You may also put the adsense code in a layer and use the float attribute in CSS. You can put it right where you put your adsense code so all you have to put in each post is

Looks like it didnt show up but the last word was the part.

If anyone here is a little more concerned about html quality then rather than use a table:

…you should use a div and float it instead:

Obviously changing the float to left if desired. The margin just adds a little space around the adsense unit.

Mind you, anyone that IS concerned with html quality, would know how to do this anyway, i just thought i’d bring it up.

Thanks.

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Heres the examples again in htmlentites, if it doesnt appear correctly, please delete the post John.

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If anyone here is a little more concerned about html quality then rather than use a table:

<table align=”right”><tr><td><!–adsense–></td></tr></table>

…you should use a div and float it instead:
<div style=”float: right; margin: 5px;”><!–adsense–></div>

Obviously changing the float to left if desired. The margin just adds a little space around the adsense unit.

Mind you, anyone that IS concerned with html quality, would know how to do this anyway, i just thought i’d bring it up.

Thanks.

Tam Denholm - Thank you. Your way is better!

I just put the Adsense in the Wordpress “loop” inside the main page template…this inserts the ads between the articles. This works out for a multi-author blog which translates to no effort on the user’s end.

Google’s Adsense seems to be self-throttling. Despite being in the loop, only three ad units show up, regardless of how many articles are on the page.

However, I do like the tight integration of having the ads inside each article, placed for optimal CTR. Maybe a future version of the plugin will have drag-n-drop Ajax goodness?

The perfect post at the perfect time. I was planning on adsense’ing my site this week. Thanks John

thanks for the Info John. great work.

John,

I found a great resource tonight for integrating Adsense with Google Analytics.
http://www.seobook.com/archives/001370.shtml

It appears you’re utilizing Google Analytics so it may come in handy!

Warmest Regards,
Doug

Thanks John, I’ve been using that plugin ever since I read about it on your blog. It’s great.

Now if I can just figure out why the ads on my main page are always the same even though my posts are on different topics everyday.

I have been using it for a while and the only problem I have is that I need to disable character encoding for the posts with google ads insets. Otherwise the adsense code snippet gets corrupted (the line-breaks are replaced with “”.

A great plugin otherwise!

The HTML-code didn’t show up in my comment

I meant to say that line-breaks inside the javascript are replaced with the HTML equivalent of new line which corrupts the javascript code.

Does anyone have a solution for this (other than disable character encoding)?

Don’t you have to add this code manually to the posts / pages?

I really hope there was a way for random insertion of ads to the post.

Thanks for writing this post John, I’m going to try this plugin.

I’m currently using an improved version of adsense deluxe. The improvement is on the ad limiting algorithm.

Changes from the original version:
* Added adsense unit type option (Ad Unit, Ad Link, Search Box, Referral1, Referral2, Referral3, Referral4).
* Fixed adsense unit limiting algorithm, now units per page limit is based on unit type
* The limits are: 3 for Ad Unit, 1 for Ad Link, 2 for Search Box, 1 for each Referral

You can check it out here - http://presentia.net/didzis/wordpress-plugins/adsense-deluxe/

Or you could just use something else like I do, read your PHP code and insert the AdSense code on your own.

I am often amazed at how many people have websites yet have zero understanding of how their website works.

You wouldn’t buy a car with the hood welded shut would you?

Hi Yan,

To insert line breaks use the html view and insert

You need to make sure this is within the correct tags.

HMTK Steve,

the advantage of using this plug in is that you can mix and match which blocks you use in each post, and edit those blocks more easily from the WordPress admin panel, as opposed to FTP’ing changes or messing around trying to load the correct file path into WP.

I hard code changes into template files, but use this plug in for code inserted into posts.

It is also worth re-validating your HTML after making these changes, I found some of my adsense blocks failing to validate using the W3C tool.

Tan Denholms comment on using div tags is a good one, if you want it to validate using the W3C tool (xhtml link in the META sidebar) then I found it necessary to add either side, i.e.

My site (http://www.howtogetafirst.co.uk) also uses mistylook, and the same adsense suggested by John, but it still valid XHTML, which Im afraid this site is not

Unfortunately I am stuck with only a few AdCents for my efforts, a post on improving traffic would be a help

Hi Yan,

My code got stripped, take out the ‘ from below

You need to make sure its properly within the p tags, the same goes for Tan Denholms code, I found I needed a closing p before, and an opening after the div, i.e. keep it outside of any p tags.

Yan, third time lucky with the line break code, sorry John:

<code><br /></code>

I’ve been looking into more the Google Adsense thing.

I haven’t quite put my AdSense links within the posts like John does here but perhaps I’ll do that. Currently I just add them at the bottom of the entries.

Of course I don’t get the traffic of this site, but perhaps one day I might, who knows!

This whole blog and SEO thing has been tool in leanring more about things on the web. Being able to create my own blog via PHP/MySQL etc has been a great asset as well.

Now to figure out the best way to put ads so they are not obtrusive and annoying.

I’ll have to try out that little trick with AdSense and Analytics, since I currently don’t really track any of the clicks like I probably should.

HMTKSteve, I’d be willing to bet a lot of people buying a car would not even know that their hood was welded shut until the mechanic told them so on their first maitenance visit.

FYI - In my setup, I created different groups for centered and float right/left. This better allows me to track which version is performing better. You can setup the DIV code IN the adsense code when setting it up in the AdSense Delux options page.

I actually use my AdSense Deluxe to insert my LinkShare ads into my posts. I just call them “” or something along those lines, and in the comments add a small description of what the ad displays. So, I’m not sure how many of you also use other ads, but ASDeluxe can be used for other ad networks as well. Makes it easier than having to go to the ad network to get your ad code each time. Just a thought.

How do you only display ads on certain posts on the homepage?

thanks for the info. I don’t know that we could just write the code snippet into the index.php for the AdSense to appear at the main page. I thought we could only use it in the blog post.

Thanks

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too bad … this plugin can’t limit the number of ads to 3 as per adsense TOS.
though, it’s great to insert ads into blog post.

Ismu Surizan - The Plugin does limit the number of Google ads to three.

Muhammad - This post should help you: http://www.johnchow.com/best-google-forum-integration/

John,
I don’t know what I did wrong … but if I open the HTML source … this plugin still convert the ads even though there are already 3 ads …

Well, I just use it to insert ads inside post … for everything else … I simply modify the theme and use generated code from google …

-ismu-

John, how do you add 300×250 ad inside posts: by inserting code in post text or by inserting code in template file?

It’s inserted in the post text.

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