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This QuickTip is about a file that Google Buzz is going to put into your Google Drive, as part of it's final turn-off routine, for all Buzz accounts that haven't yet been deleted. Google Buzz was one of Google's early-and-short-lived social networking attempts, but was used by some bloggers looking to promote their blogs. It was closed down in October 2011 I haven't seen it published in any of the Google blogs that I follow, but recently I was sent an email saying that t he last step in the close-down will happen o n or after 17 July 201 3, when Google  will save a copy of the Buzz posts from any remaining active Buzz accounts to the account-holders  Google Drive .  There will be two types of file, and the files won't  count against your storage limits.   They say: The first will be private, only accessible to you, and have a snapshot of the Google Buzz public and private posts that  you wrote . The second will have  a copy of your  Google Buzz p...

This QuickTip is about a change to AdSense's policies about modifying their ad code: in short, you are now allowed to change the code in certain way, to achieve certain things. AdSense have announced changes to their "Modifying ad code" policy. In the past, publishers weren't allowed to change AdSense ads in any way other than what could be done through the AdSense ad-code generator or Blogger's Add-a-gadget / Adsense tools. Now, however, some changes are allowed, so you can do things like: Responsive design : creating a single webpage that adapts to the device on it�s being viewed on (eg laptop, smartphone or tablet). A/B testing : creating multiple versions of a page and comparing how they are used to see which page is the most effective. Setting custom channels dynamically: Ad tag minification : Enabling your site pages to load faster by reducing the amount of data to be transferred. In several places, AdSense say that the goals of these changes should be ...

This article is about setting up Google Analytics on your blog in a way that includes data for AdSense clicks and behaviour. Google Analytics and Blogger. Analytics is Google's tool for measuring website performance:    how many visitors, how long do they stay for, what pages do they look at - and if you use AdSense, where are your earnings coming from. It's a major step up from Blogger's Statistics displays, and has far more details eg where the visitors came from, what browser they are using. When people first started using Analytics with Blogger, they followed the standard Analytics instructions to edit their template and add the tracking code to it. However if they switched to use a different template , the tracking code was lost unless they remembered to re-install it - and many people didn't remember. So some Google engineers started telling people to put the code into an HTML/Javascript widget instead, because widgets are kept through template changes. ...