Remove the NavBar

To hide the Blogger NavBar:

- Log in to blogger

- On your Dashboard, select Layout. This will take you to the Template tab. Click Edit HTML. Under the Edit Template section you will see you blog's HTML.

- paste the CSS definition in the top of the template code:

<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name:     Rounders
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL:      http://www.hotjunction.info/
Date:     27 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
----------------------------------------------- */

#navbar-iframe {
   display: none !important;
}

/* Variable definitions
  ====================
   <Variable name="mainBgColor" description="Main Background Color"
             type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
   <Variable name="mainTextColor" description="Text Color" type="color"
             default="#333" value="#333333">
   ...

Remove the code to show it again.

Automated OR Manual Submission to Directories

Sites can be submitted to directories in two ways - manually adding your site to individual directories one-by-one and second way is to use automated submission software to do the job. While it is true that automated submission will be able to submit your site details to thousands of directories in a very small time and also free, but the method suffers from the following disabilities.

Directories require the submitter to enter a few characters (Captcha) to identofy you as a genuine human being. This step is bound to be missed by the automated submission and hence your site will not be submitted to these directories.
Some directories also do not allow automated submissions because it has been seen that automated submission software sometimes dump spam onto these directories.
Even if your site manages to get submitted by the software, it may not be able to drill it down to the correct sub-category where your might attract maximum traffis - hence the whole exercise might be one in vain.

So in light of the above it is most advisable that manual submission is the way forward, but it being so much time consuming you would be better advised to out-source the submission process. There is also the question of expertise here, a person having good experience in the field might be able to submit your site to most popular categories and avoid dull ones, bringing good traffic in return.

Protect your Adsense Code

You may not be aware but there is a potential danger to your adsense account. There is a possibility that someone might copy your adsense code onto a website with inappropriate code that may damage your whole adsense account.

This has happened at least to one person atleast who has acknowledged this. There may be more who have not reported it.

This is quite frightening if you think seriously, all your hard work can go down the drain if someone decides to hurt you real bad. But don't worry yourself to death - there is help at hand. Recently adsense added a new feature to Google Adsense Program.

Adsense has a new tab called "Allowed Sites". The two options under this tab are;


Allow any site to show ads for my account
Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account
In the second option you can any domain or sub-domain to your list of approved sites. If anyone tries to paste your code to any site other than the above list, the adsense ads will appear but you will not get any revenue from the clicks or even count impressions. Here I and many other similar thinking bloggers beg to differ from Google Adsense Program. A better option would have been to only show PSA's. Anyway Google has thought this to be right for them and this is how it works for now. So I think everybody should use this feature and protect their adsense account.

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How to Setup an Adsense Account?

Before you apply for an Adsense Account, please make sure that you have a suitable website with enough content that has never been applied for Adsense before. In term of suitability, your site should be free from porn information and adult content. Apart from that, you site should not be made solely for displaying adsense ads. Anyway, just read the TOS and see whether your site is eligible. In other words, your site should not be content-free.

Then, go to Google Adsense Signup page: https://google.com/adsense/g-app-single-1 and start applying in Adsnese. Provide your information including mailing address, your site URL etc. For those who wanna recieve check, you can change your mailing address anytime, no worry.Afterwards, Google need to review your site and decide your site whether is suitable for putting adsense or not. Normally, it only takes you 2-3days. However, for certain occassion, it will take as long as 10 days. Just be patient, and wait for that period. However, some people still say they do not revieve any reply from Google after a week. Nevermind, email them for such situation. They are welcome for all email enquiry.