My adsense account had been approved!!! Thank you GOOGLE

Finally, after four times applying to google adsense for this blog, my application got accepted. That was on the 3rd google account. Pheww.

First thing first, I logged on to adsense dashboard and then I realized that it is really messy to log in and log out and log in again from blogger to adsense account as I'm using different google account for both.

The solution? I log in to my primary blogger account and invite my other self on the other e-mail address that was approved for google adsense as an author. Next I log in to the other e-mail address and accept the invitation. Then I log out and log in again as the primary blogger account and set the other me as an admin to the blog.

Then log out again and log in again as the adsense approved google account and then, NO more mess.

Unluckily, the google adsense ads section is still blank not showing anything. Why? Why? Why? I asked myself and checked if something went wrong, cross check the publisher ID in adsense dashboard and in blogger layout. It were the same ID. Then I tried to manually insert the ads code into blogger HTML/JavaScript gadget. Still, no avail. What is going on here?

I had highlighted the problem to google adsense team using the feedback form provided in adsense dashboard and do some googling. It seems that the problem is due to my previous previous previously disapproved adsense account linked to the blog. Google will take some time to clear out the other accounts before ads start showing up. I will just wait till then.

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Link Exchange Segment

I'm searching for 100 blog addresses to be included into this permalink list.

1. Like Read This Got This Page (bottom left)

2. Follow me on G+ (left)

3. Put Read This Got This link ( http://learningtoolcheap.blogspot.com) in your linklist/bloglist

4. Put your link in the comment section to be incuded in this list (updated daily)

Format:

Name :
Blog Address:
Blog Title:

This links list will also be copied to Read This Got This Bloglist (after 100 links collected)

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List update 27/09/2015

1. Radio Senyap

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Add Home Button to Blog Header and Customize Blog Labels

To increase SEO (Search Engine Optimization) score for your blog, it is a very wise idea to use label for all your blog post. Default label given by simple template in Blogger.com is too simple and not so much attractive. I start using label after realizing a lot of blog tycoon are using labels in their blog. In this post, I will share on how to:

1. Create label on post
2. Display labels in your blog header area
3. Use CSS to customize labels look
4. Add a home button inline with labels (by default no home button provided except for the post footer)

1. Create label on post

After completing your new post, under the Publish button there is an area for Labels, Schedule, Permalink, Location, Search Description and Options. Click on Labels area and  fill in your post label. Then click on Done

2. Display labels on your blog header area

Go back to your blog dashboard then click on Layout. Click on add-gadget in cross column section and choose Labels. 

In title box, fill in your label list title, modify all the other options as you wish. In Display area, choose either List or Cloud. Untick Show number of posts per label to hide post count for every label. Those numbers are usually hard to customize but it's up to you.

Label Display Cloud

Label Display List

Your blog labels look different than the picture above?Don't worry, read on

3. Use CSS to customize labels look

This part includes blog template HTML code editing. Backup your template before modifying any HTML code

From your blogger dashboard , click on Template-Customize-Advanced-Add CSS

Insert codes below in the Add CSS section. You can modify Font style, Font Color, mouse hover color and other styles. Click Apply to Blog to save this changes

.label-size{

margin:0 2px 6px 0;

padding: 3px;

text-transform: uppercase;

border: solid 1px #C6C6C6;

border-radius: 3px;

float:left;

text-decoration:none;

font-size:10px;

color:#666;

}

.cloud-label-widget-content{

text-align:center

}

.label-size {

background:#ffffff;

display:block;

float:left;

margin:0 3px 3px 0;

color:#ffffff;

font-size:11px;

text-transform:uppercase;

}

.label-size a,.label-size span{

display:inline-block;

color:#2E2E2E !important;

padding:6px 8px;

font-weight:bold;

}

.label-size:hover {

background:#E2E2E2;

}

.label-count {

white-space:nowrap;

padding-right:3px;

margin-left:-3px;

background:#ffffff;

color:#fff !important;

}

.label-size {

line-height:1.2

}

4. Add a home button inline with labels (by default no home button provided except for the post footer)

Your Labels now show all labels tagged in your blog posts but there is no Home button to return to your blog homepage. To insert this Home button, also needs you to modify your blog template HTML codes. Backup your template before making any changes for your own safety.

From your blogger dashboard, click on template-Edit HTML then click on Jump to Widget and choose label1 or any names given in add gadget step. Then expand the codes for label1 and codes for main by clicking on small arrow beside the line number of those 2 codes.

Insert the codes below right after first <ul>  label1 scope. These codes are for list display type labels.

<!--add home to label type list-->

<li><a class='home-link' expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a></li>

<!--add home to label type list-->

Insert the codes below right after first <b:else/> after last </ul>. These codes are for cloud display type labels.

<!--add home to label type cloud-->

 <span expr:class='&quot;label-size label-size-&quot; + data:label.cssSize'><a class='home-link' expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a></span>

<!--add home to label type cloud-->

Click on Save Template button to you save your blog's modified HTML codes and cick on View Blog to view the results

Good Luck

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Google analytics for Blogger

Imagine that you are a supermarket owner with plenty of sections placing various type of products. Which do you prefer, a potential buyer that have various interests and browse through many sections or 100 potential buyer with 100 different interest go directly to their interest section?

In a world of blogging and online market, those 2 types of scenario actually present and greatly influence the performance of a blog or website. Now we need to understand the basics in measuring your site's popularity

Pageview

Pageview counts how many time your page is viewed. for example, a visitor land on your main page, that counts 1 pageview. Then he click on another post link , counts 2 pageview. If your site have 10 pages and he goes to all 10 pages, that counts 10 pageview.

Visit/Unique Visitor

Unique visitor counts every different person that goes to your website identified by their IP address. Ip address is unique. This is the most essential numbers to measure your site popularity

For blogger platform users, there is a blog stat function that shows how many pageview counts by day, week, month and all time but is it accurate? Didn't you realize that the pageview counts also add up when you refresh your page? Also listed in stat function are post view counts, traffic source counts and audience counts. Still the data is not sufficient to determine WHO are the visitor to your site, what type of person they are, what are their interests, how much time they stay on your site, how they come to your site and how they get out. Those are set of parameters that are very important to improve your site content and ad targeting. We need to use google analytics to access those set of parameters. Trained webmasters are very familiar with Google analytics but as a blogger or blogger to be lacking the webmaster's skills, do you know how to use analytics with Blogger.com? Read on guys. It is easy as a pie.

First thing first, head on to google analytics portal here and sign in to google analytics. Use the same account as in blogger.com

After logged in, for first time user, you will be presented with some introductions on google analytics. Either follow the instructions or you can skip it.

Now go to admin tab, on account section(the leftmost). click on the dropdown list and select create new account.

Fill in the name of this new account, your blog url i.e http://learningtoolcheap.blogspot.com , industry category and reporting time zone.

Leave all those check marks checked and after finished with the form, click get tracking ID. Copy the tracking ID and paste it in notepad

At this point, analytics account setup had been finished, now head on to you blogger account, log in and go to your blog dashboard. Click on setting-other. In Google analytics section, paste tracking ID supplied in previous step in Analytics web property ID text box.

Now your blog have been integrated with google analytics. Google crawler will take some time to reach your blog. After an hour or two or in some cases 24 hour, the data will start showing in google anlytics. After logging in, you will see your account overview with some summaries of the data collected. Now click on your account to see its detail

 You will be shown the site audience overview with its Sessions, Users and Pageview.

Click on audience-geo-location. Your audience location count will be shown here. In this example, the audience are mostly come from Malaysia

Click on audience-mobile-overview, you can see how many users use desktop, mobile and tablet to access your site. In this example, majority of them use mobile.

Let's dig deeper, click on audience-mobile-devices. You will see counts of each mobile brand your audience use to access your site.

This one is my favourite feature of google analytics. In-Page analytics. Click on behaviour-in-page analytics. Some chrome users will experience error in opening this item. Just click on load in full view

This feature will show how your audience behave in your site, how long they stay in your site, how many users are viewing your site in real time and what do they click on. This is very important in planning your ads and link placement. It also could give rough ads click count.

For this special function, google had developed a chrome extension that could show your site in-page analytics without going to google analytics portal. Get the extension here and install it.

Go to your site and click on the analytics button to show in-page analytics.

Click the button again to turn it off.

In the example above, majority of the audience are using mobile device to access the page. It is essential to make sure the page performs well in mobile device browser. Do you need to buy all mobile device or let say borrow it from your friend to test the page? Absolutely no, don't have to do that. Just install mobile browser emulator chrome extension. Get it here . 

To emulate the mobile device browser, go to your site and then click on the 'm' button and select which device you would like to emulate. A new window will open will an emulation to your site in selected mobile device. 

With those set of tools, you can customize your site and plan your content to cater every aspects of your audience behaviors and properties. Keep working on and use Google analytics for Blogger to grow your blog. Good luck

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Facebook Authorship for Blogspot Blogger. Confirmed working

Hello. As you can see using PC or mobile browser desktop view some people's blog or webpage link share on Facebook is written with author name written in blue link that people can hover to like or follow from the link itself without ever going to the person or page's FB profile.

Most of the links are wordpress based blog. You use blogger platform, you had tried the tutorials written by the others on the web but still the author name is shown either your name or no name or author name with a static text. Are you happy with that? Do you want to know how to change the author name to your FB profile link or FB page link? Read More >>>

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Blogging basic

This is a simple an easy tutorial on how to build your first blog

This tutorial is written with assumption:

1. You already have a google account(you are if you have an android smartphone, ask your gen-Y children)

2. You are using google chrome browser(you can use any browser, but this tutorial is written using Goolge Chrome)

3. You have accesss to a p.c/laptop because the process is a lot more easier using PC/laptop. Tablet is acceptable as long as you choose desktop version.

Step 1. 

Go to  http://www.blogger.com and log in to your google account or create new account if you need to

2. After login, a list of all your blogs will be shown. For your case, it will be empty. click on new blog

3. A dialog as per below picture will be shown. Fill in the blog title then insert your address, google will automatically check the availability of the address. Then choose a template. We can modify the template afterwards. Now click on create blog

4. Then a similar page as per below diagram will be shown. Click on start posting

Alternatively, click on you new created blog and the click new post

5. Create a title your post. In this example,"AJHT" then start composing your post. Make sure you are in compose, not HTML

6. To insert picture, click on the picture icon (the green rectangle)

Then click upload and choose file. The dialog may be changed from time to time but the idea is still the same.

Select your picture file and click open

Select the picture you want to add and click add selected

Click on the picture to modify it's size, alignment and properties.

To insert hyperlink, highlight the link text and click on hypelrink icon (red circle)

Then insert the link address, if you want the link to open in a new window, tick on 'open link in a new window' then click ok

To create a form, goto  https://drive.google.com . Login and click on create-form

Then insert the form title and choose the theme form, click ok

The the details for your the form will be shown, fill up the form details. To make a question as a required question, tick on required question, to add another question, click on add item, choose question type by clicking on the small down arrow beside the add item button kalau nak tambah soalan lagi tekan add item. Click done to finish creating the form

For multiple choice question, choose checkbox from question type drop-down list, click on 'click to add option' to add answer choice. 

To create a drop down list, choose 'Choose from a list'  from question type. then repeat the step above

Click add item to insert picture or video. Finally click done and then click on send item

The form address will be showne. highlight, copy (ctrl+C) or right click, copy then paste(ctrl+V) or right click - paste on your blog hyperlink or post the form on your facebook post

To review responses or respondents quantity, go to you google drive account and click on form_name(response)

A report showing the respondents answers will be shown. To download, click on file-download as-microsoft excel(.xlsx)

To edit form, click on form_name

Then click on the pencil icon around the area of the question you want to edit, perform editing, click done and send form and get the new address

Back to your blog to create hyperlink using a picture, click on the desired picture then click on the hyperlink icon. If the link icon is already selected, click on the icon once to clear the selection and the click it again and edit link dialog will be shown. Fill in your link

Now a basic blog has been created. Click on publish to publish it to the world wide web

We will return to posts list. To view the post and copy the address, click on view

Highlight the address, copy and paste

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