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How important is a Sitemap?
How important is a Sitemap?Sitemap is required for your site for two reasons. one is it helps the google spider to crawl your site easily and index your site in a more effective way. Google will index you in its search results without a sitemap. BUt it si recommeneded a sitemap is to be submitted to google specially if you have a large website. The second reason is a html version of sitemap will help your visitors to have a better birds eye view of your site. But there are somany webmasters out there who runs hundreds of websites without a sitemap and still doing good. Thats what I already said Its not necessary to have a sitemap, but it only helps to get a better page ranking. My personal recommendation is if google asks for a sitemap give them one.
As long as google pays you do as they say. It's that simple. Remember Sitemap increases your page rank and the visibility of your website or blog.When installing sitemap generator Never tamper with server files you are not sure with. That will cause permanent damage to your server files. Get the help of some body who knows it. Or use the paid services.Sitemap will tell you if you have any broken links in your site. This is a nice help if you have a larger site where manual checking is impossible for broken links.
To know more about sitemap protocol visit http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html.The official site of sitemaps is http://www.sitemaps.org
There are so many disputes over years about including sitemap in to websites, but nowadays all the webmasters prefer submitting sitemaps to search engine. There are a number oh sitemap types naming xml, ror, html etc.. The one needed for the google is the xml one. ror is accepted by most of the search engines.
If you have any doubts post your comments or email us at
googleindia@india.com or
adsense@india.com
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How to add a sitemap for your website with less than 500 pages?
How to add a sitemap for your website with less than 500 pages? If you have a website of your own and it doesnt have more than 500 pages then you are lucky. Here is the step by step guide to submit a sitemap.
1. Create a google webmasters account (You have to pay $9658950 for that...just kidding its free) Its in www.google.com/webmasters/ . Add your site there.
2. They will tell you to verify your ownership of the site. Just follow the instructions you will be done with the verification.
3. Now click on add a sitemap link.
4. Another page will comeup with a scroll down menu. Select add a general sitemap.
5. Another page will come up with a space to enter your sitemap address. just minimise the page and go to www.xml-sitemaps.com
6. You can create a sitemap for free at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. Just type your sites url in the space provided and they will create a sitemap for your site. Download the completed sitemap. There are a number of file extensions available with the sitemaps there. Make sure you download .xml,.html and the .ror formats in to your hard disk.(.xml is for google, ror is for yahoo and html is for your visitors.
7. Now copy the xml sitemap and paste it in your website server. Make sure xml file is accessible with the address http://www.YOURSITENAME.com/sitemap.xml
8. Come back to the google webmasters tool now type in the address http://www.YOURSITENAME.com/sitemap.xml and hit enter. Thats it you are done.
It will take atleast 20 minutes for google to accept your sitemap. If you like you can provide a html sitemap for your visitors using the html sitemap you downloaded earlier.
Next step is you need to ping the google about your updates. For that bookmark this page and whenever you have an update load this from your bookmark and type your url in the space provided here and click ping. Google will be automatically notified about your update.
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How to add a sitemap for websites with more than 500 pages?
How to add a sitemap for websites with more than 500 pages? If your site has more pages the entire process will become little complicated. You can get a free phpSitemapNG sitemap generator click here in this given link http://enarion.net/google/phpsitemapng/installation/ follow their instructions and you will be done. In this case the key is changing the required files permisions to the required value. For this particular phpSitemapNG you have to change the permissions of some of the downloaded files to o666 when you copy the downloaded files to your servers root directory. Another option is you can buy a pro sitemap generator with unlimited pages generating option from www.xml-sitemaps.com and follow their instructions. Thgere are lot of complaints about this sitemap generator from the customers that it is not userfriendly. But if installed properly it works like a faithful gin. They have a paid service of creating sitemap where they will do everything for you for around 10 dollars. If you can't do it for yourself opt for this option. But for that you have to provide them with your server username and password. If you have read everything and didnt understand anything and still want to create a site map and get it submitted feel free to email us at googleindia@india.com or adsense@india.com we will do everything for you for a less fees. Next step is you need to ping the google about your updates. For that bookmark this page and whenever you have an update load this from your bookmark and type your url in the space provided here and click ping. Google will be automatically notified about your update.
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How to add a sitemap for a blog in blogger?
How to add a sitemap for a blog in blogger?If you have a blog in blogger and want to submit a sitemap, all you do is..
1. Create a google webmasters account (You have to pay $9658950 for that...just kidding its free) Its in www.google.com/webmasters/ . Add your site there.Make sure you enter blogname exactly like http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com (no need to type "www")
2. They will tell you to verify your ownership of the site. Just follow the instructions you will be done with the verification.
3. Now click on add a sitemap link.
4. Another page will comeup with a scroll down menu. Select add a general sitemap.
5. Another page will come up with a space to enter your sitemap address.
6. In the space provided type http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml .Then hit enter (here too no "www")
7. Thats it you are done.
Next step is you need to ping the google about your updates. For that bookmark this page and whenever you have an update load this from your bookmark and type your sitemap url in the space provided here and click ping. Google will be automatically notified about your update.
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How to maintain a good CTR?
How to maintain a good CTR? or What is a good CTR? These are the questions which lot of people asks when they get going in adsense. Actually google haven't revealed much about the approved CTR, but all around the net there are many figures you will come around from so called adsense experts. As far as the clicks are coming from a proper channel ie: without the breach in Googles terms and conditions, a high CTR is approved.
Here I am listing 5 most proven method for increasing your CTR.
Layout of your website plays a keyrole in an effective CTR.Experiment with your adpositioning and stick to the one which suits you most. Most of the times your last adposition will work for you.Puzzled...! Just another way of saying keep on experimenting.
Make sure the ads suits your content, If not add some more keywords in your content. Try placing more keywords in your first paragraph itself.
If you put ads right in the top of your webpage, let it be an image ad. Because the top ads are only being clicked because of pure impulse or the first impression. Put you text ads in the middle of your sidebar or the middle of your content or put one large text ad in the end of content. This way the readers of your website will more tend to click as they read your content or when finish reading the content.
Design your website from a visitors point of view. Never put an ad because you think it will be clicked, instead you become the visitor and look whether the ads prompt you to click.If you feel as a visitor to click on your ads(never click on your own ads) then your visitors surely will.
Make sure you write your content in aproffessional way. Hire a copywriter if you are not a good writer. Your content should be like you are offering something to the visitor, but do not offer anything. Advertisements will take care of offers. Let you be a guide, not the provider.
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An Added Trick for All Indian adsense enthusiasts
If your website have visitors from a particular country, say from Uk and if you have ads which doesnt have market in Uk, then your chances of getting a lower cpc is very high. So you should be aware of your visitors. You can use
www.statcounter.com for monitoring your website. Its free and most of the webmasters in the world use statcounter for realtime statistics.
Here I will list a few keywords which work well with the different countries.
USA======== Lawyer services, accidental insurances, car insurance.
Uk ======== Real estate, Car insurance, jewellery.
Middle east(Close to europe except gulf) === Dating services, house hold accessories.
India========= most of the ads pay less in india, but there are areas like secondhand goods, computer peripherals and creditcards.
Australia====== Tours and travels, trekking, fishing accessories, gardening.
Europe except UK=== Medical insurance, annuity selling, hotels.
International visitors==Travel and tourism, security devices, beauty care and skin care.
Far East========= Real Estate, Beauty care, computer games contests, computer peripherals, Voip.
So adjusting your site according to your visitors will be a great and effective way to increase your cpc.
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Reasons for banning your Adsense Account
Here I List 10 most common reasons for the adsense account being banned.
- Clicking on your own Ads. (65%)
- So many clicks from same IP address.(10%)
- Using robots or third party arrangements.(3%)
- Offering Incentives for clicks. (2.5%)
- Intucing surfer to click the ads by "click here" tags or other symbols.(3 %)
- Placing images near the ads. (1%)
- Using other adservices which has the same layout of google.(0.5%)
- Copied Content or duplicate content.(10%)
- Ads on a zero cotent page or thank you pages.(2%)
- Unknown reasons.(3%)
These are not only the reasons of your account getting banned. These are the most common reasons. We cannot pinpoint a particular reason for getting banned, as google never reveal more details about your cancellation, unless you are a premium customer.
For more to know about the googles terms and condition and the prohibited use of ads feel free to visit the following link.
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
The rules are written in the language normally used for defining rules. These rules are not limited to what is written there, Google update these rules every now and then as required. For knowing more about these updated rules sign up for their news letter or visit forums about adsense. The most recommended forum is http://www.webmasterworld.com where the Adsense administrator also gives visits.
