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The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

The best blogging platforms for bloggers of 2019 are here. I've compiled the list. But first let's have a look at what a blog is first. Blog is a place where people share their valuable ideas and thoughts with millions of people of the same interest. Blogging is still popular despite the domination of social media sites, which have ruined the beauty of sharing thoughts and ideas with others and interacting and make contacts.

The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

Almost 10 years back, blogging was something which was not done by everyone because at that time for creating a blog you would have needed programming knowledge, so it was not everyone’s cup of tea. But today many technologies have made blogging easy and it has changed the internet world completely.

What if I tell you that you can have your own blog free of cost without any coding knowledge. Want to know how, then stick till the end.

Today many blogging platforms have emerged and it is quite confusing to decide which platform is best for blog. So here we present the best blogging platforms for bloggers 2019.

What is a Blogging Platform? 

First you need to know what is a blogging platform. Blogging platform is a content management system for creating and publishing your content on websites like WordPress, Blogger and many more.

The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

Here is the complete list of blogging platforms you should know if you are planning to start your own blog.

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1) Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog. It's easy and free.

Whenever it comes to blogging the word blogger strike through everyone’s mind. Blogger is a free blogging platform from google and is very easy to setup if you are just starting to step in blogging world. Many big bloggers have once used blogger because blogger is free and doesn’t charge you for anything. Using Google Adsense with Blogger can enhance your income alot because Google Adsense revenue share with Blogger is 0%.

You can easily create your own blog in few minutes with a free sub-domain which is great for newbies to start. However, blogger has some limitations like you can only create a simple blog ,but if you want to create attractive and responsive blogs then you lack this feature here.

However, new responsive themes are now present to download and use. Some are external while some are available as default blogger themes.

Blogger.com - The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

2) WordPress.com: Create a Free Website or Blog

After blogger the second name the comes in the list is WordPress which is free platform for blogging and has all the tools for creating beautiful blogs. You can unleash your creativity with WordPress. You can signup for free plans and you will get plenty of tools to work with and learn new stuff.

However there are some limitations in the free plan and for some features to use you will need to purchase their business plan where you get a custom domain also. WordPress is very popular among many blogger because its functionality is great and offers a huge number of plugins for various works.

Wordpress - The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

3) Wix.com: Free Website Builder | Create a Free Website

Well in terms of creating attractive and beautiful web pages, you should take a look at wix which is an amazing platform. The best part of Wix is that it gives drag and drop features with which you can have fun and also make quick changes.

Wix is very easy to use and an amazing platform for bloggers to work on. Starting with wix is free and you can easily setup you blog in few clicks. But every free thing has a hidden catch, here is the catch with Wix. In free plan you have limited resources and limited designs so to unlock all the extras you have to purchase the premium plans.

In free plan you will get 500MB disk space and 1GB bandwidth which I think is not good for blogs with good traffic.

Wix - The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

4) Yola - Make a Free Website

Yola is similar platform to wix. It also gives drag and drop features. Starting with yola is easy. Yola offers a free plan in which you will get some limitations like you can host 2 blogs and each blog have 3 pages.

It offers many cool features like great site-builder to put all the things together and choose from hundreds of customizable themes. You also get the feature of editing its CSS properties if you have skillful knowledge of CSS.

Yola - The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

5) Hubpages

Hubpages is a bit different platform from the others as hubpages is a huge network of bloggers,who can share their stories and can communicate with each other through their blogs. It offers some cool features like arts and design section where you can become more creative and show off your design skills to others. Hubpages helps every blogger to connect with each other and earn revenue from ads and affiliate ad networks.

Hubpages - The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

6) Tumblr

Tumblr basically looks like a mixture of WordPress and twitter. It is easy to share you blog content and it also has a huge community.

Tumblr - The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

7) Edublogs – free blogs for education

Edublogs is a education blogs for students, teacher and other education related personnel. Here, if you are fond of design and creation then this is your place to hangout. Edublogs is powered by WordPress and is free.

Here you can share educational related things with your college friends and teachers for free. They give you a lot of benefits and features to interact with each others. The free plan comes with 250 premium themes and 1 GB of storage space. However for extras you have to buy pro plan, if you want to get serious with your blog.

Edublogs - The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

8) Jekyll - Simple, blog-aware, static sites

Jekyll is an amazing platform to host your blog as you will need to put raw text files and then it will turn it into a robust static site to host. It is the engine behind GitHub pages which means you can host your blog for free here. Making your blog with Jekyll takes away the hassle of managing databases and storage.

Jekyll - The Best Blogging Platforms For Bloggers 2019

9) Ghost

In ghost something is different. Unlike others on this list. How much you pay for ghost is depending on the size of the traffic and although it is free for 14 days because of trial. Ghost platform is slightly different from others as it is an open source. The most unique feature of ghost is that it gives preview of your post, how is it going to look while you are writing it down.

So, here are the best blogging platforms for bloggers 2019. You should choose you blogging platform wisely and don’t end up wasting your time on completely useless sites.

Also Read: What is Contextual Advertising?

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How do I Reactivate my Disabled or Disapproved Adsense Account?

How do I Reactivate my Disabled or Disapproved Adsense Account? Getting a Google Adsense account can be a hard task but after you've established yourself as a good blogger or developer and sufficient amount of traffic is coming towards your blog, you can easily get a Google Adsense account. But this is not the worrying thing about blogging.

How do I Reactivate my Disabled or Disapproved Adsense Account?

The most worrying thing for a blogger is getting his Google Adsense account disapproved for invalid click activity which he did not commit. Afterwards how do you reactivate your disabled or disapproved adsense account? Get it Reinstated but how? Firstly we'll see what the fault really is.

Invalid Clicks

What are invalid clicks? These are basically clicks that a publisher does on his own ads. This is not allowed by Google Adsense. Basically its like taking your salary from your employer by force. 
Google Adsense is quite strict when it comes to invalid clicks. Every bloggers worst nightmare is to receive an email from Google Adsense that says your account is suspended for invalid click activity which he did not commit.

High CTR

CTR is the click through rate of ads. I wrote about it in detail in another article related to ads. Google adsense also takes a high CTR value as invalid click activity. Although it does seem wrong, but people with low website traffic tend to suffer because of this. On average a CTR of 15% is the maximum that Google Adsense allows as safe. Any higher could get you penalized for invalid click activity.

Recently, Google Adsense has become more aware of invalid clicks and tend to cut off the revenue generated from invalid clicks from publisher's accounts. This is somewhat better than losing your revenue source completely.

Related: Adsense Revenue Sharing Websites

Solution

Any one who has a disapproved or disabled Google Adsense account can not get it back, even if his account is disabled due to invalid clicks. What someone can do is to Contact Google Adsense.
Or you can go to the contact form to give them a detailed analysis of your problem and then submit a reason for account termination. If your reason is valid there's a good chance your account will be reinstated.
The third thing that someone can do is to close his disabled/dissaproved adsense account and open a new one from the same email address.
  • Click here to go to the account cancellation form.
The fourth and final thing you can do is fill the appeal form. Don't use this form if your account has never been active, suspended for invalid traffic or policy reasons or you would like to report or appeal a policy violation or your Google Account has been disabled, rather than your AdSense account.
But there are certain rules that if not followed could lead to permanent ban from Google Adsense.

How do I Reactivate my Disabled or Disapproved Adsense Account?

Also Read: Adsense Earning Trick

I hope this article helps you, now you know how do I reactivate my disabled or disapproved Adsense Account? Getting it reinstated is certainly not an easy task. Don't forget to follow my blog AKBlogs on facebook at Akblogspk.
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Getting Foreign traffic through Free Google Translate tool

In this article we will discuss getting foreign traffic through free google Translate tool for your website. If you have have a website or blog which has got some success for over a month or more, you'll have noticed some viewers coming from different parts of the world, mostly Russia, Czech Republic, Ivory Coast, India, Pakistan, etc. whose browsers are working in their own local language.

Getting Foreign traffic through Translate tool

Getting Foreign traffic through Free Google Translate tool

The search engines that these foreign users use don't show search results in English like Chinese, Russian search engines, so the major part of the non-English using internet users don't have even a single link to come to a blog or website which is completely based on English language, like your blog.

The one way you can get these users to come to your website or blog is to start submitting your website or blog to the popular search engines of their locale. I've already written an article about pinging a blog to the popular search engines of the world.

But you can still get these users and eventually double or triple the number of your website visitors by using a simple tool called Google Translate tool.
Click here to go to the Google Translate tool webpage
Choose your webpage's specifications and get the code, add it to your website. Any web user from the entire world can now visit your webpage by just searching on Google because Google translate tool automatically pings each of your blog posts or web pages to all the Google Search Engines and submit all your pages/posts to the respective Google Search engine used in any local language.

This will also help those visitors that have come to your website using non-English browser through some link by showing a bannner which allows them to translate your website. This helps a lot in driving non-english speaking nation's traffic to a blog.

I'll be updating this post specially, to give you some important information about getting traffic from translate tools, etc.

Related: Best Ad Networks 2018

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How to Check if my Website is Penalized by Google - Google Penalty Checker Tool

In this article I will tell you how to check if my website is penalized by google using the famous google penalty checker tool "Google Search Engine Console".

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very common practice among bloggers and website owners. Everyone wants their website to be on top of google SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) but this practice is quite common among the masses, even with people using Google Search Console.

Related: How to Submit url to Google Search Engine and Bing Search Engine

How to Check if my Website is Penalized by Google

Also google keeps updating their search algorithms which makes it more and more difficult to keep your self up to date with the new SEO guidelines. With the competition being so much, its really hard to make a blog that matters.

However, a lot of SEO black hats tend to use deceitful methods that will get their blog or website to the top of SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages)  by manipulating the search engine. If google finds out that you tricked them to get better rankings, that will definitely get you penalized.

How to check if your website is penalized by google

Google Penalty Checker Tool 

On confirmation of using false means to trigger traffic to your website, google could take down your site from their search results completely. What could be worse than losing your free traffic source. This could even lead to the death of a blogger's career.

How to Check if my Website is Penalized by Google?

So the question comes into the mind:

Is my site or blog suffering from a manual penalty from google ?

The answer is:

Website Traffic

The first way to find out if your blog has been blocked by google from being indexed is searching your website's traffic stats. It helps a lot to figure our where your traffic is coming from and how much of it is actually converting.

Related: Work from Home Jobs - Free Online Jobs without Investment - 2018

For a blogspot user, it is very easy to see if google blocked their website. Simply go to

"Stats" then "Traffic Sources"

Google Penalty Checker Method for Blogger/Blogspot


For general websites, you can search google with your site address with the prefix "site:", for example, to search for all pages of AKBlogs using google search engine, type:


And you will find all the indexed pages for AKBlogs.

Google Search Console

If your blog traffic has taken a blow, and you feel your site has stopped showing up in Google search results, this may be due to someone manually webspamming your blog. Google tends to use manual submission of reviews of sites for SEO as a sure way to determine that the site was actually using fraudulent methods to get traffic for it. And resultantly these sites get blacklisted from google's search results.

In order to find out about manual webspam for your site, simply go to Google Search Console and submit your site there, if you haven't already.

Go to
“Search Traffic” then “Manual Actions”

“Search Traffic” then “Manual Actions”

If your website is considered spam by someone, you will see it here. You will possibly have to solve your webspam issues and wait for google to review it again for your website to be indexed. Hopefully, that won't be the case for most users and it is just because of low traffic, that's all.


That's about all the ways to find out about your blog being penalized by Google, I will updated this article regularly so that I may share new experiences with you and everyone on the web. I also would like your feedback on how you countered google's webspam feature from penalizing you blog.

Related: How to Submit url to Google Search Engine and Bing Search Engine

Comment below if you had any mishaps that resultantly got your website penalized by Google because everyone has this in his mind when his or hers website traffic decreases. Every needs some Google penalty checker tool that tells him about his or her SEO faults and what's better thatn Google Search Console.

I hope this article helps you in checking if your website is penalized by Google or not. Don't forget to follow my blog AKBlogs on facebook at Akblogspk.
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A Complete Guide - All You Need to Know to Use Google Adwords

All you need to know to use Google Adwords, Google is the largest search engine in the world. It has over 90% of the search engine market share. According to estimates, 96% of Google’s revenue comes in from advertising. One-third of all ad revenue generated on Google goes to Google, meaning out of every $100, $38.6 is Google’s.

A Complete Guide - All You Need to Know to Use Google Adwords

Consider a simple Google search for WOW Internet Deals. The topmost results have a tiny “Ad” badge attached to them. These search results are placed first because the service provider or authorized retailer has paid Google for that ad.

Related: How to get Google Ads on your website

A Complete Guide - All You Need to Know to Use Google Adwords

What is Google Adwords?

Google Adwords is Google’s own advertising solutions service that allows people to run ad campaigns. Google Adwords works by letting you place results for your website at the top of a search engine results page. This is done by paying for those results to come up. Google Adwords is a great way to bypass SEO and content rankings and get your product/service maximum visibility. Here’s what we will discuss in this blog:
  • How to improve Quality Score by keyword groupings
  • Watching competitor ads
  • Optimizing for mobile
  • Creating mobile specific callouts

Let’s discuss these in detail.

How to improve Quality Score by keyword groupings

It is very important to improve Click Through Rate and Quality Score when it comes to successful Google Adwords campaigns. The higher they are, the less you are paying for your ads. Paying less for ads means you are paying less per customer making customer acquisition cheaper. Quality Score is determined through the Click Through Rate (CTR), the relevance of your landing page, performance history, and ad relevance.

The question is, how can this Quality Score be upped? One method is by grouping keywords. The grouping of keywords can be difficult because you may have hundreds of them. One good idea is to consider your ad copy and the person clicking on your ad.

A keyword that is meant to give further information should not be in a group that encourages a customer to buy. In other words “learn more” or “find out more” should not be grouped with “buy now”. Both groupings have specific intentions. Another method is to initiate an analysis of keywords and remove the low performers. Common keyword groupings are branded terms, bottom-funnel terms, mid-funnel terms, top-funnel terms, competitor terms, and product terms. Again, categorizing will take time but is well worth it.

Watching Competitor Ads

Whenever your ad pops up, you are competing with other people for the same keywords. Even if your product or service has more value, you still want to beat the competition. Google has a “analyze competition” feature that comes in very handy. It allows you to search by filters like CTR, impressions, clicks and overall position. Let this run for around 2-3 weeks for a comprehensive idea about your competitor’s position on the same keywords you are using.

This includes how much they spend on Adwords, how long they have been using it and the keywords they have. You can even check out the same information about your competitor’s competition. It pays to know what sort of campaigns are being run both by competitors on your level as well as bigger ones.

Optimizing for Mobile

The single most common gadget across all incomes, ages, and demographics is the smartphone. Everybody uses smartphones. So it only makes sense that your ads are optimized for mobile. To do this, first, you will need a mobile-responsive version of your website. At the very least, you will need a mobile-responsive landing page. Out of all online adults, 80% use smartphones and that’s a big market you don’t want to miss out on.

Once you have a mobile-friendly website or landing page, you need to implement call extensions. Doing business over the phone is still preferred by many people. People clicking on your ad get a phone number to contact you on instead of the landing page. This is a convenient workaround for boosting conversions. Next, put yourself in the shoes of a mobile user and adjust your campaign accordingly. Ads should be shorter with more focus on keywords. It’s also a good idea to lead with a discount offer or a value proposition to keep the user engaged.

Creating Mobile-Specific Callouts

Getting a mobile-optimized ad campaign is not enough. You need the people to take specific actions, like clicking on your ad. This is where callouts come in. A callout is additional detailed information about your business, product or service. This is very helpful in showing mobile customers what they’re going to get. Google allows you to easily create mobile-specific callouts for your ads. Choose your campaign and click the Ad extensions menu.

Once there view the drop-down menu and select Callout Extensions. Go to the callout extensions menu, click on Edit and you’ll see a list of callouts in this campaign. Find which one you want to customize and click on it. On the selected callout, click the down arrow and select Edit. Select Mobile as a device preference and change the callout as required. Click save and you’re done.

Callouts should be short and specific in keeping with mobile optimization. For example, an ad Optimum Triple Play Packages should contain callouts like “quick installation”, “24/7 Support” and “Contract Buyout” instead of long explanations. It takes time and effort to master Google Adwords. Luckily there are tons of resources available all over the internet that can help you. Share your insights with us and how you uniquely handle your campaigns. Cheers!

Author Bio:

Alex Brian is an entrepreneur, marketer, and writer. He loves beaches and bathing in the sun. That's where he finds his inspiration to author in-depth guides that teach E-commerce store owners ways to manage, grow and scale their business. In a former life, Alex co-founded a custom menswear company which generates 6-figures in annual revenue through its website and retail.

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Online SEO Services in Pakistan | Organic SEO Guaranteed Results

These online SEO services in pakistan are available for all internet users. And does not apply only to users in Pakistan. Anyone using the internet can apply for these services through online mediums.

Although, I prefer people learning and then doing their website's SEO themselves. But after my experience on the internet, I found out that people are not learning as much as they should. So I decided to become a freelancer of SEO services and dedicate my free time in doing online SEO service for bloggers and website developers.

Online SEO Service in Pakistan | Organic Search Results Guarantee‎d

Online SEO Services in Pakistan | Organic SEO Guaranteed Results

If you want a quote for a custom website which is not hosted on blogger or wordpress, write me an email at ali@akblogs.com. I will contact you with a nice quote that will improve your website's seo.

Apart from that I offer my SEO services through my fiverr gigs for blog posts and videos. I mostly do video SEO services for youtube videos. I can also do white hat blog and website SEO. I will help you build your brand and gain the most out of your content using the best and accurate SEO techniques.

I have two main platforms on which I do my SEO, one is blogger and the other is youtube, apart from that wordpress SEO is also part of my expertise:

Blogger SEO services

Blogger SEO service includes on page seo optimization of blog posts. On page optimization includes the SEO of the following components of a blog post:
  1. Titles
  2. Keywords in content
  3. Meta Descriptions
  4. H1, H2 and all other heading tags
  5. Creation of Robots.txt
  6. URL
  7. Image Alt tags
  8. Content Optimization for keyword's sufficiency
  9. Broken links Checking
  10. Data analysis
  11. Optimize Permalink

Here is some detail of blogger SEO services that I will be providing:


Here is the link of my fiverr gig where you can order these SEO services for as low as 10$ per post. But message me before you place an order.

Blogger SEO services

Also Read: Paper to CAD Conversion Service

Youtube SEO services

I've actually written a whole article around youtube SEO which involves the SEO of all important meta data types of youtube videos. But if you still need help with SEO you can contact me on my fiverr gig, I will give you the details for everything related to meta tags including:
  1. Title
  2. Description
  3. Tags

And any additional information you might need regarding your video's SEO or at any other platform. Keyword research is also done using professional tools to make sure you get as much traffic from your video as possible from the Youtube search engine.

Here is the link of my fiverr gig where you can order these SEO services for as low as 10$ per video. But message me before you place an order.

Youtube SEO services

Also Read: Paper to CAD Conversion Service

Wordpress SEO services

I can also do wordpress SEO as it is quite similar to blogger SEO. Wordpress SEO plugins make it easier for developers to SEO optimize their content, with these plugins there is little need for an expert to optimize afterwards.

Still if you need wordpress SEO services here is the link of my fiverr gig  where you can order these SEO services for as low as 10$ per post. But message me before you place an order.

Wordpress SEO services

Also Read: Paper to CAD Conversion Service

Apart from these services if you need any help you can contact me through email, my official email address is
ali@akblogs.com
I will help you in getting the best online SEO services in Pakistan. Don't forget to follow my blog Ali Khan Blogs on facebook & Twitter.
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Top 8 Video Hosting Websites Ranked by Traffic

Video hosting websites refer to those websites that allow uploading videos on the web and sharing them. Since video content is on the rise whether its on youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or social apps like facebook, Whatsapp or other platforms, video content has slowly grown to become the most vital part of the internet.

People like to share their experiences and the best way to share your experience is through video content.

The Top 8 Video Hosting Websites Ranked by Traffic

The Top 8 Video Hosting Websites Ranked by Traffic

There are some very popular video hosting websites that are used for uploading videos to the web, some cost money, while some are free including youtube. You can use free or paid video hosting websites to upload your video content and embed these to your websites or blogs to increase the interaction period of content with your audience.

I've tried to find some popular video hosting websites, here they are arranged by increasing order of their worldwide website rank:

Also Read: How to start a Blog for free

1# Youtube

According to website rankings, Youtube is the worlds most popular video sharing website. It is ranked second in the world and the United States, behind Google, its parent organization. Google is the biggest traffic referrer to Youtube with 17% traffic of Youtube's traffic coming from Google.

With over 2.5 million incoming links. It has become a source of entertainment for millions of people worldwide on a daily basis. Also 17% of Youtube audience is from the United States which is the highest for youtube compared to other countries around the world.

Youtube - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

Related: 7 Amazing Tips for Youtube SEO

2# Twitch.tv

According to website rankings,  Twitch is one of the worlds most popular video hosting website. It is ranked 36th in the world and 13th in the United States. Youtube is the biggest traffic referrer to Twitch with almost 18% of Twitch's traffic coming from Youtube. Second is Google which refers 17% traffic to Twitch.

With over 25 thousand incoming links. It is a source of entertainment for millions of US visitors on a daily basis. Also 40% of Twitch's audience is from the United States which is the highest for Twitch compared to other countries around the world.

Twitch.tv  - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

3# Dailymotion - Explore and watch videos online

According to website rankings, Dailymotion is ranked 111th in the world and 179th in the United States. Google is the biggest traffic referrer to Dailymotion with 26% traffic coming from Google.

With over 170,000 incoming links. Also 13% of Dailymotion audience is from the United States which is the highest for Dailymotion compared to other countries around the world. Close behind is Japan with 12% audience.

Dailymtion - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

Also Read: How to start a Blog for free

4# Vimeo - The high-quality home for video hosting and watching

According to website rankings, Vimeo is one of the worlds most popular video hosting website. It is ranked 135th in the world and 95th in the United States. Google is the biggest traffic referrer to Vimeo with almost 18% of Vimeo's traffic coming from Google.

With over 420,000 incoming links. Also 29% of Vimeo's audience is from the United States which is the highest for Vimeo compared to other countries around the world.

Vimeo - The high-quality home for video hosting and watching

Related: Biggest ad networks for Publishers

5# Metacafe - Online Video Entertainment

According to website rankings, Metacafe is ranked 11,336th in the world and 2,717th in the United States. Google is the second biggest traffic referrer to Metacafe with 10% traffic coming from Google.

59% of Metacafe audience is from the United States which is the highest for Metacafe compared to other countries around the world.

Metacafe - Online Video Entertainment

6# Brightcove - The Leading Online Video Platform

According to website rankings, BrightCove is ranked 22,208th in the world and 7,628th in the United States. Google is the biggest traffic referrer to BrightCove with 17% traffic coming from Google.

44% of BrightCove audience is from the United States which is the highest for BrightCove compared to other countries around the world.

Brightcove - The Leading Online Video Platform

7# Vidyard - Online Video Platform for Business

According to website rankings, Vidyard is ranked 32,298th in the world and 8,172th in the United States. Google is the biggest traffic referrer to Vidyard with 25% traffic coming from Google.

71% of Vidyard audience is from the United States which is the highest for Vidyard compared to other countries around the world, with over 700 incoming links.

Vidyard - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

Related: Biggest ad networks for Publishers

8# DropShots - Free Video Hosting & Photo Sharing

According to website rankings,  Dropshots is ranked 119,282nd in the world and 9,731th in India. Google is the biggest traffic referrer to Dropshots with almost 12% of Dropshots's traffic coming from Google.

With over 2 thousand incoming links. It is a source of entertainment for thousands of Indian visitors on a daily basis. Also 69% of Dropshots's audience is from India which is the highest for Dropshots compared to other countries.

DropShots - Free Video Hosting & Photo Sharing

Honorable Mentions

There are some sites that are not made for video sharing and well don't actually categorize as video hosting websites. These are somewhat independent. You can use these video hosting websites to upload your video content and embed these to your websites or blogs .
  • Facebook Video Network
  • Flickr
  • VK 

Also Read: Top 17 Best Blog Hosting Platforms other than Blogger

That's all folks, I hope you like this article, this is list of top 8 video hosting websites that I conjured up. Don't forget to follow the blog AKBlogs on facebook and Twitter.
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    How to Remove URL from Google in 5 Simple Steps

    Having unnecessary links in the google search for your blog can have negative effect on your site's SEO. By unnecessary links I mean links that lead to 404 errors or blank pages that have no content. In this article, I will explain to you how to remove URL from google that is not helpful to your own website in any way.

    In this article, You will learn to remove your website's unwanted page from Google Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).

    How to Remove URL from Google?

    When you search on how to remove URL from google, you'll probably get an outdated page ranked that shows you this same process for an older version of Google Webmaster tools. Also since google has renamed Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console, it is hard to find the right result. Let me explain to you how it works:


    How to Remove URL from Google?

    Follow these steps to remove your specific URL from google search engine result pages:

    List of Google Search Console Websites


    • After you selected your website, a number of options will be displayed on the left tab. Click on "Google Index" followed by "Remove URLs" in the dropdown. A new page will open giving you a list of previously removed URLs, if already removed, which will look like this:

    Click on Google Index followed by Remove URLs in the dropdown

    • Click on "Temporarily Hide" and paste the link of your website that you want to remove from search results. A new page will open requiring you to confirm this action of removing this page from search engine result pages.

    Click on "Temporarily Hide" and paste  the link of your website that you want to remove from search results. A new webpage will open requiring you to confirm this action of removing this page from search engine result pages.

    • Click on "Submit Request" to submit your request for removal of URL from google search engine result pages. 
    This request is approved within 1-2 days. You can even reinclude this page later if you want to using this same "Remove URLs" tool. Like for changing an article, etc.


    I hope you know now how to Remove URL from Google. It is very easy method. Don't forget to follow my blog Ali Khan Blogs on facebook & Twitter.
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    Placing Google Adsense Ads in Blogspot posts in 4 simple Steps

    Placing Google Adsense Ads in Blogspot posts gives you a higher Click Through Rate (CTR) and also increases your income comprehensively due to the fact that the readers reads or views these ads more in the start when he is looking at the post of your blog.

    Placing Google Adsense Ads in Blogspot posts

    The best place you can place your ads and get a higher CTR is below the title of the post and right next to the content of the post. Either you can place the ad on the left, right or at the center of the post body. So in correspondence to that there are three different codes for each placement.

    Related: Biggest Ad Networks for Publishers

    Placing Google Adsense Ads in Blogspot posts

    First of all go to your blog's "Design" page and click "Edit HTML," on the opening page tick mark the "Expand Widget Templates" button.

    Placing Google Adsense Ads in Blogspot posts

    Search for <data:post.body/> by using search of your browser (simply press Ctrl + F to engage search). Then paste the following code just above the <data:post.body/> tag to make your Google adsense ad appear on the left of your post:

    Placing Google Adsense Ads in Blogspot posts
    or
    <div style="float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;"> 
    PLACE YOUR PARSED ADSENSE CODE HERE 
    </div>
    Replace "PLACE YOUR PARSED ADSENSE CODE HERE" with your Google Adsense parsed ad code. In order to parse your google adsense code, read "A website to directly parse your Google Adsense code" or "Parsing Google Adsense ad code manually".

    Related: Biggest Ad Networks for Publishers

     After placing your ad code simply save your template by clicking "Save Template". Your ads will be displayed on the left side of your blog posts in your posts.

    In order to make the ad appear on the right side of your posts paste the following code instead of the above code above <data:post.body/> 
    <div style="float: right; margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px;"> 
    PLACE YOUR PARSED ADSENSE CODE HERE
    </div>
    Replace "PLACE YOUR PARSED ADSENSE CODE HERE" with your Google Adsense parsed ad code.

    In order to make the ad appear at the center of the blog post paste the following code instead of the above codes above <data:post.body/> 
    <div style="margin: 10px 10px 10px 0; text-align: center;">
    PLACE YOUR PARSED ADSENSE CODE HERE
    </div>

    Replace "PLACE YOUR PARSED ADSENSE CODE HERE" with your Google Adsense parsed ad code. In order to parse your google adsense code, read "A website to directly parse your Google Adsense code" or "Parsing Google Adsense ad code manually".

    After saving your template, your ads will be displayed at the center of your post above the content and below the title of the post.

    Related: Biggest Ad Networks for Publishers

    I hope this article helps you, if you need more help Placing Google Adsense Ads in Blogspot posts just message on my facebook page. I will be writing more on these sorts of Articles and don't forget to follow my blog Ali Khan Blogs on facebook.
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    How to Add Google Custom Search Engine to a Google Sites website

    Google Sites offers its users a very very simple way to create and publish their websites. Even multiple users can build their single website and manage it easily. It has more then hundereds of gadgets to provide to their website builders, made by Google and other software developers.

    How to Add Google Custom Search Engine to a Google Sites website

    In this article I am going to tell you how to add Google custom search engine to a Google sites website in a detailed step-by-step procedure.

    Google Sites started allowing adding Google Custom Search Engine to the search of a Google Site in October 2009. Since then, it has been spreading more and more.

    Related Posts: Blogging platforms other then Blogger

    Follow the following steps to induce Google Custom Search to your Google Site:
    • Login to your Google Sites account, open your website, and select the "Manage Site" option in the "More" drop-down option at the top of the page.

    Manage Site - Google Sites website - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

    • Select the "Site Layout" option from the navigation menu on the left.
    • Click the "Configure Search" button.

    Configure Search - Google Sites website - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

    • Select the "Advanced" tab in the "Configure site search" dialogue box.
    • To add a new search provider, click on the "Add provider" button.

    Add provider - Google Sites website - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

    • Now open up another tab or browser window and login to your Google Custom Search control panel. Find the URL for the search engine you want to use by clicking on it's name in the list called "My search engines," as shown below, and copy this URL.

    My search engines - Google Custom Search Engine - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

    • Then go back to the Google Sites search provider dialogue box of your Google Site. Select "Google Custom Search" as the provider type. Type in the name of your search that you want to show to your viewers and paste the URL of that search engine in the "Google Custom Search Engine URL" text box.
      Leave the "Show results in site" option checked or unchecked depending on your preference. Click OK.

    Add Search Provider - Google Custom Search Engine - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

    • Now you can select all the search engines you want your viewers to view and use. 
    • Also select a default search engine for your website. You can also deactivate search, if you want to, by simply unmarking the "Enable Search" check box as shown below.

    Configure Site Search - Google Custom Search Engine - Ali Khan Blogs (AKBlogs.com)

    • Your viewers will see your Google Custom search as your default search, if you have chosen it as your default search.

    I would rather prefer only one search, as this is less confusing and why not use only the Google Custom search engine in your Google Site, although it does show Google Adsense ads with it. But you need to configure that separately.

    Now search from your Google custom search engine induced in your Google Site and you will see Google Adsense ads in-line with the contextual search terms of your website.


    I hope this article helps you, now you know how to add Google custom search engine to a Google Sites website. Don't forget to follow my blog Ali Khan Blogs on facebook & Twitter.
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    The Beginner's Guide to Google Adsense

    Google Adsense is an advertising network of Google or it can be said that Google Adsense is an ad serving application of Google. It is run by Google Inc. Google Adsense allows website builders, bloggers, webmasters, video makers, content writers, SEO specialists and other professional workers to earn revenue for their content by showing Google ads on their content like websites, blogs, games, flash applications, videos, search engines and other web applications.

    The Beginner's Guide to Google Adsense

    Lets start the Beginner's Guide to Google Adsense by Muhammad Ali Khan.

    The Beginner's Guide to Google Adsense

    Google Adsense is one of the most easiest ways to earn money at home from your website. Basically Google Adsense is an advertising network of Google which displays Google Adwords ads. If you are new to using internet and want to earn money at home, you should try Google Adsense.

    Read their policies, and see what you can make for it. I've written an article which will help you with creating a website which will be compatible with Google Adsense. Here I'm going to write about websites and blogs only.

    Related: How to get Google Adsense Account for a Third World Country Publisher

    Submitting an Application to Google Adsense

    In order to apply for Google Adsense you need a website or a blog to put their ads on. I've written an article about starting a blog on blogger in 2018.

    Related: Starting a free blog on blogger in 2018

    You'd have to apply to their program by visiting their website Google.com/Adsense. You have to provide them your website or blog's URL and some contact information to submit your application.

    Remember that you can not have two Google Adsense accounts and neither you can click your own ads after placing them on your website, otherwise your Google Adsense account will be disabled and you will not be able to apply to Google Adsense again.

    You can use Youtube as well

    You can also have a video channel on Youtube. Go to www.Youtube.com/yt/creators to apply, you need to have atleast 4000 hours of watch time and a subscriber count of 1000 or above before you can apply.

    Related: Youtube changes Monetization policies, 4000 watch time hours, 1000 subscribers minimum required

    I've written an article about getting more views and subscribers from youtube. Read it here.

    My Preference Blogger

    I would prefer a free Blogger Blog for Google Adsense because they don't charge money for creating blogs and Adsense ads can be placed on them easily without any copy-pasting of ad codes.
    Blogger only charges you when you buy a domain name (for example www.example.com) from them.

    Related: Starting a free blog on blogger in 2018

    If you use any other website host to submit your application to Google Adsense then be careful to have a custom domain like www.example.com for your website or blog and not some ordinary sub-domain like sub.example.com. They reject these type of applications immediately unless its from a blogspot domain.

    My Preference Blogger

    Adsense Terms and Conditions, and Policies

    You should read out their terms and conditions to see whether your website complies with their policies.

    After completing your blog or website & your blog or website has become at least 6 months old you can apply for Google Adsense and after your application is reviewed and approved, you can start serving ads on your website and start generating revenue instantly. As some people say:
    Join Google Adsense and maximize your website's earning potential
    Google Adsense Ads appear after 10-15 minutes later after you put the ad code on your website.

    Related: How to get Google Adsense Account for a Third World Country Publisher

    You don't need to apply for each of your Websites and Blogs

    Even if you have a lot of websites, you don't have to apply for each website separately, instead you can directly place ads on them because Google Adsense allows you to place your ad code to any website you want.

    However, Google Adsense checks your websites and blogs once to see if they comply with their program policies. Google Adsense has the right to block ads on your website, which they think are ineligible for their program or are against their program policies.

    Variety of Ad Sizes

    Google Adsense displays ads in the following format, note that each resolution is in pixels:
    • 728 x 90 - Leaderboard
    • 468 x 60 - Standard Banner
    • 234 x 60 - Banner
    • 160 x 600 - Wide Skyscraper
    • 120 x 600 - Skyscraper
    • 120 x 240 - Vertical Banner
    • 336 x 280 - Large Rectangle (has the highest eCPM according to Google Adsense)
    • 300 x 250 - Medium Rectangle (Recommended)
    • 180 x 150 - Small Rectangle
    • 250 x 250 - Square
    • 200 x 200 - Small Square
    • 125 x 125 - Button
    These are the formats of Links units of Google Adsense:
    • 728 x 15
    • 468 x 15
    • 200 x 90
    • 180 x 90
    • 160 x 90
    • 120 x 90
    The first digit denotes the width of ad and the second digit denotes the height of ad unit. The bigger units like a 728 x 90 leaderboard instead of 468 x 60 banner, 336 x 280 large rectangle instead of a 300 x 250 rectangle and other bigger ad units are recommended by Google Adsense to its users as they have a wider area of content for a visitor to look at, larger ads also earn more as compared to smaller units.

    Website Traffic matters a lot

    Google Adsense can make a lot of money for you if you have good quality traffic (i.e. high number of visitors) and your website consists of a huge number of pages like for example 200-500 pages and each page consists of text rich content or it can be photos, videos, flash applications, etc., but text is necessary for generating keywords which display relevant ads.

    This sounds very difficult to create and manage but it's worth it. When you know you will be rewarded for writing a full-length webpage about some article that you yourself choose, you may write almost everything you know about that article.

    Website Traffic defines your Website or Blog

    The major difficult problem that most website developers and bloggers face about getting an account from Google Adsense is because of the less visitors they are getting from the web. I too have such problems for my blog, you can read "Steps to make your blog popular" and "Getting traffic from Google and Google Webmaster tools" posts for that, this may increase your website traffic some-what but you should write more and add lots of content to your website which automatically increases your website rank for most search engines.

    Organic Traffic

    The other thing that you need is organic traffic, which are the people that reach your website through searching for content related to your website's keywords. These are the true loyal visitors that come back to your website again and again in search of better content from your website.

    Use Google Search Console

    Before applying to Google Adsense remember to use Google's Search Console. Webmaster tools also help a lot in giving some important information and suggestions about your website like suitable keywords and search engine queries etc. They help to get all your website's pages indexed to all the Google Search Engines throughout the world.

    Related: How to get more traffic from Google using Google Search Console

    Google Adsense Alternatives

    Google Adsense released in 2003 still is better than other advertising sites because Google Adsense automatically puts relevant ads on your website related to your site's content and/or relevant keywords of our website, but today their are advertising networks like Chitika, and others, I've written a list of Adsense Alternatives here, who still can't compete with Google Adsense and its success till date, even with their efforts combined.

    Ad Example

    Now for the ads, for example you have a website regarding Football, then the Adsense ads will be displayed regarding to the subject keyword, i.e., football or soccer. Ads will be displayed for keywords like buying football, football shops or sports shop, football training centers etc.

    The visitor visiting your website will obviously click on your site's ad because if he is there for some football then he would obviously find that ad useful.

    Google Adsense Payment Method

    Google Adsense pays through different methods to people living in the US or outside it. Google Adsense pays you via cheque or Western Union Fast Money Transfer if you live outside the US.

    Adsense for Search

    You can even earn extra revenue through a Google Search Box on your website. If someone searches through your Adsense for Search Google Search Engine placed on your website provided by Google Adsense and clicks on the sponsored links, you would be paid for that visitors click. They have also started showing ads in Custom search engines.

    How Geographical visitor targeting helps you

    The amount you earn per click depends on the geographical residence of that visitor. For example, a US visitor's click is the highest that I've been paid for till now, clicks from visitors from Pakistan usually earn a cent or 33 cents (at the most) for me. So, this is useful information for you for targeting users which have a geographical residence where your Google Adsense income will be high.

    Post Summary

    Don't forget to try Google Adsense for Search and Domains which can give you a handful of money. The Adsense for feeds ended a long time in 2012.

    Even though millions of website developers and bloggers have earned over millions from Google Adsense, yet they never run out of money, just because they've got so many advertisers ready to spend money on their content, even these publishers become advertisers on Google Adwords so that they may get additional traffic.

    Although the merit of Google Adsense has gone high and not much possible for some bloggers to even get an account, but though every one tries hard for it and the result is worth it.

    Google Adsense has become more of a trend for scamming but Google has also started disabling such accounts that use false means to earn from Adsense. And yet those work hard with their content succeed with it.

    Well, I don't want to write more, don't have much words left but all I can say is that Don't forget to follow my blog Ali Khan Blogs on facebook & Twitter.

    Related: Best Ad Networks of 2018

    I hope this article helps you, I hope you understand The Beginner's Guide to Google Adsense.
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