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Being new to blogging and to having my own website, one thing I noticed is that most site owners are really working on making their pages rank higher. Honestly, I still don’t have much idea the importance of Page Ranking aside from not getting approved by some revenue generating programs if your site have low or no page rank at all.

My first blog which features the things that I do everyday as a Business/Process Consultant ( The Cutover Experience at http://cutover.blogspot.com ) only have a Google page rank of 1 out of 10 - since I started blogging on it late November 2007. My other blog, which I created last week of November 2007, but only started working on it 2nd week of December 2007 is now having a Google page rank of 4 out of 10 ( see blogRebel Blogs at http://blogrebel.wordpress.com ).

How is Bloggista.com ranked as of 21-January-2008?

Yesterday (exactly 10 days since I launched this free blog hosting site), I put on some page rank widgets from Rank Widget ( http://www.rankwidget.com ). Below are the current page ranking of Bloggista.com:

Alexa page rank - 11, 294, 989

Google page rank - no page rank available

Technorati rank - 731, 678 

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Text Link Ads  allows blog and website owners to earn more by selling Text Links on your site or blog. It offers payment via check or PayPal. One great thing about Text Link Ads is it also helps in the increase in ranking of your blog or website.

Configuring Text Link Ads is easy. It is already built in with Bloggista.com blogs. To activate, simply go to your Dashboard > Plugin > and activate Text Link Ads. To start earning, make sure to sign-up with your own Text Link Ads account. Any referral you made with Text Link Ads enable you to earn up to 25USD per publisher or advertiser sign-up. To learn more, sign-up for a free account (Publisher Account).

Once you signed up with Text Link Ads, go to the Affiliate Program and select the banners you want to display in your Blog sidebar, using the available Text Widgets of your blog theme.

Follow the same steps in displaying Google Adsense ads in your blog.

Don’t have a PayPal account? Click here and sign-up for a free account.

Place the Text Link Ads banner in your blog where every visitor can immediately see it.

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BidVertiser is a pay-per-click ads program and offers one of the best and highest click rates on ads. Getting a BidVertiser account and displaying BidVertiser ads on your website or blog will greatly increase your site/blog’s revenue.

> Register for a Publisher Account at BidVertiser

> Displaying BidVertiser Ads in your Bloggista.com blog.

To display your BidVertiser Ads, click the link below (courtesy of BidVertiser).

Displaying BidVertiser Ads on a WordPress blog

Happy Earning!

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How to Display Google Ads in your Bloggista.com Blog:

Once you have configured your Google AdSense Ad Unit (see section Monetizing your blog with Google AdSense in setting up your Google AdSense ad unit), you can now display the ad in yourBloggista.com blog.

Important Note: As of now, you can only display ads in the Sidebar. Placing Google Ads in your Post is not possible at this time.

The following is a simple tutorial in displaying your Google AdSense ad unit at your Bloggista.com blog:

1. Login to your Bloggista.com Blog. You can log-in to your Bloggista.com blog by visiting your Blog and click on ‘LOGIN‘ under the META sidebar widget. Normally, the META sidebar widget link is displayed at the right or left sidebar of your blog, depending on the theme design chosen. If you cannot find the META widget, login to your Bloggista.com blog using the following link (replace yourblogname with your Bloggista.com blog name): http://yourblogname.bloggista.com/wp-login.php
2. Make sure that the Blog Theme you are using supports WIDGETS. To check if it supports Widgets, go to your Blog Dashboard, and click on Presentation. Under Presentation, you can see the Themes and Widgets tabs.
3. Clicking on Widgets tabs will display the available widgets that you can display in your Bloggista.com blog. Further down, you can see the following option: Text Widgets. Select 5 to display five text widgets in your Bloggista.com blog. Click on Save button.
4. You should see now Text 1, Text 2, Text 3, Text 4 and Text 5 widgets in the Available Widgets list.
5. Select Text 1 widget (assuming that you haven’t used it for some other purpose). Drag the widget to the sidebar where you want it displayed. Some themes may only have one sidebar (one-column themes) and others may have two sidebars or more (2-column/3-column themes).
6. Once you have placed the Text widget to the desired sidebar location, click on the ‘Configure‘ button - found at the right-most portion of the Text widget. At times, you may need to click on it twice.
7. A window should be displayed upon clicking on the ‘Configure‘ button. Optionally, you can put a label to the Text widget. Google is strict in naming your Google AdSense ad unit. Review the Google AdSense policy for more details. In this simple tutorial, let’s put a label - Sponsored Ads.
8. In the empty box right below the widget Label, paste your Google AdSense code. That’s it! To continue, just click any space “outside” of the Text widget box to return to the Sidebar Arrangement window.
9. Click on ‘Save Changes‘ button to save your work. Now preview your blog and you should see your new Google Ad unit displayed (if it’s a new ad unit, wait for about 10 minutes before it appears).

Other Important Tips:

• Make sure you don’t click on your own Google AdSense ads. This is a violation of the Google AdSense policy. Check out the Google AdSense Policy for details.
• You can display up to a maximum of 3 Ad Unit, 3 Link Units and 3 Referral Units in your blog/website.
• In addition, you can display up to 2 Google Search boxes in your blog/website.
• Try to re-arrange your Sidebar widgets so that your AdSense ads are properly displayed and blend nicely with your blog.

Happy Blogging!

First Post: 21-January-2008 

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