One of the most effective ways to generate Adsense revenue is to place ads into the content of your blog posts. by wrapping text around your Adsense, they’ll stand out while a post is being read.
To embed adsense in your content and wrap text around it:
- Login to your Adsense account
- Click Adsense Setup in the top tabs
- Choose Adsense for content
- Choose your ad unit from the drop down and hit continue
- Choose ad format (336×280, 300×250 and 250×250 work best within content)
- Choose colors and corner styles, then click continue
- If you have ad channels, click on the appropriate one, then click continue
- Name your advertisement in the text box and then click “submit and get code”
- Copy the code
Once you have copied the Adsense code you’ll need to make some changes to the code in order for the Blogger template to recognize it. Change these characters:
Change < to <
Change > to >
Change ” to "
Alternately, you can use an ad parser tool found on Blogcrowds. Paste your Adsense into the box provided and click the parse button. Then copy the modified code and follow the steps below to add it to a Blogger template:
- Sign in to your Blogger Account.
- From Blogger Dashboard, click on the Layout tab to the right of the blog you want to add Adsense to.
- Click on Edit HTML link to open the Blogger HTML template editor.
- Create a backup copy of your template by clicking on the Download Full Template link. This is done in case you need to recover your original template should you make a mistake modifying the original.
- Tick the check box marked Expand Widget Templates.
- Search for the following line of code in the HTML template editor text box – </data:post.body> and paste your modified Adsense code above it.
- In order to make the Adsense align to the right or left of your text, you’ll need to add a line of code above and below the adsense block.
Above the adsense code place <div style=’float: right;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;’> (if you want the adsense banner to show to the left, simply replace the word right with left in the line of code.
Below the Adsense code place </div>
8. Click on Save Template.
Your Adsense ads should now show in the body of your posts.