Can I Choose which Adsense Ads Appear on My Site?

The answer is no – and yes!

Adsense works by autodetecting the content of your page.  Usually it is fairly accurate.  However, if ads are displayed that you don’t want for any reason you can block them by adding them to the “competitive ad” filter.

How to Use the Adsense Competitive Ad Filter

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Statistics - who's visiting your site

Once you have your site up and running you will want to know if it gets visitors.  I usually use either Statcounter or Google Analytics.  In this post I’m going to show you how to add a Statcounter to your blogger blog.

Start by going to Statcounter and signing up for a

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Social Bookmarking - start getting visitors to your site

I hope you are remembering to add posts to your site.  This is the best way of making Google (and other search engines) take notice of your site.  Google loves content and so do your visitors.

There are many ways to get visitors to come to your site.  One fairly easy way is social

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Pinging your posts

Don’t worry, it doesn’t hurt.

It is a good idea to get into the habit of pinging each new post to your blog.

What do I mean?  Pinging notifies a selection of web services to tell them that your blog has been updated.

It’s really easy to do.  There are two sites you can

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How to add Google Adsense to a Blogger Blog

Adding Google Adsense ads to your Blogger blog is really easy.  Blogger provide you with a handy gadget that does a lot of the work for you.

If you would like an illustrated guide click to download – how to add Adsense to a Blogger blog.

Before you add your first block

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Google Adsense

One of the easiest ways to start earning a little is to put Google Adsense on your blog.  When you do a Google search you often see “sponsored links” above or beside the results.  These are Adsense ads.

How does Adsense work?

There are two sides to this type of advertising – the advertiser

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Posting to a blogger blog

Once you have set up your new blogger blog you need to start posting.

If you aren’t sure how to add a post, download this guide – posting to your blogger blog

One of the keys to earning money from a blog is to post to it regularly.  If you post regularly

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Setting up your first site

If you have never run a website or blog before, a Blogger blog is an excellent place to start.

Head over to Blogger.com and  sign up for a free account and start a blog.  Try to pick a subject you know something about or something you are interested in.  Google will send you

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Welcome to members of the ME Community

ME is a pain – for some literally and for some metaphorically.  You can’t work fulltime, and some people are unable to work at all.

I am an IT teacher.  I became self-employed 16 years ago, after I was sacked for the second time for being off sick!!!  Before that I was only able

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