How to add manually adsense code to your
wordpress blog in blog index and single page posts
I've recently realized that the
Easy Adsenser plugin which I
used to place google adsense advertisements on my blog, is probably
stealing some portion of my clicks.
There were some fraud reports on
wordpress.org by people who
have found out the author of
Easy Adsenser rips clicks, by
showing sometimes his own ad code even if the plugin is configured
to not grant any clicks as a donation to the plugin author.
I don't know how true this story is and I don't have the time to
observe the whole plugin code to say for sure if the rumors about
clicks stealing are true.
However as I'm paying my internet access (that guarantees) by blog
to stay online with some
adsense advertisements and the
adsense revenues are either equal to my internet tax or a bit
higher (depending on the month), it's quite unpleasent to hear
someone is stealing from the ads clicks which still generate very
low revenue.
Thus I took the time to read some blog posts online which gave me
some hints on how can I
directly place the google adsense
advertisement code into the theme template files
My goal was to place one google adsense ad to appear right after
the title of each article and one to appear as a vertical bar in
the end of my sidebar.
In this article in short I'll explain how I achieved this banner
placement via the default wordpress template which obviously I use
on my blog.
Let's start:
1. Add adsense to the index page of the blog
Edit your blog/wp-content/themes/default/index.php file
Therein find the code:
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn"
role="main">
and right after this line put the following php code:
<?php
$postnum = 1;
$showadsense1 = 1;
?>
This code is necessery to assure the adsense code only appears
on the first blog post from the blog index page
2. Find the code:
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