Friday, September 19, 2008

Adding AdSense To Your Blog

Adding AdSense To Your Blog

Not all blog sites use the same template so how you add AdSense to your
blog will depend on the company you’re using.

For users of Blogger.com, which is owned by Google, one option is put the
ads in the template section of the site:


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" title="external
link">

<$BlogItemTitle$>





You can see on my own blog at www.joelcomm.com how I put ads directly
above my text. http://crayfish-info.blogspot.com does the same. The ads
here are centered above the
tag and he’s added a
break tag to
add a gap between the head and Google and help his ads to stand out.

To do the same thing to your blogspot blog, click “Change Settings” on the
Dashboard and then click “Template Tab.” Somewhere on the page, below
the CSS material, you should find a section of code that begins:

<$BlogDescription$>





The code should then look like this:






Before uploading, check the preview to make sure that the ads are where
and how you want them, then “Save Template Changes” and “Republish” to
refresh the blog.

Of course, you don’t have to place AdSense directly above the text. Another
option is to embed the ads within the text so that they appear after
particular entries. That would limit you to three entries per page (if you
wanted an ad unit after each entry) but it could increase your click-throughs.

Blogger now lets you do this automatically. Click the Template tab, then the
Page Elements link and finally, Edit in the Blog Posts section. You’ll find a
check box that lets you show ads between posts on the home page.

You’ll even be able to format the ads from that same control panel, making
the whole process very, very simple.




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