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Blogger Template GREEN LUSH Ported to WordPress by Headsetoptions

Published on March 17, 2007 in 2 column, Announcements, Blogger, Business blog, Green, New Releases, SEO-friendly Template, Themes, W3C, WP, WP 2.1.1, WP 2.1.2, WP Templates, Web 2, Web 2.0, Web technology, Weblog tools, WordPress, WordPress themes, blogger template, green lush, march, web sites, white and yamasaki. 5 Comments

green lush

GREEN LUSH: Download | Test run | Support

2 Columns, Green, White and Blue, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebar, Blogger Template ported to WordPress, Clean All-purpose Template

Green Lush 2C: (2 Columns version) A fresh, neat and clean theme for WordPress by Headsetoptions and MandarinMusing based on “Green Lush” Blogger Template by Yamasaki. The theme is green and white in color, with a fixed width, widget ready, with a right sidebar, and released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

Special thanks to Romow for their interest in our work.

Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for theme support, queries or customized web design projects.

You may view, download and testrun more of our themes here.

We would request users of our themes to kindly leave a feedback for us and if you like our themes, please Digg for us. Thanks!

Ads by Google: “Put your Ads where the Money Is”

Published on February 20, 2007 in Ad size, Advertisements, Banner Ads, Blogger, Contextual Ads, Google, Google Adsense, Google Inc., Monetize and Money. 32 Comments

Google Adsense If Google ads makes you ogle, you sure are going the right way… use Google Adsense intuitively, if you feel a strong urge to click a particular ad, more than likely, others will.

Here are some quick tips that might do the trick!!

Visibility of ad: Do not dump your ads right at the bottom of your website, unless you have a website where scrolling is not required.

Hot spots: left side of your page and the middle.

Best sizes:
336×280 large rectangle
160×600 wide skyscraper
300×250 inline rectangle
728 leaderboard

Contextual ads: Filter all the useless advertisements from Competitive Ad Filter link below the AdSense Setup tab using the entire URI/ URL of the website starting with www.nameoftheuselesswebsite.com.

Optimize: Use all the three Google ad units if you have a lot of traffic, else cut it off, you don’t want your ads jumping on your audience.

Link/menu ads: Build interest with link units in your navigation or menu area.

Blend your ads with your design: Match the headings and body of your ads with the headings and body of your posts, both in terms of colors and fonts, to some extent.

Multiple websites trial: Check ads in multiple locations to see what works well for your site. You could try using multiple Blogger accounts for experiment/ test.

Google compliance: BEWARE. Placing images in context with ads side by side could be the end of your Google Adsense account. Check the example below.

Google non-compliant ad