• Open the Template of your blog and scroll down to "Begin #sidebar" section.
• Copy the entire "Links" section and paste it just below it. (yeah you will have two links section one after another, check it in the preview to make sure)
• Now change the title "Links" to "Categories" in lower code.
• Here is the small trick. Open your blog page in a new window.
• Enter the Keywords that you want to use for sorting blogs and hit enter or click "search this blog".

• I wanted to have a category "Google" where I can keep all my post that relates to google in one place. So I entered the word google. (you can enter more then one word, you will get best result by trial and error)Now in the result window sort the results by date by clicking on the "Sort by Date".
• Copy the url of this page from the address bar on the top of the page.
• Paste this address as a link in your template and give the name of your choice. I named it Google Hacks.

• Repeat the same for any other categories you wish to create. I plan to do the same for yahoo in near future.
• Save the changes and republish to make the changes take effect.

• Very simple. Just Click the "Template" tab on top and then click on the "Adsense" tab.
• Now choose the format size of your choice from the top down button (ok! ok! if you have seen this before but wants to have all the ad formats then just wait till we reach step 2)

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• You can toy with the "select color" button but i suggest you leave it as it is, the Blend Template suits best.(as a matter of fact this is the only reason for THIS extra step;-)
• Click on Save button.
• Choose the "Adsense for content", then click on "Ad unit" or "Link unit".
• Now choose any ad format you like. Have a look at the html code in the bottom of the page which says "Your Adsense code". (if you don't see it then just click on the "continue" button at the bottom couple of times)

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• The main trick here is to put exact color values in this ad as that of your template.
• Now this is the trick I am going to tell you which would allow you to do that.
• In a seperate window login to your blogger.com account.
• Click on the Template tab and click on "Edit current" if not selected already (this is where you see html code for your blog d0od).
• Select all html text, copy it to your favorite text editor (I do it in Notepad).
• Now look for google script which look very similar to the "Your Adsense Code" in last section of the Google Adsense setup.
• Note down the "google_color_bg", "google_color_text", "google_color_url", "google_color_link" values and enter these into the Google Adsense Color.
• Congratulation. Its almost done. Now just copy the "Your Adsense Code" into your template wherever you want to place.
• Click on the preview and adjust by trial and error to your taste.

Putting google adsense code in Rediff Blogs is a very difficult tasks for people who don't know html programming. This small tutorial is for helping the fellow bloggers put the Google Adsense Code in there Rediff Blogs.

• Login into your Rediff Blog account and click on your blog's name.
• Click on "Template" button on the top left corner of the page.
  
  

You can decide any place you want to put your google ads in you blog. The best place is just above your articles and just next to your "links" on the sidebar.

I am going to show you how to put ads on sidebar.

Now this is the tricky part.

• First copy whole template code in your notepad and save it.
• Now scroll down to 4/5 of the code and look for comments that says "Favorite Link ends here" or try finding the word "link" or something similar that appears in your template.
• Make some empty space JUST AFTER this line by pressing enter key couple of times.
• now copy your Google Adsense code from your google account and paste it in the empty space.
• Copy whole code in the rediff's Edit Template section.
• Click on the "PREVIEW" button on the bottom. And check for the changes by scrolling the preview window.
• If you are satisfied with the location of the ads then click "SAVE".
• Changes are saved but would not be displayed unless you republish the blog. To do that click on the "Publish Blog" button on the top right of the page.
• Check your new blog by clicking on the "View Blog" button.
• You can always get your old template by pasting the save code from notepad to the template window and republishing.

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On clicking the button you will be taken to the application form button.

Step 3
Filling the Form. Starting from the first column start filling the form as follows:

1. Account Type : If you are applying a part of the company then choose Individual type.
2. Country or territory: click the "Select a country or territory button once and choose your country name.
3. Website URL: type full path of your blog or web page. For example I entered 'http://www.blog4bloggers.blogspot.com ' .
4. Website Language: Select the language in which you are going to write in your blog or site. I selected English.
5. Products: By default both "Adsense for Content" and "Adsense for Search" is selected (ticked ). Don't change it.
6. Contact Information: Enter Your full name and address , as it appears in your bank passbook or school card. This is important because you will get your checks mailed at the address you give here and to the person named here. So if you don't have a bank account give your family member's name or open an account in the mean time. Give all the information about your city, state and pin number.
7. You don't have to fill "Country or territory" here again.
8. Phone Number. Give your personal mobile number or home number.
9. Policies. Select all the 5 boxes, read the policies if you like, but you can read my blog on "How not to get your google account blocked" for more details.
10. Give the email address where you will get the information about your account like renewal of lost passwords etc.
11. Password. Select a big password with alphabet and numbers.
12. Click on "Submit Information" button.
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14. On clicking the above button you will be taken to next page where all the informations you have entered will be displayed.
15. Check the informations one more time for any mistakes.
16. If there is some mistake then click the "Edit Account Information" button.
17. Else if everything is fine then click on "Create Account" button.
18. Congratulations. You have successfully created your google adsense account.
19. Now just one more step is left. Go to your email account and click on the link given my google adsense to confirm.
20. Google Adsense takes around 48 hours to verify and activate your account. So till then relax and keep blogging.

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