Are you looking for a quick and easy way
to start monetizing your website? Well
keep watching in this video I'll walk
you through how you can add Google
Adsense to your WordPress website to
start earning money quickly and don't
worry if you run into any issues I'll
also share a couple of frequently asked
questions and a couple of solutions if
you run into problems while installing it.
The first thing you need to do if you
don't already have it is you need to
apply for a Google Adsense account. Open
up a new tab and go to the google.com/adsense
website from here you can
sign up for our Google Adsense account
and it typically takes about six to
eight hours for approval process. Once
you've been approved simply log into
your dashboard for Google Adsense and
over here under my ads we can create a
new one to get started. Now that you
click on ad units let's click on a new
ad unit and from here you can choose
from three different ways to do it I'm
going to show you the text & display
ad that's the classic way that most
people have done Google Adsense so we'll
select this one. You want to make it a
descriptive name so that you'll know
what this is. Some people do it by where
they're placing the ad and down here you
want to choose what the size of the ad
you want. The responsive one is really
good because it will expand or contract
according to what the end-user has if
they're viewing it from their smart
phone or their tablet or their desktop
this will expand to show it properly for
that person. You want to test different
ad sizes because different ad sizes will
probably mean different amounts of money
for your website. A lot of people
recommend the 336 by 280 rectangle
and the medium rectangle 300 by 250 both of
those seem to do pretty well for many
websites. So I'm going to click on the
300 by 250 for the ad type then either
will just show text or an actual image
to a person. By default they recommend to
show both of them again with many other
things you'll want to play with this to
see which one works best for you but you
can typically start with the display and
text ads part and then change it as you
go along. So we're going to keep it as
that the text ad style we'll click on
that you want to put the ad style
that looks the most like your website so
scrolling through you can pick the one
that looks the best. If you don't see any
that looks as close to yours as you can
then you can also click create ad style
and you'll create a completely brand new
one and you can match up the colors to
match with your website. Once you pick
the one that you want then there are two
other items that you want to look at. The
custom channels area is simply a feature
that allows you to better track your ad
performance so you can choose to do that
now; since you're just getting up and
running it's probably a good idea to
just wait until later. The, if no ads are
available that's crucial to know what
you want to do because if Google can't
find an ad to show your visitors then
you need to tell Google what to do.
By default it'll simply collapse the ad
unit or show a blank area and when you
first set this up that's actually what
you'll probably see in the beginning
because it can take a little bit of time
for the Google ads to start appearing on
your website. We get that error a lot,
people think it's an error they're like
I just installed this and nothing is
showing on my site what's wrong? Well
it will take a little bit of time for
Google to show the ad and when that's
happening you'll see a blank area. The
other two options you can do is you can
collapse the unit and show color it's a
different color that you want maybe from
your website or you can also show other
URL if there's an image from somewhere
else that you want to show you can do
that.
We're gonna stick with the default we'll
just have a blank space if nothing is
available. Now we're done with this
particular ad so we want to save and get
the code and you'll want to copy this. We
want to keep it asynchronous that means
that your website will load regardless
if this ad will load so it's very good
for speed and for the user experience. So
we need to select all this
I'll right click and copy.
Now that we've copied it we need to add
it to our website and we'll do that next.
From our dashboard the absolute simplest
way that you can do this is by adding it
to one of your sidebar widget areas. So
to do that from our WordPress dashboard
we'll head down over to appearance go to
widgets and what we want to use for this
is we want to add the custom HTML over
to our sidebar and put that there.
Under the content area I just want to
right-click and paste it and now we'll
save it. Now that we've added it to our
site we can take a look and see what it
looks like on our website. Now looking on
the website you see that there is a
blank area that's because we just put it
on here so it will take a little while
for Google to match some ads to
show on our site. So it could take a little
bit of time for this to show up as you
can see that after I refreshed my page
my ads are finally showing up on my site.
So now that you've set up your first one
go ahead and go back through Adsense and
create a few more ad units so that you
can start testing and improving your
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