Best way to place adsense on my blog?

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm

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Here is today’s question.

What is the best way to place Adsense ads on the pages of your posts or pages. Also is there a way to have it automatically show up on every post or page created? Thank you for all your great tips

NOTE : Before I get into the question a note on using Adsense on your blog. If you are preselling affiliate products you probably don’t want to use Adsense as it creates a leak. If you are using Adsense as your main monetization then that is okay. Too often I see people preselling with a great article and having a link to the very same product in their adsense block which can be clicked instead of their affiliate link.

There are several plugins that you can use for adding Adsense and my favorite is Adsense Deluxe. It allows you to input the code where you want it and allows you to use different adblocks easily. You basically set up the various formats in the backoffice and can just add a snippet in your post as you create it.

If you are going to do a specific adblock that will always be the same like a 300×250 floating to the left in every post then I usually hard code the ad into the template. It save me time when I am posting as it automatically appears every time I post.

Which way is best really depends on what you are doing. If you want to change ad blocks and placement frequently use the plugin. If you are going with a fixed format just hard code it in to your theme.

Mike Paetzold