How To Create An Adsense Channel For Your Blog

Today, as a continuing part of my Blogger Tutorials for newbies, I want to look at Adsense channels and why they're vital to bloggers across the board. 

You've just started your new blog. You chose the best possible name for your site. Then diligently did your research on domain name availability to get the most suitable available title. You added all the highly recommended gadgets, then set out to write knock-out posts. You signed up for Google adsense and waited to start earning, but unfortunately only pennies dribbled in. How do you know which ad units are earning you cash and which ones are only taking up valuable advertising space on your site? This is where channels come in.

We all know by now that some Google adsense ads perform better than others. Picture ones earn you more money, for example. In addition, the position of your ad either catches the attention of your readers, or goes unnoticed. Adsense allows you to personalise the appearance of each ad. You can choose your own size, look, font and the colour of literally every part of your ad box. 

Creating channels helps you to have even more control over your ads. With channels you're able to track which ads on your sites perform best of all and which ones attract no clicks whatsoever. Armed with this crucial information, you're able to maximise your Google Adsense earnings by recreating the best performing ad boxes on your other sites, and/or by deleting the hangers on. You should create a channel for each of the ad units on your sites. Here's how:

• Sign in to your Google account. You would’ve had to create one if you have a Blogger blog.


• Choose ‘Adsense’


• You will be taken to a page (like the one below) where you can view your google adsense account.

• At the top of the page the table says Reports, Adsense Setup, My Account and Resources.


• Choose Adsense Setup (white heading).


• Then Channels (in the blue row) under Adsense Setup.


• Add a new custom  channel. (You can create url channels later on).


• Name your channel precisely. You may want to say something like ‘top banner’ 'large side ad' etc, with the name the blog. This is not only for you to track the most profitable ads and the best positions for them. Advertisers will also be shown these names you create.


• Tick the ‘targeting’ box. (This means that your blog will be shown to advertisers as a domain which is interested in promoting their ads. 


• Ads appear on - tick homepage.


• Add channel and save.


• You're done!

If you find this article useful, please share it on your favourite networking sites. Thank you. If you have any more Google Adsense questions please click on the link. It will take you to a page where you can find more info about this topic. Scroll down towards the end of the first article on the page. 

How To Add A 'Share This' Button To Your New Blog

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I have been running regular Blogger Tutorials for Newbie Bloggers. Click on 'Blogger Tutorials' link in my link bar above to see the other lessons. 





We cannot reach everyone on the Internet no matter how many hours we spend on social networking sites. This is why it's vital to provide an easy way for the people we can reach, to give us exposure by inviting their friends over for a look. Soon friends of their friends will start coming round to see what's on offer. The only way to structure this domino-visit blog traffic is by enabling the visitors to easily share our work/site. This is where a 'share this' button becomes essential.





Adding a 'share this' button is not only easy, it works to benefit you by encouraging those that quickly visit your site to share what they've read with the rest of the world. Keep in mind that most people who visit your blog do it on a 'fly-by' trip to other interesting places on the net. Give them a reason to come back, but most importantly, give them a reason to get their friends to come too. 





Here is how you add a 'share this' button to your new blog.

1. Log into your blogger dashboard. Work from the blog you want to add the 'share this' button to.


2. Choose 'settings.'


3. Choose 'formatting.' Leave this page open for now. 


4. Open a new browser window and go to the 'Add This Site'


5. The first section says, 'Select your service.' Select 'Blogger.'


6. The second section simply asks you to select your choice of button. Do this.


7. For simplicity sake, in the third section, choose, 'Just give me the button.' We will deal with analytics later on.


8. Click on 'get your button.'


9. Towards the end of the page you will see a command which says, 'copy code.'


10. This tells you to copy and paste the code into your Blogger template. This involves editing your blog's html. If you're not comfortable with doing this, (I was a blogger for nearly 2 years before I even attempted to touch my html page) there is a simpler, fool-proof way of getting your 'share this' button at the end of every post. I do not recommend messing with your blog template unless you're totally confident in doing so.


11. After you've copied the code, go back to the open, Blogger 'formatting' page you found earlier. 


12. Go to the bottom of the page where you will see an empty panel beside the words, 'post template.' Paste the code you copied into this panel.


13. Don't forget to click on 'save settings' which is the orange button at the very end of this page.


14. This 'add this' button will appear at the bottom of every post you make from now on. 

For a range of other  'share this' buttons, you can go to this page. You're required to sign up for an account, but it does give you more options.