Saturday 31 March 2012

Can you put Adsense On Adult or Pornographic (porn) content

The short answer is no and when Google says no it really means no. Google will find out very quickly if you have put your code where you shouldn't have (just like people who click their own ads) and you will loose you account and perhaps even your earnings. Google says:

If your site has content which you wouldn't be comfortable viewing at work or with family members around, then it probably isn't an appropriate site to place Google ads upon 
This I think sums it up very nicely. You will have to look around at the alternative ad providers most of which do not pay as well as Google.

Friday 30 March 2012

Does Blogger Count Your Own Views in Stats? How to Stop it

When I first started a blog I would marvel at how quickly I was gaining readers. The blog had only a few posts and already hundreds of views had appeared. I was constantly updating and posting and watching the traffic soar and soar, then I took a few days off. Suddenly no-one was reading the blog, I couldn't understand where the 50+ readers a day had gone. Until it dawned on me that I was my entire audience - the stats were nonsense.

So one of the first things you should do when you start a blog you should stop Blogger tracking your own blog visits. This is very simple to do:

1. Go to your dashboard
2. From there find stats.
3. To the right of a graph you should see "Don't track my own page views" - click it
4. Check the "Don't track my pageviews" and the save.

However Blogger will only stop tracking views from this computer, so if you work on your blog on more than one computer Blogger will track the views from your other computer(s). This is because the system identifies you by browser.

Thursday 29 March 2012

How much alcohol is in whisky - units and equivalents.

For all intents and purposes whisky is the most potent form a alcohol you can purchase in a store. By definition to be called whisky it must be at least 40% alcohol. Almost all whisky is 40% - you can buy cask strength whisky at specialist retailers online going up as high as 60%.

So lets assume 40% as being the standard whisky alcohol content - which is very reasonable. We find that a litre bottle of whisky contains 40 units, a 70cl contains 28 units and a single measure (25ml) contains 1 unit. Take as a bench mark that a pint is between 2.3 and 2.8 units.

The way I like to think about the potency of whisky is to visualise it as so:

You remember what its like to drink a whole bottle of wine?

However when you go out to the pub you are better to drink whisky measures than glasses of wine (1.25-1.75 units) or pints (2.3-2.8 units) as a measure of whisky is small and contains the least alcohol (1 unit) of almost all the other drinks you can order.

Top Five Ways To Loose Twitter Followers

1. Tweeting Too Much. If someone opens up Twitter and has to scroll past twenty posts by you before being able to read anyone else they will get annoyed and unfollow.

2. Tweeting Too Little - its all about balance. You need to interact with Twitter and your followers to be noticed. You need enough tweets to get people reading, retweeting, replying and also to show up in several topics (that's what the # is).

3.  Being Boring. If you tweet about your lunch, or worse your poo people read that tweet and wonder why they follow you. The more interesting a tweet the more likely it will be retweeted, replied to and favorited.

4. Spamming Celebrities. Tweeting very occasionally to celebrities with highly relevant and targeted approach will make you look influential and professional when you get a few genuine replies - but if you get nothing it does not matter as the tweets were good anyway. However if you write "what's up?" or "What you doing" to  celebrities your follower count will diminish. Its being aggressively boring.

5. Unfollowing Others. Many people on twitter only follow you because you follow them (sad I know but true). People who follow a large number of people and are followed by a similar number usually keep track of who is unfollowing them with twitter apps (how do you think they keep follower and following numbers the same?). Though these people don't make very great followers anyway.

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Getting more Twitter Followers Free with Twiends Review. Scam?


First things, first, I don't think that Twiends is a scam - I can see no evidence to suggest this. They have never updated my twitter feed and have provided me with followers. Though I have never used the paid version. When you read their about section you see how they are trying to operate within Twitters Terms and Conditions.

Twiends Explained

The basic concept behind Twiends is pretty good. and very simple. You follow someone in return for so many "seeds" (usually between 2 and 9). The seeds that you gain can be used to gain followers.  I was very impressed with how fast my follower count grew.

Drawbacks

However, there are major drawbacks with Twiends. The main one is that people follow and then unfollow you so you have wasted seeds. In addition people who use Twiends tend to have be following huge numbers of people so don't make very good followers.

However

Despite this there are advantages to simply having a high number of followers even though most of your followers are following so many people they hardly notice you. For example these crap followers do generally retweet a lot so as your follower numbers increase your retweet rate increase. Also having a large following gives you, strangely, credibility. People look at you as being influential and known whereas what you are really doing is just trying to punch above you weight.

Overall 

I would say that using Twiends is worthwhile. For a start you can get 10 seeds (at most 5 followers) simply for logging in so if nothing else this is worth doing. It is a good way to get started and let people know you have arrived on the Twitter scene.