How to Use AdSense Mobile Application?

AdSense mobile application (beta)

With the AdSense mobile application, you can view up to date information about your AdSense account on your mobile device. The mobile app gives you access to estimated earnings information and reporting data about your top performing ad units, sites, custom channels and URL channels.

In addition, the mobile app can also send you automatic alerts whenever you receive a red bar notice in your AdSense account. 

Install the mobile app

The mobile app is available on both Android and iOS:

• Android: You can download the Android version by visiting the Google Play Store using the web browser on your Android device.
•  iOS: To download the iOS version, visit the Apple App Store using the web browser on your iOS device.

Supported devices

Android

Right now, the Android version of the mobile app only supports devices with hdpi (high) or xhdpi (extra high) screen densities running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or higher.

iOS

Currently, the iOS version of the mobile app only supports iPhone and iPod touch devices running iOS 6 and above.

AdSense Mobile Interface

You can access the AdSense mobile interface by visiting the usual sign-on page at http://www.google.com/adsense from your mobile device. AdSense then automatically displays its mobile interface.

You can quickly check earnings, run basic reports, and see most alerts, which you can then address through the classic interface if necessary.

Low bandwidth

You can access the AdSense low bandwidth version by clicking View in: Low bandwidth at the bottom of the screen in AdSense interface.

In low bandwidth version:

• You can quickly check earnings, run basic reports, and see most alerts, which you can then address through the classic interface if necessary.
• For now, you can't perform certain actions from the low bandwidth version, such as running custom reports or blocking ads. For these less frequent tasks, please use the classic interface.

To switch to the full desktop version of AdSense from the low bandwidth version, click View in: Classic at the bottom of the screen in AdSense interface.

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Introducing AdSense Interface

AdSense Interface

When you first sign in to your AdSense account, you'll enter at the Home tab. This tab provides a quick snapshot of your account performance, and here you access and manage account details. The My ads tab is where you set up and supervise your list, the Allow & block ads tab contains all your ad controls, and the Performance reports tab is the place to find all of your reporting options.

Gear icon: The gear icon, which you'll find in the upper right corner of the interface, allows you to access and manage your account details, account status, and payments.

Page navigation: Each page in the interface has a navigation sidebar to help you find what you’re looking for quickly and easily.

Help: There's a “help” button at the top right of every page which provides targeted help, including relevant common questions. Here you can get the information you need without leaving your account.

There's also a “Send feedback” link in the relative help which is used to send problem reports, feature ideas and general comments.

Under the new gear icon, the “Messages”, “Payments”, “Account settings”, and “Policy violations” sections are organized as follows:

o Settings: Personal settings, Account information, Site management, Ad display, Site authorization, User management, Crawler access, Third party access, and Google Analytics integration

o Status: Policy notifications, Rejected ad requests, Crawler errors, and Messages

o Payments: Payment history, Payment profile, and Payment settings

The gear icon is accessible from anywhere in your account, so you don’t need to return to the Homepage to access any of these sections.

“Performance” section shows your page views and ad RPM. Additionally, you’ll also see performance data such as your top channels, top sites, top countries, and top platforms etc., depending on which are most relevant to your account. Also added a drop-down that lets you view your performance data for different timeframes.

You can navigate to the reports that are relevant to the data on your Home page by clicking any of the “view report” links in the “Performance" section.

When you receive recommendations, you’ll now see these displayed in a column on the right side of the page.

You can view your estimated and finalized earnings on the Home page.

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How to Sign Up for AdSense?

AdSense Approval Process

The AdSense approval process has several steps, some on AdSense end and some on yours. The steps are described below:

1. Submit your application 

The most important thing for success with AdSense is having a website with great content that delights your users - before you apply to AdSense, check that your site has interesting and original content. And of course, you need visitors too, so make sure that people know about your site before you place ads on it. 

When you're ready: application 

If your website is on one of host partner sites (like Blogger, YouTube, or Hubpages, among many others), you should sign up through your account there - these sites follow a different application process. 

2. Verify your information 

AdSense will check the information in your application and send you an email regarding the status of your application within one day. 

If your application is not approved, you'll receive an email explaining the disapproval reason and the possible next steps that you can take. 

3. Place ads on your site

Once they have verified your information, it's time for you to create your first ad unit and place the ad code on the URL that you provided in your application. Make sure to place your ad code on a webpage that receives traffic.

You'll only see blank ad units on your site until you've passed the second review and fully activate your AdSense account. You'll also see a red bar across the top of your account saying that you're still under review.

4. Review your account for approval

Once the systems detect that you've placed the ad code on a live page, automatically continue the review process and check that your site complies with AdSense policies. When completed the second review, send you an email letting you know the status of your application. This process can take up to a week.

If your application is not approved at this stage, you'll receive an email explaining the disapproval reason and the possible next steps that you can take.

5. Approved account

Your AdSense account is now fully activated. The red bar across the top of your account is gone and within a few hours you’ll begin to see live ads.

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What is Publisher Eligibility Criteria for AdSense?

Eligibility for AdSense

There are few things you can check before applying to see if your site fits with AdSense.

• Own a site

you’ll need one in order to participate. If you don't have one, you can create one using Blogger create great content so you'll attract users and advertisers to your site.

(Blogger Tutorials)

• You must be 18 years old

According to AdSense Terms and Conditions, they only accept applications from applicants who are over 18.

• your site must comply with AdSense program policies

Check that your site complies with AdSense policies before submitting your application. 

• Own your site for 6 months

In some locations such as Pakistan, India, China etc AdSense requires publishers to have owned their sites for 6 months. 

When you're ready, just submit an application. your application will be reviewed and they will contact to you by email within a week.

Ownership of the site you want to use for AdSense

To use AdSense monetization products on your website, you must have access to edit the HTML source code of the web pages where you'd like the ads to be displayed. If you submit a site that you don't own you won't be able to place the AdSense code on the site and your application will not be approved.

If you've created a website via a content management system (CMS) (for example, Blogger), you can submit its URL providing that you have access to AdSense or to the HTML source code from the interface.

If you don't have a website, or your site isn't compatible with JavaScript, the following options will help you get started with AdSense:

Create a new blog using Google's service, Blogger (Blogger Tutorials). Through Blogger, webmasters can display Google ads without ever copying or pasting HTML code. Signing up for a Blogger account is fast, easy and free.

Once you've created your blog, you can add Google ads by following these instructions to enable AdSense on your blog.

If you want to monetize your YouTube video content, please apply for the YouTube Partner Program or if your YouTube account is already eligible for monetization follow the instructions displayed in the YouTube interface to apply for AdSense.

Age requirements

As stated in the AdSense Terms and Conditions, publishers must be at least 18 years of age to participate in the AdSense program.

If you are not yet 18, you may have a parent or guardian to submit an application using their own Google Account. If their application is approved, all payments will be made to the adult responsible for the site.

Reasons your website might not be a good fit for AdSense

AdSense system has filters in place to keep advertisers' ads from displaying on pages that could be interpreted as negative, non-family safe or potentially offensive. If a site falls into one of these categories or our system detects any other reason an advertiser might not want their ads on a website, our system may classify that site's content as sensitive.

If this happens to your site, AdSense system will try to display appropriate ads for your page

Using other ad networks together with AdSense

Non-Google ads may be displayed along with Google ads. AdSense allows affiliate or limited-text links.

If your ad network already displays Google ads on your pages, you can still join AdSense and run ads on your site through our program. AdSense allows publishers to display up to three standard Google ad units on any webpage.

Note: Publishers are only allowed to maintain one AdSense account under the same payee name.

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How to Share Posts with Google+?

Share Posts to Google+

By sharing your post to Google+, you enable a completely new group of people to find and follow you.

Automatically share to Google+

Automatic sharing to Google+ is enabled by default on all public blogs linked to Google+ pages or profiles. When you publish a blog post, a snippet of the post will automatically be shared publicly on your Google+ page or profile.

To disable this setting, go to the Google+ tab on your blog and uncheck the Automatically share after posting box.

Prompt to Share after Posting

If you'd like to only share some blog posts, or share to specific circles, you can enable the option to Prompt to share after posting.

When you publish a post, a share box will be displayed. Select the circles that you wish to share with, add a custom message if you like, and click “Share.”

To enable this setting, go to the Google+ tab in Blogger and check the box to Prompt to share after posting.

Once you publish your next blog post, you’ll see a share box inviting you to share your post with your circles on Google+. Note that the default circle is set to “Public,” but that you can modify your circles every time you choose to share.

You can disable this setting by unchecking the Prompt to share after posting box.

If you only want to share posts sometimes but don’t want to constantly change the setting, you can use the “Share” option on your Posts page. Just hover over the post to view the option.

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How to Post to a Video from YouTube in Blogger?

Post a video from YouTube

If you'd like to share a video from YouTube, you can do that, too.
Embedding a YouTube Video

To embed a video from YouTube, just open YouTube and follow these simple steps:

1. Click on the "Share" button under the YouTube video.

2. Select "Show more," and then click on the Blogger icon.
3. Depending on whether or not you're signed in to your blog, you might have to enter your username and password in the next window.
4. At the top of the new window, choose the blog you would like to post to from the drop-down menu.
5. Publish your post!

Embedding manually

Alternatively, you can copy the embed code and paste it into your blog. Just click on "Share" and then on "Embed" to find the embed code. Copy the code, then paste it into your blog while on the "Edit HTML" tab opposed to the "Compose" tab.

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How to Post Videos in Blogger?

Post Videos in Blogger

If you've got your own videos on your computer that you want to share on your blog, Blogger now allows you to upload videos directly! If you'd like to share a video from YouTube, you can do that, too.

There are several ways to post a video to your blog. To get started, follow the steps listed below.

1. Click the Insert a video icon on the Post Editor toolbar.

2. In the popup window, you'll see four options:

• Upload: You can browse for a video to upload from your computer. If this is your first video upload, you must agree to the Terms and Conditions.
• From YouTube: You can search YouTube and select a video to display on your blog.
• My YouTube videos: If you have your own videos under you Google Account, you can easily access and upload them through this tab.
• From your phone: If you have Google+ and Android, you can download an application that will allow all the videos from your phone to upload instantly to your Google Account. You can then click From your phone and select a video from your phone to publish on your blog. All content instantly uploaded from your phone is private until you choose to share it.

3. Select one of the options, and click upload.

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How to Post Pictures in Blogger?

Post a Picture

You can upload photos to your blog by clicking the Insert image in the Post Editor's toolbar.

When you click this icon, you'll get a window that allows you to select one or many images from your computer. Click the Choose files button to locate. You can add an image you've previously used on your blog, an image from your Picasa Web Albums, or enter the URL of an image that's already online and insert it into your post. You can upload images in JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF or BMP format.

Once the image is in your Post Editor, you can click on the image to format it in your post.

The left, center and right options determine how the text of your post flows around the pictures. The size options let you scale the pictures to different sizes within the posting area. You can add a caption to your image.

When you upload an image through Blogger, it gets stored on Picasa Web Albums, You can sign in there with your Google Account to access all your images.

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How to Customize Blog Layout?

Blogger Layout

Blogger's Layout feature is an easy to use template editing feature that allows you to edit and customize your Blogger template without any knowledge of HTML or CSS. You can edit and customize the colors, fonts, header and sidebar of your blog. To customize your blog's layout, go to the Layout tab.

Moving elements

You can arrange the elements in your template the way you want them displayed. Simply click on the element you'd like to move and drag and drop it where you want it to be.

Editing elements

• Header: Add or edit the header of your blog, which includes your blog title and blog description.
• Blog posts: Choose the number of posts to display on your main page. You can choose either the number of days with posts to display or the total number of posts on the main page.
• Profile: Edit/add your profile title, 'About Me' description, and location.
• Blog archive: Edit/add your blog archive title, select your display style, display post titles, display oldest posts first, choose your archive frequency and date format.

Adding gadgets

You can add gadgets to your blog page or sidebar by clicking Add a gadget. This will open a pop-up window. Click + in the proper element section to add it:

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How to Customize Blogger Template Designer?

Blogger Template Designer

Blogger Template Designer is a way to customize the look of your blog. You can select a variety of templates, images, colors, and column layouts to make your blog an appearance of you. To get to the Template Designer, click on Template in Blogger Dashboard. From there, you'll be able to choose and customize your template.

You’ll see a preview of how the blog will appear based on the choices you've made. When you’re satisfied with the look of your blog, you can make them go live by pressing Apply to Blog in the top right hand corner of the Template Designer.

To get started with Blogger Template Designer, select a template for your blog from one of the professionally designed templates that are available. Each template appears as a large thumbnail, when clicked will show different distinctions on the template below that you can select.

Once you've chosen a template, you can continue customizing the look of your blog.

You can always see what is currently live on your blog by looking at the Live on Blog thumbnail in the Template Designer control panel. You can also click on it to reset the template in the Template Designer to the live version of your blog.

Background

Using Blogger Template Designer, you can choose the background color or image, color scheme. To start customizing your background, click on the thumbnail under Background Image.

One of the best new features of Template Designer is the ability to change the color of your background image. This is possible when a background image has transparency.

Once you've selected your image, you can change the color of the background by clicking on Main Color Theme and then selecting the color of your choice.

You can also choose a color theme to apply to your blog, including text and links. You can do this by clicking on the Main Color Theme or by choosing one of Suggested Themes. Changing the color theme of your blog will change the colors for all aspects of the blog template that can be changed.

Layout

You can choose a range of layout options for your blog, from one to three columns. These layouts feature drag and drop functionality for gadgets. You will also have a variety of layout options for the blog footer as well.

If you want to add or remove gadgets or edit gadget settings, you cannot do this through Blogger Template Designer. Rather, you have to do this on the general Layout tab.

Adjust Widths

You can change the width of the blog, and the right and left columns by dragging the slider for the different parts of blog layout. Note that the options you see here correspond to the type of layout that you chose. If, for example, you chose a blog with left and right columns, you will see both left and right column sliders. If, however, you chose a blog with only a left column, you will only see that option here.

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How to Change Blog Feed Settings?

What is a site feed?

A site feed is a machine-readable demonstration of your blog that can be chosen and shown on other web sites. Special pieces of software called feed readers, news readers, or exaggerators can scan your site feed, and automatically let your readers know when your blog has been updated.

Change your site's feed settings

To enable or disable the site feed(s) for your blog, first go to the Settings | Other tab.

Here, you can select how much of your content you want to syndicate. "Full" will put the entire content of each post in your site feed; "Short" only includes an selection from the beginning of each post. Select "Until Jump Break" to show all post content before your jump break. The "None" option turns your site feed off completely. For more advanced options, select "Custom."

When you select "Custom," you'll see options for three different types of feeds. Each option has the same "Full," "Short," and "None" setting choices.

· Blog posts: This is the same as the original, "Allow Blog Feed" option.

· Comment feed: This will contain all comments made on all posts on your blog.

· Per-post comment feed: With this option, each post will have its own site feed..

If you've burned your post feed with FeedBurner, or used another service to process your feed, you will need to go to your blog's settings and complete the setup by redirecting your feed. To redirect your feed, just copy and paste the feed URL you received from the service into the "Post Feed Redirect URL" section.

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How to Create a Team Blog?

Create a Team Blog

Team blogs are quite useful when small groups of people wish to contribute to a single blog. Basically, one person initially creates the blog, and then adds other people to it as members.

Team members can either be administrators or not. Administrators can edit all posts, add and remove team members and grant admin access, and modify the blog's settings and template. Other members can only create and edit their own posts.

Here's how:

Click "Permissions" under Settings | Basic.

Click Add Authors:

Type the email addresses of the people you're inviting to the blog, separating each address with a comma. They'll receive an email with a confirmation link. They must have Google Accounts, and if they don't already, they'll be prompted to create one.

Click OK.

Control Permissions

By default, your blog is completely public, and can be read by anyone on the internet. However, if you want to keep it private, just click on "Edit" under the Blog Readers section in the Settings tab. 

Under the Blog Readers heading, you'll probably see "Anybody" selected as the default. When you change this to "Only these readers," you'll get an option to add readers.

Click the Add Readers link and then enter the email address of a person to whom you want to grant access to your blog. To add multiple people, separate their addresses with commas.

For each address entered, the Google Account associated with that address will be given access to view your blog. The reader will be given permission to view your blog whenever they are signed in to their Google Account. 

Blog Administrators

When you invite a member to join a blog and they accept your invitation, they are listed as an "Author" by default. Authors can only create and edit their own posts. You can see a member's status in the "Permissions" section of the Settings | Basic tab, and it looks like this:

To change an author into an admin, you can use the drop-down menu next to that author's name. If there's only one admin member of a blog, it's not possible to cancel that person's admin rights.

Remove a Team Member

To remove a team member, go to the Settings | Basic tab and click the X next to the name of person you want to remove:

While this will prevent the removed team member from creating additional posts, it will not remove items previously posted by them.

Remove Yourself from a Team Blog

To remove yourself from a team blog, navigate to the Settings | Basic tab for the appropriate blog. If you're an admin member, you'll see a full listing of team members there. Just find your name and click the X next to it.

If you don't have admin rights on the blog, you will see a simpler page, with a Remove yourself from this blog link. Clicking this link will remove you from the blog.

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How to Enable Comments in Blogger?

Comments in Blogger

If you choose to enable comments, visitors to your blog will have the option to respond to your published posts. Blogger supports threaded commenting which means comments are displayed such that a reader can easily differentiate between whether someone is making a general comment on the thread, or responding to another comment on the thread.

Enabling Comments

To enable comments, click on Settings from the drop-down menu on your Dashboard, then go to the area for posts and comments.

You'll see all the settings to manage your comments.
1. Comment location: Select "Embedded" if you'd like to enable threaded commenting.

2. Who can comment? Here you can specify who can comment on your posts. The options range from anyone (which means that unknown users can comment without having to sign in) to only members of the blog (if it's a team blog).

3. Comment moderation: Decide if you'd like to always, sometimes, or never moderate comments. If you select "Always," you'll have the option to enter in an email address where you can receive notifications that there are comments pending moderation. If you select "Sometimes," you'll be prompted to specify how many days old the post should be before it requires moderation. "Sometimes" is a good option for bloggers who want to make sure that comments on all posts are kept fresh and recent, and that conversation or debates on old posts aren't suddenly renewed.

4. Show backlinks: Turning on this option will show all the URLs around the web that link to your blog post. The URLs will be visible to both you and to the readers of your blog.
5. Comment form message: Add a message to your readers who click to comment on your blog. Some bloggers like to include a little thank-you note, or details about how they tend to follow-up with comments.

Enabling Comments on Post by Post

If you don't want your comment settings to be blog wide, you can click on the menu on the right side of the Post Editor to set post specific comment settings. Here you can choose among three options: Allow; Don't allow, hide existing; Don't allow, show existing.

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How to Import and Export Your Blogs?

Import and export blogs

The import and export features on Blogger give your content a complete new sort of portability and freedom, allowing you to save a copy of your blog on your hard drive, or import your blogs into other existing blogs.

Export your blog

To export your blog, simply click "Export Blog" from the Settings | Other tab.

Then, click the Export Blog button. Your blog will be stored as a Blogger export file (.xml) file which can be kept as a backup on your hard drive or imported into another blog. Exported blogs are not deleted from your dashboard or from Blogger.com.

Import into an Existing Blog

To import posts and comments into an already existing blog, go to Settings | Other and click on "Import blog" from the "Blog tools" section. Choose a Blogger export file (.xml) from your hard drive and fill out the word verification under. By default, all of your imported posts will remain unpublished until you publish them from your dashboard later. However, if you would rather have all posts published immediately; make sure to check the box next to Automatically publish all imported posts before you click Import Blog.

If you didn't choose to have your posts publish automatically, you'll need to manually publish them from the Posts | Imported tab before they will appear on the web.

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How to Delete and Restore Your Blog?

Delete Your Blog

If you delete your blog, it will no longer be available online and will be permanently removed from your list of blogs on your Blogger Dashboard.

Here's how:

1. Sign in to your blog and access your Blogger Dashboard.

2. Beside the blog you want to delete, click the drop-down menu to the right of the gray Post List icon.

3. Select Settings.

4. Click Other on the left side of the page.

5. At the top of the page under "Blog tools" click Delete blog.

6. Click Delete this blog.

The title of the deleted blog will appear in the "Deleted blogs" section for a short time after you delete your blog. During this time period, you can click Deleted blogs on the left side of your Blogger Dashboard to see the titles of your recently deleted blogs.

Save a copy before deleting

If you'd like to save a copy of your blog before deleting, export your blog before clicking the Delete this blog button. Your blog will be stored as a Blogger export file which can be kept as a backup on your hard drive or imported into another blog.

Restore a deleted blog

If you've accidentally deleted your blog and want it back, you can do so during a short period of time after deletion.

1. Sign in to your blog and access your Blogger Dashboard.

2. Click Deleted blogs on the left.

3. Your deleted blogs will re-appear on your Dashboard. Click Undelete this blog.

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