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Top 10 Wordpress Plugins For Google Adsense

Posted on : 01-03-2010 | By : admin | In : Advertising, Blogging, Blogroll, Google, How to, Softwares & Technology, Web, Web 2.0 & Utilities, Web 2.0 & Utilities, blogs, wordpress

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These are the best wordpress plugins for Google Adsense.

Easy Adsense – It  provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. Having lot of features, Easy AdSense is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

Adsense Inline – This inserts adsense ads in blog posts.

Adsense Deluxe – It is easy-to-use plugin for WordPress for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed. It can switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.

All in One Adsense and YPN – All in One Adsense and YPN is a Free and Open Source Wordpress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 post or 100,000 posts, it will insert your ad code into all of them automatically.

Adsense Injection – It inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code.

AdRotator Wordpress Plugin – This plugin rotates adsense ads with other affiliate programsas needed.

Adsense Beautifier -  This make your Adsense look beautiful in order to increase you Adsense earnings. Images adjacent to ads can help increase click through rate (CTR).

Advanced AdSense WordPress Plugin – A simple plugin to help make your Google AdSense Ads display better, more relevant ads.

MightyAdsense - It will allow you to host the code in wordpress without having to modify the templates. Google ads is displayed in post item and you can specify how many block its going to show up in a page. Ads preview tool included in control panel.

Google Ad Wrap – Section Targeting – Section Targeting is a way of embedding special tags inside HTML to give Google’s also a better idea of what’s important on your page. This is a really simple plugin that wraps posts and comments inside these tags, in the hope that they’ll lead to better search rankings

Google Adwords Horror Story In India

Posted on : 14-08-2009 | By : admin | In : Advertising, Google, India, SEO, Search Engine/SEO Stuff, Search Engines, Uncategorized, Web, Web Marketing, blogs

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It’s quite some time I am using Google Adwords for my own sites & client sites. Goofing up with biling is a common issue with Google but I have got into a habit of ignoring it.
But from yesteray what I am experiencing is qutie a horror story with Google Adwords. My client’s ads have not been running on Google Adwords for more than a day now. This is because the Adwords system says that we have not made our payment.\ But the actual story is: In India, the Reserve Bank of India had introduced a rule that all credit card transactions made online need a PIN. We got that done, and Google sent us a form which was supposed to take care of all this from their end. We signed the form and sent it to Google Hyderabad, India. I checked out with some friends & they are also experiencing same kind of issues with Google.
On August 7, we got a message from Google that our Adwords payment could not be processed, and that our ads will be stopped if we do not make the payment quickly. We contacted our account representative regarding this, and he told us that it is a technical error and to be ignored. Yesterday, we got a message that our ads are not running. Adwords being a pretty sizable mode of traffic for us, we immediately mailed our account representative. But we got no reply from him for almost 6 hours. We decided to call up Google’s India offices so that we could have our ads running as soon as possible.
Google has 4 offices in India – Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad. We called up each of them, only to be told that everyone had gone home (at 11 in the night, which is not so late if you are working in a company which intends to change the world). I then realized I was talking to the security guards at the offices who obviously had no idea of what their bosses had done wrong. They gave me an email address and asked me to direct my problems there. And an auto-responder got back to me: This email address is no longer in use. And it gave me no other way to get in touch with an executive.
So i decided to call up Google’s US offices. After 2 minutes of pressing numbers to get through to a support executive and then waiting for another 2 minutes for someone to pick up, I was finally asked to leave my message in the voice mailbox. Obviously, I was in no mood to leave a message and then wait for someone to call me back. So I mailed my account representative again. Five hours into the working hours of the next day (which happens to be today) and I got no reply from them. I again called up their India offices, this time during working hours only to be told that the only support that they offer is through email. So 24 hours have gone since our ads stopped running and there is no information that I have got from Google.
Things I got to know from the entire episode:
1. How can a company like Google not offer phone support for something that generates over 95% of all its revenues?
2. Google manages search for the entire world, but they manage their internal communications itself.
3. Google knows that the world cannot do without it, or will take a very long time to get ungoogled. So…
I think all these is becoz Google knows it’s monpoly in online advertising & turning out to be a bigger evil than Microsoft. Hoping for someone to be bigger on the web than Google in coming days   http://www.wolframalpha.com, & some others

It’s quite some time I am using Google Adwords for my own sites & client sites. Goofing up with billing is a common issue with Google but I have got into a habit of ignoring it.

But from yesterday what I am experiencing is quite a horror story with Google Adwords. My client’s ads have not been running on Google Adwords for more than a day now. This is because the Adwords system says that we have not made our payment. But the actual story is: In India, the Reserve Bank of India had introduced a rule that all credit card transactions made online need a PIN. We got that done, and Google sent us a form which was supposed to take care of all this from their end. We signed the form and sent it to Google Hyderabad, India. I checked out with some friends & they are also experiencing same kind of issues with Google.

On August 7, we got a message from Google that our Adwords payment could not be processed, and that our ads will be stopped if we do not make the payment quickly. We contacted our account representative regarding this, and he told us that it is a technical error and to be ignored. Yesterday, we got a message that our ads are not running. Adwords being a pretty sizable mode of traffic for us, we immediately mailed our account representative. But we got no reply from him for almost 6 hours. We decided to call up Google’s India offices so that we could have our ads running as soon as possible.

Google has 4 offices in India – Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad. We called up each of them, only to be told that everyone had gone home (at 11 in the night, which is not so late if you are working in a company which intends to change the world). I then realized I was talking to the security guards at the offices who obviously had no idea of what their bosses had done wrong. They gave me an email address and asked me to direct my problems there. And an auto-responder got back to me: This email address is no longer in use. And it gave me no other way to get in touch with an executive.

So I decided to call up Google’s US offices. After 2 minutes of pressing numbers to get through to a support executive and then waiting for another 2 minutes for someone to pick up, I was finally asked to leave my message in the voice mailbox. Obviously, I was in no mood to leave a message and then wait for someone to call me back. So I mailed my account representative again. Five hours into the working hours of the next day (which happens to be today) and I got no reply from them. I again called up their India offices, this time during working hours only to be told that the only support that they offer is through email. So 24 hours have gone since our ads stopped running and there is no information that I have got from Google.

Things I got to know from the entire episode:

1. How can a company like Google not offer phone support for something that generates over 95% of all its revenues?

2. Google manages search for the entire world, but they can’t manage their internal communications itself.

3. Google knows that the world cannot do without it, or will take a very long time to get ungoogled. So…

I think Google takes customers for granted becoz  it has a monopoly in online advertising & turning out to be a bigger evil than Microsoft.

Reviewing Be-a-magpie.com For Twitter Ads

Posted on : 09-07-2009 | By : admin | In : Advertising, Uncategorized, Web, Web Marketing

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After Myspace nowdays the trend to be build one of those niche long tailed sites for Twitter. There are so many Twitter applications from desktops to web applications popping everyday, tweetme, retweet all kinds of services based on Twitter. So natually there is a craze to market and advetise on it. Recently we had come across a third-party advertising site called “ Be-A-Magpie ” from Germany for Twitter.  The idea is pretty simple, advertisers need to sign up & provide a ad text,CPM rates, budger per day, keywords & it will serve the ads as a tweet in a Twitterer who is a publisher of Be-A-Magpie. Now how the Twitterer is selected to match the adtext? as far as they say it is done by a matching algorithm. Coming to the point we had run ads in & well I was not fully satisfied because of some issues. Firstly the ads come as a tweet but a word called “ads” is prefixed with the tweet so as I believe the people who tweet are quite net-savy & I wonder how many will click seeing the word” ads”, only those who will be like really interested in the product can click on the link. Another issue is tracking clicks & conversions as many tweet using other applications, if you see your analytics account ti does not match the number of clicks which be-a-magpie shows. But yes you can mail them and they can send you a detailed log. It’s very new to comment on, but they need to come up with some more smart features for improving click convertions.

Any advertsing platform make by Twitter would be much better, but as there are many twitter advertising model rumors we are yet to see how twitter comes up something by themselves for advertising & revenue generation. It has to be very innovative so that it can blend perfectly without annoying users, but yes they have to come up with a good revenue model or else in the long run  they will fade away like some sites no matter how many traffic may they get!