Getting more relavant Adsense Ads

One web property we have is a browser based email reader. The problem with this page however, was that the ads for my users tend to all be related to exchange, imail, mail, email, spam, anti-virus and a lot of techie stuff, that frankly, my readers don’t care at all for these types of ads. […]

Promoting your Blog by Enabling”Post Pages”

One of the best tips i encountered was from this article in blogspot help. By turning on Post Pages option in your blog, you make your every blog as its own web page. This makes it more linkable (permalink) and “more links to your blog means more traffic to your blog”. However, the help file […]

Easier Blog Backup

It is always a great idea to backup your blog. The misfortunes that beset a famous Philippine blogger, sassylawyer, where she lost a huge swath of her blogs due to a corrupted database, just goes on to show that backing blogs is a worthwhile, and sensible thing to do. But backing up is ALWAYS a […]

Minimizing Robot Generated Comments

My other blog usually gets spammed with a lot of automated entries from robots. For every 10 posts i delete, the robots are able to create 10 more. Fortunately, blogspot has a feature called “word verification”. This feature can be activated by going into the Settings/comments tab. If you select ‘yes’, all posters will be […]

Adding Adsense to your Blog

Blogspot now comes with adsense built in. You can add adsense by going into the template/adsense and following the steps there. However, the problem one encounters is that the option given in this adsense interface is rather limited. For example, i wanted to have the adsense ads come out on the left hand side bar. […]