If you’ve been wondering why your blog hasn’t ranked high or why your readership has declined, it may be due to a lack of SEO optimization. Sure, you may have quality content and eye-catching titles, but unless you’ve taken the necessary steps to choose the right keywords for your articles, you may not see much improvement. Keywords have an extremely important role in search engine optimization and the success of your blog. Along with having current, quality content, bloggers also want to have specific keywords that draw in readers and, hopefully, earn you some money. Here are some helpful tips to choosing and implementing the right keywords for your blog:

Brainstorm a Few Keywords

Before or after your article has been published online, you’ll want to spend some quality time brainstorming a few keywords that will get your blog indexed in major search engines. While you’re brainstorming, it’s a good idea to go to a popular search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, and type in keywords that relate to the topic you’re writing about. This will help you see what results come up and what other keywords your competitors are using. The best way for bloggers to choose their keywords is to think like their potential readers and search as they would.

Use Two or Three Keyword Combinations

Now that you know what keywords are popular, you’ve got to tweak your keywords to make them stand out among your competitors. It’s highly unlikely that single-word keywords will get you high rankings for very long, or at all. Non-specific one-word keywords are used by thousands of bloggers every day, and using them will only make it harder for your blog to get ranked high. The most effective keywords typically contain two to three words. You should think about common and highly specific words or phrases that readers are most likely to type into a search engine. In other words, don’t simply choose “cooking” as one of your keywords; try “cooking for one” or “organic cooking” to narrow your focus.

Utilize Online SEO Tools

In your pursuit to find the best keywords for your blog, it’s a good idea to take advantage of the awesome SEO tools that are right at your fingertips. Google AdWords is a terrific tool for researching the competition and global and local monthly searches for certain words or phrases. This keyword tool will help you tweak your current keywords to include less competitive words and better word arrangements. While on this site, check out the price of individual keywords. If you have a Google Adsense campaign, this will give you a better understanding of how much or how little you’ll earn. It can be enticing to choose keywords that are worth more money, but you may not notice a difference in your ranks if the keyword competition is high. Niche subjects with less competitive keywords are still a better bet for your blog.

By-line:

Mariana Ashley is a freelance writer who particularly enjoys writing about online college. She loves receiving reader feedback, which can be directed to mariana.ashley031 @gmail.com.

Google Adsense is one of the major blog or site monetization resources.You can make money easily with Google Adsense but  you can get banned by Google Adsense if you do some illegal (Anti Google TOS) activities with your Google Adsense advertisements.

What Not to Do with Your Own Google Adsense ?

Click on your own Adsense Ads

If you are trying to make money by clicking on your own adsense ads,it’s the best way to get banned or suspended your Google Adsense account by Google.

Google team is too active to track each and every click on your adsense ads.Make sure to warn your family members about click fraud or accidently clicking.

Ask for Clicks

Don’t ask your blog or site users to click on adsense ads.Don’t force them directly to click on ads.You can get banned by Google if the team get click begging hints on your blog or site.

Alter the Code

Adsense code comes in JavaScript format which you have to copy and paste into the HTML of your Web page.You can only change the colors,fonts or other properties of the Adsense unit in your Adsense account panel,You can’t change any other property directly without changing in your adsense account dashboard.

Use Automated click programs

Don’t try to cheat Google.Google tracks your adsense ads units closely.Don’t use any robotic software or program that clicks automatically on adsense ads.Don’t place adsense ads on popping pages.Also don’t use any other clicking schemes like adsense users clicks exchanging.

Follow Google’s Adsense policy

Follow the terms and policies of Google Adsense.Don’t stuff to many keywords on your adsense publishing pages,you can get banned by Google search and Adsense program.

Tell People How Much You Earn Per Click

Google is very particular about how much you disclose about how AdSense works. They don’t let you tell people how much you were paid per keyword, because this could jeopardize revenue from AdWords advertisers. Beware of anyone who offers to sell you this information.

Make Sexual and illegal Content

Don’t publish adsense ads on the sites those sells or promote pornography,illegal medicinal products,drugs, anti-social activities content etc.If you run the ads on this type of content,you can get banned by Google.

If you want to monetize your blog or site using Google adsense ads,follow the tips discussed above.You can Increase your adsense revenue by optimizing your adsense ad units but not following other anti Google TOS.

Optimize your Adsense units for better performance.I had written about Adsense ads units size and how to design your adsense ads for better performance.
But better adsense units can perform better when users can see them.So what can you do to ensure your ad units get noticed? Place your ads where users are likely to look.

Optimize your adsense units on following part of your web pages.

• Above the fold of a page (the section of the page a user can see without scrolling).
• At the end of an article.
• Aligned with content.

Every website is different. Make sure you use your judgment of how visitors interact with your pages to determine good ad placements. Position your ads so that they’re visible, but be careful of intruding on the experience of your site’s visitors. Most of all, think like a user and you’ll be able to balance your website’s content with a successful ad strategy.

Google is one of the major search engine in the world,people use to find information on the internet.It’s just like a goldmine for information finders.

So every blogger want to get well ranking their blog/s in the Google’s database.But it’s not an easy task to get well ranking in the Google because Google has its own algorithm for indexing any site or blog in Google search engine.

If you want to improve Google ranking of your blog,follow the tips given below:

Domain Name:

Before you starting your website or blog,you have to choose the domain name which has relevancy with the topic of the blog.Try to choose the domain name with relevant keyword of your blog.Google will surely index your blog.

Example: blog tips or SEO tips  (www.blogtips.com, www.bloggingtips.com , www.seotips.com etc).

Categories

Create the category with relevant keywords of your blog.Categories can help to get well ranking in the Google.

Permalinks

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message.

Default Permalinks in WordPress:

http://example.com/?p=N

where N is the Post ID number. It works on all server environments, but it doesn’t look as nice as some of the other options.

Use Mod_Rewrite for pretty permalinks:

 http://example.com/category/post-name/
or  http://example.com/year/month/day/post-name

Post Titles

“The title is an extremely important element of a blog post. It describe your article and it also add a lot of SEO value to your posts.”–Jean-Baptiste

The title is also what people will see in Search Engine Results Pages as well as in Social Bookmarking sites and Twitter.

“Those few words at the beginning of your blog post can be the difference between the post being read and spread like a virus through the web like a wild fire and it languishing in your archives, barely noticed”–By Darren Rowse.

Write eye catching title of your blog post with relevant keywords.Try to add 2-3 key words in the title tag.

Meta Description of the blog post

When you write your blog post,don’t forget to add valuable description of the blog post after title tags.There are number of wordpress themes which gives you the option to write blog post description.Even you can install WordPress Plugins to improve your search engine ranking.Add relevant discription for your blog post with relevant keywords of the post.

You can download and install one of the most valuable SEO Plugin :All in One SEO

Meta Keywords

Meta Keywords play major role in improving the search engine ranking of your blog.When you write the first paragraph of your blog’s post,try to add some relevant keywords.Use the keywords in the title of your blog post and preferably in the first phrase or paragraph of your article.

You can install All in One SEO wordpress plugin to SEO of your blog.

Text Anchoring

“The anchor text, link label or link title is the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink. The words contained in the anchor text can determine the ranking that the page will receive by search engines.”

Anchor text is weighted (ranked) highly in search engine algorithms, because the linked text is usually relevant to the landing page.

SEO Images

If you add the images in your blog post,don’t forget to optimize for search engines.Find the right images for your blog post and use the relevant keywords in file name.Add relevant keywords in title tag,Alt texts etc.

Note: If you want to add more value in this post,you can add your valuable advice in the comment section.

Thesis theme is really magical theme for professional bloggers.It’s not tough to optimize design and layout of the different sections.You can add many sections in your thesis theme like latest stories in multiple lists,Google search box,recent posts with thumbnails and title etc.

Today I am discussing about the topic How to add Google Custom Search box in the header section of Thesis wordpress theme.Thesis theme is very easy to customize,you need to edit your custom function file to  add search box in header section.

Step #1: Open your custom_functions.php file and insert following hook but make sure to backup the copy of custom_functions.php in your computer.

function my_header_ad() { ?>
<div id="leaderboard_ad">
<style type="text/css">
@import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css);
</style>

  <div class="cse-branding-form">
    <form action="http://technogati.com/search" id="cse-search-box">
      <div>
         <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-5707807752184136:m3vtkk-9iia" />
        <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
        <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" />
        <input type="text" value="Search Technogati" onfocus="this.value = '';" name="q" size="53"  style="background:#fff url(http://www.younghabits.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/textfield-bg.gif) repeat-x 0 1px; border: 2px solid #47A6B4;  color: #333; font-weight:bold;padding:2px; font-size:12px;"/>
        <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" style="background: #188A9B; border: 1px outset #78A024; color: #ffffff; font-weight:bold;padding:2px; font-size:12px;" />
     <img src="http://www.technogati.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/powered.gif"> </div>
    </form>
  </div>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5707807752184136";
/* 468x15, created 4/10/09 */
google_ad_slot = "0259467523";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 15;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
  </div>
<?php }
add_action('thesis_hook_header', 'my_header_ad');

Edit and update your custom_functions.php

Step #2 : Now open your custom.css and edit following css code and then save it.

.custom #leaderboard_ad { float: right; position: absolute; width: 468px; height:50px;

 top: 30px;left: 500px;border:1px solid #eaeaea;padding:5px;

 -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:4px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright:4px;

 -moz-border-radius-topleft:4px; -moz-border-radius-topright:4px; 

-webkit-border-top-left-radius:4px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius:4px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:4px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:4px;}

Your Google search box is ready to make money for you.But you need to edit adsense code of your own adsense account to make money for you.

Google has introduced new feature in Gmail lab.You can drag images into Gmail and Google buzz from your computer directly.

This wonderful feature is auto enabled in your Gmail account,it doesn’t need any system setting in Gmail lab.

Only drag the images from your computer and drop in your message composing box,if you want to change the size of any image,you can resize easily and send in a message.

This awesome feature works in Google’s own web browser chrome.So use Google Chrome for fast speed and better web browsing experience.