Adding Google AdSense to Your Blog

I've been to numerous website now and I've found theres a big discussion on whether or not to ad Adsense in the beginning of your blog deve lopment or when you already have a large amount of traffic. Well, if you look at it as a business standpoint, I would say why not add it right from the beginning. As long as it does not clutter or shadow the real objective of your blog, I don't see how it can possible be a negative. Depending on your blog platform, I have found that it is pretty easy to add advertisement, like Adsense, to your blog platform. *Especially if you're using blogger.


Blogger

There is really no instructions needed for adding Adsense to your blog while using Blogger. There are too ways to add advertisements to your Blogger blog. Either do it in the Layout Tab and add the ads as if their were any other add-on or widget. Or, select the monetize tab and select the preferred layout from there. Even if you place ads in your blog using the first method, remember to still go to the Monetize tab so that Adsense knows that you've done this and so you can receive analytics.


WordPress

Wordpress is a little bit more difficult, but still all together pretty easy. If you want to do as little work as possible, select a WordPress 2.8 themes with Adsense already added and SEO optimized code. Otherwise Follow the steps below:

1) Log into Wordpress and select the Appearence link, followed by the Editor link.

Your screen should look something like this in WordPress 2.8




2) Locate the HTML pages to the right, and the one where you want to place Adsense. For this example we will use the sidebar.php.

3) Copy or write this code down:



4) Paste it in the desired location: (See Locations Descriptions Below)

For the bottom of the Sidebar column, paste the above code in this locations in a default sidebar.php:

For the ad to be right at the top of the page:

For the bottom of your posts:

Have fun with it, mess around with the locations a little bit, but remember to always back up your work. Either copy and paste the entire page code (before editing) to a program like notepad. Or download Filezilla, which will be recommended and explained in a later post.

Also if you would like to receive more information on where/how to paste the ads in more locations, please refer to this website which was a big help to me: Link