How to add Adsense to WordPress Posts

Want to post to a WordPress blog and also want a way to add extra income into your pocket for your efforts. Inserting an Adsense advertisement in your post is fairly easy to do. I will show you how to quickly and easily do this.

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   If you don't have a Google Adsense account, then go to www.google.com/adsense and set up an account. Once your account is active, then you will want to go to the "Get Ads" link. Select Adsense for content, this will create ads relevant to your articles content.

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   Next you want to select "text ads only" from the drop down box. This will allow the fastest page loading speed, extra graphics will show down page loading speed.

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   Next select 468x60 banner, this allow a space for about 2 to 3 ads to be placed in the area below your WordPress post. If you use the wrong size it will page your post run off the right side of the page and could mess up the format of the page. Don't worry you can always remove what you put on there and it will go back the way it was before.

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   Next select what colors you want for the Adsense ad, you can customize all colors in the ad. If you find a scheme that works well for your website, make sure you save the scheme and it will be there for all your Adsense ads.

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   You can click on the "preview this ad" link to see what it will look like.

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   There are other options such as text type and font that you can set, corner styles, I usually leave it as default. Click on "Continue" and it moves on to the next page.

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   The next page will allow you to select a "Channel" this is if you are directing an Adsense ad to a specific domain. You don't have to select a channel to continue, if you don't have a channel you can add one. I create a channel specific to the URL (domain) where the Adsence ad is placed. This is used for generating report, tracking performance of your ads. Select a channel and/or hit continue.

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   The next page creates the ad, it displays the size of the ad and the date it was created.

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   Click on the "generate code" button, this will take you to the next page where the javascript code will be displayed in a box. This code will be inserted at the bottom of your WordPress post, so highlight all the code text in the box and press Ctrl+c to copy it.

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    Open a second tab in your browser and go to your WordPress site, log in and go to your article/post and select "edit", select the HTML tab on the right. This will open your post in HTML format. Place the curser at the bottom of your article, hit Ctrl+V to paste the code at the bottom. Publish and view the page to see if it looks ok, if it looks fine then you are done!