deddynoer: Aturan Pemakaian Google AdSense

Tulisan berikut diambil dan diterjemahkan dari halaman Google AdSense Program Policies dengan tujuan untuk memudahkan publisher AdSense Indonesia untuk memahami dan mengerti aturan2 yg diterapkan oleh Google berkaitan dengan program Google AdSense mereka. Setiap pelanggaran aturan yg dilakukan oleh publisher, sekecil apapun, akan dapat menyebabkan keanggotaan AdSense mereka dihapus oleh Google.

Sekedar informasi, artikel berikut ditulis berdasarkan update ketentuan Google AdSense Program Policies pada bulan Januari 2007. Sewaktu-waktu, Google akan melakukan perubahan/ penambahan/ pengurangan aturan mereka, jadi untuk informasi yg lebih up-to-date, silahkan langsung mengacu pada halaman Program Policies mereka.

Semoga bermanfaat!

Klik dan Impresi Yg Tidak Valid
Segala klik pada ad units harus berasal murni dari keinginan pengunjung. Berbagai cara untuk menciptakan klik atau impresi pada ad units secara keras tidak diperbolehkan. Ini meliputi, tapi tidak terbatas pada, klik atau impresi berulang yg dilakukan secara manual maupun otomatis, penggunaan layanan pihak ketiga yg menghasilkan klik atau impresi seperti program paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, autosurf, dan click exchange / click club, ataupun software yg sejenis. Sebagai catatan, melakukan klik terhadap ad unitsi sendiri juga dilarang. Segala bentuk pelanggaran terhadap aturan ini dapat mengakibatkan keanggotaan AdSense Anda dihapuskan. Mendorong Terjadinya Klik

Untuk meyakinkan hasil yg optimal baik bagi pemasang iklan maupun pengunjung situs, publisher tidak diperbolehkan untuk meminta pengunjung mengklik iklan AdSense yg ada pada situs mereka ataupun menggunakan cara2 yg tersembunyi untuk menghasilkan klik. Jika dijabarkan, publisher AdSense:
* Tidak diperbolehkan untuk mendorong pengunjung mengklik ad units mereka dengan menggunakan kata2 seperti “click the ads,” “support us,” “visit these links,” dan kata2 lain yg sejenis.
* Tidak diperbolehkan untuk menarik perhatian pengunjung ke iklan yg ada dengan menggunakan panah atau gambar2 lain yg sejenis.
* Tidak diperbolehkan untuk meletakkan gambar di sekitar ad units yg dapat membuat pengunjung mengira bahwa gambar tersebut adalah bagian dari iklan.
* Tidak diperbolehkan untuk mempromosikan situs yg memasang ad units AdSense melalui spam ataupun cara2 yg tidak benar pada situs lain.
* Tidak diperbolehkan untuk memberi komisi kepada pengunjung untuk mengklik iklan ataupun melakukan search pada Google For Search.
* Tidak diperbolehkan untuk memasang label di atas ad units AdSense yg dapat menyebabkan kesalahpahaman. Sebagai contoh, ad units boleh ditandai dengan “Sponsored Links”, tapi tidak dengan “Favorite Sites”.

Isi Situs
Publisher hanya diperbolehkan untuk memasang iklan AdSense pada situs2 yg mengikuti aturan Google, selain itu, iklan tidak boleh dipasang pada halaman dimana isi utamanya menggunakan bahasa yg tidak didukung oleh Google AdSense (termasuk Indonesia).

Ad unit AdSense tidak boleh dipasang pada situs yg mengandung:
* Kekerasan, rasis, atau saran untuk melawan/membenci orang lain, grup, maupun organisasi.
* Pornografi dan hal2 yg bersifat dewasa.
* Hacking/cracking.
* Obat2an terlarang.
* Kata2 kotor yg berlebihan.
* Judi dan kasino.
* Ajakan atau tawaran komisi/kompensasi kepada pengunjung untuk mengklik iklan atau tawaran, melakukan search, membrowsing situs (autosurf, paid-to-surf, dll), maupun membaca email (paid-to-read email).
* Penggunaan kata kunci yg berulang, berlebihan, maupun tidak relevan dengan situs, baik pada content maupun kode halaman (HTML).
* Menipu atau memanipulasi isi halaman untuk meningkatkan ranking mesin pencari dari situs yg bersangkutan.
* Menjual atau menawarkan senjata maupun amunisinya.
* Menjual atau menawarkan bir atau minuman dengan kadar alkohol tinggi.
* Menjual atau menawarkan rokok atau produk2 yg berhubungan dng rokok.
* Menjual atau menawarkan obat2an terlarang.
* Menjual atau menawarkan replikasi atau imitasi dari suatu produk.
* Menjual atau menawarkan tugas kuliah, skripsi, dan sejenisnya.
* Berisi atau mempromosikan hal2 yg bersifat ilegal / melanggar hukum.

Materi Yg Dilindungi Hukum
Publisher tidak diperbolehkan untuk memasang ad units AdSense pada situs yg berisi materi2 yg dilindungi oleh hukum, kecuali mereka memiliki ijin untuk itu. Hukum yg digunakan adalah hukum DMCA, mengenai digital media.
Aturan Webmaster

Publisher AdSense diwajibkan untuk memenuhi aturan kualitas webmaster yg tercantum pada http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html.

Penggunaan Situs dan Iklan
Situs yg menggunakan iklan AdSense disarankan untuk memiliki navigasi yg mudah untuk pengunjung dan tidak mengandung pop-up yg berlebihan. Pemasangan kode AdSense juga harus sesuai dengan yg diberikan, tanpa adanya modifikasi apapun. Ini termasuk tidak diperbolehkannya untuk mengubah perilaku / cara kerja iklan dalam bentuk apa pun.

* Situs yg menggunakan ad units AdSense tidak boleh menggunakan pop-up atau pop-under yg mengganggu pengunjung, menarik minat pengunjung, merubah setting browser, me-redirect pengunjung ke situs lain, maupun melakukan proses download.
* Kode AdSense harus dipasang sesuai dng yg diberikan tanpa adanya modifikasi. Publisher tidak diperbolehkan untuk mengubah bagian apapun dari kode tersebut atau merubah cara kerja kode, pentargetan, ataupun penampilan iklan. Sebagi contoh, klik pada iklan AdSense tidak boleh terbuka pada jendela browser baru.
* Situs atau suatu perusahaan tidak diperbolehkan untuk menampilkan iklan AdSense, search box AdSense, hasil pencarian, dan tombol referral pada aplikasi / software apapun, termasuk toolbar.
* Situs yg menggunakan iklan AdSense tidak boleh mendapatkan trafik dari situs / software lain dengan cara2 yg tidak alami, seperti pop-up, redirect, dan sejenisnya.
* Penawaran referral harus dilakukan tanpa adanya tawaran atau perjanjian tertentu dengan pengunjung. Publisher juga tidak diperbolehkan untuk meminta alamat email dari pengunjung yg menjaid referral AdSense mereka.

Penempatan Iklan
AdSense menawarkan beberapa format iklan yg dapat digunakan oleh publisher. Publisher disarankan untuk bereksperimen dengan berbagai penempatan iklan, tanpa melanggar aturan2 berikut:

* Maksimal tiga ad units dalam satu halaman.
* Maksimal dua search box Google AdSense for Search dalam satu halaman.
* Maksimal satu link units dalam satu halaman.
* Maksimal dua referral units dari masing2 produk referral yg ada.
* Hasil pencarian AdSense for Search hanya boleh ditampilkan pada halaman yg mengandung maksimal satu link units.
* Tidak diletakkan pada pop-up, pop-under, maupun email.
* Tidak ada elemen halaman apapun yg menutupi sebagian/seluruh bagian iklan.
* Iklan AdSense apapun tidak boleh diletakkan pada halaman yg tidak berisi apa2.
* Iklan AdSense apapun tidak boleh diletakkan pada halaman yg dibuat sepenuhnya dalam rangka untuk menampilkan iklan (MFA), tidak peduli apakah isi halaman tersebut relevan atau tidak.

Iklan atau Layanan Dari Pihak Lain
Untuk menghindari kebingungan pengunjung, Google tidak memperbolehkan untuk memasang iklan maupun search box AdSense pada situs yg juga mengandung iklan maupun search box dari pihak lain yg menggunakan format tampilan (bentuk, ukuran, dan warna) yg sama dengan iklan dan search box AdSense yg ada di halaman tersebut.

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deddynoer: Cara Pasang Jam

Banyak sekali sahabat blogger baru yang menanyakan bagaimana cara pasang jam di blogger, aksesoris ini ternyata banyak juga peminatnya terutama kau hawa yang sangat mengetahui akan arti kecantikan yang akan dituangkan dalam sebuah blog. Jujur om sangat tidak menyarankan untuk memasang jam pada blog kalian, selain bikin lambat page load juga kurang terlalu berguna, coba baca artikel om sebelumnya 17 Tips agar halaman blog tampil Profesional. Walaupun sudah banyak para blogger yang mengetaui cara pasang jam ini tapi tidak begitu bagi blogger pemula yang baru memulai membuat blog tentu perlu tahapan dan bimbingan jadi gak ada salahnya untuk memasang aksesoris ini jika dirasa berguna.

Layanan gratis aksesori jam sangat banyak, namun kali ini saya hanya menjelaskan cara pasang jam menggunakan layanan gratis dan paling banyak digunakan adalah http://www.clocklink.com


Langkah-langkah pasang jam di blogger sebagai berikut:

1. Klik alamat http://www.clocklink.com

2. Kemudian pilih tab Gallery atau klik aja disini http://www.clocklink.com/gallery.php

3. Pilih Gallery sesuai selera atau tema blog, misalnya sobat memilih animal lalu klik link "animal" tersebut

4. Pilih gambar yang ingin sobat gunakan, lalu klik "view html" dibawah gambar jam.

5. Kemudian akan keluar halaman box lisensi dari layanan ClockLink, pilih aja tombol "Accept"

6. Pada halamat box selanjutnya kalian dapat memilih salah satu code, sebaiknya pilih kode yang atas.

7. Copy atau Simpan kode yang telah dipilih untuk sementara waktu

8. Lalu kembali masuk kehalaman blogger, pilih Elemen halaman -> Tambahkan sebuah Elemen Halaman -> pilih HTML/JavaScript -> lalu Copy/Paste code tersebut, dan jangan lupa disimpan

9. Selesai :) dan lihat hasilnya.

Contoh jam :

obj=new Object;obj.clockfile="2002-orange.swf";obj.TimeZone="NZT";obj.width=150;obj.height=150;obj.wmode="transparent";showClock(obj);



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deddynoer: Tanggal Posting Blogger Dihilangkan

Menghilangkan tanggal posting blogger. Apakah anda ingin mencoba dan menerapkannya di blog anda?

Pertama masuk halaman Edit HTML kemudian cari .date-header { .
Jika sudah ketemu tambahkan visibility: hidden; diantara kode tersebut.

Lihat contoh kodenya dibawah:

.date-header {
margin:.3em 0 0;
padding:0;
font-size:80%;
color:#777;
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
}

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deddynoer: WIDGETS FOR YOUR BLOG

Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog. Whether you’d like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets. We’ve assembled a list of 50 useful or simply cool widgets for your pleasure. And remember, the first rule of widgetizing your blog is - don’t overdo it!


MyBlogLog’s Recent Readers - this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they’re also members of MyBlogLog.

Mashable - get the latest social networking news from this very site.

Flickr Flash Photo Stream Badge - display images from your Flickr profile with a handy Flash photo stream.

Preview Anywhere - see a live preview of outgoing links in a small popup which activates on mouseover. Some find this annoying, while others might find it useful.

Twitter Badge - if your life is so interesting that everyone must know what you’re up to all the time, then a Twitter badge is the ideal counterpart to your blog. It’ll proudly displays your recent tweets.

Digg News - display the latest Digg links on your blog. Themeable and fully customizable.

FEEDJIT - real time traffic data directly in your blog’s sidebar.

LineBuzz - inline comments for your blog. Very handy for blogs with frequent lively discussions.

Flixn - display a stream directly from your webcam, so your blog visitors can always see what you’re up to.

Google Map Widget - display a searchable Google Map on your website.

Google Video Search - add a video search form and selected videos to your web site.

Odeo player - display an Odeo player for and podcast right there in your sidebar.

AuctionAds - a widget that displays auctioned items on eBay, and gives you a percentage of the price paid when sometimes buys an item.

aStore - similar to AuctionAds, only for Amazon. Create a mini-store on your site and receive profit when someone buys an item through your store.

Plazes - show your current location on a Plazes map.

Stockalicious - track your portfolio with this widget, and share it with others. Let everyone know how much money you’ve lost.

Yahoo! For Good - create a charity badge and ask for donations for a worthy cause.

Giftspace - your friends never know what to buy you for birthday? Let them know what you really want with this nifty widget.

MixMap - see where are the visitors to your MySpace profile from on a map.

del.icio.us Tagometer - display how many times have del.icio.us users saved your page.

del.icio.us Linkrolls - this badge shows your latest bookmarks from del.icio.us.

Timelines - need to create a timeline? Seek no further. This widget makes it really easy.

PollDaddy - PollDaddy lets you create beautiful polls in no time, and display them at your blog.

Vizu - another poll-making widget, compatible with all major blog platforms.

AnswerTips - display definitions from Answers.com for various terms on your blog. The definitions are shown in bubbles which are activated on doubleclick.

AnswerBoxes - give your visitors a chance to enter a term themselves, and get a definition from Answers.com

Now Playing - if you got to share your current playlist contents with the world, Sigamp will do the trick. Works with most popular music players, including Foobar, Winamp, iTunes and others.

BuzzBoost - display headlines from your RSS feed on any website.

LibraryThing - show off the latest books you’ve been reading.

Plaxo Address Book - let your most faithful visitors access their address books direclty from your site.

WikiSeek - search Wikipedia with this simple widget.

FeedCount - show off the number of visitors to your blog with this handy little button.

Technorati Link Count - display the number of links your website has from one of the biggest blog authorities - Technorati.

MyPageRank - another good way to show how “big” your blog is is to show off your Google PageRank.

CheckPageRank - in addition to showing your PageRank, this widget also shows your Alexa ranking.

BlinkxIt - embed a link to related videos directly into your website.

Skype button - display your Skype online/offline status on your blog.

RockYou Horoscope - not something I would personally use, but some people are into horoscope. Hell, most people are into horoscope. Anyway, this widget shows horoscope (doh!) and does it in a nicely designed colorful box.

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deddynoer: Sitemaps

In general, there are two types of sitemaps. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site - often by section - and is meant to help users find the information they need.

XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S - are a way for you to give Google information about your site. This is the type of Sitemap we'll be discussing in this article.

In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process.

Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:

• Your site has dynamic content.
• Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process - for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
• Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
• Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

You can also use a Sitemap to provide Google with additional information about your pages, including:

* How often the pages on your site change. For example, you might update your product page daily, but update your About Me page only once every few months.
* The date each page was last modified.
* The relative importance of pages on your site. For example, your home page might have a relative importance of 1.0, category pages have an importance of 0.8, and individual blog entries or product pages have an importance of 0.5. This priority only indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact the ranking of your pages in search results.

Sitemaps provide additional information about your site to Google, complementing our normal methods of crawling the web. We expect they will help us crawl more of your site and in a more timely fashion, but we can't guarantee that URLs from your Sitemap will be added to the Google index. Sites are never penalized for submitting Sitemaps.

Google adheres to Sitemap Protocol 0.9 as defined by sitemaps.org. The Sitemap Protocol is a dialect of XML for summarizing Sitemap information that is relevant to web crawlers. Sitemaps created for Google using Sitemap Protocol 0.9 are therefore compatible with other search engines that adopt the standards of sitemaps.org.

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deddynoer: ALEXA RANK

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

In this article, I’ll examine the importance of the Alexa Rank as it relates to site monetization while briefly discussing some of the weaknesses involved in using Alexa ranking as a reliable traffic measure for any website.

Lastly, I’ve also included an extensive list of twenty methods and strategies you can use to increase your Alexa Rank dramatically in the short and long run.

What is the Alexa Rank?

Put simply, the Alexa Rank is a ranking system which bases its ranking schema on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

See Alexa’s definition of the Alexa Traffic Rank:

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis.

The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)

Why would you want to increase your Alexa rank?

Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blog’s Alexa rank as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.

ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews are just three of the networks which base your ad selling strength on Alexa Ranks.

Problems with the Alexa Rank

Alexa ranking is heavily skewed towards websites which have a large webmaster/tech audience. This is because webmasters or web savvy audiences are much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed than websites whose visitors are unaware of Alexa.

As such, many have indicated that Alexa is a vastly inaccurate method of measuring a website’s reach, traffic and potential. I don’t disagree.

Alexa is a silly way to measure web traffic but unfortunately, in an imperfect world Alexa is still heavily used by webmasters and ad networks when measuring the value of advertising on your website.

I understand the defects of Alexa’s ranking system and I’m not going to go into more detail about it here. What’s primarily important to me is that the Alexa Rank has become a central element in site monetization strategies.

I’m not concerned with the utility and value of Alexa but it’s perceived importance in the eyes of potential advertisers.

How do I get started with Alexa?

There are two easy ways to start using Alexa. If you are using Internet Explorer, visit this page and download the Alexa Toolbar. If you’re using Firefox, download the SearchStatus extension which displays the Alexa Rank, Google PageRank as well as other useful features.

I highly recommend that you use Firefox and SearchStatus instead of Alexa toolbar, which I find to be more bulky and less useful.

Ways to Increase your Alexa Rank

Here is a collection of methods you can use to boost your Alexa Rank. Most of these tips are derived from several fellow webmasters I know who claimed to have derived positive results through their experiments with the Alexa Rankings.

Some of the other tips were derived articles and sources, which I have duly referenced at the end of this post.

Do these tips work? According to some, yes they definitely do work. But do note that most of them require active effort of some sort and hence, they will work as long as long as you are consistently performing specific actions.

To increase your Alexa rank in the long run, I would highly recommended that one focus on developing quality content which attracts and maintains a large audience instead of purely focusing on artificially increasing your Alexa Rank.

Great link-worthy content will leads to an natural increase in site traffic and is an excellent way to passively increase your Alexa rank.

It is important to emphasize that you should devote most of your efforts in growing your site audience alongside integrated implementation of any of the following tips below.

1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.
2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.
3. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.
4. Work in an Office or own a company? Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all computers and set your website as the homepage for all browsers. Perhaps it will be useful to note that this may work only when dynamic or different IPs are used.
5. Get friends to review and rate your Alexa website profile. Not entirely sure of its impact on rankings but it might help in some way.
6. Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.
7. Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You’ll get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It’s also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.
8. Write content that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the category of domaining and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.
9. Post in Asian social networking websites or forums. Some webmasters have suggested that East Asian web users are big Alexa toolbar fans, judging by the presence of several Asia-based websites in the Alexa Top 500. I suggest trying this only if you have the time or capacity to do so.
10. Create a webmaster tools section on your website. This is a magnet for webmasters who will often revisit your website to gain access to the tools. Aaron Wall’s webpage on SEOTools is a very good example.
11. Get Dugg or Stumbled. This usually brings massive numbers of visitors to your website and the sheer amount will have a positive impact on your Alexa Rank. Naturally, you’ll need to develop link worthy material.
12. Use PayperClick Campaigns. Buying advertisements on search engines such as Google or Exact Seek will help bring in Traffic. Doubly useful when your ad is highly relevant to webmasters.
13. Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa. This acts as an easily accessible resource for webmasters or casual search visitors while helping you rank in the search engines.
14. Optimize your popular posts. Got a popular post that consistently receives traffic from the search engines? Include a widget/graph at the bottom of the post, link to your Alexa post or use Alexa redirection on your internal URLs.
15. Buy banners and links for traffic from webmaster forums and websites. A prominent and well displayed ad will drive lots of webmaster traffic to your website, which can significantly boost your rank.
16. Hire forum posters to pimp your website. Either buy signatures in webmaster forums or promote specific articles or material in your website on a regular basis. You can easily find posters for hire in Digital Point and other webmaster forums.
17. Pay Cybercafe owners to install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage for all their computers. This might be difficult to arrange and isn’t really a viable solution for most. I’m keeping this one in because some have suggested that it does work.
18. Use MySpace . This is a little shady so I don’t recommended it unless you’re really interested in artificially inflating your Alexa Rank. Use visually attractive pictures or banners and link them to your redirected Alexa URL. This will be most effective if your website has content that is actually relevant to the MySpace Crowd.
19. Try Alexa auto-surfs. Do they work? Maybe for brand new sites. I think they are mostly suitable for new websites with a very poor Alexa rank. Note that there be problems when you try to use auto surfs alongside contextual ads like Adsense. They aren’t also long term solutions to improving your Alexa Rank so I suggest using with caution.

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deddynoer: ALEXA INTERNET

Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on web traffic to other websites.

Operations and history
Alexa Internet was founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat in an effort to solve the internet search problem by tracking user decisions and using that data to aid future searches. From the company's early website in 1999:

Alexa Internet was created from a novel vision. A vision of navigation that learns and improves over time with the collective participation of its users. We all experience the gaps in navigating and finding information on the Internet as it is used today--frustrating keyword searches that turn up hundreds or thousands of web pages and sites, very few of which are of any interest. What if we, as a community of users, could effortlessly pool our collective experience and add human intelligence to navigation? What if we could fill in those gaps? It is a radical concept and it is our goal to make it real, and we invite you to join us in this effort. What we are doing can change the way we use the Internet forever. The Alexa service is the first Internet software product that learns from people. This intelligent navigation service provides a continuous source of relevant recommendations of where to go next on the Web.

The company's name was chosen in homage to the Library of Alexandria, drawing a parallel between the largest repository of knowledge in the ancient world to the potential for the internet if the search problem could be solved. The company offered a toolbar that gave Internet users guidance on where to go next, based on the traffic patterns of its user community. Alexa also offered context for each site visited: to whom it was registered, how many pages it had, how many other sites pointed to it, and how frequently it was updated. The company's premises are in Building 37 of the Presidio of San Francisco.

The race to solve the internet search problem was decisively won by Google with their much simpler backrub approach. But Alexa still had a lot to offer. Their approach to intelligent navigation included the archiving of webpages as they were crawled. This database served as the basis for the creation of the Internet Archive (also located in the Presidio) and its Wayback Machine. Alexa continues to supply the Internet Archive with web crawls.

In 1999, Alexa was acquired by Amazon.com for about $250 million in Amazon stock as the company transitioned away from its original vision of providing an intelligent search solution. Alexa began a partnership with Google in spring 2002, and with the Open Directory Project in January 2003. Live Search replaced Google as a provider of search results in May 2006.In September 2006, they began using their own Search Platform to serve results. In December 2006, they released Alexa Image Search. Built in-house, it is the first major application to be built on their Web Platform.

Alexa also provides "site info" for the A9.com search engine.
In December 2005, Alexa opened its extensive search index and web-crawling facilities to third party programs through a comprehensive set of web services and APIs. These could be used, for instance, to construct vertical search engines that could run on Alexa's own servers or elsewhere. Uniquely, their Web Search Platform gives developers access to their raw crawl data. In May 2007, Alexa changed their API to require comparisons be limited to 3 sites, reduced size embedded graphs be shown using Flash, and mandatory embedded BritePic ads.

In April 2007, Alexa v. Hornbaker was filed to stop trademark infringement by the statsaholic service. In the lawsuit, Alexa alleges that Hornbaker is stealing traffic graphs for profit, and that the primary purpose of his site is to display graphs that are generated by Alexa's servers. Hornbaker removed the term Alexa from his service name on March 19, 2007.Nevertheless, it should be noted that Alexa expressly grants permission to refer its data in third-party work subject to suitable credits.

On November 27, 2008, Amazon announced that Alexa Web Search was no longer accepting new customers, and the service would be deprecated or discontinued for existing customers on January 26, 2009.

Concerns over Alexa rank information and the Alexa Toolbar
Alexa ranks sites based on visits from users of its Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and from integrated sidebars in Mozilla and Netscape. In addition to their own statusbar extension, Sparky (released July 2007), there are several third-party extensions for Mozilla Firefox:

* SearchStatus shows Google PageRank and Alexa TrafficRank
* About This Site Firefox plug-in that shows metadata from Alexa TrafficRank.

There is some controversy over how representative Alexa's user base is of typical Internet behavior. If Alexa's user base is a fair statistical sample of the Internet user population (e.g., a random sample of sufficient size), Alexa's ranking should be quite accurate. In reality, not much is known about the sample and possible sampling biases. Alexa itself notes several examples.A known source of bias is the self-selecting, opt-in nature of Alexa traffic tracking software installation, but the significance of this bias on rankings is not reported.

On April 16, 2008 many users reported dramatic shifts in their Alexa rankings. Alexa confirmed this later in the day with an announcement that they had released the "New Alexa Ranking System" claiming that they now take into account more data sources.

Spyware
The Alexa toolbar is regarded by many vendors as spyware. Symantec classifies the toolbar as Trackware.[20] McAfee Site Advisor rates the Alexa website as yellow with a warning, "In our tests, we found downloads on this site that some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs," and the site has 67 user ratings of "Adware, spyware, or viruses" as of July 2, 2008. The toolbar is detected by McAfee as Adware-Alexa, a "Potentially Unwanted Program". Many other security vendors also detect and remove Alexa software.

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deddynoer: Adsense Indonesia

ADA SATU LAGI ADSENSE INDONESIA
SEMOGA DAPAT DIMANFAATKAN DENGAN SEBAIK-BAIKNYA
OLEH YANG MEMPUNYAI BLOG/SITE

AdsenseCamp merupakan website yang memberikan kesempatan bagi Anda untuk memperoleh penghasilan tambahan dengan menyediakan ruang pada website Anda sebagai tempat pemasangan iklan bagi advertiser.

AdsenseCamp juga memberikan kesempatan kepada para Advertiser yang berkeinginan mempromosikan iklannya yang bakal disebarkan kepada pemilik website yang memiliki jaringan di AdsenseCamp.

Untuk mengikuti program pada AdsenseCamp, sebagai pemilik web Anda tinggal melakukan pendaftaran dimana nantinya setelah terdaftar Anda bisa melakukan copy paste code yang kami berikan. Kemudian pasang code tersebut pada website Anda.

Bagi Advertiser, setelah melakukan pendaftaran Anda bisa melakukan pengisian iklan yang nantinya akan disebar kepada pemilik web yang terdaftar di AdsenseCamp.

Advertiser

Pemasang iklan atau Advertiser adalah pihak yang melakukan kegiatan promosi atas iklannya pada AdsenseCamp yang materinya disebarkan kepada pemilik web yang terdaftar di AdsenseCamp.

Dengan sistem bayar per unik klik (Pay Per Unique Click), Anda hanya perlu membayar iklan Anda apabila ada pengunjung unik yang melakukan klik pada iklan Anda.

Cara Memasang Iklan

1. Silakan lakukan pendaftaran terlebih dahulu dengan mengisikan data diri Anda.
2. Lakukan konfirmasi pendaftaran pada email yang kami kirimkan.
3. Login ke AdsenseCamp.com dengan menggunakan username dan password Anda.
4. Pasang materi iklan yang Anda inginkan, tekan submit dan tunggu konfirmasi.
5. Lakukan pembayaran sesuai dengan petunjuk pada email yang kami kirimkan.
6. Setelah seluruh petunjuk selesai, iklan Anda bisa segera ditayangkan.

Web Owner

Pemilik web adalah penyedia ruang pada website yang memungkinkan advertiser memasang link iklannya. Anda berpeluang mendapatkan penghasilan tambahan dengan memasang link iklan pada Advertiser yang tergabung di AdsenseCamp.

Dengan bergabung di AdsenseCamp website Anda akan kami lengkapi dengan engine periklanan berbasis teks yang kami berikan berupa code dengan sistem bayar per unik klik (pay per unique click), yang berarti Anda akan mendapatkan bayaran apabila ada yang melakukan klik pada iklan di website Anda.

Pemilik web dapat memantau jumlah pageviews dan klik yang telah dihasilkan pada webnya.

Cara Menerbitkan Iklan

1. Silakan lakukan pendaftaran terlebih dahulu dengan mengisikan data diri Anda.
2. Lakukan konfirmasi pendaftaran pada email yang kami kirimkan.
3. Login ke AdsenseCamp.com dengan menggunakan username dan password Anda.
4. Tambahkan website Anda, tekan submit dan tunggu konfirmasi.
5. Ambil code script iklan AdsenseCamp untuk website Anda, pasang pada web Anda.
6. Silakan buka website Anda, apabila konfigurasi telah dilakukan dengan benar, maka iklan kami akan langsung terlihat pada website Anda.

Hubungi Kami

Anda dapat menghubungi kami dengan alamat :

ADSENSECAMP

JogjaCamp Buildings,
Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan No. 33
Yogyakarta 55161
Telp : (0274) 7498551
HP : 0817 444 198

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deddynoer: Paid Review INDONESIA

AdReviewCamp merupakan website tempat bertemunya bloggers dan advertiser dalam membangun sebuah backlink dan mendapatkan penghasilan tambahan dari internet.

Sebagai Paid Review Indonesia, AdReviewCamp merupakan media yang tepat bagi advertiser yang membutuhkan publikasi produknya serta bagi bloggers (publisher) yang membutuhkan posting yang "bernilai" di blognya.

Review bloggers yang disetujui oleh advertiser bakal mendapatkan bayaran yang telah disepakati harganya sebelum transaksi dimulai. Untuk itulah dibutuhkan AdReviewCamp yang mempertemukan kedua belah pihak.

Keuntungan yang dapat diambil oleh advertiser apabila mengikuti program dari AdReviewCamp ini adalah akan mendapatkan pengunjung tambahan yang benar-benar fokus karena sebelumnya sudah mendapatkan review yang diposting oleh bloggers.

Sementara, keuntungan yang diraih oleh bloggers adalah Anda bakal mendapatkan hasil bayaran atas review yang Anda tampilkan pada blog Anda. Anda akan mendapatkan keuntungan yang tidak ada batasnya dengan bergabung bersama AdReviewCamp. Selamat datang dan selamat bergabung dengan AdReviewCamp.com

Referral

AdReviewCamp membuka sistem referral yang memungkinkan Anda bakal lebih banyak mendapatkan penghasilan dengan mengajak Advertiser maupun Bloggers baru menjadi member AdReviewCamp.com.

AdReviewCamp akan memberikan bagian sebesar 10% kepada Anda melalui dua tahap. Yang pertama adalah saat Anda mengarahkan Advertiser bergabung dan melakukan deposit maka Anda akan mendapatkan 10% dari uang yang didepositkan tersebut.

Yang kedua, saat Anda mengajak bloggers bergabung dan ketika dia menarik uangnya maka Anda akan mendapatkan bagian 10% dari jumlah uang yang ditarik.

Anda harus memasang banner dengan kode referral pada situs Anda agar Anda mendapatkan penghasilan tambahan.

Advertisers

Beriklan di blog merupakan cara ampuh untuk mempromosikan produk Anda sekaligus mendapatkan backlink berkualitas dari blog-blog yang menjadi member di AdReviewCamp.com.

Sebagai Advertiser Anda diharuskan deposit terlebih dahulu di AdReviewCamp.com sebelum melakukan transaksi dengan bloggers. Dengan dana yang relatif murah Anda sudah mampu menciptakan backlink berkualitas.

Keuntungan yang dapat diambil oleh advertiser apabila mengikuti program dari AdReviewCamp ini adalah akan mendapatkan pengunjung tambahan yang benar-benar fokus karena sebelumnya sudah mendapatkan review yang diposting oleh bloggers.

Bloggers

Sebagai bloggers kini Anda bisa mendapatkan penghasilan tambahan dari melakukan posting di blog. Anda bisa melakukan review atas produk yang diiklankan oleh Advertisers.

Bloggers sendiri yang akan menentukan harga review tersebut sehingga Anda akan memperoleh kepuasan yang sama dengan advertisers. Advertisers dapat mempromosikan produknya, bloggers bisa memperoleh bayaran sekaligus mendapatkan posting yang berkualitas di blog.

Menjadi member bloggers di AdReviewCamp.com merupakan keuntungan yang lebih bagi Anda karena bloggers dapat memperoleh penghasilan dengan cara yang relatif mudah dan murah.

PENGHASILAN TAMBAHAN [YANG BESAR]

UNTUK BLOG ANDA

Anda Berminat... Silahkan Daftar Disini :

ADREVIEWCAMP.COM

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deddynoer: OUTBRAIN, What This?

We all love how Netflix recommends movies and how Amazon gives us great recommendations for books we would enjoy reading right? Here at outbrain we are doing the same for blog and news content on the web. Information overload is real and growing as the amount of content on the web grows exponentially. We are committed to helping readers of blogs and news sites find the best content that is most relevant to them on a personal basis. This is very different than the commonly seen "related links" where everyone sees the same suggestions. Of course driving page views and new traffic to blogs and publisher sites are the so called benefits, but helping readers discover hidden gems is what drives us every day. Being bloggers ourselves we know the feeling of discovering great content and want to share this wonderful pleasure with the world.

By combining the collective intelligence of like-minded RSS/blog and news readers, we aim to save each outbrainer time by floating the content they would find most interesting. We don't see a need for you to read something that 100 people like you thought was a waste of time.

Our aim is to do this in an almost transparent way, in the places you're already consuming content, and without bugging you too much. Unlike most websites that want *more* of your attention, we're hoping that by using outbrain we'll be consuming net *less* of your attention.

We invite bloggers to install our one click widget and for publishers, rss readers and other news aggregators to contact us regarding easy integration of our rating and content recommendation service via an XML API.

outbrain was founded in 2006 by Yaron Galai and Ori Lahav. The company is backed by leading VC's, and is based in New York.

Outbrain opens up for its bloggers and readers

We are excited to announce that beginning September 24th we will be launching an enhancement to our content recommendation service. Simply, this improvement will by default display the best recommendations possible from our network to your readers. This means that you may see recommendations on your blog from an outside source, which in the spirit of openness has several key benefits that we would like to share with you.

Great For Your Readers - First, your readers will have a better experience discovering new content from around the web *on your blog*. Enhancing your readers’ experience is a lighthouse value here at outbrain as we have built our entire system around delivering the best possible recommendations for the benefit of your readers. In doing so, great content recommendations may come from your blog itself, a major media company or from blogs of all sizes. So sit back and take credit for powering a service that will delight your readers with true content discovery.

Syndicate Your Content – With so many blogs now displaying the best possible recommendations, your posts may also be syndicated throughout our network. So in the same fashion that you may show a recommendation for external content, a link to your content may appear on someone else’s blog, driving new readers to your site. Hopefully new readers coming to your blog will like what they see and become long-term subscribers.

Getting Personal - This isn’t just about listing links, this is about personalizing the recommended content to each reader. Behind the widget that sits on your blog is an extensive system that aims to provide the best possible recommendation to each reader. Quality trumps quantity here at outbrain, so there may be times when you see only one recommended link, two recommended links, or none at all. This is ok with us because if we don’t have good confidence in the recommendations, we simply don’t show them.

Duncan Riley over at Inquisitr penned an opinion on choosing to display external links on your blog here and actually challenged the blogosphere regarding openness. Just yesterday Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 made the argument that linking out actually lifts reader engagement, and he has some interesting evidence to prove his point. We think Duncan & Scott got it right and look forward to this evolution of our service.

Of course, it’s your blog and always up to you. If you do not want outbrain to display the best recommendations for your readers, and want to limit the recommendations to your own content only, here are the easy steps to make the adjustment:

1. Log into your outbrain account*
2. Click ‘Manage Blogs’
3. Click ‘Settings’ next to the blog you want to change
4. Change the Recommendations setting from ‘Best Recommendations’ to either:

• ‘Limited Recommendations’ (restricts recommendations to links on your own site)
• ‘No Recommendations’ (turns off all recommendations)

*If you do not yet have an outbrain account, you’ll first need to register with us and verify ownership of your blog before altering its settings. You can do so by going to: http://www.outbrain.com/RegisterPage. And of course, if you need any help feel free to visit our support forum at http://getsatisfaction.com/outbrain or contact us at support@outbrain.com.

• We support more platforms.
• Already have the widget? Register

Integrate ratings and personalized recommendations, quickly and free.

Learn more, test it, get API

Beautifully designed

We've designed the widget to inherit as much of your blog's look & feel as possible. See it for yourself on various blogs.

Supports all major blogging platforms

Our widget supports Blogger.com, TypePad, WordPress (installed version only), Drupal and others. Hey - we even have an integration with FeedFlare for your RSS feeds!

No marketing on your blog!

We don't stick our logo or any 'powered by outbrain' stuff through the widget. We are a guest on your blog and don't intend to use it for our marketing purposes. Instead - if you think that's cool, we'd love for you to blog about us!

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deddynoer: Making Your First Ranking Report

I know you already have a massive list of great keywords, and it's good enough to start. Still, there's yet another thing to take care of now. I mean, there must be a way to see how well your site is doing. How are you going to check your progress?

Some will ask, why check it at all? But how can you know for sure that you're doing the right thing, if you don't have good evidence?

Any check is an impulse to the subconscious that forces you to do better. A real-life example comes from sports: after sportsmen start evaluating their results regularly, their achievements jump up 20% — and this is just because of measuring success, all else is done the same way!

In SEO, the traditional solution is to make keyword ranking reports at least once a week. (I do it daily, though. With the software I use, it's a minute's business.)

Now look at your watch. It shows a good moment for your first ranking check :-)

Option 1: Measure keyword rankings with your own hands

Here's a way to do it manually: type in a keyword in the search engine where you wish to check the ranking, then find your site in its result pages and check what place it's on.

Checking Google ranking manually

Pretty hard to do, I know. But you can automate part of the work — here's a quick list of free resources to use for evaluation of your keyword rankings:

• http://www.googlerankings.com
• http://www.seomoz.org/rank-checker/
• http://www.rankingcheck.com

What's good about them is, they're free and good enough.

What's bad, then?

First of all, they only check Google.com, Yahoo! and MSN (Live). So if you need, say, Google.de, or Ask.com — then do all the job manually, or use the Rank Tracker tool I describe further.

And another thing. Well, they just won't remember you. If you come after a month to make another check, you'll have nothing to compare with. You can only keep your previous results yourself, if you invent a way to do so.

Also, most of these free resources require Yahoo! and Google API keys. This makes the work inconvenient, because Google API keys are no longer possible to get.

Search engines do not want multiple or automated queries (and SEO work is impossible without them), so they require API keys — it's like an allowance to quire search engines.

Still there's a non-free Rank Tracker tool, which not only checks your rankings instantly, but also shows your progress and doesn't necessarily need a Google API key — so it's great to evaluate your work.

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deddynoer: ping service for blog promotions

Salah satu cara mempromosikan blog adalah dengan menggunakan fasilitas layanan ping. cara ini merupakan cara praktis agar blog selalu diketahui banyak pengunjung.

Blogger sebenarnya telah menyediakan layanan ping bisa dilihat pada halaman pengaturan->Publikasikan->ping. jika kamu gak puas dengan layanan blooger kamu bisa memilih salah satu layanan yang ada dibawah.

Ping Tips:
Lakukan ping jika kamu telah mengupdate blog kamu.
Lakukan ping jika kamu melakukan posting terbaru
Jangan lakukan ping terlalu sering karna ini bisa dikatakan sebagai spam
Lakukan ping seperlunya dan jangan berlebihan

Ping favorite saya:
http://mypagerank.net/service_pingservice_index
http://www.pingoat.com/
http://pingomatic.com/

Dibawah ini merupakan kumpulan alamat ping service yang bisa kamu gunakan untuk promosi blog.

• 1470.net
• a2b.cc
• bakeinu.jp
• bblog.com
• bitacoles.net
• bitacoras.com
• bitacoras.net
• blo.gs
• blog.goo.ne.jp
• blogbuzzmachine.com
• blogdb.jp
• blogdigger.com
• blogflux.com
• bloggers.jp
• blogmatcher.com
• blogmura.jp
• blogoole.com
• blogoon.net
• blogpeople.net
• blogrolling.com
• blogroots.com
• blogshares.com
• blogstreet.com
• britblog.com
• bulkfeeds.net
• exblog.jp
• fakapster.com
• feedburner.com
• feedster.com
• focuslook.com
• google.com
• holycowdude.com
• icerocket.com
• imblogs.net
• lasermemory.com
• mod-pubsub.org
• mod-pubsub.org
• moreover.com
• moreover.com
• msn.com
• myblog.jp
• newsgator.com
• newsgator.com
• newsisfree.com
• newsisfree.com
• pingates.com
• pingomatic.com
• pubsub.com
• rootblog.com
• syndic8.com
• technorati.com
• wasalive.com
• weblogalot.com
• weblogs.com
• wpkeys.com
• yahoo.com
• yahoo.com

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deddynoer: Pasang widget dan dapat penghasilan dengan Blog2print

Beruntunglah bagi pengguna blogger (blogspot) karena sekarang ada layanan Blog2print yang bisa memindahkan blog kita menjadi sebuah buku, bagaimana tidak hanya dengan sekali klik blogger kita langsung menjadi sebuah buku yang siap dijual atau hanya menjadi koleksi pribadi. Bukan hanya blog kita yang di konversi, blog sahabat atau blog lainnya juga bisa di konversi dengan mudah.

Blog owners on Google's Blogger platform and their readers can now use the Blog2Print widget to turn posts into a printed book with a single click. (Compatibility with other platforms coming soon!)

Blog2print untuk saat ini hanya tersedia untuk versi google blogger, untuk pengguna blog lain seperti wordpress, blogsome mungkin harus nunggu dulu ya. Untuk memcoba layanan ini caranya tinggal masukan alamat blog kita namablog.blogspot.com dan jangan lupa mengubah RSS Feed ke mode Full.

Bagai mana kita dapat penghasilan tambahan dari blog2print? ketika Blog2Print telah ditambahkan ke blog, kita akan menerima penghasilan jika setiap kali buku itu terjual dan kita akan menerima 20% dari penjualan buku dari blog kita. Untuk pasang witget klik Disini

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deddynoer: Optimizing your search box

Following on the five tips on AdSense for content optimization our Sydney team presented a couple weeks back, now let's turn to AdSense for search. As you may know, we recently integrated Custom Search Engine into AdSense for search to provide additional customization options and improved targeting.

Whether you've already implemented an AdSense for search box on your site or you're just getting started with this feature, we recommend these five optimization tips:

1. Place your search boxes in visible locations.
   
   Integrate your search boxes in easy-to-find locations, such as under the header or in your left navigation. Also, keep the placement of your search boxes consistent on all your pages, so users will know where to look if they need help finding something.
   
   
2. Add two search boxes to content-rich pages.
   
   For pages with a lot of content or which require scrolling, try placing one search box at the top of the page and another at the bottom. A box at the top of the page will allow users to perform a search immediately, and a box at the bottom will provide a search option to users who've just finished reading your content. You can also track and compare the performance of each search box by creating custom channels.
   
   
3. Host your search results on your own site.
   
   To keep users on your pages, you can host your search results and ads within your own pages. If your users don't find what they're looking for in the search results or ads, they'll still be able to to navigate to other sections of your site using your site's template. In addition, you can further integrate your search results into your site by customizing the colors of the results page.
   
   
4. Add a search box to your search results pages.
   
   Similar to #3, try placing a search box on your search results pages so users can perform additional searches from your site.
   
   
5. Customize your ad locations.
   
   Place ads at the top and right sidebar of your search results pages. This layout offers added visibility, and our tests have shown that these ad locations can improve monetization.
   

After you've optimized where search boxes are placed on your site, don't forget to try new targeting options such as keyword refinements and vertical search. To generate AdSense for search code and take advantage of these features, sign in and visit your AdSense Setup tab. You can also find more information in our Help Center.

Posted by Sandra Tsui - AdSense Publisher Support

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deddynoer: Inside AdSense

Asking Dave Taylor about AdSense

AskDaveTaylor.com offers tech support Q&A on subjects ranging from mp3 players to Linux to AdSense. We recently chatted with founder Dave Taylor about his site and his AdSense experience.

Inside AdSense: Where did the idea for your 'Ask Dave Taylor' site come from?

Dave Taylor: There's a great backstory, actually. I've written twenty different books on various business and technical topics, including Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours and Creating Cool Web Sites. Each time I'd publish, I would be sure to include my email address and other contact information. Problem was, people would send me email with questions. Lots of email with questions.

Over time I found myself answering the same questions again and again and realized that there had to be a better way for readers to search through an archive of already answered questions. I tried an online discussion forum, but it didn't really work very well (though it did give me an excuse to write my own bbs system from scratch, but that's another story!).

Then early in 2003 this "weblog" thing started to gain a bit of traction. When I first saw how it was built upon the concept of an author writing entries and others being able to add their comments, I realized that it could be ideal for my needs.

IA: Why did you join the AdSense program?

DT: As a businessperson, I had always viewed my website as a cost center. I mean, you had to pay for hosting, you had to pay for graphic design, you had to pay for Internet connectivity, etc. That was just my mindset. It was a marketing expense and its purpose was lead generation for my consulting and book sales.

In mid-2003 my friend told me about this "AdSense thing" and said that he'd been experimenting with it and making some money. So I finally decided that I'd try putting some adverts on my site (I'd been on the Web since 1996 but never had any adverts on my sites until that point). That first month I made more than I expected by simply adding the AdSense adverts to my pages and was surprised as heck. Then it started to grow...

That's when it hit me, that my website was becoming a profit center for my business, not a cost center. I began to pay more attention to the site and published new content on a more regular basis. Within a few months I was earning enough to pay my mortgage, and today my website, and specifically Google AdSense, is a primary revenue stream for my entire company.

IA: Can you talk a little about your experience with optimizing your ads?

Once I began working with AdSense in earnest, I began to wonder how ad placement, size, color, and design would affect earnings, and how to balance my desire to offer a splendid user experience with the need to simultaneously maximize revenue.

Enter A/B testing. I read and talked with many AdSense publishers, tried what they suggested and what had worked for them, fiddled with my own ideas, and generally tried every variation I could imagine to see if I could improve the click-through-rate of my ad blocks. The greatest boosts I saw in clickthrough rate were when I moved the advert into the middle of my articles, when I made sure it had the same color background as the material around it, and when there wasn't a solid border or other visual element to make the ad stand out from the surrounding content.


Truth be told, I've also paid close attention to the sites profiled on the AdSense blog, looking at how they integrated ads into their own design and trying to emulate their successful techniques on my own site.

IA: Glad to hear you used the blog! Any other optimization tips for our readers?

1. Focus on generating really good content that meets real user needs.
   
2. Design your blog so that there are minimal distractions for the user.
   
3. Wrap your blog entry around the Google ad unit and put the ads where users will see them, though make sure you have them visually distinct from your content: trying to trick readers into clicking on ads is a definite no-no and anti-reader too.
   

IA: Thanks for the interview, Dave, and good luck with your site!

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deddynoer: DMOZ Open Directory Project

DMOZ (Open Directory Project) adalah direktori yang paling sering di rekomendasikan, selain direktori Yahoo! dan direktori MSN, sehingga banyak webmasters yang menempatkan direktori DMOZ sebagai must submitted directory, namun begitu direktori ini ibarat putri cantik yang dijaga seorang raksasa yang jahat dan jelek. Bisa didapatkan namun butuh perjuangan, perjuangannya ialah menaklukan si raksasa itu. Raksasa pada konteks Direktori DMOZ ialah waktu dan kesabaraan, waktu identik dengan menunggu dan manusia paling bete kalau disuruh menunggu apalagi dalam waktu lama.

Begitupun men-submit blog ke direktori DMOZ diperlukan waktu hingga berbulan-bulan (biasanya hingga 4 minggu sampai berbulan-bulan), namun tidak ada kepastian sama sekali blog kita diterima atau tidak.

Maka obat untuk mengatasi ke-bete-an ini ialah SUBMIT IT AND FORGET IT! Ini memang obat yang paling ampuh, saya submit blog saya ke DMOZ lalu melupakannya, kemudian biarkan waktu yang menjawab apakah blog saya diterima atau ditolak. Lagipula siapa yang mau menunggu sambil mengingat-ingatnya hingga berbulan-bulan?

Blog ini sudah saya daftarkan disana kira-kira 1 minggu lalu, dan saya tidak berharap banyak akan di terima. Diterima syukur, enggak yah gpp. Lamanya proses menunggu ini dikarenakan, direktori DMOZ di kelola oleh pe-review yang biasa di sebut Editor dari Golongan manusia (bukan dari golongan JIN loh…hehehe). Lain halnya dengan search engines, prosesnya lebih cepat dikarenakan para robot-lah yang akan mengunjungi blog kita, mereview-nya kemudian mengindexnya, sehingga segalanya jauh lebih cepat.

Para Editor ini berkerja secara sukarela alias tidak mendapat gaji, sehingga mereka tidak mempunyai kewajiban sama sekali untuk menerima setiap pendaftar agar blog mereka diterima di sana. Mereka terlepas dari beban untuk segera me-review setiap blog yang didaftarkan,karena mereka pun mempunyai kehidupan pribadi yang perlu di urus dan tentu saja banyaknya jumlah blog yang mendaftar sebagai faktor utama semakin leletnya proses persetujuan (approval).

Dan keuntungan jika blog kita terdaftar di direktori DMOZ maka Blog kita secara otomatis juga terdaftar di sejumlah direktori ternama seperti, AOL Search, AltaVista, HotBot, Lycos, Netscape Search setelah 2 minggu.

Namun posting ini bukanlah sebuah tips agar berhasil mensubmit blog di direktori DMOZ (Open Directory Project), seperti saya sudah tulis diatas blog saya sendiri masih dalam waiting list disana, maka ini bukan sebuah tips. Posting ini merupakan cara menempatkan Meta Tag untuk direktori DMOZ, loh untuk apa dan apa maksudnya Bi? Mungkin ada yang bertanya begitu.

Begini, jika blog kita sudah terdaftar di direktori DMOZ, maka Google akan menggunakan informasi yang telah kita tulis sebagai deskripsi blog kita di direktori DMOZ dan menampilkannya di halaman hasil pencarian (SERP), artinya Google BIASANYA akan menampilkan deskripsi dari direktori DMOZ. Nah sebagian blogger mungkin tidak menginginkan ini terjadi, mereka lebih suka meta deskripsi yang telah ia tulis di blognya-lah yang tampil di hasil pencarian. Atau jika deskripsi blognya selalu di rubah-rubah.

Selain memberi manfaat, terdaftar di direktori DMOZ juga dapat menuai sedikit masalah BAGI mereka yang tidak ingin deskripsi DMOZ blognya ditampilkan di halaman hasil pencarian. Kecuali jika mereka menulis deskripsi yang sama di DMOZ seperti deskripsi di blognya, maka tidak perlu menggunakan meta tag ini.

Keterangan: Noodp = No Open Directory Project (DMOZ).

Semoga bermanfaat!

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deddynoer: Tips Memilih Template

Kebanyakan template - template yang disediain blogger terkesan agak kurang menarik, sehingga banyak para blogger yang utak atik templatenya sendiri atau mendownload langsung template gratis di situs - situs yang menyediakkannya. Kenapa hal tersebut bisa begitu...ya karena template adalah modal utama kecantikan blog. Template yang bagus dan enak diliat akan memberikan kesan kepada pengunjung blog bahwa blog tsb indah sehingga para pengunjung blog pun ga akan lari kemana. Tapi tentunya....untuk menarik pengunjung ke blog kita itu bukan hanya karena template aja.

Melainkan isi dari blog tsb pun harus benar-benar mempunyai nilai informasi yang sangat tinggi.

Kembali ke permasalahan. Dalam memilih template ada beberapa banyak hal yang harus diperhatikan. Diantaranya : Warna dan Tata letak layout. Kenapa demikian...?? karena selera masing - masing individu sangat berbeda dan juga yang harus diperhatikan adalah kombinasi warna template yang tidak karuan. Jangan sampai....warna template yang kita digunakan pada body misalnya, kontras dengan warna template pada bagian sidebar.

Walaupun demikian keindahan suatu template itu..tidak bisa kita nilai sendiri. Tapi penilaian itu datang berdasarkan penilaian pengunjung blog kita.

Saran saja buat sobat yang memang seneng atau pengen utak atik template-nya, saya sarankan ketika memilih template dasar blog untuk memilih template minima. Ini saran saya lho.....Karena setelah saya teliti, ternyata template minima sangat mudah untuk dipahami sehingga mudah juag untuk direnovasi. Tapi...kalo sobat males utak atik alias ga bisa, dan pengen punya template yang bagus silahkan kunjungi newblog-templates atau klik disini. Di blog tersebut, sobat bisa lihat dan download secara gratis berbagai macam template tanpa harus utak atik kode html di blog sobat.

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deddynoer: Mengganti Background Blog

Sekarang ini saya akan sedikit membahas mengenai bagaimana cara mengganti background blog. Untuk patokannya....pertama anda harus menyimpan gambar background anda di situs yang nyediain tempat penyimpanan file. Katakanlah Photobucket.com.

Tapi ingat sebelum anda menyimpan, anda harus terlebih dahulu mendaftar gratis kok. Nah kalo sudah daftar, terus sudah upload gambar yang mau dijadiin background, sekarang perhatiannya kita fokuskan ke blog.

• Login ke Blogger.
• Pilih menu LAYOUT lalu editHTML
• Jangan kasih tanda checklist pada kolom EXPAND TEMPLATE WIDGET.
• Cari kode css body, kurang lebih contohnya seperti dibawah ini :

body {
background:#FFF;
margin: 0 5px 0;
}


• Kalo dah ketemu, Tambahkan kode seperti di bawah ini diantara tanda { dan } :

background:#fff url(URL FILE GAMBAR ANDA) repeat-x;


• Tapi...kalo misalnya sudah ada kata background, tinggal nambahin kode yg berwarna biru aja. dan jangan lupa selalu ditutup dengan tanda ";".

Catatan :
Tulisan URL FILE GAMBAR ANDA, ganti dengan Url gambar yang anda simpan. Sebagai contoh, Silahkan ganti Url-nya dengan Url di bawah ini :

(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk315/meezanx_2008/body-1.gif)

Kalo sudah, klik PREVIEW dan coba anda lihat hasilnya. Ok...selamat mencoba

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