{"id":5884,"date":"2017-03-02T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2021-06-27T19:35:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T16:35:45","slug":"add-google-adsense-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/add-google-adsense-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add Google AdSense Ads to WordPress (With and Without a Plugin)"},"content":{"rendered":"

To start making money with Google AdSense<\/a><\/strong>, you need to add the AdSense Ads to your website.<\/p>\n

When it comes to WordPress websites or blogs, there are two recommended ways to do this.<\/p>\n

First, is through the use of the official Google AdSense plugin and second by making some simple changes to your WordPress files (my preferred way).<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see these two methods in more details.<\/p>\n

How to add Google Adsense Ads to my WordPress Website? (with a Plugin)<\/h2>\n

The Google AdSense team has created a plugin for WordPress users, to make it easier to add AdSense to their websites.<\/p>\n

Update March, 2017:<\/strong> Google has announced<\/strong><\/a> that the AdSense Plugin is going away so it’s better to go straight to the part of adding AdSense to your website manually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can download and install the plugin from the WordPress repository, here is the link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are detailed instructions on how to configure the plugin here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Note:<\/strong> If you decide to use the plugin, make sure that you remove any AdSense ad placements that you added to your website without the plugin.<\/p>\n

Although the plugin is easy to use, I prefer to add AdSense ads manually to my websites since you have more control on where the code will appear and you don\u2019t have to worry about making changes to your theme or templates.<\/p>\n

The plugin enables you to add the Ads without making changes to code but this means that if you change theme or the layout of your pages, you will have to configure the plugin again (unless you have used the manual placement<\/strong><\/a> options).<\/p>\n

In the case of adding the code manually (see below) to your theme, it\u2019s a matter of copy\/paste the code from one theme to the other.<\/p>\n

Add AdSense Ads by Editing your WordPress Files (Without a Plugin)<\/h2>\n

My preferred way to add AdSense to WordPress, is the manual way. It does involve making changes to the code but once you do it for one website, you can easily re-use the code for other websites.<\/p>\n

On a typical WordPress blog, you can place AdSense ads in the following places:<\/p>\n