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| AMP Blogger Templates - Advantages Vs. Disadvantages Posted: 15 Nov 2018 03:11 PM PST Do you want to implement Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in Blogger? Or you would like to know the advantages and serious disadvantages of creating an AMP Blogger Template? If your answer is yes, then you have landed on the right page. Before making your site ready for AMP, please read why major companies have not yet adopted AMP. IMPORTANT: All AMP Blogger Templates that you find online are not AMP at all! What are Mobile Accelerated Pages (AMP)?AMP HTML is an open source project by Google to provide mobile-optimized content that can load instantly everywhere. In short AMP makes your site load faster like a speeding bullet on smart phones but by sacrificing major portion of your advertisement revenue and third-party JavaScript. Google started this project as competition to Apple News App and Facebook Instant articles. FB instant articles is platform dependent, meaning your website get traffic from Facebook users alone and you can't provide the same bullet speed to your website visitors coming from search engines. Same is the disadvantage with Apple News App where you can't publish your own content. But AMP is platform independent, providing publishers to optimize content for mobile and make it accessible for all devices through a web browser. It has some advantages but several cons, which are worth noting before you opt-for AMP. Following are some of AMP restrictions
Can you Implement AMP in Blogger?Yes you can but partially! Blogger team has officially not implemented AMP in Blogger blogs. Blogger XHTML templates currently do not support AMP HTML tags. Designers who are implementing AMP in blogspot are forcibly removing important XML tags from the template which is not recommended and will seriously effect your blog in the long run. This forcible action of making a blogger template AMP, is same as if you place a Mercedes engine inside a low budget car and expect it to drive fast. Yes the car could be forced to run the Mercedes engine but with no support to its best features. Thus wasting your entire effort! You can surely create an AMP Blogger Template for your blogspot blog but by sacrificing several important features of Blogger and look of the template. AMP in short will convert your blog into an ugly Flat CSS/HTML design without allowing third-party fancy jQuery and JS effects. AMP uses just some custom HTML tags that needs to be inserted inside your blogger theme to make it AMP validated. Once validated, Google will add the AMP icon next to your blogspot blog in search results. You can expect better traffic but by sacrificing ad revenue and blog look. Difference Between AMP and Responsive TemplatesAMP = Responsive Template + Custom HTML Tags Before converting your template to AMP, it must be first made mobile responsive by adding CSS media queries and several breakpoints. AMP is basically a much simplified/optimized version of your responsive template with addition of some custom HTML tags. Just like your have a diet Pepsi Cola, you have a Diet HTML page today named as AMP. Are AMP Templates Faster Than Responsive Templates?Theoretically AMP Page must load faster than a normal responsive page but if a page is not coded properly than the same AMP page could load slower compared to a mobile responsive page. Responsive Templates displays both the sidebar, footer and run all third-party JavaScript. Responsive blogger theme is simply a mobile compatible version of your desktop theme with almost the same features, widgets, plugins and other web elements. In AMP Templates, you can't use a stylesheet greater than 50,000 bytes, you also can not use third-party widgets such as add-to-cart buttons or social media sharing buttons of your choice. AMP will convert your professional looking desktop look into a flat design with just the Logo, Menu, Post Body and footer. When you sacrifice so much for load time, then of course, such a light weight AMP page will perform and load much faster compared to a responsive page. Pros and Cons of AMP Blogger TemplatesFollowing are important advantages and disadvantages of using AMP Blogger Templates:
Do We Recommend AMP?Honestly speaking AMP is not the best choice of all publishers. Even corporate news blogs like Washington Post and CNN who were using AMP previously and openly supported last year, seems reluctant to support it in 2017. You can clearly see AMP tags removed by these two sites and they no more support it. AMP does speed up your site but on the expense of your Ad revenue and less freedom on customization. Without freedom of UI customization, no technology can survive. An article by Wall Street Journal expressed serious concerns of publishers who did not find AMP very helpful in improving their ad revenue. Some even complained that an AMP page view currently generates around half as much revenue as a page view on their full mobile responsive websites.
AMP is not a good option for Blogger platform at present because there is no official support present for it currently. Forcibly converting a templates code to AMP will only make it a headache for people not quite well versed with code tweaking. I will recommend that you wait and let Blogger team provide a CMS support to implement AMP in Blogger themes. Just like Blogger provided support for https when we raised questions on how Blogger blogs will solve absolute image urls issue in https. MBT is currently mobile responsive and we won't opt for AMP unless a proper support is given officially by Blogger. For Wordpress users, there is a plugin called AMP For Wordpress that you can use to convert your WP site into an AMP site, but as I mentioned, yes you will get a fast load time but at the expense of ad revenue and less freedom. Please share your precious thoughts on this trending topic and let us know whether you like AMP or you would expect more improvement on it. If you are already using an AMP supported blogger theme, please share your experience with us. Peace buddies! =)            | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How Can Students Make Money Online In 2019? Posted: 15 Nov 2018 03:09 PM PST I was teaching students after university, but that only made me few bucks and caused more stress! Fed up of your part-time jobs after school, college or university? Want to do something exciting plus productive while you study? If yes, then you have come to the right place! I built this site when I was a student and so can you. Today you won't just learn basic earning ways but will find platforms to join and tools to use in order to kick start your online dream within a week! So you have probably started looking into this part of the internet which holds a treasure trove of never-ending wealth. Well, maybe not never-ending, but some tools that can be used in any way you want and anywhere you want to generate money. With the advent of the internet and the subsequent emergence of the digital era, earning online is not as hard as it may seem. Rather, it has become quite mainstream today. Furthermore, with large corporations realizing the potential of going digital, it is only natural that today one can find a digital resource for almost anything! Those who are really keen on earning online, can find a plethora of useful resources and mentors who can guide them in the right track. So let us see how you can earn while you study and not worry about going broke! We wont talk nonsense! Before we may start please note that we wont be sharing useless ways of making money online. Methods such as filling online surveys, writing reviews, and clicking ads or watching videos, only wastes your time and makes no serious income online. Therefore we will talk only the sensible methods that are proven and recommended by professionals online. Whether you are a student living in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh or Nigeria. These tips apply to all. Many Pakistani, Indians and Nigerians visit this blog on daily basis and I have crafted the points carfeully so that the payment options could apply to all. Note: You won't be able to make a sustainable income online without following point number#5. Following are Five Popular Ways Students Can Make Money Online in 2019 and ahead. 1. Creating Your Own BlogMost of you might already be familiar with what a blog is. In any case, a blog is simply a dynamic website that contains content related to a certain topic. Such content can include anything from how-to articles to the latest news on tech. A simple search on any topic will probably show you dozens of blogs that talk about what you are looking for. In fact, large corporations have their own blogs to engage with their customers and get valuable insights regarding the likes and dislikes of their target market. Further research into blogging will reveal how rewarding running a blog can be. A number of examples exist where simple websites turned into multi-million blogs earning their creators fortunes that are beyond our wildest dreams. Such blogs include CNET, Techradar, Entrepreneur, BuzzFeed and many more. We may have come across them a number of times but we may have never realized how much these are worth. Just to give you a teaser, BuzzFeed's revenue in 2015 was around USD 167 million. So coming down to the point. How can you earn with a blog? Well, there are plenty of ways in which you can do so. However, one thing that is worth mentioning here is that there is no such thing as a get rich quick scheme. Making money online requires a great deal of patience and determination to provide the highest amount of value to your target audience. CPC adsBack to what we were discussing, a blog earns you money according to the amount of traffic that you get. That is, the more the people read your blog, the more you get paid. In order to understand this, you will need to get a grasp of something called CPC or PPC ads. CPC and PPC stand for cost per click and pay per click respectively. In order to earn from a blog, you may place CPC ads on your website. These ads are such that each time a reader comes to your blog and clicks on the ad, you get paid. You may use Google Adsense which provides you the necessary tools and information on creating such ads. Google automatically chooses the ads that are related to your content and as such, you are saved from going through the trouble of contacting advertisers directly. Making advertisers come to youAs mentioned earlier, almost every organization today knows the significance of digital marketing. Blogs are one of the most important tools that can allow organizations to reach a vast amount of target audience at the lowest of cost. It therefore goes without saying that with time, you are most likely to get requests from advertisers who would want to place their ad on your blog. This can be in the form of a link to their website or simply a banner ad. You may charge them a one-time fee or take monthly payments if running a banner ad. You may also charge for sponsoring an ad. Using the blog for your own businessA blog does not necessarily have to be only a content delivering medium. Rather, it can serve as a great tool for promoting your own business if you already have one. Furthermore, if you are selling physical products, a blog can go a long way in marketing your product effectively to a large audience. ExampleIn order to get a better grasp of how blogs make money, here is a pretty good example of a blog targeted toward the photography niche. Digital Photography School is a successful blog created by Darren Rowse, widely known as Problogger. The blog has more than 800,000 subscribers and its main sources of income include banner ads, affiliate programs, and e-books. As an example, you can see the banner ad promoting Segment. Clicking on the ad will earn the creator a certain amount of money accordingly. The important thing to be noted here is that the blog is operating in a very profitable niche which is photography. As a student, if you have an interest in photography, this blog is a perfect example of how you can also create something as big as this. Important Tips:So here are some tips that you need to consider before starting your own blog.
Most importantly, while I was browsing my Facebook timeline, I found a great resource for you if you want to start a blog step by step at wordpress. Although I have always given examples of Bloggers to start with, but I found something great and step by step information to quickly let you understand the process to begin with Wordpress. 2. Freelancing
As you may already know, freelancing involves working for on-demand projects online anywhere at any time. There is simply no limit to the amount of work you can take and earn. Essentially, freelancing is a vast term that involves any sort of work that can be done online or offline without being associated with any sort of official organization. In simple terms, when you are a freelancer, you are your own boss! How does freelancing work?Understanding how to freelance is not something difficult. All you need to do is to choose what kind of work you want to do and then sign up on a freelancing platform to get various types of projects related to your profession.
In fact, there are entire organizations that offer web development services to clients through the web by working online. How to get started?In order to get started, you will firstly need to set up an account on any number of freelancing platforms that you would like to work on. Such platforms allow you to connect to the relevant clients who may be looking for your services. Some of the platforms include, freelance.com, fiverr, upwork, ODesk, and many more. Freelance.com is quite a popular website where you can get a number of clients for various types of projects. Nevertheless, being popular, it should not come as a surprise that freelance.com will give you a tough competition as there are millions of other freelancers who are competing for jobs. The problem is, that many platforms work by you setting up an account and putting in your details such as your skills, your payment methods etc. Once that is done, you will then have to bid for projects that you want. For instance, if you want projects related to writing, you will need to post bids for the various projects that are listed. As such, the best bids are the ones that get selected. In order to stand out, you will need to start off by charging only a little. This may be quite demotivating; however, with time, as your ratings grow and reviews are built, your profile will become more visible to the clients on whose projects you have placed a bid for. ExampleAccording to a survey done by The Freelancer, the median amount of income earned by freelancers was between $10,000 - $20,000 annually. The chart below shows the results for all the freelancers surveyed. As mentioned earlier, freelancing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Rather, it takes a considerable amount of time to reach to a level where one can do freelancing as a career. Nevertheless, for a student, freelancing is a great way to earn some extra cash. As an example, one may earn through Fiverr – a well-known freelancing platform where you can offer your services, called gigs, starting from $5. This is a Fiverr Revenues dashboard showing earnings in terms of revenues. As you can see, earnings are quite impressive with $10,340 earned in revenues. This is definitely not a bad gig for a student. You can check out 20 Fiverr gigs ideas to sell in 2019 and can select the best possible gigs for yourself to get started with Fiverr. Important tips:
Payment SolutionsPayment methods may include PayPal, Payoneer, Skrill etc. Setting up a verified payment method is the most essential factor in winning the trust of the clients. Lastly, keep yourself connected with other fellow freelancers. Just like blogging communities, freelance communities can give you some much needed advice and support in your freelancing endeavors. You may join communities that are related to your own profession. For instance, a number of online forums exist which are solely dedicated to freelance writers. This way you can keep yourself updated with the latest trends going on the industry as well. Freelancing can be a great career choice. It all depends on how much willing you are to keep on working as a freelancer and continue developing your profile. Just like a blog, earning from freelance work is time-consuming and can be quite frustrating; however, it is all worth it in the end. 3. Writing EBooks
Read: Make an eBook: Beginners Guide To PDF eBook Building For a student, writing an EBook may prove to be a bit difficult since it is hard to spare so much of time while studying. Nevertheless, it is something worth trying while on holidays when students have plenty of time to do whatever they like. With so many online resources available, publishing EBooks have become incredibly easy. You can sell your EBooks through Amazon's Kindle Program or through Apple's iTunes Connect. All you need to do is sign up and publish your book at almost negligible cost. So how does it work?Essentially, Amazon has a system through which you earn a specific percentage of the price. That is, if you price your book between US $1.83 and US $8.60, you will get 70% of the price as royalty and 35% for $0.92.
MarketingWriting and publishing an EBook may be time-consuming and require a lot of effort. However, it is nothing compared to the time and effort you need to spend on marketing your work. After all, getting your book noticed in a crowd of billions of others is far from easy. One way to get started with your marketing is to use your social media contacts to spread awareness. You can create a Facebook page to attract the relevant type of target audience. You may use Goodreads.com as well which is a website specially dedicated to readers of all kinds. As with other marketing efforts, knowing your target audience is of utmost importance. You cannot sell a fictional novel to those who like reading about technical topics. As such, you need to strategize your marketing efforts accordingly. You may do so by having someone create a landing page for your book or you may create one yourself. You can easily create a blog using WordPress for only a little amount of money and use it to provide relevant content to your target audience. ExamplesEarnings from e-books can vary significantly. However, below is a real earnings chart for books published on Amazon.
On average, the E-books have made USD 224 just in the month of February. As you can see, this is plenty for a student. Important Tips:
4. Affiliate Marketing
In simple terms, if you sign up as an affiliate for a certain product, you will be selling the product through the web using various marketing techniques. Each time the product is sold, you will get paid a certain amount of commission. Need Motivation from a developing country like Pakistan? This talented guy plus student from Lahore, called "Luqman Khan" sitting on my office chair makes on average $40,000 a month in Amazon affiliate sales from his website 10beasts.com mashAllah! If he can do that, then why can't you? People love copying others without putting their own efforts. Yes some succeed in copying copyrights of others but neither do they succeed in their long term goals nor receives respect in the eyes of internet community. Be unique and creative always. No one has equal thinking abilities. Everyone is unique and creative based on his God gifted potentials. So utilize your God gifted skills, polish them and present to the world something that you could solely own at the end of the day. Become the first You! How does it work?Affiliate marketing works by online sellers allowing you to sell their products through their affiliate program. For instance, Amazon has its own affiliate program that allows people to register as affiliate marketers to sell any type of product they like.
ExampleAmazon.com runs one of the most well-known affiliate programs in the market. All you need to do is join through the link and choose a product you want to advertise. You can then earn up to 10% advertising fee. The best part is that you do not have to sell the product. Rather, you earn based on whether a customer has clicked on an ad linking to Amazon's website. That is, the more clicks you get, the more you earn. In the start, earnings can be quite low. However, with time, you can earn up $1000 per month. This can grow with experience and contacts. The picture shows the amount of fees earned through Amazon's affiliate program. As you can see the conversion rate is 11.14%. This is the part that needs to grow in order to increase earnings through the program. Amazon provides a number of useful tools and resources to increase your conversion rates effectively. Important Tips:
5. Build a Skill Set First!This point is added by the editorial board of MBT. No one values your time online unless you have acquired a skill set. Please note down the following important points to ensure a successful career online, with both inflow of a handsome income as well as respect in the eye of the internet community. Ready? Let's discuss it on fingertips:
Excelling in these three skills is no less than a weapon that can help you succeed at a much faster speed online. Especially, when there are a lot of various discounts like Udemy coupons that can help you get the needed learning materials for free. If you are really serious about making a six figure income online then read the following article: The Internet is a place for people with creative skills, and it feeds only those who first learns, then practice it and finally shares his knowledge! ConclusionEarning money online is a great way to get some extra cash while you are a student. In fact, if you continue to work online, it is highly likely that you become an online professional by the time you finish studies. If you are confused and still need help, do not hesitate and just post your query in the comment box below. I would love to answer all your queries and help you to the best of my ability. :) A Guest Post Contributed by Umer Iftikhar, edited and designed by MBT.     | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum Allowed AdSense Ads On A Web Page – 2019 Policy Posted: 15 Nov 2018 03:08 PM PST Congrats, Google AdSense has lifted its ads limit per page policy! Publishers can now place unlimited AdSense ads on a web page provided that the total number of AdSense ads or third-party ads must not exceed the visible content.
On a blog post written by SEJ, they have confirmed that Google has removed the ad limit policy:
AdSense Has Removed "3 Ads Per Page Policy"If you check the AdSense policy page with the web archives WayBack Machine, you can find that the old ad limit policy section which reads "Ad limit per page" has been replaced with "Valuable inventory" section on the updated ad placement policies page. Ad limit per page Previously publishers could add 3 AdSense content units and 2 link units. Premium partners could place up to 6 ads units per page, normal publishers could do it only with the help of certified publishing partners such as Ezoic. In August 2016 Google updated this policy and now you can place an unlimited number of AdSense ads on a single page with no upper limit. The new Google AdSense Ad Placement policy 2019 is the following: Valuable inventory According to the new ad placement policy, there is no limit on the number of ads you can place on a given page which means:
Conditions To Follow Before Placing AdSense AdsThere are two strict conditions to follow before placing multiple AdSense ads on a web page. You must follow these restrictions carefully to ensure your AdSense account is not disabled or limited. Condition#1: Avoid Excessive AdvertisingGoogle has explicitly mentioned this policy:
All your AdSense ad units combined with any third-party Ad network ads (i.e Media.net or BuySellAds, AdClerks) you might be using, should not exceed the length of your visible content. Visible content refers to the actual content of your article or blog post, that includes:
How Can You Know If Ads Exceed Your Content?A simple rule of thumb to ensure you never do excessive advertising on your blog is to stick to this formula: Total Content Space > Total Ad space As long as the total length or space of your visible content is greater than the total space occupied by ads on your site, you are not violating AdSense policy. Reverse this formula and you will see a flood of Ads on your site that will not only irritate the website visitors but would also kill the overall user experience, giving a look of a fish market i.e. Ad market! How Many AdSense Ads Per Page Can you Add In 2019?Now when there is no restriction on the maximum number of AdSense ad units on a single page, you can wisely place as many ad units on your pages as you want, provided that the total content space is always greater than the total ad space i.e. Ads not exceeding the content. Keep these tips in mind, to ensure that the total number of Ads should not exceed content:
Placing more than 6 Content units on any lengthy post, will naturally effect user experience. So never overdo advertising, even if your content is way too long. Utilize more link units instead of only using content units in longer posts. With too many ads and very short (thin) content, users will simply leave your site and thus leading you to a high bounce rate. Nothing causes more harm to any website than low quality content and a bad user experience. A content that has little to no value is called low quality content or thin content. Such content is not based on in-depth research and is simply a rewrite/copy/spun of a third-party content for the sole purpose of gaining traffic by spamming search engines. Google has warned against sharing such content that has no real value. Such sites are not only black listed in search engines through penalties such as Google Panda, but ad serving is also disabled on such pages as explicitly mentioned in 2019 AdSense ad placement policy:
Condition#2: Show Only One Ad Above-The-Fold On Mobile SiteYou can show only one Ad above-the-fold on a mobile site but unlimited ads below-the-fold, provided that no two ads may appear on the screen at the same time. Although this condition is no more present on the new policy page but it is strictly recommended by Google. Most of my clients receive email notices from Google to remove Ads from above the fold in mobile view. This is one reason why I have only shown one link-unit just below blog title on the mobile responsive version of this blog for smartphone devices. Through the WayBack machine, I could extract the following policy guideline by Google: Mobile implementations: This policy which clearly mentions that no two ads may appear next to each other at the same time on a mobile screen. More emphasis is given through emails to above-the-fold section that is viewed when the user first enters your site. Above-the-fold is the section of your site that is viewed first time on page load before the user starts to scroll down. I strongly recommend that you add only one link unit of size 180x90 or 200x90, just below your article title to avoid policy violation applied to mobile views. I have tested this AdSense ad spot with a link unit and it has proven to be one my best-performing ad units compared to content units placed at top. Note: There are tons of other ad placement rules such as ads in emails, pop-up, iframe etc. that you must follow. In this tutorial we focused on the latest ad limit policy change only. Why Did Google Remove its Ad limit Policy?For three simple reasons:
How Many AdSense Ads Per Page Will You Show?The removal of all restrictions on the number of ads does sound great but it puts a lot of great responsibility on the publishers. So use this opportunity carefully and increase your ad revenue by following the tips we discussed today. I would love to hear your feedback on this pleasant surprise. Do share with us how many AdSense ad units you are currently using on your Wordpress or blogspot blog. Now when Google has lifted the ad limit policy, how many AdSense ads units do you plan to show on a single page? Share your thoughts by leaving your precious comments!     |
Freelancing
This option can pay off very well if you have a serious knack for writing. Whether it is a how-to guide, a fictional novel or anything else, the possibilities are endless. However, in order to be successful, you will need to expend a great amount of effort.
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