Many readers emailed requesting help with using Adsense on their blogs. As a Patriot in your home attempting to bring value into your life (and being able to pass that value onto others in your community), you will want to use Adsense to allow Google to determine the best ads to put into your blog for visitors to benefit from. You can sign up for Adsense by clicking the link below.
For this lesson we will be doing an AdSense affiliate advertisement in a blogger blog (there is plenty of source material on how to sign up for these programs & how to determine which will be the best one for you to place on your blogs).
- Login to adsense.google.com
- Click the AdSense Setup Tab
- In this Get Ads section, you will have a choice of multiple types of ads. You can use any of them you choose, but for this lesson you will be using AdSense for Content
- Now select Ad unit & click Continue
- Now you will choose the Format (size) & color scheme for the ads. Choose the colors you would like, scroll to the bottom of the screen & click Continue.
- The Channels will not apply to most bloggers in the beginning, click the Continue button. If you want to learn more you can here https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9868&topic=152
- You can choose an AdSense unit name (or a name for the ad template you just created). Choose one that will remind you of the colors & size then click Submit and Get Code.
- Now highlight & copy all of the text in the box (this will be pasted into your blog).
There are 2 ways to use adsense in your blog. One is to put it directly into the blog. Open your blog & create a new blog post. Then you will click the
Edit Html tab & paste the code into your blog. (This is a technical & hard way to do this, I would only do it if I were going to use Content in a blog such as a Youtube video). The easiest way is to simply place it in the side of your blog posts as a widget.
- Now go to www.blogger.com & login. Then you will choose the blog you want to place the Adsense into. To do this you will want to click Layout on the blog topic you want to add the AdSense to.
- Next click the link Add a Gadget (if you are using the general template this will be on the right side of the screen).
- Scroll through the list until you see AdSense
and click the Plus Button
- You can choose the format (or size) & colors (the easiest is to blend the template). Scroll to the bottom of this window & click Save.
- This will automatically setup an AdSense ad on your blog.
- Now click the View Blog link to see the Affiliate Link on your Blog!
Remember that this only places an affiliate link on your Blog, you will still need to market your blog to drive traffic to it. If you don't market the blog, you will not have visitors who can click the links on the side of your blog. Go ahead and click the links on the side of this blogif you like what you see in the affiliate links!
