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Robots.txt contains the guidelines or rules for the bot-crawlers about how they will crawl and index your website or blog. Blogger allows to set some very basic SEO settings very easily from the dashboard. One of them is setting a custom robots.txt for your blogger. When a robot search engine crawler is visiting a page or website, robots.txt is the first thing it looks for is the robots.txt file. As a Blogger user you now have the option to control what the search engine crawlers should follow and index from your website or blog. Every blogger blog has a default robots.txt but with advanced changes in blogger you can change it according to your needs. In this post, you will know about the default robots.txt of blogger, how to add or edit a custom robots.txt for your blogger blog and some useful examples of robots.txt with an adsense friendly one. So let's get started.

Some of you have observed that many blogs have AdSense ad Units or other ads and widgets in the header area of the blog page, one of the most popular placement is the AdSense 468x60 ad unit. Unfortunately, we are not always able to add a widget within the blogger header as a Blogger user. The reason is that if we are using the Blogger default template, or any other customized design available online, the header may be locked and have no choice to Add a gadget inside it or just next to the blog title.

The title seems to be bit long..uuh…Last time we did wrote aboutReporting a site breaking Adsense Policies, but what if some has placed unknown ads codes on your blog, it might be anything on his mind. Does Google has the solution for this? Alright so this place is about reporting to Google Adsense Support in the case you find suspicious Ad codes on your blog. Some hacker finds easy and place their Google Ads on your blog. If you find that any unauthorized ads codes placed on your site or blog then you report it Google Support. First of all you changed the password for your cpanel and admin login. Then you should contact your web hosting provider or the webmaster to know about the ads. Possible that they can discover any third party iframe or HTML code installed in your site scripting which is hard to detect. So if that problem is solved by then its good and your problem ends. If they report you that check your admin settings then its better to check, scan for the code in your theme...

As an AdSense publisher, you are always looking for   effective ways   to maximize your site’s revenue through Google Ads but without hampering the end user experience. You therefore routinely experiment with ad units of different sizes, you rotate between different colors palettes, you fine-tune your   section targeting   tags – all this and more just to determine that perfect combination which will yield the highest the click-through rate. There’s one problem though. When you make any change to your AdSense Ad units, you need to have them live on your website for least a week or two to determine whether that change has had an effect on your earnings, if any. And if you make more than one change in the same window, tracking their effect on performance gets even more difficult. Things are about to become simple though. The AdSense team is testing a new feature that will help publishers easily understand how changes to ad units have impacted their earnings over time....

Often, we want to embed our Adsense code at the desired place in and around our blogger post. Novice bloggers with little or no knowledge of CSS may find it difficult to place the Adsense ads at the desired place. Blogger has limited options and place your ads at predetermined positions. For example, if you want to place an ad just below the heading of your post, it does not give you that liberty to do it. If you will try to put the code in your post from within the post editor, it will not work at all and will appear as plain text in your post. There are few simple techniques that enable you to place these ads at the location you want it to appear. Save your template Before implementing any changes in your template, it is very important to save it. In case some mishap occurs you can easily restore your original template. To save your blogger template first go to  Layout  tab and select  Edit HTML  sub-tab. Click the  Download Full Template  link and s...

How do I test adsense ads without any fear of invalid impressions? Those who are adsense publisher would understand that it requires a lot of testing and retesting before arriving at that perfect layout for your ads. This testing might lead to a lots of unwanted impressions (that are against adsense TOS). Here are the two ways, I test my adsense ads without fear of invalid/excess impressions. 1) Use images exactly of the same size of the ad you are going to use. Pick the adsense images  here . 2) Many a times you might want to check the layout rendered after the actual javascript is executed. Add a parameter google_adtest = “on”; to your  adsense code  and place it where you want to intend to put the actual code. For ex: If your adsense code is- <script type=" text/javascript "><!-- google_ad_client = " pub-**************** "; /* 200x200, created 08/08/08 */ google_ad_slot = " 12345678 "; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 200; //--...