Adsense On Your Home Page

[exploreflorida]

Have not seen a post here about how to paste Adsense into your Indexu site but here's a quick guide that will take all of 3 minutes, assuming you already have an Adsense account.

Get your Adsense code from Google, you can see my example on my site iExploreFlorida.com. Ive chosen 728x90 Leaderboard ads.

Open up your Indexu Admin Go to Template Manager>Edit then look for Header.html under Pages.

Open up the Edit page for Pages>Header.html, scroll down a little until you see
<!-- header end -->
Post your ad code underneath it. To center the add put <center> </center> before and after the Google script.

Done

Adrian

[Mickey]

Hello, exploreflorida

A directory is an excellent web site to include Adsense, because people visit it to search an aswer to a question, and they click better.

But an efficient web site with a good CTR (percentage of Adsense clicks per page) is not a "visually good looking web site".

It's better to display "simple" text ads at the right place instead of pretty images at the wrong place.

My web site looks a bit "rude" and simple, but it's really efficient to find good free resources (for visitors) and to get a good CTR (for the webmaster).

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If a directory is really exploiting a micro niche, you can put Adsense on the index page. But when there are lots of categories (almost 500 in my case), it's useless to put Adsense on the index page, because they can't be well targeted (it gives a very low CTR). 85&#37; of the visitors come from Google directly in the internal pages (in my case). Regular visitors (coming from an external link of from an URL in bookmarks) prefer to see no ads on the index page.

Some people don't like web site optimized for Adense, because they believe that kind of site can't give a good content. I don't agree with them. Anybody can make a good web site with content and with a good CTR.

[spin]

he has them on the internal pages doesnt he?

[Bruceper]

If adsense is placed in the header it will appear on all pages that the header appears.

Also, if you don't place ads on a page, you can lose potential clickthroughs as some people may visit the site and not see anything useful but find something in the ad that is useful to them.

Adsense is best placed in the header and in a block, this way they are seen on your entire site. You can add one in your footer too but those typically don't have high clickthrough rates.

[spin]

First off thanks, second I did as you instructed and worked out nicely except my Main Category Block covers the last add on the right. LOL...How can I lower that block to get the full add view of 4 adds and not 3?

Again thanks

[Bruceper]

If your block isn't high enough, then you could add <div class="clear_both"></div> right after your adsense code. If you don't want to do that, or if it doesn't work, you just just add a break <br /> (or a few if needed).

[spin]

Im sorry ...I dont think I made myself clear here. The category block which is the first block on upper right hand side is covering up the right side of the google adds. Look here

[Bruceper]

You have the code in the wrong position. Place it as below in header.html

</form>
</div>
</div>
<img src="<%$tpl_base%>/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="4" alt="" /><br />

GOOGLE CODE HERE

<div class="block_left">

<!-- header end -->

[spin]

You have the code in the wrong position. Place it as below in header.html

</form>
</div>
</div>
<img src="<%$tpl_base%>/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="4" alt="" /><br />

GOOGLE CODE HERE

<div class="block_left">

<!-- header end -->

Thanks, but I must have placed that code in wrong place also as it really distorted my whole page...So I just put it back the way it was

[inspireme]

just a display problem because its javascript code, the page renders before the banner arrives... just put a few <br /> tags before and after the adwords code to increase the spacing

Im sorry ...I dont think I made myself clear here. The category block which is the first block on upper right hand side is covering up the right side of the google adds. Look here

[spin]

Don't think I got this right but here is what I did...And good to see ya again insprireme

<br /><br /><br />
<center> </center>
<script type=\"text/javascript\"><!--
google_ad_client = \"me personal number to glory one day, hehe\";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = \"728x90_as\";
google_ad_type = \"text_image\";
google_ad_channel = \"\";
//-->
</script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\"
src=\"http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js\">
</script><br />
<center> </center>

<br /><br /><br />

[FSGDAG]

<center> </center>

Why are you opening and closing <center>'s before and after the Google code?? If you want to center the Google code in the block, open the <center> before the code and then close the </center> after the code.

Or am I missing something here???

[spin]

Why are you opening and closing <center>'s before and after the Google code?? If you want to center the Google code in the block, open the <center> before the code and then close the </center> after the code.

Or am I missing something here???

Thanks, I corrected that, however still have the same problem

[Bruceper]

The code still isn't in the right spot, see below (same as before) and that will fix it, I promise.

I've even saved a copy of your index page and moved the code and it works the same as the site I run my ad on.

CORRECT

</form>
</div>
</div>
<img src="<%$tpl_base%>/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="4" alt="" /><br />

GOOGLE CODE HERE <-correct placement

<div class="block_left"> 

<!-- header end -->

NOT CORRECT (and this is how you currently have it)

</form>
</div>
</div>
<img src="<%$tpl_base%>/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="4" alt="" /><br />

<div class="block_left"> 

<!-- header end -->

GOOGLE CODE HERE <- NOT correct placement

And if you really can't get it, PM me a login and I'll change it for you.

[spin]

OK buddy thanks for your time...Im jumping on it now