Using AdSense Section Targeting in Wordpress

It came to my surprise when a reader told me how tedious it is for her to insert AdSense Section Targeting codes in every post she do. Section targeting helps AdSense understands your content better and then display more relevant text ads. This helps a lot in increasing CTR however this shouldn’t be a tedious task. If you are too, inserting the codes manually in every post you do, perhaps you should try inserting them once and for all into the Wordpress templates. This may varies from theme to theme, but I’ll give you a rough idea.

Look into single.php

Most themes will usually consist of single.php. single.php is the file that shows your full content. Look inside, and search for ;/p>

<?php the_content(); ?>

Add the section targeting codes before and after this line, making it something like this:

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
<?php the_content(); ?>
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

If it’s not working..

Like I said, not all themes have single.php or even if they have some may not have the

<?php the_content(); ?>

inside. If this is the case, you should be looking for:

section targeting

and insert the codes after opening of DIV and before closing of DIV

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BlogsAndBucks June 13th, 2007

Hey, i think this is a good place to ask you guys this question. I am using Google Adsense (manually) for my new blog too but i noticed most of the people use Adsense Deluxe plug-in.

Once thing i didn’t like about that plug-in at all when it asked to share ad revenue (as a donation). He just lost my trust right there. Beside i noticed that when i use (tested it) that plug-in, only 2 of my Google Ads show up and the third one is missing. Whereas when i insert Adsense manually, they all show up. Now i don’t know why it’s doing it, is it a coding error or something fishy?

Does anyone face this problem before? Or you guys didn’t even notice when u started your day with good Adsense money?

:)
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sns June 15th, 2007

Hey Hong Kiat

Thanks for the AdSense tips.

I’ve actually tried the Section Targeting Codes in the single.php file, but the Google Ads stil don’t seem to be very targeted.

Any other suggestions to improve it?
Trying to get better and closer ads for shoppingNsales.

Tks
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sns June 15th, 2007

Just read BlogsAndBuck question.

Here’s a quick fix. Use Adsense Manager instead of Adsense Deluxe.

If u read my post on Adsense Manager, Google just banned the owner of Adsense Manager, and THUS he has removed the “donation” feature from it. So now its FREE!

http://www.shoppingnsales.com/blog/2007/06/12/wordpress-plug-in-adsense-manager-banned/
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david July 22nd, 2007

Or you can use John Godley’s wordpress plugin Google AdWrap.
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