How did Google know you are using Linkreferral

There are many bloggers out there who were totally wiped out from Google Adsense because of using traffic exchange sites like Linkreferral. I too was wiped out years ago because of same reason.

As we know, Google is very keen when it comes to their TOS and in that TOS using traffic exchange program is strictly prohibited. They always make sure no one is cheating so they made this feature in Google Webmaster Tool that is pretty useful in our part as a blogger at the same time an advantage to Google. This feature is called "Links to your Site" which allows us to know if our site is being used by another site through links.

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Once you link your site to Linkreferral, Google Webmaster Tool will automatically detect that in a few days if you are constantly receiving traffics from Linkreferral. Google is very much in control to all our Google accounts so they definitely know everything what’s in our Google accounts.

But whatever Google’s decision about using Linkreferral, lots of bloggers and site owners will keep using Linkreferral because of its ability to promote. You cannot just receive traffic from Linkreferral if you are not active in making reviews and comments to other sites which is what makes the site very popular. Comments and Reviews are the life line of our sites and blogs, without it, you are just wasting time and effort. Linkreferral might be a traffic exchange program if others thought about that way, but the important thing is that, it does not give you non-sense traffic or I call it “pass-by traffic” like auto surf or manual surf (easyhit4u, HitSafari, HitBooster, and etc.) does.

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Increase Google Adsense Click Through Rate - Adsense Tips

Increasing Google Adsense Click Through Rate is one of the important thing if you want to increase your Adsense revenue. There are many things you need to consider if you want to increase your Adsense click through rate and based on my research these are the common tips I found:

1. Ads Positioning - right placement of ads can increase your adsense click through rate. You can place your ads above, below, within, left, or right part of your post.

2. Get Rid of Public Service Ads - public service ads are ads that gives nothing when clicked. They just show up if there are no more ads to display. Read How to Remove Public Service Ads from your Blog or Website?

3.  Rich Text Page - the content of the page must have a minimum of 400 words. If you can write more than 400 words the better.

4. Choose high paying keywords - If you to write something let say about "software", use a high paying keywords that is related to the keyword software like "Payroll Software", "Mortgage Calculator Software" and so on. Use Google Adword Keyword Tool to find nice high paying keywords.

5. Avoid putting title on ads - do not put titles on ads like "Sponsored Links", "Links", "Menu", and so on because you are violating Google TOS. If you violate Google TOS they will give you 0% CTR.

6. Ads Color - make sure that your ads are well blend to the color of your site. If you have a white color site then your ads must have a white background and a white border.

7. Right Ad Size - based on the surveys 336x280, 300x250, 250x250, 160x600, and 728x90 are the best performing ads so better use them.

All seven steps are the common tip you can find on the internet but I have also found another information on how to increase adsense click through rate and according to his experience he was able to increase his Adsense Click through rate from 1.4% to 6% with just two changes.

1. Use image ads!

2. Place two 300x250 ads side by side directly above the main content.

Read the whole content here.

And these are the things I have observed,  adsense click through rate depends on the value of ads appeared on your page. We have to remember that each ads has its own value and high value ads will only appear if you use high value keywords (high paying keywords). But no matter how high the value of keywords you use and the value of ads appeared on you site, if have less traffic and no clicks, your click through rate will not increase.

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