When adding Google Adsense to your WordPress website it is very handy to be able to choose which pages and posts AdSense appears on, therefore you might need to remove Adsense from the ones you want. This tutorial is targeting the Thesis WordPress theme as this is one of the most versatile premium themes I have. I actually bought Thesis for this exact reason.

Firstly, I need to explain why I would want to remove AdSense from a particular post or page.

I am a huge Adsesne fan and it is a great way to make money online. But it is not a good idea to have all your eggs in one basket, we have all heard this before. A few years ago, I really only used AdSense ads to make money online and I knew this was a bad idea. Therefore in the past few years I have been diversifying my moneymaking methods. Earlier I wrote an article about how I make money online and even though I missed out on half my moneymaking ways, you can get the picture that it is now a total mix of methods.

When it comes to Google AdSense ads, this is still the backbone of my business, but other moneymaking ways are approaching fast. There are so many ways to make money online so you need to make choices. I have found existing webpages, added affiliate banners and links to test to see if I could make more money out of existing pages. Of course this does not work every page and post and therefore I keep AdSense showing on some of them. This is why I need to choose which pages and posts AdSense appears on in Thesis. Some pages and posts have double the income by removing AdSense and placing the appropriate product to sell. Like I said this does not work for every page or post, so AdSense has now become the backup moneymaker, if the other tests do not work out.

Remove Adsense From Certain Pages and Post in Thesis

Here is the original code that I placed into my custom functions.php file. This is exactly what I had to add a AdSense ads to every post on my Thesis blog. I used CSS to position the ad.

function single_post_ad_300() {
if (is_single()) { ?>
<div>
My Adsense Code Here
</div>
<?php
}
add_action('thesis_hook_before_post', 'single_post_ad_300');

But I needed to remove Google Adsense ads from certain pages so I changed one line:

if (is_single()) { ?>

to

if (!is_page() && !is_single( array( 13406,5526,1025,14717,795,991,649, ) )) {  ?>

The numbers I have placed in there are post numbers. All you have to do is find the post number and add it in.

Watch this video showing how to find the post ID (number)

Add Adsense to a particular page

In this example I am adding ads to only certain pages. This way is hard work and I would much rather not list all the single posts to add Adsense to. However i have used this code for adding things like Facebook comments to certain pages and posts only.

if (is_single('470') || is_single('415') || is_single('418') || is_single('441')) { ?>

Another way is to use array:

if  (is_single( array( 484,526,2699, ) )) { ?>

Remove Adsense From Certain Pages and Post in Thesis

Now some people may say this is a waste of time but I have an example for you to show that it is not. The funny thing is, I asked a WordPress Theme guru how to do this with his theme and he basically told me it was a waste of time and didn’t give me an answer. Now I do not recommend his themes because I thought he was totally close minded.

Anyway I will stop blabbing and show you the proof. This screenshot below is from a product I am selling. I had to remove the Adsense Ads from 4 posts to get this income.

Unfortunately I cannot tell you the pages I am talking about as they are highly competitive pages but this is how you keep moving forward. Adsense was clearly giving me the clue telling me the pages were valuable. I just took that information and used it to my advantage.

Therefore I turned approx $400 a month from Adsense into $1000 a month and climbing! Now that is why I do this and that is why it is sometimes a smart move. Yes I had earnings from these 4 posts but now I have optimized my earnings without increasing traffic or adding new content.

If you find that your Google AdSense income is not what you expected, there could be reasons you are not getting targeted Google AdSense ads on your site. If your ads are not targeted to the customers that are visiting your website, they tend to click less, and you tend to get paid less. Obviously we all want to get paid more and the aim of the game is to get targeted Google AdSense ads on your websites.

It all comes down to the right ads for the right people.

I have been through many ups and downs with AdSense and have ironed out many of the problems that faced me. I have had my income drop to the stage where I could be crying, and rise again after some stupid little problem that I most probably caused. I have learned many lessons in my travels with Google AdSense and I do not want you to go through the stress of losing income, when the actual problems are very easy to fix.

4 reasons you are not getting targeted Google Adsense ads

Of course there are many reasons you might not be getting targeted Google AdSense ads, however these are the main problem areas that I have come across. I am even sure that I will come across more in the future, but I am looking forward to this now, as I would rather see the problem for myself and deal with it. At least I know how to get myself out of these situations and bring my income back to what it’s meant to be.

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#1. You have not implemented Google section targeting

I know you are probably heard about this one before. But unfortunately people still neglect to use Google section targeting on their website because they do not really think that it makes much difference. I have implemented Google section targeting on certain blogs and sometimes it is like turning a switch on for the money to pour in. Of course it depends on many factors and it works better the different types of blogs. But if you are neglecting to use Google section targeting then you are missing out on the chance to see what it will do to your website.

#2. You have no Onpage SEO

Onpage SEO is one of the most important factors when it comes to building websites and the problem is that you will probably need to perform this in order for Google section targeting to work. Just think about it this way, you might be targeting the content of your post, but what if the content of your post is not search engine optimized in the first place? How is Google going to tell what adds to put on the page if it is not clear what the page is about?

I use SEOPressor on this website and I also use a combination of SEOpressor and WPSEO from Yoast. People often presume that these two plug-ins do the same thing, but SEOPressor does those little extra things that I cannot do without. Another plug-in that I have recently subscribed to is Brian Clarks Scribe program. I will be making tutorials on this later, when I actually have tested it a bit more. The problem is that SEO is a massive job and I find it better to buy tools to help me rather than employ an SEO expert. (sorry SEO guys)

#3. You have an error with a sitemap you submitted

This one surprised me! I had an error with my site map and I did not realize that Google relied on this so much. It took me a few days to work out the problem, but when I did, my earnings immediately went back to normal. I am just lucky I happen to check the site map myself to see that the URLs were not formed properly. This was because I had relied on a plug-in to submit my site map to Google. This was a completely hidden error that made my AdSense income drop dramatically. There was no such thing as targeted ads as AdSense had no idea themselves as the wrong URLs were in the site map.

 #4. You website topic is all over the place

Having a tight topic and staying on track is really important in this business. Having related content is and sticking to it is great for many things including sales, bounce rate, and even targeted Google AdSense ads. If you have implemented Google section targeting, you still have to make sure that your article is focused on one subject and not going off the track. This all ties in to onpage search engine optimization and your website relevancy. I know I talk a lot about relevant high content, but it is very very important. You might think you are doing search engine optimization, and you might be, but are you optimizing relevant content?

I am a big Adsense fan (and its not the only way I make money online) but some people think that you get paid tiny amounts for the clicks that you get. Unfortunately to me, this just means that you are not doing it right. My highest clicks have been $40, $30 and $20. That is just a click and not even a sale and I do not have drink-driving websites or attorney law websites. I have worked to improve my earnings and hopefully these reasons will help you realize why you are not getting targeted Google AdSense ads on your website and help you to increase your AdSense earnings.

I have written posts about how to get targeted AdSense ads showing on your WordPress website, however this article will go into more detail on how to add Google AdSense section targeting. The problem is, that some people have a HTML coded website, others have a WordPress website, and some may even have a thesis website. All of these different websites require different ways to add Google AdSense section targeting.

I have actually tried all of these ways that I’m about to mention. In the good old days, I did have a HTML website, and I did use Google AdSense section targeting. I also used the Socrates WordPress theme, along with many others, and have also used the code or section targeting to be added to WordPress. I also now have a few thesis websites that require a different customization.

Does Google AdSense section targeting work?

Yes it definitely does! I have implemented this code on websites and have seen and instant rise in the earnings. The earnings increase is so significant that I felt like slapping my face the not doing it earlier.Even after I increased my Adsense earnings by 500%, I still saw an even bigger rise when I implemented this Google AdSense section targeting code.

For Google AdSense section targeting to really work, you will need to make sure you have great content and have performed onpage SEO. After all, Google AdSense section targeting code is there to pinpoint the good content that you want your ads to match. If you are targeting content that does not have a clear topic, then you are probably wasting your time.

When you implement Google AdSense section targeting code, you are actually telling Google to look at your content on the page, and not the content in the sidebars and footers. The content around the actual post is usually generic and if you targeted this, your ads would probably all be the same.

Add Google Adsense Section Targeting to your WordPress Website

When editing using the WordPress editor it is best to copy the entire code before editing, and paste it into a notepad. This is just in case you make a mistake, as one wrong character can ruin your blog.

1.  In your WordPress dashboard, click on the Appearance menu in the left bar.

2.  Choose editor from the drop down menu.

3.  Look for the single.php in the right menu. Click on it to show in editing window.

4.  Scroll down till you see a line that says

<?php the_content(__(‘Read the rest of this entry &raquo;’)); ?>

5.  Then add the Google Adsense Section Targeting code around that. That means you are targeting the content only and not the sidebars and footers.
<!– google_ad_section_start –>

<?php the_content(__(‘Read the rest of this entry &raquo;’)); ?>

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

6.  Now you can press save at the bottom of the editor.

Add Google Adsense Section Targeting to Thesis

In WordPress thesis theme, you can add this code to your custom_functions.php file. Please note that this is not a tutorial on how to use thesis. This code has been developed and perfected by a few people. I will provide a link below to the website where I actually got this code from.
//adsense targeting functions
function open_adsense_targeting()
{
?>
<!– google_ad_section_end –>
<!– google_ad_section_start –>
<?php
}

function close_adsense_targeting()
{
?>
<!– google_ad_section_end –>
<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>
<?php
}

function ignore_adsense_targeting()
{
?>
<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>
<?php
}

function end_adsense_targeting()
{
?>
<!– google_ad_section_end –>
<?php
}

add_action(‘thesis_hook_before_html’, ‘ignore_adsense_targeting’,’10′);
add_action(‘thesis_hook_before_header’,'open_adsense_targeting’,’9′ );
add_action(‘thesis_hook_after_header’,'close_adsense_targeting’,’8′ );
add_action(‘thesis_hook_before_headline’,'open_adsense_targeting’,’10′ );
add_action(‘thesis_hook_after_post’, ‘close_adsense_targeting’,’10′);
add_action(‘thesis_hook_after_html’, ‘end_adsense_targeting’,’10′);

code credit: http://www.binaryturf.com/google-adsense-section-targeting-thesis-theme-wordpress/

How to add Google Adsense Section Targeting to HTML code

if your website requires that you add in the Google AdSense section targeting to do HTML code, then Google themselves have provided a tutorial for you to do so. The following instructions below are from Google’s website.

The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:

<!– google_ad_section_start –>

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

You can also designate sections you’d like to have ignored by adding a (weight=ignore) to the starting tag:

<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>

With these tags added to your HTML code, your final code may look like the following:

<html><head><title>Section targeting</title></head>
<body>
<!– google_ad_section_start –>

This is the text of your webpage. Most of your content resides here.

<!– google_ad_section_end –>
</body>
</html>

Do I really need to Add Google Adsense Section Targeting

Is the Pope religious? Do cows eat grass?

Yes of course you do need to Add Google Adsense Section Targeting to your website because if you have Adsense showing, why not earn as much as you can?

Do you have any other ways to Add Google Adsense Section Targeting to your website?

If you build WordPress websites and use Google AdSense to monetize them I have a few great tips to get targeted AdSense ads showing on your website. Building any kind of website is a long road, and if people tell you that it is easy, then they are lying. Building any WordPress website takes a lot of work, even though WordPress has taken out a lot of the technical side, there is still a huge amount of work to do. Building WordPress websites to put AdSense ads on is just as time consuming as building any other affiliate website.

Why get targeted AdSense ads showing on your WordPress website?

• You have spent all this time building your WordPress website so why not get the most out of targeted AdSense ads? Why bother showing ads that are not going to pay well or convert for you.
• If the AdSense ads are targeted then people are more likely to be interested in them and click. This is much better for conversions. If the person actually intended to click and was interested then the advertiser might actually make a sale. After all that is the name of the game.
• Another reason you need to get targeted AdSense ads showing on your WordPress website is because you do not want your website looking trashy. If you get the wrong ads will give your visitors the wrong idea about what your website is about.Having the wrong ads can give you the wrong image.

How to get targeted AdSense ads showing on your WordPress website?

#1.  Good keyword density

Make sure you have the right keyword density for the keywords that you are targeting. If you do this right then Google will know what your article is about and serve you ads that are related to that. If you are getting ads that are not related to your content whatsoever, it might be your fault, as you are not using the right on page search engine optimization techniques. It it is not always Google’s fault when it cannot understand or pinpoint what your post is about. I like to have at least 2% keyword density and then have related keywords scattered throughout the post. This does not mean that you should write your articles for SEO only as they will probably sound stupid. Make sure you write fantastic content that is long enough to enable you to add all the keywords you need.

#2.  The right back links pointing to your website

If you’ve done search engine optimization on your article with the 2% keyword density and the related keywords, please make sure that the anchor text in your back links are the same as the keywords on your post. Do not make up keywords as you go. It is okay to use different keyword combinations but you should research this in the Google keyword tool. This way you can target the keywords that will bring you the most traffic or estimated CPC. Also make sure the links with in your website also have a clear keyword pattern.

#3.  Google section targeting

Google section targeting is a little feature that Google has provided so you can target the content that your Google AdSense ad will be related to. For example on my WordPress website’s I usually target the content of the post which is where all the content is. If you do not target the content of the post or article then Google will not be able to focus on related ads. If you have two sidebars surrounding your posts then Google might assume that the post is about something that is mentioned in these sidebars. To show Google which content to take notice of, you can simply add the following tags into your HTML.

<!– google_ad_section_start –>

This is the content you want Google to see.

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

For a HTML website you can simply place these tags into the HTML section. For a WordPress website you need to go into the single.php file in your editor section and find the section where the content begins. For some WordPress website is it looks like this:

#4. See who wants to advertise

Going into your Google AdSense account and seeing who your advertisers are and what type of ads they have will give you a good clue on what content to write. If these ads are totally not related to your website then I would not do this, however if they are, this is a great way to bring out the targeted ads. This will also increase AdSense earnings because the advertisers that you will see in your Google account have targeted your website to advertise on.

1.  Login to your Google AdSense account.

2.  Go to the tab that says allow and block ads.

3. In the left column press on allowed.

4. On this page you will see a list of potential advertisers for your website. Their ad will only show up if you target the keywords that they went for.

These are just a few ways to get targeted Google AdSense ads on your website. If you have any other ideas to add then please comment below.

If you have been smart enough to buy the Socrates WordPress theme to build your WordPress website with, then one of the first things you might want to do is add a Google search box into the header section. As you can see in the screen shot below I have added and moved a Google search box in to the correct position. When you first buy the Socrates WordPress theme you will notice that the search box is placed on the navigation bar. I needed to move the search box to fit more navigation menu items along that strip. this is also the same for the newest version of Socrates 2.12.

Although the new version of Socrates allows you to add your Google search code into the layout section, the actual search box is still located in the navigation bar. Therefore if you are using the new version of Socrates you only need to move the search box up into the header. Not everyone wants to do this but if you do, it’s not hard. Here is what it will look like when we are finished.

Quick note: I am a big fan of the Socrates WordPress Theme but needed a change and swapped my theme from Socrates to Elegant themes, however my website visitors did not like the change. Don’t get me wrong, Elegant Themes are fantastic but did not suit this website.

Getting prepared to move your search box in the Socrates WordPress Theme:

• In this tutorial we will have to change the code in the style.CSS file. Editing the CSS file in the Socrates WordPress theme will allow you to move the search box to where you want it to be. You might want to just move it up a bit or maybe to the left a fraction.
• You will have to you adjust the position of your search box by trial and error. Because we may not be moving the search box into the same position you will have two adjust the CSS code to suit you.

Socrates WordPress Theme

How to add your Google search box code into the Socrates WordPress theme?

If you are using the new version of the Socrates WordPress theme you will not need to add the code in here manually. You can simply go to the layout section and there will be a box where you can place your Google search code. If you wish to move the search box from the navigation bar you can go to the next step.

1.  When you are signed into your WordPress dashboard go to the appearance section.

2.  Press on editor.

3.  On the right-hand side you will see a list of files. Press on header.php.

4.  Scroll down through the header.php to find:

<!– Search Form –>
<div id=”im-searchForm”>

Be very careful not top alternate any text, or even make a space or anything! I strongly suggest that you select all of this text first and copy it into a notepad in case you make a mistake. This will be shown in the video.

5.  Place your Google search box code after this. You must copy over the code that is already there. It will be everything in between these two sections. Click on the picture above to enlarge it if needed.

<!– Search Form –>
<div id=”im-searchForm”>

Your code here

</div>

6.  Press on the update file button down below when you are finished. If you make a mistake you can always paste the original text that you copied into a notepad back in.

How to change the CSS in the Socrates WordPress Theme to move the search box up into the header?

1.  Go to the style.CSS file. There will be a link on the right-hand side. See the screen shot below.

2.  Look for this code. This sets the position of your search box. This code below is taken from the new version of Socrates WordPress theme.

#im-searchForm {
position: absolute;
top: 145px;
left: 748px;
width: 223px;
z-index: 5;
text-align: right
}

#searchBtn {
float: right;
clear: none;
}

.searchBox {
float: left;
font-size: 90%;
color: #666;
width: 186px;
margin: 1px 0px 0px;
}

Note: In the old version of Socrates, the code is the same but is laid out differently so it might look different.

#im-searchForm        { position:absolute; top:100px; left:200px; width:350px; z-index:5; text-align:left}
#searchBtn            { float:right; clear:none;}
.searchBox            { float:left; font-size:90%; color:#666; width:350px; margin:1px 0px 0px;  }

3.  You will need to change:

top: 145px;
left: 748px;
width: 223px;

AND

width: 186px

4.  As you can see I changed my Socrates WordPress theme style code here:

#im-searchForm        { position:absolute; top:100px; left:200px; width:350px; z-index:5; text-align:left}
#searchBtn            { float:right; clear:none;}
.searchBox            { float:left; font-size:90%; color:#666; width:350px; margin:1px 0px 0px;  }

If you are still confused please watch the video below showing how I edit the Socrates WordPress Theme to move the Google search box up to the header.

If you are looking for more ways to optimize your Socrates WordPress theme, make sure you visit my article about onPage SEO techniques. The Socrates WordPress theme is fantastic for search engine optimization and used in conjunction with these tips, you will skyrocket to the top of Google.

If you are a big fan of the Socrates WordPress theme like I am, please let me know why you think it is great?

If you are using Google Ads to monetize your precious WordPress website and you want to improve Google Adsense click through rate on your website, these tips will definitely help with the task. The theory is that if people are clicking on your ads then they must be interested in the Google advertisement. This is exactly what you want, as an Adsense publisher, the website visitor clicking because they are genuinely interested in the ad. This is a win win situation for both the publisher and the advertiser. You do not want people clicking on your ads accidentally because this will not be good in the long run.

What is the Google AdSense click through rate?

The Google AdSense click through rate is the percentage of website visitors that click on your ads. For example if you have one visitor to your website in a day and they click on an AdSense ad then you have 100% click through rate. If you have 100 visitors come to your website and to visitors click on your ads then you have a 2% click through rate.

It is definitely rare to have 100% Google AdSense click through rate. This is a sure sign that you have a terrible website and you will not always earned great money from this. There must be a balance between the Google AdSense click through rate and the content that you are producing. It is far better to offer your website visitor great content, therefore attracting targeted AdSense ads, and happy advertisers.

Why would you want to improve your Google AdSense click through rate?

People often want to improve their Google AdSense click through rate to earn more money. If you have invested time into your website and believe that the content is valuable, then it is time to earn more money and increase your AdSense click through rate.

My tips for improving your Google AdSense click through rate:

Make your Google AdSense ads a prominent feature

If you are trying to improve your AdSense click through rate (CTR) you should not have too many other options for people to click on. For example when they visit a post the AdSense advertising should be an option for them to click through to. If you do have any other links around the post or in the post they should be leading to another article on your website with more AdSense on it. I find that having other advertisers such as Kontera text links  can be a great distraction for your CTR. if you intend to sell something yourself on a page then I suggest you remove the AdSense, as AdSense ads themselves can your sales on other products.

Make your AdSense look like part of your content to improve Google AdSense click through rate

If you have links on your website that are blue then blue text ads for AdSense are a good idea because it will look like part of your content. this is a common colour for websites to use and is also recommended by Google. If the Google AdSense ads look out of place then you will notice a drop in the click through rate. I have even simply changed a color and my click through rate has dropped. Very simple changes make a big difference when you are trying to improve your AdSense click through rate.

Find out who your advertisers are and write posts to them

You can improve your Google AdSense click through rate by finding out which advertisers want to advertise on your website. Google hands all this information to you on a SilverPlatter.

To see the companies and their ads simply go into your Google AdSense account;

1.  Then choose the AdSense setup tab.

2. Then click on Ad review Center. See the screen shot below.

This is just the same as having the right content on your website. If you attract the right people to the right ads and we have a win-win situation. Your click through rate will improve dramatically.

Write killer content to improve your Google AdSense click through rate

Can Google AdSense pinpoinist what your content is about? If you are getting ads that did not relate to your articles then this would be your fault. You need to make sure that each article is clearly about one subject and has Onpage SEO techniques applied to it to help Google decide what adds to put there. When you have highly targeted ads on your website, this will definitely improve your click through rate, as the website visitors will be interested in the ads and are more likely to buy.

Experiment with ad positions

You cannot just play sure ads on your website and expect them to get a good click through rate. You need to optimize them in every way. Just because an ad position works for one website does not mean that it will work for you on yours, therefore you need to do some experimenting. This is what I did when I increased my AdSense earnings by 500%. I not only increased my click through rate, but I also increased my eCPM at the same time.

Do some research on keywords

What keywords are bringing your website visitors to your website? If they are finding your website by typing in a keyword that has a low CPC then this is not good for your earnings or your click through rate. Google AdSense wants targeted visitors to click on targeted ads. For example if someone searched for “free desktop wallpaper” and found a computer website with virus program adds they would be less likely to convert than a person that had searched for “virus software”. This is where it can all get a bit technical, however it is definitely a great way to improve your AdSense click through rate.

The best way to find which keywords people are using to get to your website, is to go to Google Analytics. If you haven’t installed google Analytics code into your website yet, you must do it now.

There are many other ways to improve your AdSense click through rate, including “section targeting” which I will not get into right now. All of the above tips and tricks to improve your AdSense click through rate will definitely give you something to work on for starters.

Would you like to know what the highest paying Adsense keywords are on your website and use this knowledge to increase your AdSense earnings? Of course this would be an instant advantage.  When people have searched in Google,  land on your website, then click on an AdSense ad, this is when we want to know what keywords they have used.

Amazingly, Google itself gives you all of this information for free. All you have to do is have your AdSense account linked to your Google Analytics account and this will enable you to see a multitude of information. Not many people know that you can actually go into so much detail and see what actual keywords are the highest paying AdSense words on your website. Knowing the numbers is definitely going to increase your AdSense earnings and therefore this article is for anyone using Google AdSense.

What you will need to follow this tutorial?

1. You will need a Google AdSense account.
2. You will need a Google Analytics account.
3. You will need to have a website that gets search engine traffic.

What are the advantages to finding out the highest paying Adsense keywords for your website?

• You can concentrate on using more of the same keywords. For example write more posts containing that keyword.
• You can steer your website visitors to the highest paying pages.
• You can optimize your posts for these certain keywords.
• You can also find out what keywords not to use.

How to find the highest paying Adsense keywords on your website?

Using Google Analytics can be difficult for most people and now I’m just going to show you how to find your website’s highest paying Adsense keywords using the information supplied. This is no trick or secret it’s just a little bit difficult as Google Analytics is such a detailed program. There are so many little button and links to press on so please follow this tutorial carefully.

Steps to find the highest paying AdSense keywords:

1.  Go to your Google Analytics account and click on the website you want to investigate.

2.  Click on the view report link.

3.  In the left column, press on the content link. See the screen shot below.

4.  Another menu will appear as shown below. Click on the AdSense link.

5.  Again another menu will appear, click on Top AdSense content. See the screen shot below.

6.  Now a list of URLs will appear with the AdSense earnings next to them. This shows you which page your website earns the most.

7.  Click on one URL that you wish to investigate. See the screen shot below.

8.  Now you will see a complete breakdown of the AdSense earnings from this page on your website.

9.  In the screen shot below I have circled a small box. It has the word none in it and a drop-down Arrow.

10.  Press on the drop-down Arrow to see a menu.

11.  Choose keywords from the menu.

12.  The next screen will show you the highest paying AdSense keywords for that particular post. It also shows how much money that keyword has made you and a number of other details that I cannot show.

What other information can you learn?

1. You can see which individual keyword is the highest paying AdSense keyword for that post.
2. You can see how many impressions that keyword contributed to your post.
3. You can see how many clicks on AdSense ads that keyword contributed to.
4. You can also see the usual statistics, though CTR,CPM,and so on.

Notes on how to find the highest paying Adsense keywords:

• Finding your website’s highest paying AdSense keywords is a goldmine if you use the information correctly.
• There are a number of ways to use this information to increase your AdSense earnings because now you have the inside information.
• When I discovered this feature old shocked to see that most of my earnings from AdSense were coming from just a few posts. Maybe this information can help you publish the correct posts instead of wasting your time on the low money earners.

I have previously written articles on how to increase your AdSense earnings. Please see How Did I Increase Adsense Earnings By 500% If you combine this article with the information I am telling you now, you will definitely be able to increase your AdSense earnings.

With the information I have shown you in this article you should be able to increase your AdSense earnings and find the highest paying Adsense keywords for your website.

Adding Adsense code above the main content in your WordPress website theme is a great place for ads to blend in and look like its part of the post. It is not always good to just slap the Adsense ads directly into your posts and pages. Placing the Adsense code into the php code of your WordPress theme will enable the ads to show up on every page or post, depending where you place the code. In this tutorial I will show you how to insert the Adsense code above the main content in the Socrates WordPress theme, however the same steps can apply to other WordPress themes as well.

Insert Adsense code above the main content title in Socrates

Placing Adsense above the main content title in WordPress makes the ads look like a menu bar and they look like they belong there. Therefore when you go to an individual post page you will see the ads first and then the title of the post and then the content.

There are three main places where you can insert Adsense code above the main content title in Socrates, as with most other WordPress themes.

1. In the Index.php
2. In the post.php ( can also be named single.php or something similar)
3. In the page.php

The index.php is the main page or front page of your WordPress website. The post.php is the individual post and the page.php is the individual pages. Therefore if you place the Adsense code into the index.php only then the ads will show on the front page but not in the posts and pages.

Where do I insert Adsense code above the main content?

1.  Go to your WordPress dashboard.
2.  In the left menu find the Appearance menu.
3.  Click on the drop down arrow to see the menu. See the screen shot below.

4.  Press on the Editor link.

5.  Now you will see a list of page templates to choose from on the far right.

6.  Choose the template you want to add the code to.

7.  Click on the template and the code will come into the box to edit.

Now to add the code above the main content title:

1.  Go to the index.php and find
<div id=”im-mainContent”>

2.  Above this is where you put your code.

3.  To center your code use the following:

<div align=”center”>

Your Adsense code here

</div>

4.  See the screen shot below.

Watch this video on how to Insert Adsense code above the main content

You can also insert Adsense code above the main content  into the archives by adding the code to your archives.php.

I guess you are wondering if my bold question, “How did I Increase Adsense Earnings By 500%” is true? Well it is!!! And I am still in shock myself! From having a website that made an average of $20 a day, that now makes an average of $100 a day plus, and it is just crazy stuff.

All of those people saying you need to have 100 websites making $1 a day each really made me think that I had pushed my $20 a day website to its limits. Was I kidding myself about making any more money out of one measly website? Should I really be wasting valuable time playing around with  Google Adsense ads when I could be building more websites to make more money?

Please note that I cannot divulge exact figures as it might be against their TOC but Adsense rocks!

How Did I Increase Adsense Earnings By 500%

There are some factors that I believe contributed to my Adsense earnings exploding and I am so glad that I made these decisions and take this path. What if I didn’t have the guts or courage to do what I did? What if I had stopped optimizing my Adsense ads because I thought I had reached the best earnings I could get?

These are all scary questions that I am asking myself, because in reality it was all touch and go.

How Did I Increase Adsense Earnings On My Website?

I moved my website into WordPress to Increase Adsense Earnings

This was a huge job and not an easy task. I took a huge risk as I lost pages along the way and it took about 4 weeks to complete thoroughly. I was worried the whole time, but underneath I knew that WordPress was the right content management system for me. At this stage I wiped out my earnings and just trusted myself that they would come back one day.

I bought SEOpressor to help me with Onpage SEO

I bought this amazing plugin called SEOPressor and I cannot believe I did not buy this sooner! This plugin corrected all my bad on page SEO mistakes and helped me get more search engine traffic.

In the screen shot below you can see how SEOpressor works. It actually scores your posts. To my absolute shock, my posts were scoring on an average of 6% and with the help of this plugin I can now tweak posts until they score at least over 80%.

I suppose your asking “Whats this got to do with increasing Adsense earnings?” Well we all know that extra traffic equals more income and earnings. Onpage SEO is extremely important because if you do right, you get delivered targeted AdSense ads which makes your click through rate and your eCPM go up. After all, you are trying to match the ads to the content, which equals more sales. Here is a FREE PDF report from Brian Clark from Copy Blogger called How to write compelling content for the search engines. This will help you get the right traffic.

I bought Socrates. I was sick of wasting time with free WordPress Themes

I do not want to go too overboard with telling you about the Socrates WordPress Theme as I have done a few posts on the subject before. Socrates has changed my life. Crazy statement, but its the truth. You can now get a free trial of this WordPress theme to check it out for yourself. Get more info from the Socrates Website

Also see Create A Mini Site Sales Page Website With The Socrates WordPress Theme and WordPress theme for SEO and easy customization – Socrates WordPress Theme

I later changed my theme to Thesis and remodeled it to look like Socrates as this is the best conversions theme I have had.

I took advice from the Google Adsense team

Here is a message that that the Google optimization Team sent me:

Our system analyzed 399 pages across your domain, XXXXXX.com, and found only one Google ad unit per page on 397 of your pages. The AdSense program currently allows placing up to three ad units on each page, and we strongly suggest you do so.

Since a large portion of your site is not fully monetized, consider adding any of our top performing units (336×280, 300×250, 728×90 or 160×600) to pages currently showing only one ad in the placements our heatmap suggests:

Below is the exact heatmap that the Google Optimization team sent me.

What steps did I take to actually increase Adsense earnings?

With all the traffic I was getting from my new SEOpressor plugin I needed to optimize my earnings as money was flying out the door.

1. I changed my Socrates theme to a 3 column website instead of a two. So it has the content and one column on each side. Exactly how they showed me in the picture.
2. I inserted an image ad for the 728×90 ad position.
3. I inserted a text ad for the 160×600 ad position.
4. I inserted a text ad for the in content 300×250 ad position.

These actions increased my Adsense earnings from around $20 to $30 and sometimes $40. I thought this was great! But wait….the next day I changed one more thing.One small change and it blew me out of my chair!

Please note that I cannot divulge exact figures as it might be against their TOC but Adsense rocks!

My final step to increase Adsense earnings was to simply change the 300×250 ad to an image ad.

I changed the ad half way through the day and got approximately  $80.00 which was a record for this website and I knew it could do better because the day was nearly over. The next day I  hit a new record of well over $200.00 for one day from one website.

I used to read other bloggers posts about how to Increase Adsense Earnings like Is Google Adsense Making Me Rich by Darren Rowse and think “yeah that would never happen to me”.

Although I cannot show you my whole Adsense account and prove this to you even further, at least you can see the potential. Of course this screen shot might not be real. To succeed and increase Adsense earnings you need to trust yourself and believe that it can happen.

Need more information about increasing your Adsense earnings? Get the How to make more money with Adsense report.

This video shows you how to make adsense text ads for your website. You need to have an adsense account to do this.

Designing your ads to blend into your wordpress website is very important as you want them to look like part of the furniture. The best way to do this is to have the background color of the ad the same as the background color on your website.

This is an easy task if you have a website with a white background. Please watch this video for more information.

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