10 Things For You Before Applying for Google Adsense

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Google Adsense is world’s larges Ads Network and works at Pay Per Click system.You make little mistakes and get disapproved every time. Google Adsense paying rates are better than all of other networks which is the biggest reason it is so popular to all Bloggers and Webmasters. But since everybody is running behind them, they have made the approval system very strict.  So you need a complete guidance and list of thing that you need to do before applying for Google Adsense and supposing that you are ready.

10 Things to Do Before Applying for Google Adsense

1. Privacy Policy :

Privacy is one of the common mistakes that every Blogger makes and that I made many times before finally getting approved. Even though there are people out there who say that having a Privacy Policy for a Blog doesn’t makes sense but they are wrong.

A Privacy actually describes to your readers about what they will get on your Blog , what they should do and what they should not. So obviously there is nothing bad in having a Privacy Policy. While it can affect somehow on your Adsense Approval, you must give it a try. You can write it yourself or find Privacy Policy Generators online (You don’t need a lawyer anyway).

2. About Page

An About page plays an important role. But when it comes to Adsense, they are about Zero chances of getting approved if you are not showing this page.About page simply describes about you and your Blog . This will not only help you establish a relationship with readers but it will also make them trust upon you.

3. Contact Us Page

What one of your readers likes may be bothering someone else. Than it is better to give them opportunity to speak up to you and tell how they feel about your Blog, what they want to be edited , what they liked or hated.

It will also show the Google Adsense Team that is viewing your site that you actually care about your readers and not only the money and Adsense.

4. Name/ Email Verification

Make sure to put you Name and Email address in some easily visible area like About Me and Contact Us pages. It will confirm to Google Adsense Team that it is the same person who applied for Adsense and not some spam, crappy bots.

5. Age Verification

In this step I encountered a problem. Instead of 18, I accidentally published my age as 17 while on Adsense Application Form, it was accurately 18.

Hence there started a problem . Because Google Adsense is not for under 18 people. I realized this problem after being disproved a few times without any legitimate reason. So I advice you to be accurate while typing your age.

6. Minimum Number of Posts

There is no exact answer. Not even one. Because I have seen very established Blogs with 400+ posts and their owner telling me that Google Adsense is rejecting them while somewhere ,people with 40,50 posts are enjoying making money. Exactly what I said that there is no actual answer. However, we can always predict things. According to my experience , you should only apply after you have more than 70 posts. Posts length should must be 500+ words too.

Read : Difference Between Short Length Post Vs Length Posts – What’s Best?

7. Design

Your Blog is the biggest thing after Content. This represents your expertise ,experience and Professionalism. So be careful because anything can kill your Chances.

8. Content Type

Be careful with what type of content you are publishing. Because it is something that truly matters. Google Adsense is not for Pornographic, Illegal Items, Drugs or other Blogs / Sites like that. Also Adsense team won’t be willing to allow you to step in if you own a Non English Blog. Having posts shorter than 300 words in length is also Red Signal.

9. Providing Value

Don’t complain about not making money and don’t clearly state that your are Blogging for Money only and have no other interest in it. Because this will show them that you will not be providing values to your readers any day. Hence another Red Light glows up.

10. Top Level Domain

Top level domains are very important for Adsenses.Those are gone far away when Adsense used to approve “Blogspot” and “WordPress.com” Blogs. As for today, you must have your own unique domain that specifies your Blog. If you don’t have one yet, stop dreaming about getting approved with Sub domains and go buy a Top Level Domain.

Another important thing about domain is it’s age. Because for most of Asian Countries, Adsense has placed an age restriction. They don’t accept any sites before they are 6 months old.

What you Expect SEO Changes From Google in 2014?

Today i share with you about changes in seo.We know that a lot of changes happened in SEO in 2013, so what can we expect from 2014?. So now that we've just turned the New Year corner, and can see 2014 straight ahead, it's perhaps time to lay aside celebrations of making it to another year, and think about what lies in wait for y2k14. Things continually change in the SEO industry as the tactics and strategies change. The backbones remain the same, but the outer structure is pretty dynamic.

Keyword research

One of the major changes - or should I say, paradigm shifts - for SEO in 2014 is related to keyword research. Previously, Google's entire ranking algorithm and search was based on keywords and keywords alone. Search was made on the basis of keywords in a query, and the most relevant results were filtered, based on their quality (and a whole lot of other factors).

Also Read It: Google Keyword Planner For Effective Blogging in 2014?

So what happened now? Well, Hummingbird happened. Google did a major overhaul of its algorithm, and introduced the Hummingbird. This new algorithm has the capability of understanding (well, trying to understand) conversation queries. It actually processes search queries not just based on their keywords, but on their meaning. This means that synonyms and phrases have a lot more meaning now, and that exact keyword matching might become a thing of the past. So it's time to start researching your audience rather than sticking to the good ol' keyword research we used to do earlier.

Link building

Google has been hacking at this practice for quite some time now, what with the updates like Panda and Penguin. Creating content and reaching out to interested parties for linking back to that content used to be a major SEO practice in the past. But not anymore. Google puts a penalty on any such link building scheme, pushing publishers to look for alternative methods.

Also Read It: Article Directories For Link Building in 2014?

The new way to go is now branding and social interaction, whether through a blog, a forum, or a social media network. Mentions on such platforms will now drive better quality signals to a site in the form of links or brand mentions. So social interaction is in, link building is out. These 'quality' signals that come social activity will follow the same organic patterns that communicate value with in the search engine’s index.

On-page SEO

Optimizing on-page elements for SEO is still very important. However, Google is getting much better at understanding the different parts of markup on a page. So while you previously had to fine-tune the content on your page to make it understandable for Google (which obviously meant you had to tailor content for search engines more than your users), you no longer need to. The focus now is on a site's crawlability and usability, i.e. the User Interface. With new algorithms such as Panda, SEOs should be paying more attention to how the site is being crawled and used when it comes to optimizing “on page”.

Whether these changes are for the better or worse, only time can tell. But they sure make the job of a SEO much smaller, and yet more challenging at the same time. The previous era was about automation - this one is about relations. The socially interactive people get the advantage now, and it is important that bloggers like you and me change and adapt to these developments.

Are You Use Google Keyword Planner For Effective Blogging in 2014?

This post is all about using this new keyword tool for blogging (and SEO).The Google Keyword Tool, well know and used by bloggers for keyword research over the years, has now been replaced by a new tool called Google Keyword Planner. Perhaps this new tool is just in accordance with the latest SEO changes - or perhaps it isn't. But whether for the better or the worse, we're now stuck with tool for carrying out research on keywords, since its predecessor was one of the best free tools we had for the purpose. 

What's new?

Google has shaken up quite a few things here. First of all, the tool is no longer public. You have to sign up for an AdWords account, which even though is free, still doesn't beat the convenience offered by the freely and publicly available tool of the past.

Then there's the lack of device segmentation. You can no longer segment desktop, tablet and mobile traffic, since now it's all merged into a single number, which is a big fat bummer for many who have mobile-/tablet-optimized websites and drive a significant traffic from mobile devices. As you use the tool, you'll realize that a lot more has changed (as we'll soon discuss).

Using Google Keyword Planner

The interface has been changed, and when you log into the tool, you can see four options you can choose from.

The options are pretty straightforward. You can search for new keyword and ad-group ideas using a single, or a list of keywords, or you can look up search volumes or traffic estimates. Here are the options explained briefly.

• Search for new keywords and ad-group ideas - Find new keywords related to a phrase, website, or category. This is the most basic, and most used option for finding keyword ideas
• Get search volumes for a list of keywords or group them into ad groups - Enter or upload keywords to research historical stats like search volume, or group them into ad groups
• Get traffic estimates for a list of keywords - Enter or upload keywords to get click and cost estimates
• Multiply keyword lists to get new keyword ideas - Create new keyword combinations and get search volume stats or traffic estimates 

Now there are quite a few things to keep in mind while researching for keywords.

• Location-targeting - The old keyword tool only allowed for "local" and "global" results. Now, you get results for the defined location settings. Not only can you choose a particular country, you can even drill down to a city! You can change location settings from the left-column.
• Trends - The old keyword tool provided average search volume from the most recent month, which can be very misleading. Sales of certain products are seasonal - they fall in one month, and spike in another. The new Planner, however, reduces the chance for misinterpretation by showing an overall year average, with a convenient pop-over showing seasons monthly trends in volume
• CPC - The new tool has estimated keyword CPC data turned on by default, unlike the old tool, and is supposedly more accurate than the old one.

So are the new changes worth celebrating, or are we going to miss the old tried-and-true Google Keyword Tool? For a heavy AdWords user or a Google shareholder you should welcome the change! AdWords users will appreciate the tighter integration in terms of being able to brainstorm and easily add keywords to their campaign. Plus, the “more accurate” CPC estimates, ideas tab, and increased visibility into location targeting are all nice touches.

Also Read It: Best Top 5 SEO Techniquies That You Are Learn in 2014

But sadly, this transition seems to be in line with changes Google’s made over the last few years that are increasingly focusing on satisfying shareholders and the bottom line. By making the tool only accessible via AdWords, Google is guaranteed to increase revenues as more people sign up for accounts. And Conductor’s insights into the unusual increase in reported search volumes are unusually convenient for Google from the perspective of potentially enticing more advertisers.

And in a world where mobile is growing insanely fast, I can’t think of any good reasons for limiting insights user have into mobile search. It’s a real disappointment that this functionality is no longer available.

Sadly, we think our old beloved keyword tool has been re-positioned to benefit AdWord users and Google’s interests more than the average blogger/webmaster. What do you think of all these changes? Leave your comments below and let us know what you think!

How Blogging is a Profitable Business in 2014?

It was only two years back when blogging was taken as the only profitable business and all one wanted to be was to become an entrepreneur. This was perhaps real but not permanent. With blogs been launched one after another, the internet sphere now seems to be an over-populated place with trillions of trash websites which are doing no good to the world(at least not ethically). Pro Blogger World has had been a constant supporter of making money online by choosing blogging as a major career but with 2014, things seem to have taken a new turn!

Let us now discuss some reasons to question about the future of blogging in 2014!

Google Humming Bird- A lock in between success

Google has had been curious about the future of blogging and the money generated through content sharing. Limiting its scope to ensure quality, Google released its new strategy to evaluate the live blogs for their content, vision, audience and affiliated marketing. Many blogs lost their page ranks and rankings in no time by the mid of 2013, still reasons unknown. It is now that blogging seems a real tough business where a potential blogger is required to reconsider his decision after reading all about the new strategies launched by Google.

Alternative of blogging-Catchy enough!

Not every one of us has patience enough to wait and wait for the paybacks. Blogging requires more than one can imagine even, especially in the initial six months. People are now finding its alternatives fruitful enough to play with. For instance, you can go for fiverr, freelancing, and stuff like that which brings instant cash in return of measured input. It is overall a safe play with a fair deal.

Heavy Competition in the market

There are people who have specialized skills in SEO and blogging thick and thins but one of the major barriers in their success is the already build high competition in the blogsphere. Planning to start a blog on Social media? We have Mashable for it. Thinking to start a tech-based blog? How would you compete with techcrunch and techradar? In short, every blog has its bigger-and-better blog available.

Therefore,the answer to the question that whether blogging a profitable business in 2014 is, partially yes, and partially a no! If you are smart enough to deal with small technicalities attached with the blogging career, you can still make it someway for now.

Wish you a good luck in whatever career you choose for yourself.

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Secure Your Google Account After a Possible Hack?

your Google Account might be hacked?Here's how to make sure your account is safe if you think it might be compromised. Google makes it quite easy for you to keep your account protected, and recover it in case of a possible hack. Maybe you felt some suspicious activity going on, or perhaps you lost your Android smartphone, and you're afraid the thief might have snitched your account before getting rid of the evidence. Incidents like these are quite frequent, and put the victims at a potential risk of identity theft, which often leads to some sort of criminal activity. 

Here's how to make sure your account is safe if you think it might be compromised. Google makes it quite easy for you to keep your account protected, and recover it in case of a possible hack. You just have to know the right options to turn on in order to secure your account.

How to secure your account

OK, so the first thing you should do is - the most obvious of all things obvious - change your password. Duh, right? I know you might have done that already, but what article about securing your account doesn't tell you to change your password? :). But do make sure that you're on google.com when you change your password. 

So GMail keeps a track of your recent activity, and this information is displayed right on your GMail homepage! A lot of people miss it though. You can see it in a small font on the very bottom-right of the page. Mine looks something like this;

Of course, there isn't any suspicious activity on my account right now. But in case of a suspicious activity, you might see a similar message that says "Last account activity: 23 minutes ago. Open in 1 other location”. To investigate this "1 other location" click on Details. You can see a list of countries and IP addresses you've logged on from.

You know your account has been compromised when you see any activity you do not recognize.

Sometimes, people will listen on your emails for valuable information. If they've been in your account even once, it isn't difficult to set up forwarding, so that valuable emails are forwarded to another email address without your knowledge. To check for any forwarding rules, simply go to settings by clicking on the cog icon on the top-right, and click on the filters tab.

Personally, I’m a big fan of two-step authentication. You can learn how to turn it on using this Google Help Center link. All you need to do is, verify a phone number associated with your account, and then whenever you want to login, a code will be sent to your phone number. You'll use this code to login. Any hacker who tries logging in will also need your cell phone.