This post is going to be relatively short compared to others. I am going to share my experience with adsense and what methods helped me get the best results. For those of you who don’t know what adsense is, you seriously need help. It is a money making opportunity offered by Google.

As you guys know there are different sizes that adsense comes in and you can use it all. There is a policy in adsense that you can only display 3 ads on one page. Even if you have the codes, they won’t display on the page, and just leave a blank space there. Well so how exactly do you monetize adsense with those 3 ads.

You need to embed the ads in the site. For example, make it seem like that it is a part of a content. For instance, if your site’s background is white, then make the adsense’s background white, and the text color the same as your original text color. This will increase your chances of getting more clicks because it is harder for people to distinguish them.

Which banner ad size works best? In my experience 336 x 280px google adsense size gives the best outcomes. They provide the best outcome when they are toward the top and are embedded in the content. Ad locations for the blog would be post pages in the post if you are putting. It is a complete waste if you put it in the sidebar because you would hardly ever get clicks. I do get a few clicks at the top of the site with the image ads 468 x 60, but When I put it in the middle of the post It didn’t work out well.

Another thing I would suggest that adsense is not a very big money maker on webmaster blogs. They would work very well on content sites that are not targetting webmasters because webmasters don’t tend to click on ads. Industries such as Real Estate, Mortgage, Loan, Finance tend to have really high CTR so you are going to get good returns.

I just wanted to share this little excerpt with the users who are trying to embed adsense in their sites. Chetan this was inspired by your question .

This one problem has been a pain for ages. I cannot display raw codes in wordpress. Raw Codes meaning php, html or anything of that sort. Now don’t tell me there is a plugin called Raw Code because I already tried that. It didn’t work. I tried multiple tutorials with the code where you will the Code tag and have different values. It didn’t work.

How the heck would I display Raw Codes in Wordpress especially because I post alot of tutorials that include html and php. Well, I was talking to a good friend of mine Steve over the msn. He told me the trick that he have been using. I tried that and it worked like a charm.

Well this is no plugin. It is simply encoding your html and php tags. Pretty darn simple and easy.

First Go to this site to Encode your Html

Than Copy and Paste the html codes there and click Encode.

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Alright everyone, Lets get on upgrading your old wordpress blogs to this new superb one. Yes as I mentioned couple days back, that I was beta-testing Wordpress 2.5 which I am very proud of myself as I reported a few bugs , but now with the work of the Wordpress Team and support of the Beta Testers, the stable version of Wordpress 2.5 is out now.

Most importantly in this version, Wordpress has changed their backend entirely. The admin panel looks completely different. There are some very useful plugins. One click upgrade for all plugins if you allow (Did I say that I love this… Well I do). Along with the backend look, as you can see that Wordpress got a new design for their website which matches the admin backend. There has been alot of upgrades and It makes no sense for me to repost it when they are already here on the wordpress site.

Download this latest version now

Balkhis is already updated. Other projects will be updated by the crew within 24 hours. I suggest you should try the new version as well.

Can money buy everything? Can it buy you? Can it buy your identity? Not mine. Definately not. There are some things that I would not sell for money and my identity is one of those thing. I recently visited a webmaster forum which I used to be very active in, and was shocked by the theme. They just sold the entire theme design for sponsorship. How lame is that?

For a few thousand bucks, you are going to give away your own identity? It is just very sad to see that. If you are wondering which forum I am talking about, Yes it is Namepros. They sold theirself out, and along with the forum, they sold out all the loyal users who have been supportive to namepros. I have been a member for over 3 years now, and It was very disappointing to see that the administration will be so cheap.

They sold off the entire theme design to this guy named Rick Latona for a certain period of time. I don’t know when it is going to revert back, but here is a screenshot:

This will just drive your users away if you ask my opinion. Now, I have lost the respect I had for that community’s administration. If you want to be respectable in front of your user’s eyes than don’t ever do that. What are your thougs on this? Would you ever sell your site’s branding off for a certain period of time for some money?

Blogging is a job, a career, hobby, and many other things. Everyone classifies it in a different category. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net asked this question to all bloggers, Why Do You Blog?. He is making a Group Video Project where he is going to collect all the blogger’s answer through each individual video and post it all in one collection. Well Darren, here is the answer to your question.

Blogging is my hobby.
I am a big time computer geek because I love computer and the internet. I have been using it for quiet some time, and have been in the webmaster industry for about 5 years now. In the 5 years, I tried alot of different niches and ended up with only two becoming my favorite. Those are Designing and Blogging.

Sparks new Ideas
While I blog, I research all my topics and visit other blogs and websites. By doing this non-stop research, often it sparks new ideas in my mind. The future projects that I can take on and develop. I already have one that is underconstruction which I was inspired to do so while I was researching and visiting other blogs.

Make a quality webmaster resource
I share alot of my experience on my blog. Along with my experience, I share alot of other stuff such as tutorials, other webmaster resources, freebies etc. While I am trying to help others out by sharing my knowledge, I am making it a bigger resource every day. This resource is not only for my users, but it is for myself. I collect my tutorials from other websites, or from my own development, and my blog helps me keep track of all of those in one place, so I don’t have to go to different places to get things done.

Name and Fame
I like others to know about me. I am blogging for my name. I want the webmaster world to know about Syed Balkhi, like they know about other big bloggers. I am still an underdog in the industry, but this fame will be priceless because for every future project I take on my name will be associated to it, and people would not say Who is Syed Balkhi.

Getting Better every day
I have my blog so I can get critiques and comments by my users. I like it when someone comment on my post. Whether they like my strategy, or if there is a way I can improve. I love those critiques and comment because they help me fix some of the issues with my products or strategies, and the appreciation from the users of my work just motivates me to get better and better every day.

Making new friends
My blog has helped me know alot of different type of people in the web world. I have made some very nice friends through blogging. Getting to learn from the experiences of these friends is just another cool thing about blogging.

My vision is for success, and I don’t want others to make the same mistakes that I have made therefore I show them all the tricks I learned in the past through trial and error.