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

Joomla has thousands of plugins, extentions,modules which helps to run a Joomla website easily. To optimize SEO for website in Joomla these are the best 5 plugins one can use:

# Joomap – One of the first and most important things you can do when building your site is to make sure to create a sitemap and submit it to all the major search engines. The extension shows all the menu structure, content categories and sections and can also create a Google Sitemap list.

# Joomla SEO/SEF Component - The Joomla SEO/SEF Component mainly makes your urls more search engine friendly. Instead of your urls being a mixture of numbers and letters, it allows for more understandable urls.

# SEOSimple - SEOSimple is one of the most used SEO extensions by Joomla users. On the front page, you can choose whether to use automated meta data based on what displays on the page or manually insert meta data. Other features include the ability to customize the meta data for each page.

# J!Redirect301 - This extension works just as it sounds. The plugin redirects your domains to one domain so that only one version of your site is indexed.

# JoomSEO - JoomSEO has a ton of different features, but most notably, it dynamically makes the content more search engine friendly.

Reputation Management theory is getting quite popular nowadays. We all know more or less the basics of that. But as far as managing Search Engines are concerned these are some few concepts.

#Brand value

#Contested name space

#Engagement

#Hostile entity

#Hostile environment

#Name space

#Result flipping

#Shared name space

Michael (Director of Search Strategies at Visible Technologies, Inc.) has a great post on that, you can read it HERE.

These are some of the top Joomla SEO tips ..each one of the tips is very useful & you can read them in detail HERE

#Turn On Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLS (SEF)

#Install The sh404SEF Component

#Make Joomla URLS SEO Friendly

#Good Page Titles & Clean URLs in Joomla

#Insert H1 Tags In Joomla

#Create A Unique Home Page Title In Joomla

#Prevent Duplicate Content Problems in Joomla

While setting Goal settings for Google Analytics we should be very clear on all the objectives we want to achieve for tracking. As analytics does not let us track more than four goals, we need to set a duplicate profile for every goal we need to track.

The important goals we must track are Track Comments, Social Bookmarking Actions,Catalogue Request,Newsletter Subscriptions, New Account Openings, File Download, Feed Subscriptions, Call Back Requests, Leads & Sales.

Read this great article for more on this

Most of the blogs nowdays built on wordpress and for better great search engine optimization (SEO), it is always advisable to use plugins for wordpress which are quite easy to install. These are some of the plugins to use, but there are lotsn lots more which can be used too!!

All in One SEO Pack – One of the most popular SEO plugins ever for WordPress, this plugin does a bit of everything for you from helping choose the best post title,meta tags, keywords, & to helping you avoid duplicate content and more.

Google XML Sitemaps – An essential tool in for any kind of SEO .  Though the name only mentions “Google,” this plugin creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also.

Nofollow Case by Case – This plugin allows you to strip off the “nofollow” command from the comments, and then you can also apply it to only the comments you don’t wish to support.

SEO Friendly Images –This plugin is very useful for blogs with lots of pictures n graphics , it helps you with making sure that you have “alt” and “title” tags on all of your images so that the search engines can properly index them.

Simple Tags – This plugin helps you choose the best tags for your posts by offering suggestions, auto-completion of tags as you type, an AJAX admin interface, mass tag editing and a whole lot of things.

SEO Title Tag – Tags ina blog are an important part of the site for making sure that search engines know where to place posts, and SEO Title Tag plugin focuses exactly on this.

Redirection – For any reason if you sometimes need to move a page from one spot on your blog to another, then you are at the risk of losing that page’s status in search results.  Redirection helps you with your 301 redirects, captures a log of 404s so you can work on correcting them, sets up an RSS feed for errors and more.

HeadSpace2 – This plugin helps you to install all sorts of meta-data, add specific JavaScript and CSS to pages, suggests tags for your posts and a whole lot more.

Meta Robots WordPress plugin – An easy solution for adding robot metadata to any page you choose on your blog.  You can use it to make your front page links into “nofollows,” prevent indexing of search pages, disable author and date-based archives, prevent indexing of your login page and numerous other features.

SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin – If you  have duplicate content on your site for whatever reason, SEO No Duplicate will allow you to state which version of the post search engines should index while ignoring the 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.

Google Trends is another tool provided by Google other than popular ones like Adwords Keyword Tool or Word Tracker which can be used to research n compare search volume over a time extent. One can compare up to 5 keywords selecting different time frames and countries. This is a good way to check how a keyword is changing, like it’s on the rise, you may consider getting in on that keyword.

Google Trends Top 100 from Google updates every hour with the top 100 most popular searches over the last hour. It ranks them 1 to 100. When you click a link, it will take you to a page that shows a graph of the keyword, related blog posts, related news, related keywords, and the top SERP results. This is a great tool for people writing or blogging on current events and news.

Google trends can be cross compared with other tools to select & get a overall view on keywords & volume information.

WordPress is by far the the most popular blog platform. But being the  the most popular one so nowways lot of hackers are targeting WP blogs & you need to upgradeand fix it quite often. so I was looking for easy & secure blog platform which can be hosted on own server for business & blogging needs.

These are some alternatives to wordpress which are easy to install,more stable & are also SEO friendly.

# MovableType : One of the most popular blog platforms since date. It has been bigger than WordPress a few years ago but as it is not Open Source & you need to pay so it lost market share. But now MovableType has open sourced and it is easy to install. It certainly is more secure and has less upgrades to be performed.

# Drupal : Drupal is more than a blog platform but you can set a blog with it with ease & it is quite SEO friendly.

# B2Evolution : This blog platform has been around for ages but never got really popular. It may be name or the lack of character, B2Evolution even attempts to mimic Wordpress looks by using the Kubrick theme, but this might be as well an advantage. anyways, just the fact that it’s around as well as “alive and kicking” for a such long time makes it a viable alternative.

# Textpattern : Back when I started blogging it was an easy decision, Wordpress o Textpattern. It was a choice like PC vs Mac, the more design oriented bloggers have chosen Textpattern. The community seems a little dormant by now but Textpattern is still a good choice it seems to me. Also there seem to be quite a lot of plugins for SEO.

# Mephisto : It is a comparably unknown blog platform but if you look at the code, screenshots and and Wordpress-like URLs it looks very promising. But due to lack of funding and only two developers working on it Mephisto is still stuck at Version 0.8

# Typo : In version 5.1 Typo introduced many of the features we’re accustomed to from Wordpress or MovableType. Like Mephisto the URL structure follows WordPress defaults and the markup looks great.

But still inspite ot having all this other options people tend to blog on wordpress for its great list of plugins or themes. But if you want a more secure blog with lesser hacking attacks these options can be tried .

When you are running international campaigns on Googlle you need to know how the ads are appearing  in another country. For this we need to manually change the country code in the browser adding the GL location code of the country. But there’s a nice plugin called the Google Global Firefox extension.for FireFox that allows you to see how Google results pages (SERP) look in other countries. Check this out as it is really a nice plugin & you can also configure the countries as per