How to Setup Google Adsense on your website

As a feature of the site arrangement "Profiting on Your Blog" for fledglings, today I'm going to stroll through how to set up Google Adsense on your website.

There are other companies besides Google AdSense that you can use. BlogHer, Sovrn, Gourmet Ads, Q1Media are just a few that work similarly to AdSense. The basic setup goes like this:

• You sign up for an account
• You link your account to a Paypal or bank account
• You copy and paste various ad codes onto your site
• The ad network pays you based on pageviews and clicks

Every ad network has different requirements. Some mandate that you hit a threshold of monthly views before becoming a publisher, others are more lenient.

How to sign up for Google AdSense

1. Go to http://google.com/adsense and click the start button.
2. You must have a Google account, a website or blog in which to place ads, and a mailing address.
3. Walk through the setup process and await a confirmation from Google of your acceptance or rejection. This can take a few days.
4. If you are on Blogger, setting up Google AdSense can be done right through your blogger dashboard.

Creating new ad units

You will be tempted to use a plugin for Google AdSense once you get your popularity. While some of the plugins have nice operation, I always prefer to do things without one if I can. In the event you are running on Genesis, you can follow my exact instructions here. Should you be on another theme, you might have to use a plugin to get your advertising located in certain areas aside from the sidebar and footer. All this will depend on your golf widget areas. And this is another reason I really like Genesis so much!

There are three places you want to consider putting your advertisings - on the sidebar, right at the top of your web pages (under or over a header), and somewhere in the content (either at the end near to the footer, before the comments, or right in the middle section of the text).

In the bottom of my content

It's important not to forget about mobile. In some cases, advertising on mobile are incredibly infuriating for your readership because they don't get in line correctly, or they make it impossible to scroll through content without having to close out boxes. There are mobile plugins that go with ad networks where you can convert your site into a mobile friendly one with advertising delivery, however you have to outweigh the cost/benefit evaluation. If you're dealing with Genesis, most themes are reactive, meaning that the sidebar will disappear and be located at the lower part of the text on mobile. The main advertisement that is to be seen then on devices is the header/leaderboard ad, so we're heading to be sure that ad code responsive in our training.

1.Log into your google AdSense account.
2.At the very top, click on the option that says My Ads.
3.Mouse click the button that says New Ad Unit.

4. You will see a setup area where you can name your ad. This is merely for your reference. Discussing first create the side to side ad that runs right above or below your header. You can name it Header.
5. Choose the option that says Reactive. This one and others in the box are what Google recommends. Because a beginner, stick with them. Otherwise, you can choose in the show up and create custom sizes or text link advertisings, etc.

 

sidebar and leaderboard placement

6. Click the SAVE & 

7. GET CODE button and you’ll see a window pop up with Javascript in it. Select and copy that code.

8. All the other options you can leave as the default.

Right now we're going to place that code on your site. Once we're done, you'll resume Google AdSense and create two other advertising units. You should choose the large sidebar type advertisement for your sidebar, and a smaller horizontal advertising for your content. You can always just use the one responsive advertising code as well and possess that put in all three areas since it can created to readjust depending on display screen size. Create it as three separate ad devices (and name them differently) though so that you can monitor the performance of each one.

Placing codes in WordPress if you have a Genesis theme

To place your responsive ad in the header area, you’ll need the Genesis simple hooks plugin (and the Genesis framework).

1. Go to Plugins.
2. Click Add New.
3. Type Genesis Simple Hooks in the search bar.
4. Click install, and then activate.
5. Navigate to the side of your dashboard and click GENESIS > Simple Hooks (you might have to refresh the page).
6. Find the Header Hook boxes and you can paste the code in either the genesis_before_header or genesis_after_header option.
7. Alternatively, you can choose the Content Hook box area and use the  genesis_after_content_sidebar_wrap (that’s where mine is on Fabulous Blogging).
8. Don’t forget to hit save!

Without Genesis

You may look to see if your theme has a widget area already available right before your articles (some do), or you can install a tool that will help you place your ads. Distinct plugins offer you various options to put codes that automatically show up in several spots on your web page. A lot of them even do all the work for you and all you have to do is pick up your publisher ID amount from AdSense. Elegant Styles wrote a post on AdSense* along which includes reviews of various plugins.

*Just a note* - A high level00 beginner, I actually wouldn't recommend editing your PHP files as advised in this article as a solution to people who don't want to use a plugin. This is the easiest and speediest way to break your site.

Placing codes in your sidebar with or without Genesis

1. Most themes have a sidebar widget area, so copy your code from AdSense, and navigate to Appearance > Widgets.
2. Click and drag a text widget over to your sidebar (you can do the same if you have a footer widget area as well).
3. Paste the code into the widget area and hit save.

Placing codes in your footer area with Genesis

You can go back to the Simple Hooks area and use the box that says genesis_before_comments or genesis_before_footer. Paste the code there.

Placing codes in your footer without Genesis

Look for a widget area in your widgets page. This is the simplest way, although ad sizes don’t always behave with the widget area sizes.

A few other tips for Google AdSense

• You are only allowed to display three ads per page/post.
• When you first place your ads, you’ll see a blank spot. That is normal and will stay that way until Google analyzes your site.
• Make sure you have a privacy policy somewhere on your site once you begin using ads.
• Sites with adult content violate AdSense policies and you will be denied (or denied right before payout).
• Google AdSense doesn’t pay you until you reach a $100.00 threshold.

Why so much insistence on not using a plugin?

Like a site grows and extends, it becomes necessary to use various plugins. Right now there are just some things cannot do without the aid of a stylish plugin. I am by no means "anti-plugin", but I know that the more plugins you add to a site, the greater vulnerable it becomes to infections, malware, glitches, and of course - slow-moving loading (the death of a site commences having its site speed).

Why would My spouse and i recommend by using a plugin for something as simple as placing ads when I would rather just put the limitations where they need to be manually, and save myself the headache of considering a plugin? I had much prefer to save my plugin needs for things I TRULY cannot do without the accompanied by an one.

The two best things a beginning blogger can do is to pay for a good theme (such Genesis, Prophoto, Thesis, and so forth. ) and maintain plug ins to a minimum. These types of two components of advice will save you MOUNTAINS of headache and frustration.

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