ads by Google AdSense

Follow these simple steps to enable Page-level ads (Overlay and Vignette Ads) to appear on the pages of your mobile optimized site:

Step-1: Sign in to your AdSense account and click on My ads tab.
Step-2: Then click Page-level adsBETA under Content in the sidebar.
Step-3: Now, you may use the controls (toggling the switch) to select which ad formats (Anchor/overlay/Vignette) you’d like to show on your site as shown in this screenshot.

Step-4: Thereafter, just scroll down to section which says Add the code for Page-level ads to your pages. Click on Get code. Now, copy the Page-level ad code and paste it in the <head> tag (or at the top of the body) of your site or the pages where you want to show the ads.

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({
google_ad_client: "ca-pub-xxxxx",
enable_page_level_ads: true
});
</script>

Same Ad Code for every Webpage and Site:
You only need to paste the same Page-level- Ad code everywhere you want to show advertisements irrespective of number of sites you own and webpages of your blog. In other words, the ad code is the same for every page on every site where you want to show Page-level ads.

After you’ve pasted the ad code, you can still make changes to your Page-level ads settings at any time without having to change the ad code. That means you won’t need to change the code even if you adjust your Page-level ads settings.

How to test AdSense Page-level ads on Mobile Optimized Sites

Page-level Ads Preview Tool:
As we know that Page-level Ads will be displayed only at optimal time, the Google AdSense team has provided a facility for testing Page-level Ads on your site. There is simple trick to check whether Overlay Ads and Vignettes Ads are showing on your mobile friendly site.

To check that Page-level ads are working correctly, just add #googleads to the end of the URL of the webpage you have pasted the Ad code. For Example: Visit my site at http://www.superwebtricks.com/#googleads on your mobile device.

Now, Anchor Ads will be displayed by default on the test screen. You may select another format i.e. Vignettes to test on your mobile phone to preview. To show vignettes ads, you have to click on the highlighted links on webpage. Capable link count shall be displayed on your preview screen.

However, the preview tool won’t highlight any links that contain a “stop” words that are typically navigation related, e.g., Log in or Log out, for which vignette ads aren’t shown. All links on the page that are capable of showing a vignette are marked in purple and outlined. Click on one to see the vignette advertisements.

If preview tool is not working on your device, then it may be due to the following reasons:

a) Place Ad Code: Make sure you’ve placed page-level ad code in the <head> tag on the pages you want to test;
b) Supported Mobiles: You are not using high-ended mobile device. Just refresh the page where you’re testing Page-level ads and it will work perfectly.
c) Portrait Mode View: You may have changed the orientation of your mobile device from portrait to landscape mode. Turning your device back to portrait mode should resolve the issues related to showing vignette ads on your site.

You may read complete guide to testing Page-level ads on your websites.

How to disable specific links from showing vignette Ads

If you want to stop vignette ads from showing on a specific link on your site, you may add data-google-vignette="false" to your anchor tag.

For Example:

<a href="superwebtricks.com/contact" data-google-vignette="false">Contact Us</a>

How to track Performance of AdSense Page-level Ads

To see the performance of AdSense Page-level advertisements on your mobile optimized sites, just follow these steps:

Step-1: Log in to your AdSense Account.
Step-2: Click on Performance reports tab.
Step-3: Now select Ad behavior report type as shown in this screenshot.




Now, the Page-level ads are shown under the “Anchor/overlays” and “Vignettes” labels in the performance report. If you have any query related to AdSense Page-level Ads, then please feel free to ask the same through comment below. You may share your experience after implementing this new format AdSense ad on your responsive site.

Install Google Publisher Toolbar to Control Live AdSense Ads

It was Thursday, January 19, 2012 when Inside AdSense (Google’s official blog for news, tips and information on AdSense) shared a new Chrome extension called the AdSense Publisher Toolbar. This toolbar is now known as Google Publisher Toolbar because it works not only with AdSense but also displays data from Google Analytics, Doubleclick Ad Exchange and Doubleclick for Publishers.

I always looking for great ways to control over my AdSense advertisements so that it only display more relevant ads for my site users and increase my earnings with genuine impressions and valid clicks. Google Publisher Toolbar is one the best way to control over the live AdSense Ads instantly while browsing your own site.

Firstly, I was totally confused with its name “Toolbar” because after successful installation, a small icon is added to the top right of my Chrome browser next to address bar and there was no toolbar there. However, when I click on that icon and enable Google AdSense I was surprised to see my lifetime earnings from AdSense program in a pop-up along with top performing ad units and sites.

Additionally, you will also be able to see your estimated revenue from AdSense for Today so far (current day), Yesterday (previous day), this Month (current month) and last Month i.e. the previous month.

On that account overlay pop-up, the top 5 custom channels or URL channels (Domains) will be displayed in descending order of revenue. You may change the date range (today, yesterday, 7 days, this month, and last month) by using the drop-downs. Therefore, I strongly recommend all of you who makes money online using AdSense to install this toolbar.





How to Install Google Publisher Toolbar

Step-1: If you have Chrome Browser then open it otherwise firstly install Google Chrome (A fast and free browser for computer, phone and tablets).

Step-2: Visit this page link in your chrome browser for downloading latest version of Google Publisher Toolbar
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-publisher-toolbar/omioeahgfecgfpfldejlnideemfidnkc

Step-3: Click on the + Free button on the top right side and thereafter click on Add button from the opened pop-up to confirm new extension.

Step-4: After successful installation, a message “Google Publisher Toolbar has been added to chrome” will appear. You will see a Google Publisher Toolbar icon (a white line graph against a blue background) on the top right corner of your chrome browser.

Step-5: Now, login/sign in to the account (Gmail) associated with your AdSense account and click on that Google Publisher Toolbar icon to Enable the respective services viz. Google AdSense, DoubleClick for publishers, DoubleClick Ad Exchange and Google Analytics.


You will be asked for allowing this app and Google to use your information in accordance with their respective terms of service and privacy policies. Click on Accept button to grant the Google Publisher Toolbar access to your account and enjoy all features of this toolbar.

How to Allow Google Publisher Toolbar in the incognito browsing mode

If you want to access this publisher toolbar while browsing in private (incognito mode) then follow this simple process. From the top right corner on the chrome, click on Chrome menu icon (≡). Now, hover your mouse pointer over More Tools and click on Extensions. Locate the Google Publisher Toolbar and select the checkbox saying Allow in incognito to enjoy this chrome extension in incognito.

How to enable in-site Ad overlays in Google Publisher Toolbar

By default in-site feature is enabled for top websites associated with your currently signed in account. However, you can edit the sites listed there at any time and add the additional domain of the sites you own to authorize to show in-site ad overlays.

To add/edit domain for in-site ad overlay follow these steps:

Step-1: Click on the Publisher Toolbar icon which load your Account Overview.
Step-2: Click gear icon from top right and then from drop-down menu click on sites.
Step-3: Now, you may add or remove domain names of your own sites to authorize to show ad overlays.

Whenever, you visit your site in Google Chrome, you will see in-site ad overlays. Each ad overlay displays information about the AdSense ad of the Ad Unit placed on the particular webpage. You will see the Ad size, advertiser/buyer name and Display URL. However, if you have placed Ad links unit then it will display only the ad unit name.

In other words, the Google Publisher Toolbar adds an overlay to each of your Google AdSense ads, which provides some nice data about the ad, including its size, display URL and the advertiser name.

Clicking on the Google Publisher Toolbar icon generates your Account Overview within a pop-up that provides wonderful informative summary which includes:

1) Estimated AdSense earnings for today, yesterday, this month or last month.
2) The top five channels or top five websites in descending order of revenue for today, yesterday, 7 days, this month and last month.
3) Additionally, if you are browsing your site then it displays Ads on this page with lots of details.

Publisher-Tool-displays-AdSense-Ads-on-page

You may click either on colored icon or bullseye to scroll straight to the respective ad on that page. After one click on pop-out icon there you may point out the particular ad unit and second click will load Ad Details window.

Why and How to block unwanted AdSense Ads using Publisher Toolbar

Suppose your site is mainly useful for students and contents are related to study. But, an ad banner of a company (AdWords advertiser) which mainly deals in shoes appears on your educational site. In my opinion it is not relevant ad for an educational blog/site.

To block that unwanted ad, you have to leave your site and sign in to your AdSense account. That means you have to investigate which ad or URL to block under ad review section of Allow & Block ad tab menu.

But, with the help of Google Publisher Toolbar, if you notice that an ad appears on your site which is not relevant for your website contents or users then you may take immediate action to either block that particular ad or ads from specific URL or Google certified ad network as a whole.

Accordingly, follow these simple steps to block unwanted/irrelevant ads while you are browsing your site.

Step-1: Visit your site in Chrome browser.

Step-2: Open Ad Details window by a single click on any particular in-site ad overlay which displays unsuitable ads for your users and you want to block it. The best part is that clicking on the ad overlay generated by this publisher toolbar won’t create invalid clicks.

In-Site-AdSense-Ad-Overlay

Step-3: After clicking on any ad overlay on your site, you will see various data on the opened ad details pop-up window related to that particular ad unit viz. Ad size, Ad requests, coverage, RPM, Clicks, buyer name, targeting type, Ad format, display URL and destination URL etc.

Under the ad preview, click the drop-down (Block this ad) and you will have three options to block that advertisement. Select any option to either Block ads for www.example.com or Block this ad or Block ads from Example Ad Network.

Step-4: Thereafter, click the Block button and once the block has been activated, the ad displays a red Blocked banner.

Remember one thing that blocking any ad will remove that advertiser from auction. That means it will reduce completion for appearing on your site in that ad space. As a result of which your AdSense earnings may be affected.


On the other hand, if you fill that particular ad is not family-safe or is inappropriate then you may also report that from the Ad details window. Just click the Report a problem with this ad drop-down and select the issue that you want to report. You may write any additional comment (if any) and thereafter click on Send to Google support.

You can also export ad details into an HTML file for future reference and use from the “Ad details” window. To export, click Export ad details from the top right corner of Ad details pop-up window.

How to get Google AdSense Approval for your Blog or Website

Each and every people in the world wants to monetize their precious time with the help of various resources either offline or online. If we talk about making money online then not a single person deny the fact that Google AdSense program is one of the best resource for earning handsome money from your Blogs, Websites, Mobile sites, Games, YouTube Videos and site search results etc.

Did you know? It was June 18, 2003 when Google launched advertising monetization program named Google AdSense which has now grown to include over 2 million publishers (including me) who earned more than $7 billion from AdSense in the year, 2012 alone.

Moreover, Indian AdSense Publishers will now get their AdSense earnings directly into their bank account through EFT payment system which has newly available to them with effect from March, 2014.

Now, come to the point that how to get Google AdSense Approval for your Blog or Website. Well! This is one of the frequently asked questions by our readers that why their application get rejected for Google AdSense.

Here is the extract of Email received from adsense-noreply@google.com by applicant for the subject – “Your AdSense application status”:-


Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we’re unable to accept you into AdSense at this time.”

OR

If someone is already earning from YouTube videos, they may get email like this:-

“Thank you for your interest in expanding your Google AdSense account to implement ad code on your own website. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we’re unable to approve this application for the time being. Your existing AdSense account that allows you to show ads on partner sites is not affected by this disapproval.”

Most of the common reasons/issues for disapproval are:
Site does not comply with Google policies
Site does not comply with the Google AdSense program policies
Insufficient content (as explained in later para)
Site does not adhere to the Webmaster Quality guidelines
If you are one of those applicants whose AdSense application has been rejected again and again then please ask from yourself only one question:-

Why Should Someone visit your Site First?

I am sure you will get your answer and you will get your approved AdSense account thereafter. The good news is that now you will be able to immediate access to your AdSense account once you sign up. That means your website should provide a significant value to the users and it must give them a reason to find it first when searching for topics covered by your website.

How to participate in Google AdSense Program

Actually, there are some basic requirement for eligibility to participate in AdSense online program which has been briefly discussed hereunder:

A) Google Account:
I know that most of you have already Gmail account and if you haven’t then please create a Google account needed to sign in to AdSense. All information regarding acceptance, rejection, payments etc. in relation to AdSense will be mailed to your Gmail account by Google AdSense Team.

You should always be careful while providing your personal details at the time of creating a new Google Account. This is because if you will provide wrong information like Full Name, Age and Address etc. then your application might be rejected by AdSense team.

B) Age Requirement:
In accordance with the AdSense Terms and Conditions, applicants must be at least 18 years of age. Thus, if you are not 18 years old then you will not be able to participate in Google AdSense irrespective of satisfying all other conditions.

In that case there is a simple trick that you may provide your parents or guardian name instead of yours at the time of making application (see the procedure below) while signing up for AdSense Program.

C) Blog or Website:
Yes! If you are running your own website then it is OK otherwise you should have to create one free Blog with Blogger.com to monetize the contents on your Blogger Blogs or Websites. However, if you have more than one blog/site then please provide the address of your best site which comply all conditions mentioned as under.

1) Website/Blog Ownership:

It is compulsory to have your own site or blog so that you can access the HTML source code to place the AdSense Ad Units code which displays Ads on your site. Otherwise your AdSense account shall not be approved on final review made by AdSense team.

It is not mandatory that you must have a custom domain for your blogger blog but I strongly recommend you to purchase a domain preferably top level domain like aubsp.com, and example.net etc. for your BlogSpot.com blogs.

2) Website/Blog Contents:

Think as an advertiser’s point of view that why you will go for a site which has not quality contents. Remind one thing that AdSense works by crawling the contents of each and every single webpages on your blog/site.

i) Post Quality: I mean every webpage contain enough textual contents to complete the whole story and topic you are willing to s pread online. This will make happy to your blog readers because they gets complete information and answer for which they have visited your site.

Note that you may not fix the length of any post which results quality contents for Google AdSense. However, I personally opines that an article written within 500-800 words is more than enough instead of writing too short post with just 100-150 words.

ii) Post Quantity: If you want to get one short approval for AdSense program then please make sure you post at least 3-5 posts on weekly basis unless and until your blog/site get approved by AdSense Team.

Google has not specified any magic number of posts to be required for AdSense approval. But, in my opinion if your blog have more than 25 good quality articles then your blog is ready for applying for AdSense.

It is the quality and not the quantity of your blog posts which AdSense team consider at the time of reviewing your blog/site for AdSense approval.



iii) Insufficient content: Your webpages should have sufficient text, I mean to say maximum text with complete sentences and paragraphs, not only headlines. This is because if your site contain mostly images and videos then your application will not be approved.

iii) Original Contents: Your site contents must be original and not a copy paste from other website/blog or anywhere else. Therefore, you should not use copyrighted material in any manner on your site. If you are using any copyrighted textual contents, images, videos etc. then it violate AdSense content policy. Some webmasters uses images for their posts either from Search Engine Result Pages (SERPS) or other sites without

iv) Regularly Updated Contents: Suppose someone has posted 50 posts in a single day or week to get approved for AdSense and thereafter not posted a single post within week or even a month.

Thus, please keep updating/posting on your blog on regular basis so that your approved AdSense Account will not disapprove or disable within a short span of time.

3) Website/Blog Age:

To ensure the quality contents and keeping in mind the interest of Google Advertisers, Google AdSense has specified that the Indian and Chinese AdSense Publishers required to have owned their sites for at least 6 months. Accordingly, except India and China, there is no any minimum age obligation for either blogger blog or website to participate in Google AdSense Program.

However, you have to ensure that your website is live and not in a beta mode or  under construction phase before you apply for AdSense Program. Thus, placing ad code on a website which is not fully launched or only consist a website template will not get final approval.

4) Website/Blog Language:

You may write your site or BlogSpot.com blog in so many languages. However, AdSense Program is not available for all languages including HINDI (supports w.e.f. Dec 2014), Bengali, Gujarati, Panjabi, Telugu, Afrikaans, Irish, Latin etc. and therefore the primary language of your site must be in the AdSense supported languages.

5) Traffic sources:

Your blog/site traffics must come from the genuine sources. In other words, if you got the visitors through Search Engines, Social media and feed subscribers then it is good for the AdSense approval.

But, if you send bulk SMS, Email with your site links or asked your friends/relatives/students at large to daily visit your blog without any interest then it will impact badly on your site. Further, if your blog is not receiving at least 25-30 unique visitors per day then please wait for some time to get more organic traffics on your site and then apply.

I strongly recommend you to sign in to Google Analytics and Webmaster tools which help you to understand your blog/site contents, live visitors, unique page views, and traffic sources in dynamic ways.

D) Non-Google Ads:
You are free to use any third party advertisements on the same blog or webpage for which you are going to apply AdSense Program. In other words, there is no restriction to display Google Ads on your blog having Ads from Infolinks, BuySellAds, Clicksor, Chitika, Amazon Associates, Media.net etc.

However, you should make sure that your site does not contain many third party advertisements. This is because your site will looks like advertisement based rather contents based and that type of website does not qualify for AdSense.

E) Apply for AdSense Program:
Now, you are ready to Sign up for AdSense Program. There are two-step application approval process under AdSense program.

1) Sign-up and Place ad units: Google has now made signing process more faster and easier with effect from Thursday, October 08, 2015. So, you may click here to sign up for your AdSense account and get instant access to your AdSense account.

After log in to your AdSense account, you should create and place your first AdSense Ad Units code on your blog/site. If you a blogger user you may use our encode decode tool to convert ad unit code before using on your blogger blog.

Note that this will not display any Ads on your live webpage rather it shows only blank ad units until your will get fully approved AdSense account. Earlier, you would have to wait for some days or weeks for the preliminary checks to verify the information provided at the time of submitting your AdSense application. And after verification of your information (Your Name, Address and Blog/site URL etc.) , you were able to create your first AdSense Ad Unit.

2) Final Approval: Now, you will get response within 24 hours from specialists of Google AdSense Team regarding the final status of your application after you add the code to your site.

However, this process may takes 1-2 days. Did you know? Previously, the same process was completed after  5-7 days. Finally, you will receive an email letting you know that your AdSense account has been approved. Otherwise, you’ll receive an email on your registered Email ID explaining the disapproval reason and the possible next steps that you can take to get approved account.

Once you got fully activated AdSense account, the Google Ads will appears on your approved website/blog and the red bar across the top of AdSense Account will disappear.

This month (May 2016) one of our client got an approved AdSense account for his 8 months blog. Please let me know, if you have got an approved AdSense account recently. Share your own experiences regarding AdSense account approval.

Please, feel free to ask any questions regarding Google AdSense Program through comments or you may directly Contact Sales of Google AdSense support team. Enjoy!

Keep your AdSense Account safe by adhering Program Policies

Google AdSense work together with both AdWords Advertisers as well as AdSense Publishers and they have to keep both of them happy for their online advertising business. Advertisers pays to AdSense and AdSense pays to Publishers after retaining its own share of revenue. As an AdSense Publisher, you are required to abide by the terms and conditions and program policies of Google AdSense. Otherwise, your AdSense account will be disable by Google for the interest of Advertisers and users of your site or blog.

Irrespective of whether you are going to apply for AdSense or you have recently got your account approved i.e. a new AdSense publisher or you are using AdSense for your website since long time, you must have to understand clearly and adhere to all policies of Google AdSense Program updated from time to time. So, let us discuss in brief some of the most commonly violated policies of AdSense Program to keep your account safe from being disabled by Google.

1) Invalid clicks and impressions:

Invalid clicks means a click on Google Ads by anyone without genuine interest. In other words, you should not use deceptive software/tools that automatically generates clicks and impressions. You should also never click on AdSense Ads live on your own site either for testing purpose or for getting URL of advertisers.

Case-1: Mr. John, an AdSense publisher having furniture business sends AdSense Ad unit code through Daily/Monthly Email newsletter to their clients/customers along with product details. He assumes that it does not violate AdSense policy because customer will click on Ads only if he is interested to it.
Answer: Google has stopped AdSense for feeds from December 3rd, 2012. Further, google strictly says in its AdSense Ad placement policy that AdSense code may not be placed in inappropriate places such as pop-ups, emails or software.

Hence, irrespective of users (Customers/clients) interest in ads showing in Email, Mr. John has violated AdSense program policies.

2) Encouraging clicks:

You should never place misleading images beside AdSense Ads or use labels/phrases for Google Ads like “You may Also Like”, or “Recommended for you”, or “Click the Ads”, “Support Us”, “Resources”, “Visit these Links” or “My Favourite Sites” or “Today’s Top Offers” etc.

However, Google allows only two labels viz. “Advertisements” or “Sponsored Links” which may be used to differentiate AdSense Ads from other contents of your blogger blogs or websites. It’s not compulsory to use a title for Google Ads, you may also use CSS margin codes for distinguish it from your sites contents. Make sure you had not format ads that become indistinguishable from the other contents on that page.

You should never encourage either user or any third party by compensating them for clicks/impressions generated through them. Placing AdSense ad unit codes into a floating box is strictly prohibited.

Case-2: Mrs. Lorry have an AdSense enabled website example.com. Her husband, a principle of a college, encourage students to visit example.com and clicks on Ads which are useful for them and they are interest in. She thinks that these activities will not be counted as invalid clicks and impressions.

Answer: Google is smart enough to detect unnatural clicks and impressions on AdSense ads by using both automated systems and manual reviews by experts. So, please do not invite and users including your friends and family for visit on your site and encourage them to clicks on Google Ads live on your sites or blogs.

3) Content guidelines:

You should never display AdSense Ads on a webpage which contain harmful and illegal contents for an individual or group in any manner whatsoever.

Make sure your site contents are in AdSense supported languages viz. English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Italian etc. instead of Hindi (India), Nepali (Nepal), Malay (Malaysia) and Persian etc.

Any webpage of your blog/site shall not display Google ads containing any copyrighted contents/images/files or any material without prior permission from the owner/copyright holder in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Never place AdSense ad unit codes on site that offer fake and identical goods which is trademark/brand of another.

Case-3: Mr. Peter created a BlogSpot blog and posted hundreds of original contents. After one year of AdSense approval he purchased a domain for his blog. Due to lack of time and full time job he started posting news and contents from other websites and at the end of every posts he provides a link back to the original blog/sites. He thinks that he is adhering the AdSense policy.

Answer: Merely giving credit to the original posts will never makes your site contents creative and unique in the eyes of Google. Purchasing a domain does not affect your site for AdSense Policy compliance. Irrespective of having more than hundred original contents on Mr. Peter site, his is not adhering the AdSense Content policy and therefore his AdSense account will be disable immediately by Google once his site is crawled by AdSense crawlers.

4) Traffic sources:

According to Google AdSense policy, an AdSense publisher should not place Google Ads on any webpage that receives traffics from a certain sources. That means you shall be responsible for participating in any services like paid-for-click or click-exchange program or link building services etc.

In other words, site traffics from the Organic sources (search engines) are more reliable than other sources e.g. Direct and referrals.

Case-4: A site owner pays money to an agency which has lots of link building sites. His site traffics increased by 4/5 compare to his previous traffics. After analyzing his site traffics he come to know that traffics from search engines is negligible whereas traffics from referrals is more than 75 per cent of his all traffics.

Answer: The trick applied by the site owner is nothing but treated as buying link building services. Thus, it violates the AdSense policy results disable ad serving to that site or disable AdSense account forever.

5) Ad Placement:

Google AdSense has provided Ad Placement policies so that publishers shall not place AdSense Ad Unit Codes in the HTML of any webpage in a manner which generates accidental clicks and impressions against the interest of AdWords Advertisers and users.

Be careful while at the time of placing Google Ads just below drop down menu or aligning/ closest to the images that mimic ads or Navigation (Pager) buttons or download links/buttons or videos as because it may lead to accidental clicks.

Case-5: A blogger has placed AdSense Ads aligned to the image of every blog posts in such a way that it looks like related to the advertisement. He also enable only display ads (that will display only images/flash and rich media ads and not text ads) for that particular AdSense Ad Unit.

Answer: This practice may increases clicks and AdSense earnings for the publishers at that time or for a month. But, these AdSense earnings are due to accidental clicks and Google treats invalid click activity very seriously. Consequently, AdSense account of that blogger will be disabled to protect AdWords advertisers’ interests. Google immediately stop any due payments/checks and all earnings will be returned to the affected advertisers.

Keep in mind that your online contents is for visitors of your site rather to earn money online through AdSense Program. You have created your blog/site for users and not for only AdSense. Thus, as an AdSense Publisher, you should prevent from each and every activities including invalid clicks and impressions that unnaturally increases an AdWords advertiser’s costs or his/her AdSense earnings.