Posts Tagged ‘SEO’

Google AdSense And Image Placement Policy

Posted on December 2006 at about 1:08 AM by hwa

Few days ago i saw this from Weblog Tools Collection, it’s about the image placement for Google AdSense.

Some bloggers will use plugins that will place an image beside their AdSense advertisement in believe that it will increase the CTR (Click Through Rate), i’m not sure how true it is but one thing for sure is that it will draw your visitor’s attentions, and this make the advertisement looks nicer too, that’s what i like about it.

At first Google AdSense said that it’s alright as long as we place a line to separate the image from the advertisement, and the image should not included as the link for the advertisement, but still we don’t know whether or not this violate Google AdSense’s Terms and Conditions.

Until recently Google had make a clear statement regarding the image placement policy. From what i understand, Google don’t allow we put images that is looks like part of the advertisement, so even though we put a line separating the advertisements is still wrong.

AdSense Between WordPress Post

Posted on October 2006 at about 10:50 PM by hwa

Few days ago a friend of mine asked me how to insert Google AdSense in between posts in the main page, too bad that she is using Blogger and i’m not familiar with it.

Anyway this is how i do it in WordPress, it’s very easy actually, all you have to do is to insert the following code into The Loop:

  1. < ?php
  2. $gcount++; // google post counter
  3.                
  4. if ($gadv < 3) { // how many ads to display?
  5.   if ($gcount%2 == 0) { // display ad after how many post?
  6.     $gadv++; // count number of adv
  7.     print 'Your Google AdSense Code Here';
  8.   }
  9. }
  10. ?>

Don’t forget to insert your own Google AdSense code, and you can put the above code anywhere in your “single.php” as long as it’s in between the line:

  1. < ?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

and

  1. < ?php endwhile; ?>

Which is The Loop that i mentioned earlier.

You may want to change the parameter to suit your need, there are only two parameters you can set, first one is:

For the total number of AdSense display in your home page, remember that Google only allow a maximum number of three AdSense displayed in the same page.

The second parameter would be:

  1. $gcount

This one is to set your AdSense to display after the specific amount of post, the default setting is to display AdSense every two post.