I’ve had requests for better support for AdSense channels in my SEO/AdSense WordPress themes, and since I’ve been working on a new Clickbank/AdSense version of the Talian SEO/AdSense WordPress theme I’m looking to improve as much about the theme as possible before it’s release (already added a few new features) and I’m on to custom ad channels which has always been a disappointing feature of my WordPress AdSense ready themes. Currently running the new (unreleased) Clickbank/AdSense version of Talian on this site now with only Clickbank ads on and it’s running on World of Warcraft Guides with a mix of Clickbank and AdSense ads. Google AdSense Custom Ad Channels I generally don’t use the custom ad channels, as touched on […]
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Make Money Thru AdSense
Great info. I am a newbie struggling to make money thru adsense. Thanks.
AdSense Revenue Optimization
I used to try to figure out the adsense revenue by location but it was so much work I gave up and I am just tracking by url now. If this gets easier then I might try it again.
Rick
Best WordPress AdSense Plugin
Excellent work!
Good to see you are already working on a fix. I love this AdSense plugin!
Great plugin. Thank you for sharing with the community.
Thanks, it helped me a lot, Great idea! recommended.
Thanks for the fast update today!
Save me so much time.
AdSense Channel IDs
The AdSense channel IDs on the site you linked to look OK to me, though as I don’t have access to your AdSense account can’t be sure they are valid.
There’s a little information in the readme file with the Talian 05 theme, basically go to when you are logged into your AdSense account and the ID list are your current AdSense channels for those ads. You can create specific ads within your AdSense account for a particular ad block under a domain and add a description etc… for potential advertisers who want to target their ads, so you might say something like:
Left sidebar/menu ad unit, above the fold on a site about ABC, shows on every page of the site and very prominent position.
When you’ve setup an ad like this go to the Channel page and use the ID for that ad for one of the channels in the Talian 05 theme (in this case would be the sidebar ad unit).
The IDs aren’t exactly designed to be used the way I’ve used them in Talian 05 (not meant for copying and pasting just the ID :-)), but it works.
I assume you have ads with Channels IDs
8672523255
9885997937
3794964465
etc…
As these are the numbers you’ve used on the site you linked to.
When they get traffic and the ads are clicked you’ll see ad impressions etc… for those IDs. Remember AdSense doesn’t track your visits (or clicks), so whatever IP you logged into AdSense with doesn’t count in the stats, so you have to wait for real visitors who access javascript.
If it’s a popular site you’ll have data in under an hour, if not you’ll have to wait for visitors.
You can use the ca-pub-xxxxx or pub-xxxxx version of the publisher ID. the ca- version is for international AdSense users, though both work if you aren’t from the US (I’m from the UK and always use the pub- version). I’ve no idea if the ca-pub- version works for those from the US, pub- works for everyone so the one I recommend.
David
AdSense Channel IDs
Google AdSense Contextual Advertising
Is there a way in adsense to force just contexual ads?
AdSense Contextual Ads
AdSense ads are all supposed to be contextual ads: related to the content of the page the ad is shown on.
That doesn’t mean you’ll agree all the ads are related to the content, but Google AdSense isn’t randomly showing ads.
Exception to this is on a site that’s just had AdSense ads added to and where you are seeing Public Service ads (charity ads). Give it time and it normally gets better.
You can add code to your site to suggest to Goggle AdSense which content of your page to use as the basis for ads: see Targeting AdSense Ads to Make More Money. Note to my theme users, this code is built into the themes.
You can also write your content to target keywords you’d like ads for. If you want ads related to finance for example and never mention money, finance and similar keywords on the page don’t expect AdSense ads related to finance.
David
AdSense Contextual Ads