With my recent posts on Adsense I though Id share my favorite plug-in for adding Adsense to your wordpress site. Adsense provides you with code snippets that you would normally add to your html of your page, but doing this each and every time can get tedious. What you need is an easy way to do it once and be done with it!
Quick Adsense
Quick Adsense is an easy to use plug-in for inserting ads into your posts automatically. It also creates widgets on the fly to drag to your sidebar or where ever else you have widgets located. The way they have it set up in settings seems a little backwards to me as they ask about ad placement first then asks you to input your ad codes. So Im going to show you in the order I think it should go.
Insert ads for posts and pages
Skip the begin gin section on go down to the adsense ads area you see here. This is where you paste in your different adsense ad codes, set its alignment and and margin you think you need. Now I keep saying adsense code but in reality you can enter any ad code that you wish. This is handy especially since adsense limits you to 3 of any type of ad on any given page.
Choose Locations
Now that you have all your ads entered you need to set where they will appear so scroll back up to the top of the page and you will see a list of ‘postitions’ for your ads. Its as simple as check which positions you want an ad to show then select which ad you wish to show there. You can even select random and let the plug in choose. I typically have a block add at the beginning of a post followed by a banner ad mid content or at the end.
The next section ‘appearance’ allows you to choose what type of content the ads will show on. I typically keep it to just posts, mainly as adsense does not like to see ads on pages like your privacy policy and contact page. You will also see after that section all the quick tags you can use to manually insert tags, but more important a quick tag to insert if you wish no ads to appear in a particular post.
Oh you will also notice a check box that will hide the ads from you in case you are prone to clicking your own ads!
Widgets and Sidebar
The plugin also creates widgets for you to drag to your sidebar for ad placement. Just like the first step above the last section provides you with 10 boxes to place ads into. Once you hit save you can then go to your widget panel and you will see the new ‘AdsWidget1’ (or whatever number you created) and you can simply drag it over to your sidebar location.
Now Im sure there are other plugins out there that do similar functions. I have a couple of them myself, but for what I need on my niche sites this has been by far the easiest to use and set up for me so far
If you do use another let me know about it, always looking to try new plugins to make my life easier 🙂
Thanks for these guides – there are so many WP plugins that it is easy to get lost in the quagmire! I will bear these in mind though should I need some.
Contextual advertising is powerful stuff but I think we will keep clear of it on TheMoneyPrinciple. Like all affiliate systems, the rewards are not great until you have a lot of traffic and even then there are delays in payments and other problems. The other issue is just how much it can slow your site down. It is bad enough when you have to go off to gravatars or facebook or twitter. Yes I know some of these can be cached but the counts can’t. So all this slows the load time down which affects the site visibility….:-(
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I’ve been using quick adsense for quite some time. I really like the diversity it offers. I’m not logged into WP right now but IIRC it also lets you manually insert code into your HTML editor too.
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I really need to change my adsense plugin. It is truly not working for me. Thanks for the info, it saved a few hours of research!
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Nice little tutorial, those plugins sure can be handy. I don’t use Adsense on my site, I don’t see the point for the number of visitors I have, plus I’d rather they hung around and read more of my content.
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