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.

My goal here is to link the wordpress blog entries to a frame in a personal site. So I want only the blog entries to appear, but none of the menu bars or other things associated with wordpress only what was posted. I know wordpress is done in PHP so i was wondering if anybody knew the specifics of the coding and how I would go about doing this.

Thanks!

I actually teach people how to make WordPress websites, add content to them, and get found by the Search Engines. The biggest problem I have found is that they forget to fill in all the details when attempting to publish a post. Some beginners have been know to even forget to put a title to the post. This is a bit extreme but it has really happened!

What you will need to publish posts in your WordPress Website the correct SEO way:

• You need a WordPress website. Ha ha, we all know that!
• You will need the free plugin “The all in one SEO pack”. Please see top SEO plugins.

I have developed a quick checklist that you should get familiar with when posting content to your WordPress website.

1. Write a descriptive title to your post. Try and think what people would type into the search engines for this subject. What words would be the most common. Make sure your title has at least 5 – 10 words in it..Anymore is overkill. The title is going to catch the fish so make it great! Include your keyword. Here is a great way to find keywords to use in the title.
2. Fill in the body of your post. Make sure each post is over 500 words, more if possible. Visitors do not like to go to a web page with two sentences of information on it. They will leave in a second. I have my own web content strategy that helps me write top content for my websites. You should also add subtitles with your keywords throughout the post, at least one bulleted list, and some bolded keywords. Google loves good information and you will be rewarded for it. Here are a 10 Onpage SEO tips you should know.
3. Fill in your tags. These are basically keywords that apply to your post and title. They are not about the website. It’s all about what’s in the post. This is how you let people know what it is about.
4. Choose a category. Do not publish posts in the uncategorized section. If you do then this will show up in your category list. You should try to choose a category that relates to the post. So therefore if the person clicks on the category, they know there will be posts related to that. You WordPress website categories should be set up when building your website and you should be using (LSI) related keywords. Here is an article on how to setup WordPress categories.
5. Fill in your SEO details. You might have All in one SEO pack or you might have a theme that includes this option like I have with Thesis. Also the free plugin from Yoast, WP SEO is great for keeping you on track.

For more information please watch the video below.

Building websites with WordPress is easy until you have to start editing the code behind the website. However this is necessary in order to add AdSense code into your posts as it lines it up nicely.  This means it will automatically be added to every post you create in your WordPress website. If you add AdSense into your templates you will not have to touch it again and the less you play with the code of your website, the better. I will show you how to add AdSense to your posts so it will line up with the text, embed itself, and look like it is meant to be there.

1. Sign into your WordPress Admin area.
2. Click on the Appearance menu.
3. Then click on Editor. See the screenshot below.

1. You will be taken to the WordPress code editor. Click on Single.php in the right column.  See the screenshot below.

1. When the single.php code shows up you can copy all of it and paste it to a notepad, just in case you stuff something up. This is very important. Do not move any text or even add a space where it is not meant to be. Just copy it and make a quick backup of the code. You can press in the code box and then press CTRL + A to select all. Then right click on the selection to choose copy.
2. Ok after you have backed up this code we can now add something to it.  Look for where the content begins. The code will look something like this <div class=”postcontent”>
3. We are going to add our code before this.
4. Here’s the code
   • <div style=”display:block;float:left;padding:5px;”><add your adsense code here></div>        

Sometimes you might need to put <p> and </p> tags to make a paragraph around all of this. It really depends what WordPress theme you are using. As you can see in the screenshot above, I have used the <p> tag. On some websites I do not have to.

When you are finished adding your AdSense code in press on the update button below the code window.

If you have backed up your code you can keep adjusting this until you get it right. Then if you can’t work it out, just paste the original code back in and press on update to save. When playing with the WordPress code editor make sure you are not cutting code when you are meant to be copying it…Anyway you shouldn’t have to worry if you make a backup.