This article will walk you through an automatic process of installing Google AdSense code in WordPress using some secret techniques.
Step 1 – Find your AdSense Post ID
Sign into your AdSense account and you’ll notice that there are a few different sections you can navigate to once you’re signed in. This article won’t cover everything you can do within AdSense. If you have any questions, feel free to consult the help files in the upper right corner of AdSense. We’ll just discuss how to place a new basic ad on your site. In the top right hand corner, you should see the Publisher ID – with a bunch of numbers, copy all those numbers exactly as shown (ignore the pub- or cap-pub before the numbers).
The first thing I want to mention is that if you have the skills, you can create all kinds of personalized ads with AdSense by going to AdSense Settings, creating the codes, and then pasting them into the right places on your site. If you want to learn how to do that, by all means, please do. However, this tutorial will discuss a much easier method. Once you’ve copied the numbers, we’re done with AdSense. You can sign out of your account.
Step 2 – Installation within WordPress
Go back to your WordPress blog and log in to the WP admin area. We are going to use a plugin that will manage our ads for us. Go to Plugins > Add New in the left menu. Find “AdSense” and scroll down until you find one called “All in One AdSense and YPN”, click install and then again, the orange install button. Select activate this plugin. You will now see a new section titled “AdSense” in the Settings menu on the left.
Click on this new AdSense link in the menu on the left.
From here you can play around with the settings on your own, but I’ll give you the default information you need. Anything I don’t mention can be left blank.
AdSense ID: Enter your numbers that we copied above. Ad formats to display: 300×250. Ad positioning: top left. Ads to display per page: 1 Ads to display per post: 1
Then click save and view your site. There should be an AdSense unit on the left of every page on your site. This is one of the main positions for AdSense ads, this placement drives a lot of clicks and I’ve found it works really well on my own sites.
What we have covered above is the scope of our AdSense tutorial. There are many more things you can do with AdSense and other places where you can install ad code. If your site is up and running and you’re looking for more complex setups that can generate more income, feel free to google your ideas, but this should be all we need to start earning AdSense income from your WordPress blog.