How to Reduce AdSense Impressions while Improving the Click-Through Rate (CTR)

terminator Before I tell you how to reduce AdSense impressions while improving the click-through rate (CTR) at the same time, I have to admit I dropped the ball on this one. Back in July, I published "Reducing AdSense Impressions from Robots", and then later inserted an update message saying I wasn't doing it that way. I meant to do a follow-up after testing, but I got sidetracked by real-world events.

These techniques require you to insert code which will set a condition. A condition of 0 will allow an AdSense block to be displayed while a condition of 1 will prevent it.

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The UV SEO Series – Part Seven – Backlink Sources

search In part one of "The UV SEO Series", I introduced the series. In part two, I wrote about having one website address. In part three, I wrote about internal linking strategies. In part four, I emphasized meta descriptions and meta tags. In part five, I introduced keywords, keyword density and keyword placement ideas. I began with offsite SEO in part 6 with the backlink format. Although I could continue this series forever, I'm going to conclude it today with backlink sources. I plan to start the next and subsequent series with narrowly focused topics.

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How Does Allowing 'Dofollow' Links Help Your Blog?

Chain Links I'm going to answer the question that "Barack Obama" (not the real one, of course) left as a comment on my article about Backlink Building with DoFollow Blogs and the CommentLuv WordPress Plugin, "So how does allowing dofollow backlinks help your blog?", by referencing other articles and comments.

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