To use Google Adsense you need to be able to add pieces of code to your website. The first time you need to do this is so that Google can verify your website for your Adsense account. After this you will want to add the code that displays Adsense advertisements. You can do this using widgets, but this limits you to just the areas of your theme that displays widgets. Ad Inserter is a plugin that you can install and use to verify your website and display Adsense ads in a wide variety of places.
1. Google Adsense Account
First you need to get a Google Adsense account if you haven’t already done so. This post should be read in conjunction with the post for setting up Google Adsense. For the parts of that process that involve code, this post covers how to add the code using the Ad Inserter software.
2. Install Ad Inserter
Add the Ad Inserter Plugin. In your WordPress dashboard go to Plugins -> Add New
Search for ‘Ad Inserter’
Then use the ‘Install Now’ button.
Now Activate the plugin
3. Connect your Site to Adsense
As part of the Google Adsense set up process you will have been given some code to add to the head tags of your website to prove that you own the website. This code is sent to you in the ‘Get Activated with Google Adsense’ email aswell as being available in your Google Adsense account.
4. Ad Inserter Settings
You can find everything you need to configure under Settings -> Ad Inserter
5. Ad Inserter Insert Header Code
To add code to the header tags you need to use the circular settings icon on the top right of the screen.
Go to the Header tab
Now paste the activation code that Google Adsense gave you into the box below and use the ‘Save Settings’ button to save it.
Now you’ll notice a message saying that the header code is currently disabled.
The final step you need to do here is to toggle the little button at the top right to green.
Now click ‘Save Settings’ again to apply this change.
6. Verify Header Code
This is optional to do unless there is an issue and you need to check that everything is as it should be on your website. To check the header code insertion you need to open your website in a browser window. In Chrome you use the View -> Developer -> View Source menus to open up a new page containing the source code of that website page. In Internet Explorer try Right-Clicking on the page and choosing ‘View Source’.
A new window will open up with all the page code in it. Use CTRL + F or Edit -> Find to bring up a search window and search for ‘adsbygoogle’
You should find that the code has been added within the <head> tags of the page.
7. Confirm code addition with Google
Now go back to your Google Adsense account and verify that you have added the code to your website. Once you do this you will have to wait until the Google Adsense verification process has been competed.
Your next step will be to add your first ad unit.
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I have done exactly like this but ads not getting displayed. My adsense account is approved.
It can take some time for the ads to start displaying once the code is active. If it’s been a few days then
1. check that the code for an ad is definitely in the html source of your web page
2. log in to Google Adsense and look for any issues flagged there to resolve (check your email spam folder too)
3. you may need to contact them to check what the issue is with your account if you can’t see it.
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