Tag Archives: Google Adsense

Hiatus

What a long break indeed! I was on a hiatus from writing stuff on my blog, and hopefully try to come to my writing senses once again as I creep past this one I am doing now.

I am pretty glad I got my domain name and hosting sorted. So there you have it, I now have my own .com.

I have varied reasons why I bought my .com, one of which is so that I will have a “playground” to test out new designs and put up code in live before implementing them for my clients. Been on a break from work and from freelance work. I just came from the tropical island of the Philippines. From a perfect summer weather there to an extremely hot 46 degrees celsius whether in the Dubai. I do not know what makes people decide to trade bliss over blisters. But that’s just my life. I have to go back to work.

Quite happy today to read that Google has final approved my application for Google Adsense. Well I have put it up there for some time now and even had some money waiting for me already, but I cannot have more access to it other than look at my stats since I needed to do just one more thing…  activate my PIN. Google was to send out a “card” to me with my PIN on it, so that I can manually put it on my account settings, as part of the Google “are you sure you are human?” campaign.

For some unknown reason 3 requests for PINs never came. So I chose an alternative, which they only give until you have requested 3 PINs and nothing came.

So there you have it, this site will now have ads. Please don’t hate as this is part of the project Adsense testing which I will be happy to share with you once I have my conclusion. No I am not going to do arbitrage as it is “very gray” for me now. I used to do it with my website about laptops. It takes away the pride in making websites these MFA sites. Made for Adsense.

I hope mine will not be labeled by the general public as such. This will still be just a venue of my ramblings, some tech I will share and some.. I don’t know. They say blogs has to be specific to catch a niche, I say, I still stick to me having fun than earning some money.

If you want to help me though. You can do the right thing ;)

Taking SEO baby steps

Today, I was checking my website www.selfcateringpads.com. I use the two main tools from Google, which is Google Analytics, and Google Tools for Webmasters. It is part of my routine as a webmaster to check the status of the websites via those tools. Well, I also check Google Adsense, but it is for a different $$$ matter.

I have noticed from Google Tools that I have 3 missing pages, that were link from my homepage. It was from my edits last week. I created 3 tutorial pages, more like FAQ pages. How To Login, How To Sign Up, and How To Add properties in our website. You see, SelfCateringPads is a portal for holiday rentals across the globe.  We started with some properties in Dubai, U.A.E and I am glad to see that we have properties in other locations like France, Hungary, Lebanon, Florida and others.

The website is still on its growing stage. I tried to do the Search Engine Optimization by myself. Making sure it gets found on the key terms that we wanted it to be found. I also made small websites to help it.

This morning, I submitted to some websites related to our site, asking them for backlinks. I also added these potential links (websites) to our resources page.

It is a no brainer but the small efforts sums up. I hope these will all pay off in the future. :)

As for Google Adsense, IT is not implemented on this site. I have other websites that have them. Dubai Property Auction site, Homes To Let and a host of others. Which I might talk about in the future.