tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43648160086197313072024-03-19T12:01:29.232-07:00Blogger HitsA Blog For Bloggers, General Articles For Bloggers , Services and Articles For Adsense users, Learn Search Engine Optimization and how to promote your website or blog, Know various ways for getting traffic and high Google Page RankAbdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-30733001274025968582009-12-01T08:51:00.000-08:002009-12-01T08:56:56.543-08:00Christmas SERPs changesThese days I noticed a lot of change in Google's search ranking pages and results SERPs.<br />I think this may be due to :<br />1- Holidays season, Google tries to make top reasults , top trusted ... these days have black hat SEO techniques at maximum ! it will be very embaressing if a site manage to get to top for a world like "Christmas gifts"... I think Google now gives top results to old trusted websites only !<br /><br />2- The new Google Caffeine with new algorithms.<br /><br />Yesterday I made a search then made it the same search 2 minutes later, the results were different !!<br />So, the sure thing there is something changed in Google algorithms at least for now.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-24517645000805757472009-11-02T02:09:00.000-08:002009-11-02T02:19:39.198-08:00When Google Adsense recommend the 250 x 300 rectangle , it is realy honestThis post is after 1 month of variation and changes in Adsense placements, sizes and colors...<br />the over all notice is that the 300x250 rectangle which is recommended by Google is really the top CTR ad, the ads according to ctr are :<br />1- 300 x 250 rectangle<br />2- 336x300 rectangle<br />3- horizontal link units<br />4- 468x 60 banner<br />5- 768x90 leader board<br />6- others... vertical link units , square , button .... all the lowest<br /><br />the best ctr according to colors :<br />(this I noticed a big variation from different countries, US and Europe visitors tend to click blended ads with no borders , same background as page, Middle east and others tend to click ads that are put on a very contrasted colors as a black back ground on a white page with yellow links !)<br /><br />Best CTR according to placements<br />1- Header ... top of page best bellow title or H2 header tags<br />2- Inside content<br />3- Footer<br /><br />After this trial I recommend very much every publisher to continuously change colors, placements and sizes of his ads until reach optimum ctr.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-64528128106387005992009-10-22T00:43:00.000-07:002009-10-22T00:49:36.199-07:00vBulletin wire tranfer bugYeap, while having so many purchase request vBulletin is having a problem in wire transfer orders.<br />I ordered a license and had this reply :<br /><blockquote>"Unfortunately there is a bug n our system regarding wire transfer payments and they cannot be processed. I have filed a bug report on this but there is no estimated time for this fix. I will flag this ticket and let you know when this is available. Very sorry for the inconvenience.<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Steve Machol<br />Customer Support Manager, vBulletin"<br /><br /></blockquote>Although payments are already processed from my account...<br />I hope this issue is solved ASAP ... vBulletin is a really wonderful script.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-68324745691862783642009-09-30T10:01:00.000-07:002009-09-30T11:14:38.304-07:00Longest time payment in progress in Adsense everPayment in progress .. 24 Sept, it may be the most annoying message an adsense publisher allover the world hate to read now! it has been 6 days, now it is the first of October in some countries and they have not been paid.<br />I normal months it took maximum 2 or 3 days in progress then payment is issued and publishers can happily get thier money at Western Union offices allover the world.<br />Some think it is a problem at Western Union not Google Adsense, others think it is due to Google employees are busy celebrating the Google's 11th birthday..lol<br />Also some bloggers wrote it is Google validating all accounts for violations and expecting lots of accounts to get banned (most silly thought I think).<br />Of course there must be an official announcement about this issue, yet nothing comes from Google ...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update</span> :<br />official comment on google blog :<br /><blockquote>Just wanted to let you know that our engineers are currently investigating the payment issue you've reported -- please visit our Known Issues page, where we'll continue to post updates as soon as we receive them.<br /><br />-Arlene<br /><br />also see</blockquote><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92365">https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92365</a>Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-67776934392116786852009-09-14T15:56:00.000-07:002009-09-14T16:09:22.448-07:00Pretty sure : Google dofollow rel="nofollow" links, BUT..Now I am 99% sure that Google do follow nofollow links, however the page rank is not assigned.<br />this is done by :<br />I put a link of a page not indexed in Google, on a known website which was <a href="http://100fm6.com/">100fm6.com</a>, and the page was a profile on a social bookmarking new site.<br />the profile page was indexed soon the page on the website was crawled.<br />from my experience Google uses nofollow for only Page rank issue however it follow the links.<br />this means you should never use nofollow to link to a warez or non-friendly Google sites, Google knows exactly who you link to !Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-26843571666887458272009-08-09T07:12:00.000-07:002009-08-09T07:27:22.333-07:00"show more results from" Google favors big sitesYou may notice the new Google search feature : "show more results from" that allows the searcher to view related posts or articles on the same website.<br /><br />this of course will increase the click through rate for sites showing "show more results from" and thus the will make they come up more in search results.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-40554599683204920042009-08-04T04:26:00.000-07:002009-08-04T04:33:41.471-07:00Has Google contributed in making the life better?I think Google made its name in history and this will never change.<br />Google really contributed in improving the quality of life , how is that :<br />1- Google gives special respect to scientific research and education search results also there special engine developed for students.<br />2- Google is very successful on its trial to not show harmful results as porn and hacker in first results.<br /><br />I think Google made the human life better, no one in any field of life can't make use of Google.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-87015648468528443682009-08-01T14:08:00.000-07:002009-08-01T14:08:00.178-07:00Watch what are you linking to, it mattersIt is very important to keep eye on what your website links to :<br /><br />1- Many out going links is killing for famous websites this includes advertisments, there are millions of websites over the internet, now it is easy to get back links, you should know that you are passing page rank to every site you link to.<br /><br />2- Linking to sites not liked by search engines as download sites, stolen software..etc. may get you out of search results<br /><br />3- Do not provide advertising for any website, you should revise it, advertise only quality websites like adwords.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-65218359195599001262009-07-31T13:53:00.000-07:002009-07-31T13:53:00.168-07:00Site rank decreased in search resluts SERPsOnce you had a site hitting top search results?<br />Now it is falling in SERPs?<br />search your fault among the following :<br /><br />1- Pop-up advertising, after your site come up, you may find pop-up advertising effective in generating revenue, but it may cost a lot.<br />2- Copied content , no genuine content.<br />3- Errors in sitemap, very common.<br />4- Your site might be hacked?<br />5- your site is slow, many images or high code/text ratio.<br />6- links for you are removed from sites linking to you.<br />7- bad content : serials, cracks, music, movies downloads ... all goes down.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-3027252041829027702009-07-28T03:14:00.000-07:002009-07-28T03:35:21.221-07:00Google changes Search results "SERPs" continuouslyMany webmasters can observe obvious changes in search engine ranking positions specially at Google.<br />That is why fellows at webmasterworld.com are building a new thread every month to dicuss these changes, but are these really new factors driven to detect better results? or just changes in the websites?<br />Google said that positions depend on hundred of factors and new factors are added continuously, these updates can be followed on their webmaster <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/">Blog</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/google">twitter</a>.<br /><br />May be it is the main rule of universe : "change".<br /><br />whatever done google will always be a machine and bad links may come up on first results, change is a must.<br /><br />how to cope with this change?<br />currently google is focusing on website speed, it is necessary to make most of content in least space possible in kbs, this is good for SEO and for visitors, bounce rate and avg time on website.<br /><br />Never think that your site made it to top search results, Google will never be a friend to a website while better one is out there, your site hitting top search results does not mean it can not be penalized or <del>"sandboxed"</del><span style="font-style: italic;">, google said there is no such thing</span>.<br /><br />I personally saw websites falling down after hiting the top at SERPs, main causes and faults are :<br />1- bad advertising : POP- Ups<br />2- Heavy pages<br />3- Keyword stuffing<br />4- Content : copyrighted content or hack related even if only a part of website.<br />5- selling links.<br /><br />you must follow changes by google, try to make your website clean and fast, that's it.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-63997421722671692182009-07-04T16:43:00.000-07:002009-07-04T16:47:34.868-07:00Backlinks may harm !yeap!<br />It is not always good to have back links from lot of sites :<br />1- if so many in short time it is considered spam<br />2- if many in long time not related to site activity and users, it is considered paid SEO<br />3- if from directory, mostly useless<br />4- if from unrelated site, totally useless<br /><br />it is important to make the back links increase by flow, let your users give you back links.<br />if you are a blogger add social bookmarking gadgets, or give the link of the post or page in an html code area, as youtube for example...Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-22432486418505860362009-06-30T01:15:00.001-07:002009-06-30T01:15:32.555-07:00Why Blogs Rank High in Search Results<p>You may find wordpress and blogspot results rank high in search results, that may annoy you at first if your competitor is a blogger and you paid much for your website.<br />so, do why blogs rank high?</p><p>1- blogs have low code to text ratio that is there is little code on page including javascript, css, flash or even images, this is loved by search engines.</p><p>2- static URLs, however Google announced it does not matter to have dynamic or static urls, but word press also offers keywords in URL and in many languages other than English, blogger however put keywords in urls in english language only.</p><p>3- No need to sitemap, labels and archives for blogs give almost all links to the blog, also there is some ways as links to develop a ready made sitemap, not needing to build them from th start</p><p>4- Wordpress or Blogspot have just strong link profile, it is great to have a site xxx.blogspot.com, your blog act as if it is a sub domain for this high page rank sites, so it is also very easy to get a high page rank from the start.</p><p>5- Blogspot automatically correct most HTML errors and notify for others, this limit html errors to minimum which is also appreciated by search engines.</p><p>6- wordpress have a very good tagging system, this enriches the pot keywords, and improve keyword density.</p><p>It is great to have a blog even you got your website, there is many success stories about blogging, now many bloggers are working from their home, just as me !!</p><p>Abdel Rahman Ellithy<br />owner of : <a target="_new" href="http://100fm6.com/">http://100fm6.com/</a> and <a target="_new" href="http://nogoomfm.blogspot.com/">http://nogoomfm.blogspot.com/</a></p>Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-1953158806726068192009-06-30T01:11:00.000-07:002009-06-30T01:11:25.882-07:00Blogger Buzz: Blogger is Turning 10<a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html#links">Blogger Buzz: Blogger is Turning 10</a>Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-43928733176064971032009-06-29T10:19:00.000-07:002009-06-29T10:19:09.711-07:00Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/outpouring-of-searches-for-late-michael.html#links">Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson</a>Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-17295290585744386112009-06-29T10:17:00.000-07:002009-06-29T10:17:38.025-07:00Official Google Blog: Extending Google services in Africa<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/extending-google-services-in-africa.html#links">Official Google Blog: Extending Google services in Africa</a>Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-21892542195519765162009-06-26T05:44:00.000-07:002009-06-26T05:52:09.612-07:00Remove Duplicate content because of "showcomments=" links in BloggerBlogger makes a link for every comment on your blog that is for a post like :<br />http://nogoomfm.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_19.html<br />may get urls as :<br />http://nogoomfm.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_19.html?showComment=1242753180000<br /><br />this is a major problem for famous massively commented posts and blogs,<br />Here is the way you can solve it using the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html">rel="canonical"</a> attribute<br /><br />1- Log in to your blogger Dashboard.<br />2- Choose Layout ( edit HTML template) and Download the template as backup.<br />3- Find :<br /><pre class="alt2" dir="ltr" style="<br /> margin: 0px;<br /> padding: 6px;<br /> border: 1px inset;<br /> width: 640px;<br /> height: 34px;<br /> text-align: left;<br /> overflow: auto"></head></pre><br />4- Put before it the following code :<br /><pre class="alt2" dir="ltr" style="<br /> margin: 0px;<br /> padding: 6px;<br /> border: 1px inset;<br /> width: 640px;<br /> height: 98px;<br /> text-align: left;<br /> overflow: auto"><!-- 100fm6.com block duplicate content START --><br /><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><br /><link expr:href='data:blog.url' rel='canonical'/><br /></b:if><br /><!-- 100fm6.com block duplicate content END --></pre><br /><br />5- Save your template.<br />Google uses re='canonical' hack in it <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/">blog</a> too.<br /><br />Read this post in <a href="http://100fm6.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23013">arabic</a>Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-50260955364868941672009-06-14T12:02:00.000-07:002009-06-14T12:04:50.836-07:00Google hits No 1After years of Yahoo ruling the internet by being the most visited site as classified by alexa, now Google rules : Google now is No 1 in alexa, comming before yahoo and msn, to be the most visited site over the internet.<br />It worth menthioning that a domain like google.com.eg or google.com.ca are different domains and treated differently on alexa !!!<br />This means a lotAbdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-71950661534884808422009-02-25T06:11:00.001-08:002009-02-25T06:17:33.651-08:00My theory for how to get hight CTR in AdSenseI think there no such rule that not to make background color or to remove borders or to embed your ads inside your content, my theory is you should do these all together.<br />People are different kinds, some are interested to click ads because they know others just ignore ads if they look so.<br />The best thing is to put :<br />1 ad unit borderless and embedded inside content<br />1 ad unit with different background color than page<br />1 ad unit with borders and rounded corners for example<br /><br />other thing is to distribute ads locations among pages that is to put one in header one in footer and one embedded for example (must not exceed 3 ad units), try not to put 2 ad units beside each other or that they appear on browser near without scrolling down.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-55194255869634584522009-01-18T08:29:00.000-08:002009-01-18T08:37:39.472-08:00Adsense and Global Financial Crisis ِFinancial Crisis is hitting hard on AdSense publishers regarding earnings; with low CTR and eCPM<br />That is because there is decreasing number of advertisers and remaining advertisers are bidding so low.<br />The few number of ads. will have an impact on CTR where people does not see different ads so, decrease clicking.<br />I think this crisis will last for a long period, 5 or 6 months.<br />For me I have this month Jan 2009 : 1/3 eCPM of usual and 2/3 CTR of usual !!<br />this causes more than 1/2 cut of my monthly revenue from adsense.<br />I think the only solution now is to improve placements and colors and look forward, and be optimistic that this crisis will end as soon as possible.<br /><br />God help us all.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-12146692282447573192009-01-01T05:45:00.000-08:002009-01-01T05:46:51.761-08:00A new blogger based website directoryA Special and brand new free service we are proud to offer for all webmasters, this service is like submitting your site to a directory, however your site not only will be added as a post, you will get a free review for your site.<br />The review will comment briefly on your site appearance, SEO, errors, content and advertising.<br />This service is first of its kind where you get links and traffic by people being informed about your site and a review which may help you for website optimization, also you can get comment on your posted review by other webmasters.<br /><br /><a href="http://bloggerictory.blogspot.com/2008/12/add-your-site-to-be-reviewed.html">Add your site NOW!</a>Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-61309714338478615372008-12-25T11:48:00.000-08:002008-12-25T11:52:59.509-08:00Back up your blog!A great new feature now available on blogger, you can just download xml file containing all data on your blog, you can then have a back up on your hard drive or you can move to another blog hosting server which I do not recommend at any time, stick to blogger.<br />How to do it?<br />1- just go to your dashboard and edit settings of the blog you want to back up,<br />2- click export blog<br />3- click Download blog.<br /><br />that it,<br />great isn't it?Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-85016837798273527422008-12-23T08:53:00.000-08:002008-12-23T08:58:27.056-08:00Building a specialized blogBuilding a specialized blog as medical or sports blog is for sure better than a general one, find what kind of stuff you are interested and have good knowledge about, try to find what kind of talk your friends like to hear you talking about, this is the most probable talk will make your blog famous online.<br />I say this because I find a lot and a lot of duplicated blogs, not just copy and past, the whole idea.<br />You are likely to be a unique webmaster writing about "care of diabetic foot" or how to raise ponies",<br /><br />Try to deal with your visitors as your friends.Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-43090737368993033842008-10-04T09:20:00.000-07:002008-10-04T09:21:04.921-07:00Now you can post AdSense on Blogger and register newIt turned to be an error<br />for not being able to register with adsense with blogspot domain<br /><br />see :<br /><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help-basics/browse_thread/thread/9d2c74ac7c079b69" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/adsen...2c74ac7c079b69</a>Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-34207449563805348572008-05-05T14:31:00.000-07:002008-05-05T14:35:38.993-07:00Most common mistakes in adsense that u may not know- Putting your link in forum signature : may form a click fraud ring without your notice (members clicking ads of each others)<br /><br />- Labeling ads with texts as “sponsored links” or “advertisements” now all words are not allowed<br /><br /><br />- Disclosing your adsense reports data to public.<br />You are not allowed to disclose anything other than your aggregate earnings to others.<br /><br />- Placing direct download links for music or video or copy right infringement content<br /><br />- Placing ads on pages with no content.<br /><br />- Specifying google ads as alternate ads<br /><br />- Not checking your adsense reports at least once a dayAbdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364816008619731307.post-4859119935407127462008-03-17T13:48:00.000-07:002008-03-17T13:49:33.831-07:00New Google adsense rulesAll Adsense publishers are now required to have a Privacy Policy on their sites.<br /><br />You probably ignored the message, like I did, but it is an important change. <br /><br /><div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Quote:</div> <table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;"> You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div>Here's a <a href="http://www.search-marketing.info/business/privacy.htm" target="_blank">Privacy Policy Template</a> that you could use.<br /><br />Also, here's a <a href="http://www.serprank.com/privacy-policy-generator/index.php" target="_blank">Privacy Policy Generator</a>, just for this purpose. Nice!Abdelrahman Ellithyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05692725553710188150noreply@blogger.com0