Make Money Step 2: Setup Adsense With The Blog

Once your Adsense account is approved, setting up your blog with it is the next step to do. There are couple of formats that you can use when setting up the Adsense widget with Blogger.com.

Blogger.com and Adsense allow only three widgets of advertisement per page so before you start, you should decide where to put those three. For tips on what format to use, try this site:

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17955

As of me, I decided to put the ads at the left sidebar and a half banner in the middle before the post area because Google and other blog publishers (most of them) are keep on telling that that is the most effective location of the ads. There's no guarantee on that. The best thing to do is to keep the ads on that location and after a few days or weeks relocate them into other part of the page and figure out which location gives the best results. In short, you should experiment on how your readers respond to it. The left side bar could be the best location for other bloggers but it doesn't mean that it would work for you as well. Analyze a little bit on what you are doing.


How to add an Adsense Widget?

At the Blogger dashboard, click "Layout". Then goto "Page Element". At the location of your choice, click the "Add Page Element" button to display the list of page element that you want to activate in your blog page. The button looks like the following screen grab:

Choose Adsense:



Then the "Configure Adsense" window will be displayed. See the graphics below to know how it looks:


At the said window, you can set up the Ads Format and the colors that you want. Then click the Save Changes button. A word of advice on the ads color setting, it should be in a way resembling to the overall page theme to create oneness.

So what are you waiting for? Explore. I am sure that you will enjoy employing your creativity on this.

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