Wordpress Plugins for Google Adsense

Wordpress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins. Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program and proper custom integration with Wordpress can help to increase Adsense earnings.

Google Adsense Wordpress Plugins

Listed below are 10 best Adsense plugins which help you work smarter with wordpress.

• Adsense Deluxe – offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Easily switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.
• Adsense Injection – inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let�s you pick how many to show on single post pages.
• Adsense Inline – inserts Google adsense in blog posts.
• Shylock Adsense WordPress plugin – allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. Set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then ‘n’ days. E.g. insert a 468�60 ad at the bottom of a new article for regular readers, and replace with higher paying 336�280 ad after 7 days for the search engine visitors.
• Adsense Beautifier – makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings. (May not be compliant with Adsense TOS now)
• AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar – Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
• AdRotator Wordpress Plugin – rotates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.
• Adsense Earnings Wordpress Plugin – displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.
• AdSense Manager – is a Wordpress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.
• AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System – allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.
• Author Adsense Wordpress Plugin – allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author�s ads to admin ads.
• Author Adsense MU Plugin – Webmasters of Wordpress MU sites can generate adsense revenue from hosted blogs as this script allows you to set an admin ID and the ratio of admin ad�s to blogger�s ads.
• Google Ad Wrap – wraps posts and comments inside Section Targeting tags for better targeted ads.

Support and upgrades are provided by the respective authors of these wordpress plugins. Use at your own risk. If you know of more Adsense wordpress plugins you like, let me know in comments and I can add them to the list.

Adsense Bot Now Helps Google Bot Index Sites

Matt Cutts has recently confirmed a change in the way google index web pages. He tells us that the adsense bot (media bot) will now help the google bot index websites.

The adsense bot (media bot) and the google bot used to have very different and separate roles. The adsense bot would only spider web pages with the purpose of delivering relevant adverts to the adsense blocks, and the google bot would only spider the internet for the google search. Their paths never crossed and their roles were separate.

So what does this change mean for webmasters? Well, not much really, It was mainly done as a way to save bandwidth and matt assures us that being spidered by either the adsense bot or regular google bot will not make a difference in how long it takes for your site to be indexed or where you appear in the SERPS.
This is mainly due to the adsense bot updating only the cache. So Instead of the google bot coming to spider your site to update your cache, It will get the cache update from what the adsense bot retrieved.

Should we be worried? Before all the google scaremongers start telling people that the sky is falling and that google are out to kill us, Don't worry, Unless you are already doing something you shouldn't be this will have no negative effect on your SERPS.
One thing you should be aware of though is that google may penalize you if you are currently serving a different page to the adsense bot and to your visitors.
This is sometimes done by webmasters who want to get relevant or targeted adverts on their page, They would simply show the adsense bot a keyword stuffed page and they would show googlebot and visitors a regular page. This now would be seen by google as cloaking since google bot and the adsense bot share a role.

Webmaster And SEO Firefox Extensions

Firefox is a web browser, But surely you must know this..

One of things that has made firefox the success it is, apart from its functionality and security, Is the amount of Firefox extensions there are. The extensions for Firefox are so vast that there are even extensions aimed at webmasters and extensions designed to help with your SEO. What we are going to do in this post is list some of the most useful SEO and webmaster Firefox extensions.

• IE Tab - The IE tab Firefox extension allows you to embed Internet Explorer in Firefox at the click of a button.. This is very handy if you are testing the cross browser compatibility of your website.
• Search Status - The search status extension displays google pagerank and Alexa rank in your Firefox status for you to easily view a sites popularity.
• ColorZilla - The ColorZilla extension allows you to easily find out the color of any element on a webpage. Saves having to look through the source.
• Live HTTP Header - Live HTTP headers lets you see the headers that are sent to and from your browser in real time. Great extension for Web developers.
• switch User Agents - This extension allows you to change the identity of your Firefox browser. Want to know what your website does if you are in opera or IE? You do? Great, then use this Firefox developer extension.
• URLparams - Shows you the GET and POST parameters of the current website in the sidebar.
• DNSStuff Toolbar - With the DNSStuff toolbar you can easily do a domain lookup directly from Firefox.
• HTML Validator - The HTML validator Firefox extension allows you to easily validate your HTML markup, It does require the HTML validator for windows.
• Fire FTP - Fire FTP is an FTP client that runs straight from Firefox.
• Blog This - Adds a blogger's "blog this" function to right mouse click.
• Link Checker - This extension allows you to check the validity of every link on the page.
• X-Ray View - Let's you view how a page was constructed without having to go back and forth between the page and source code.
• CSS Edit - edit the pages CSS from the sidebar of Firefox.
• Customize Google - This handy extension allows you to customize Google. It will remove adverts and provide you with links to other search engines so you can compare results.
• Adsense Notifier - Keep track of your adsense earnings with this Firefox adsense extension by showing earning in the status bar and have it update every 15 minutes.
• SEO Links - This handy Firefox extension will display link popularity on mouseover.
• Niche Watch - This Firefox SEO extension provides you the technical information required to beat your competitor websites in serps.It gives you backlinks number, indexed pages, keyword occurrences on the page and page rank.
• JSView - The JSView Firefox extention allows you to view the source code of JavaScript and external CSS.
• View Source Chart - View source chart Firefox extention allows you to view even the most unorganized html script in a nicely laid out chart. (Thanks Jumpenjuhosaphat)
• Server Spy - The server spy webmaster firefox extension will reveal the server type in your Firefox status.
• Screen Grab - The screen grab Firefox extension will allow you to easily take a screen shot via firefox and save it as an image.
• Codetch - web page editor that has the feel of Dreamweaver. An amazing webmaster Firefox extension for anyone doing web design that doesn't want to fork out a few hundred dollars for Dreamweaver.
• FireBug - an advanced debugger console that lets you monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax scripts in firefox.
• PDF Downloader - Isn't it annoying when you click a link and it turns out to be a PDF file? You have to wait about 3 weeks for acrobat to fire up. With this extension it does not automatically open, It will ask you what you want to do with that file. Either open in acrobat, Save it or view as HTML.
• Linkification - Linkification is a extension for firefox that will convert all text URL's into clickable ones, Saves you having to copy and paste the url into the address bar
• TinyURL Creator - Sometimes long URL's are a pain if you are posting on a forum, In IRC or in an email. With this firefox extension you can easily convert those long URL's into shorter URL's.

This list of Webmaster and SEO Firefox extensions will be updated as time goes by and i find more. If you know of more SEO and webmaster Firefox extensions post them in a reply, Especially if you have written your own SEO, Webmaster or Developer Firefox extension.

Free SEO and Adsense eBooks

Ebooks have become quite popular, Especially in the world of SEO and Adsense where webmasters want to get the best from search engines and want to make the most money from Adsense. Ebooks usually cost money, upto $167 for some (or more), But Pro-SEO have been lucky enough to find you a selection of Free SEO Ebooks and Free Adsense Ebooks to download and we intend to bring you more as we find them. If you have written a free SEO ebook or free adsense ebook (or a paid one you want to give away) contact me and we will include it here for download.

As these SEO and Adsense Ebooks were not written by us we can't vouch for their content, and as always, You should read them with discretion. While not everything you read in ebooks will be true it's always a good idea to get an all round opinion of SEO and Adsense and then making your own mind up.
So far we have been able to get hold of the following free SEO ebooks and free adsense ebooks.

1. Blogging For Profit Ebook - The blogging for profit free ebook gives you a guide for finding that niche blog theme and building it to the stage where it can make you money. I have only skimmed through this free blogging ebook but i looks to give solid advice that every blogger looking to create a profitable blog should read.
2. Free Adsense Ebook - The Free Adsense Ebook is about, You guessed it, Google Adsense. It will give you tips about increasing your CTR and how to select he right adsense colors and adsense positioning to achieve maximum earnings. The writer claims to have increased CTR significantly simply by altering, and monitoring, his adsense colors and position.
3. Overture and Adwords Free Ebook - The free adwords and overture ebook explains to webmasters how to select the right keywords to maximize their CPC campaign. It makes sense that if you are going to pay for clicks you want to pay as little as possible and organize your overture and adwords campaign so that you can maximize profits.
4. SEO Made Easy Free Ebook - The SEO made Easy Free Ebook is a one stop shop, especially for new webmasters, Full of information about the basics of SEO and what you need to do to increase your footprint on the internet. We all know that SEO is the second thing webmasters need to worry about (content being first), So why not read up on it with this free SEO ebook.
5. Adwords Made Easy Ebook - The Adwords made easy ebook explains why so many online businesses throw hundreds of dollars away simply because they don't understand how Google Adwords work. You don't have to make the same mistakes they made, You can bypass the part where you throw money away and go straight to the part where you make money with google adwords. This free adwords ebook explains how to market your site using adwords, How to select your keywords and what to do once you get visitors.
   
6. Basic SEO Ebook - This free SEO book is designed for beginners. Not for advanced SEO folk. But if you are a new webmaster looking to learn the basics of SEO, Give it a read.