How to get your Google Adsense Account Re-activated if banned

There are lots of Google Adsense  users who get their Adsense account banned and lose all the earnings due to click fraud. Let me first tell you the chances of getting your account restored is very lean but you should give it a try if you have not really clicked on your ads or if you are sure that you have used the program 100% according to the guidelines.

1. First reply to the email sent by the Google Adsense Team explaining that you have never clicked on the ads or if you have done so, explain how it happened accidentally or so. But let me tell you that Google will not ban your account if you just click once or twice by mistake on your ads. If you do so, just send an email immediately informing about the mistake
2. You may be getting a reply asking you to send your server log or any information related to the clicks or visitors. Many CMS like Joomla, Drupal has plugins which record the clicks, you can send them a copy of those reports
3. Just wait for their reply, if you are lucky, you account will be restored, or you need to search for Google Adsense Alternatives

 

Google uses time tested algorithms to check for click fraud looking into different instances. So never try to increase your revenue by clicking on your own ads or asking anybody to click on the ads.

Google Trends to compare different websites

Google Trends is another service from Google where you can compare different website with considerable traffic and popularity for Traffic Region, referral and search keywords. If your site is not having much traffic, then you may get a message that Google does not have sufficient data to display the trends

You can additional trends data if you sign-in to the Google account. You can compare the traffic by countries, referrals and search keywords.

Google Adsense New Improved Custom Search for better earnings

Google Adsense has an option for earning from the search results other than banners and text links. I am not sure how many of us use it and what is the potential of earning from the Google Adsense search. To be frank, I was using this only on one of my blog and I did not get much revenue from this. Today I received an email from Google Adsense support team encouraging the use of the Search feature.

There are many new features that they have added and I feel that everybody should try this.

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Two Image Ads shows same ads with different sizes – Google Adsense

I have been using two ad slots with Image ads on a page with Google Adsense. I see most of the time that the ad served is for the same product. For example you have 4 placements (Maximum allowed according to the Google Adsense TOS). Two text ads and two image ads of different sizes. Mostly the two image ads displayed are of the same product. Have you ever seen this kind of problem?

Google Affiliate network to replace Google Adsense Referral program

I got an email from the Google Adsense Team saying that the Google is discontinuing the Referral program from August end. Instead we can sign up for the Google Affiliate network which is actually the Google acquired company, Doubleclick.

I am not at all worried as I do not use the referral products on any of my blog now as I tried and was not working well for me. If you are using referral code, just start removing it as it will not work after August end. If you are using in templates it should not be a problem but if you have used for individual pages, then it should be a tough time for you.

In the affiliate network you will not be paid for impressions or clicks, but only for conversions according the rates set by the advertisers. Depending upon the kind of visitors that you will be getting you will earn or there is no point wasting your space for this kind of program.

Picasa , Free Image editor from Google

I use Picasa for editing and enhancing the image quality the images that I take during my travel. Picasa is a free tool from Google. I have been using this software for long time and I am very comfortable using this. Its very simple to you and if you are blogging and want to use the images from your camera or want to enhance the quality of your image, make is smaller for web upload then this is the best and easy one. I had been using Adobe Photoshop which is also one of the best, but its very costly. When you have free tools available, then why do you need to go for a paid tool. Photoshop has much more feature for advance image editing, but we do not need all those feature to edit our images to upload to the blog posts.

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Overriding the default Adsense setting in Google Ad Manager

I got an invitation for Google Admanager few days back and was just going through the features before using it. I had tough time working on the the default Google Adsense settings. Google Admanager has a feature of showing Google Adsense ads if you have linked one for the slots which are free or even compete with the booked ads. Right now the user does not have the feature to modify the Adsense attributes like the link color or the border color as we can do for individual ads in Google Adsense control panel. But we can do it by using from Javascript provided on the help page of Google Ad Manager.

As per the information given on the help page is added the code, but was not working. You can see the code info below

According to the help page as you see above, I inserted the code as given below

  //page level
  GA_googleAdAdSensePageAttr("google_color_link", "CC0000");
  GA_googleAdAdSensePageAttr("google_ad_type", "text");
  //slot level
  GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr("kishoreasokan_Homepage_336×280", "google_ad_type", "text");
  GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr("Kishore_Asokan_Below_Content_336×280", "google_ad_type", "text");
  GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr("KishoreAsokan_Post_page_250×250", "google_ad_type", "image");

But this was not working, and spend a lot of time and even posted a help request at Google Groups for Ad manager

Later I was going through some some other help pages for tagging, I came across this information about tagging and in that the attribute is GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr instead of GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr and when I corrected the code according to this it is working fine.

  //page level
  GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("google_color_link", "CC0000");
  GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("google_ad_type", "text");
  //slot level
  //GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr("kishoreasokan_Homepage_336×280", "google_ad_type", "text");
  //GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr("Kishore_Asokan_Below_Content_336×280", "google_ad_type", "text");
  GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr("KishoreAsokan_Post_page_250×250", "google_ad_type", "image");

Now let me explain you how to  use the attributes to override the default adsense settings. When you login to the Ad Manager and go to the inventory tab, you can find the Default Adsense setting link. In this you can set your default adsense properties, but there is no option to set properties for individual solts or placements adsense properties.

But you can override the default adsense properties in the Ad Manager in two levels

1. Page Level
2. Slot Level

For setting the page level properties, you have to add the following code to change the property which will be applicable on a page level basis, all the slots will be effected

GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("param", "value");

 

and for Slot level modification you need to add

GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr("slotname", "param", "value");

What are the properties that you can override?

• Border: param = google_color_border
• Title: param = google_color_link
• Background: param = google_color_bg
• Text: param = google_color_text
• URL: param = google_color_url
• Alternate ad URL: param = google_alternate_ad_url
• Ad unit (text, image, text/image): param = google_ad_type
• Corner style: param = google_ui_features

Now its working great. Google Help centre needs to correct the information given on their help page

Annotation Feature for Youtube Videos

Have you tried the annotation feature for Youtube Videos. This is still a beta feature and not available for other languages than English and in full screen mode.

What is Annotation in Youtube Videos/

You can add more information or interactive commentary to selected frames of Videos.

There are three features available

1. Add Speech Bubble
2. Add Note
3. Add Spotlight

Google Pagerank Update is on

I saw some threads on Google pagerank update, but could not find any change on any of my websites. I found a thread on DP on this. Its sure that the pagerank update is on. I used the pagerank checking tool for checking my websites and my money making blog just 2 months old has got PR 2 from PR 0, that’s good and I have seen some changes in the search engine ranking for this blog.

Other important thing I have noticed this Johnchow who had lost his PR in the last update has gone from PR 3 to PR 4, I don’t think he has stopped paid links or paid reviews.

Googling your name

Have you ever tried searching for your name on Google? If you have a blog or you are active online doing some posts on different forums, then surely you will see some results.

How can you find if somebody is searching your name on Google.

Option 1 - This will work only if your blog ranks 1st on the Google search result or atleast 1-3 position. Create a Google Adwords campaign with your name as the keyword. You can find if you get clicks for your campaign

Option 2 - Check your blog statistic on Google Adwords, you can find it under the organic traffic source.

Self Googling

Searching for your name on Google is known as Self Googling. I do get some traffic to my blog and other websites with my name as the keyword. Now a days many employers do search for the employees on Google to find more information about the candidate. If you try Googling my name “Kishore Asokan“, you will find lots of information about me on different websites. Recently I read a post on Homeland security Googling names. Self Googling is a way to find out how different people around the world and trying to find about you. Some stats show that 47% of the internet users do self googling, infact self Googling reveals your online footprint.

If you have not tried it, just try now

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