7.3 Adding AdSense To Your Blog

Not all blog sites use the same template so how you add AdSense to yourblog will depend on the company you’re using.

For users of Blogspot.com, which is owned by Google, you can put the ads inthe template section of the site:

You can see on my own blog at http://www.joelcomm.com/ how I put adsdirectly above my text. http://crayfish-info.blogspot.com/ does the same. Theads here are centered above the

tag and he’s added a
break tagto add a gap between the head and Google and help his ads to stand out.

To do the same thing to your blogspot blog, click “Change Settings” on theDashboard and then click “Template Tab.” Somewhere on the page, belowthe CSS material, you should find a section of code that begins”

Before uploading, check the preview to make sure that the ads are whereand how you want them, then “Save Template Changes” and “Republish” torefresh the blog.

Of course, you don’t have to place AdSense directly above the text. Anotheroption is to embed the ads within the text so that they appear afterparticular entries. That would limit you to three entries per page (if youwanted an ad unit after each entry) but it could increase your click-throughs.