Intro:- How to Easily Add Google Adsense to Your WordPress Site? Google AdSense is an advertising network run by Google that allows bloggers and website owners an opportunity to earn money by showing text, images, videos, and other interactive advertisements on their websites. These ads are targeted by site content and audience, so they’re highly relevant.
Google AdSense is hassle-free because you don’t have to deal with advertisers or worry about collecting money. Google administers and maintains relationships with advertisers. They collect the payment, take their management fee, and send the rest of the money to you.
AdSense offers cost-per-click ads (CPC), which means that you earn money every time a user clicks on an ad on your website. The amount received per click varies based on a variety of factors.
Initial release date: 18 June 2003, Operating System Cross-Platform (Web-based application), Developer: Google, Paul Buchheit, Original author: Google, Paul Buchheit.
About:- Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience. These advertisements are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google.
If you want to build a passive income stream, make money while you sleep, and enjoy the internet lifestyle, consider monetizing your website with Google Adsense.
Google Adsense is the world’s number one advertising network that allows publishers, content creators, and website owners to make money by displaying relevant ads to their visitors.
How to Easily Add Google Adsense to Your WordPress Site? If you are reading this article that means you want to know how to easily add Google Adsense to your WordPress site, right? But, you don’t have any idea how or where to start. If you are looking for an easy guide on how to easily add Google AdSense to your WordPress site then you are at the right place. Just you have to read this article properly. In this article, I will show you a step-by-step tutorial on how to easily add Google Adsense to your WordPress site. Even if you are a beginner there is no worry about it. The steps below are for both beginners & experts.
But before beginning to start a blog, there are some major points that you should know, like(FAQs)
- What’s the best AdSense Ad Size?
- What’s the best AdSense Placement?
- Can I click on my own Google Adsense Ads?
- What is page RPM in Google AdSense?
- Can I use my Blogger or YouTube AdSense account with WordPress?
- What is CTR in Google Adsense?
- When and how does Google AdSense pay publishers?
Let's Find It Out;
1. What's the best AdSense Ad Size?
Although ad placement is key, we’ve found that the best sizes are 336 x 280 and 300 x 250. These ads tend to fit most screen sizes and have the best pay rate as well.
2. What's the best AdSense Placement?
This entirely depends on your layout. The goal is to get more impressions and clicks, so you want to place your ads in a more prominent spot. We have found that ads within post content toward the top of the screen tend to get the most clicks.
Several users have asked us about adding AdSense in a floating widget because it will be very prominent. We strongly recommend against that because it is not allowed by Google Terms of Service. If you violate their TOS, then you can get banned from the program.
3. Can I Click on my own Google Adsense Ads?
Often beginners are tempted to click on their own ads or ask their family members to click on their ads. Please don’t do that. Google’s algorithm is very smart and knows when you’re clicking on your own ad. This can get you banned from the program.
4. What is page RPM in Google Adsense?
RPM stands for Revenue per Mille, meaning revenue per 1000 impressions. This is determined by multiplying the total number of clicks and cost per click and then dividing that by the total number of pageviews.
5. Can I use my Blogger or YouTube AdSense account with WordPress?
Yes, you can. If you started using AdSense on one of Google’s hosted platforms like Blogger or YouTube, then you can change your AdSense account type and use it with WordPress. You’ll need to provide Google AdSense with the URL of the site you want to monetize by filling out an application form.
Simply log in to your Adsense account and then under “My Ads” click on the “Other Products” option. Next, you need to click “Upgrade now” and complete the application form.
6. What is CTR in Google Adsense?
CTR or click-through rates differ vastly for different kinds of websites. Your ad clicks depend on a lot of factors like your website’s topics, your audience type, ad placement on your site, and more. The ideal CTR for Google AdSense is really hard to define because you don’t have access to the click rates of other websites like your own.
7. When and how does Google AdSense pay publishers?
Each month, Google AdSense calculates your previous month’s earnings and shows them on your “Transactions” page. If your earnings match the required threshold, then your payment is processed and released by the 21st of that month.
There are multiple payment methods available, including direct electronic transfer, wire transfer, check, Western Union, and more.
Let's Come to the Point;
How to easily add Google AdSense to your WordPress Site?
Video Tutorial
4 Easy Steps To Add Google Adsense To Your WordPress Site
Adding Google AdSense to your WordPress site is an easy four-step process.
Let me explain each step in detail.
Step 1: Create An Adsense Account
If you have a Gmail account, you already have a Google Adsense account as well. If not, you’ll first need to sign up for a Google account.
After that, follow these steps to sign up for Google Adsense.
Go to the Google Adsense website.
Click Get Started in the top right of the account sign-up page for your website.
Enter your website URL and Email address.
Click Save and continue.
On the next page, choose your country and accept the Terms & Conditions.
Click Create Account.
On the Welcome Screen of your account, click Get Started to go to the Payment address details page.
Step 2: Add Your Site To Google Adsense
In this step, you’ll need to submit the website on which you want to display ads for Google Adsense approval.
Here’s how to do it:
In your Adsense account’s side menu, click Sites.
On the next page, click Add Site.
Now add the URL of the site where you want to display ads.
Click Save and continue.
On the next page, copy your site’s unique Adsense tracking code.
Before clicking Request Review, you’ll need to copy the Adsense code to your WordPress site.
Step 3: Add Google Adsense Code To Your Site
There are different ways to copy the Adsense code to your WordPress site.
Let me explain them one by one.
Using A Plugin To Add Google Adsense
The safest method of adding Adsense code to your WordPress site is by using a plugin. Because with this method, your code will stay unaffected even if you change your site’s theme.
There are many plugins for this purpose, but we’ll use Advanced Ads to demonstrate.
Download and install Advanced Ads to your WordPress site (read this guide to learn how to install a WordPress plugin).
In your WordPress site’s dashboard, go to Advanced Ads > Settings.
In the plugin’s admin section, click the Adsense tab.
On the next page, click Connect To Adsense to start the process of connecting your Adsense account to your WordPress site.
Choose the relevant Google account to connect with your WordPress site.
Click Allow to grant permission.
Click Allow once more to complete authorization.
You will be redirected to the plugin’s dashboard page, but this time it will have all the information from your Google Adsense account.
To add the Google Adsense verification code to your site, enable the check box next to the Verification code.
Click save settings to finish the setup
Advanced Ads will fetch the tracking code from your Google Adsense account and copy it to your site’s header code. You don’t need to change the code manually.
Now go back to the Adsense window we left in the previous step and click Request Review.
If you’ve added the code correctly, you should see the confirmation message from Google Adsense.
Your account has been successfully submitted for review.
You should get an approval email soon (unless your site is entirely new or doesn’t fully comply with Adsense policies).
Manually Adding Google Adsense
You can also manually add the Google Adsense code to your site by copying it to your site’s code.
However, we don’t recommend this method because most users simply add the code to their site’s header.php file.
There’s nothing wrong with this method if you never plan to change your website theme. But if you change your theme, you’ll need to reinsert the code.
But there’s a workaround to this problem.
Here are a couple of ways you can manually add the Adsense code to your site.
Adding Code To Your Site's Header
You need to copy/paste your Google Adsense code to every page you want to display ads.
In WordPress, instead of pasting your code separately to every page, you can add it to your site’s header.php file since WordPress loads this file on every page of your site.
But instead of directly editing header.php, we recommend using a plugin called Header and Footer Scripts.
Here are the steps to add the Adsense code to your site’s header.
Login to your WordPress site’s dashboard.
Download and install the Header and Footer Scripts plugin.
In your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings > Header and Footer Scripts.
Copy/paste your Adsense tracking code in the box titled Scripts in the header.
– Click save Settings.
That’s it, you’ve successfully added the Adsense script to your site’s header.php file without tinkering with the code directly.
Now, go back to your Adsense account and submit your site for review.
Adding Code To A Widget
If your theme has a sidebar, you can add the Adsense code to your site’s pages using a custom widget.
Here’s how to do it.
Log in to your WordPress site’s dashboard. Go to Appearance > Widgets.
On the Widgets page, click on the Custom HTML widget and drag it to the Sidebar section.
Paste your Adsense code in the Custom HTML text box.
Click Save.
You’ve successfully added the Adsense code to your site’s sidebar.
Go back to your Adsense account and submit your site for review.
Step 4: Create Ad Units For Your WordPress Site
After Google Adsense approves your site, you can start displaying different types of ads in your content.
AdSense gives you various options for creating ads and allows you to display them anywhere on your site.
Here’s the process for creating an ad for your WordPress site.
Sign in to your Google Adsense account.
On the homepage, click Ads.
In the Ads section, go to the By ad unit tab. Here, you’ll see three different ad types: Display ads, In-feed ads, and In-article ads.
Click on Display ads to open the ad creation page.
Give your ad unit a name, choose the ad layout (square), and from the Ad size menu, choose Responsive if you want your ads to adapt according to the visitor’s device.
Click Create.
Copy the ad unit’s code by clicking Copy code snippet.
Paste this code anywhere you want to display the ad on your site. For example, if you’re going to display this ad in your site’s sidebar, use a Custom HTML the same way we did when adding the Adsense tracking code in Step 3.
Once you copy and paste the code to your site, the ad might take a few minutes to appear.
You can view your ad unit’s stats and edit its appearance from the Ads section in your Google Adsense account.
Next Steps
As I’ve shown you in this article, adding Google Adsense to your WordPress site is a pretty simple process.
However, to increase your Adsense earnings, you need to constantly optimize your ads by analyzing the performance of individual ad units and trying different ad types and positions on your site.
Once you find the ad location and type that works the best on your site, apply it to all your site’s pages and remove any unnecessary ad units.
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Authored By The Er. Pramod Adhikari!
The Blogger, Author & CEO’s The Infinity Company! B. Tech in CSE (Computer Science & Engineering) from Sambhram College, Bengaluru-560097, Working Worldwide as Software(Web/App) Developer!