How To Fine Tune Your Blog To Maximize Adsense Earnings

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Posted by Zulfikar under Income generation tips

One of the best form of monetization for many bloggers is the use of Google AdSense. Placed in the right strategical places these ads can yield quiet a handsome return for a well read blog. So lets have a delve into how to fine tune your blog to maximize AdSense revenue.

We need to make only 3 changes to get most of AdSense on your blog

Replace default search with customized google search
Put AdSense inside posts
Put text link ad on a sidebar in-between all other links

Replacing search

Login via FTP to your server, go to templates folder (wp-content/themes/yourtheme) and download search.php file. Open it in notepad and delete everything.
Go to your google AdSense and get a code for search form
Paste the code into notepad and save it
Upload the file back to your server

From now on, search results from your blog will contain ads from google. These ads will make you money.

Putting AdSense inside posts

Download this free plugin: AdSense Now from http://www.thulasidas.com/ and install it on your blog
Go to google AdSense and get a code for square banner
Go to plugin settings page and insert your banner code

This plugin will show your google ads inside first 3 posts on your blog and at the top of individual post page. You can change number of ads to show and position inside plugin’s settings area.

Text links in sidebar

Go to google AdSense and get a code for text links. Try to match your site theme here. Google links must look like your normal sidebar links
Login via FTP to your server, go to templates folder (wp-content/themes/yourtheme) and download sidebar.php file.
Open it in notepad
Find this section:
<h2>Archives</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?>
Put your code above this section, so you’ll get something like this:
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-2672859166494051″;
google_ad_slot = “5676568860″;
google_ad_width = 180;
google_ad_height = 90;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script><br />
<h2>Archives</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?>
</ul>
Upload it back to the server

Now you have 3 ads in first 3 posts, links in sidebar, ads inside individual post pages and customized search with…..ads

Now schedule some articles to appear every 1-2 days and watch your AdSense account.

P.S: Remember that Google only allows 3 AdSense ads per page, so when setting up your plugin take into consideration the ad placing in the sidebar as 1 of the 3 maximum allowed.

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Reader's Comments

clarky | September 10th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Hey, you probably right. But I don’t agree with “Putting AdSense inside posts”. I think this is not a great idea, it will visitors run away.
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Zulfikar
Twitter: zulfnore
| September 10th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
@clarky – Yes I agree on that and I’ve pointed it out on my previous post AdSense Is A Big Mistake.

But once you have an established blog with a good following of trusting and loyal readers then there is no harm in having AdSense ads in posts/pages.
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66epp2 | September 10th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Google Ad Sense Message Boards Fraud
Google Ad Sense is when a web site owner opens an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily make $150,000 per month.
There are message boards claiming to be informing the public about scams being done by companies or individuals. These web sites have individuals working for them for the sole purpose of targeting companies or individuals in order to generate traffic to the web site. This method is artificially generating traffic to the web site, this is FRAUD as outlined by Google. The higher the traffic, the higher the percentage of individuals that will click onto the Google advertisements.
Additionally, Individuals post copy right information about a company on these types of web sites; this is against the policy of the Google Ad Sense program.
If you believe that you are being targeted by individuals on a particular web site; simply click the Ads by Google in the bottom right hand corner of the advertisement on the web site. You will be taken to a Google page, click onto: Report a policy violation regarding the site or ads you just saw.
File a report and the Google Fraud Department will investigate.
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Zulfikar
Twitter: zulfnore
| September 10th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
@66epp2 – Quiet an insight thank you. Ofcourse such practicesshould be avoided at all cost as we all know, when google slaps they slap good.

But its quiet wrong to call a webmaster who does their best to attract traffic to their site as “Fraud” unless the site is primarily made up of AdSense and the sole purpose is to drive traffic for clicks. And you will find that not many bloggers/webmasters do that anyways, but as always its the minorities that spoil the party.
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icant internet | September 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Small remark on the 3 ads per page: you are allowed only 3 adblocks per page, 3 linkblocks, and 2 searchboxes. Plus, adsense takes care of it. If you have code on your page for 6 adblocks, adsense will only show the 3 first ones.
Adsense Articles for Everyone -> http://www.icantinternet.org/2009/04/adsense-articles-for-everyone/
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Zulfikar
Twitter: zulfnore
| September 13th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
@icant internet – Thats a good pointer, something I wasn’t aware of. Thanks
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Rick from Online tutor | September 18th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Cool tips for modifying the blog to gain more traffic. I appreciate the work that you have mentioned above and I found the comments more informative and insightful.
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Zulfikar
Twitter: zulfnore
| September 18th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
@Rick@Online tutor – Awesome Rick glad you aprove. An yes comments are what makes blogging that bit more valuable, its not all about the post but the interaction and exchange of ideas, tips and pointes that makes it all worth while.
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accents blog | September 20th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
nice tips i haven’t aware of it
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Jan from Primary Work at Home | October 13th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
This is very informative post and it’s a big help to all adsense fanatics. I hope this is not against the rule of adsense.
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Zulfikar
Twitter: zulfnore
| October 15th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
@Jan@Primary Work at Home – Not at all, infact Google does have an AdSense for search program anyone can use.
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