tion_end -->

To code it into your template you have to edit index.php, single.php and archive.php (all in /wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/) What you need to do in all three files is to look for the function the_content() and place the tags around it. This will look slightly different for each file:

single.php and index.php Look for the line

<div class="entrytext">. Place your tags around the function the_content(). <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?> <!-- go<div style="float:right;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/14597/advice--And-the-Greatest-of-These-is-Love.html"> And the Greatest of These is Love</a><br>“We love our customers.”“We love our employees.”“We love the boss.”“We love your problems.”It seems that American business loves everyone and everything. Perhaps it is the fact that most of today’s business leaders were born or grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the decade of love. But more likely it is a semantic error, or a marketer’s ploy.The problem comes from the fact that in English we have only one word for many meanings “love.” In ancient Greece there were five words to describe the various for</div>1. Blend in your ads</p><p>The most important thing to achieve is blending in your ads. Make sure the ads become a part of your content.</p><p>This is important because your visitors are used to ignore banners, buttons etc. Therefor you should avoid using the 468X60 banner with borders and image ads on; people will recognize this as one of those annoying banners and ignore it. Match the colors of your ads to the ones you use on your website: Choose the same background, text and link color and don't use a border.</p><p>2. Place AdSense Ads in your postings</p><p>Place ads in your postings. This way they are visible to every visitor who is reading any post on your website.</p><p>Go for the Medium Rectangle (300 x 250), Square (250 x 250) or Large Rectangle (336 x 280). To really integrate them you can place the ads in a floating div:</p><p>3. Place the ad in a floating div</p><p>To really integrate the ads in your posting you can place them in a floating div. By doing so your text will be displayed next to the ad. A floating div looks like this: <xmp><div style="display:block;float:left;padding:5px;"> Your AdSense code</div><ol class="commentlist"> Place the following code directly after that: <li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>"your AdSense Code

Make sure your ad matches the layout of your comments.

Your ad will now show only if there are comments to a post. If you want to show an ad when there are no comments as well you can look for the following line:

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?> <!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->

and place your AdSense code right after that.

You can check out www.seo-portal.com to see what it looks like.

5. Section Targeting

Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you’d like to emphasize or downplay for the matching of ads to your site’s content. It's a technique to improve the relevance of the ads that are shown.

It's best to make sure you use this for every post you write, so that the ads shown for this post will be relevant. You can do this by placing the tags in the posting itself when you write it, or you can code it into your template. The tags you need to use are:

<!-- google_ad_section_start --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end -->

To code it into your template you have to edit index.php, single.php and archive.php (all in /wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/) What you need to do in all three files is to look for the function the_content() and place the tags around it. This will look slightly different for each file:

single.php and index.php Look for the line

<div class="entrytext">. Place your tags around the function the_content(). <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?> <!-- go<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/10444/advice--Free-Background-Checks--The-Beginning.html"> Free Background Checks: The Beginning</a><br>There are a large number of sites that offer to send back free of charge background checks. Usually these free searches offer basic data that is publicly available already such as yellow page or white page info or anything that is already published on the net.Some big name background check services include U.S. Search, Net Detective, and E-Background Check. depending on the depth of investigation you want, you will likely need to pay a fixed sum of funds upfront or have something tailor quoted for you.The turnaround time for</div>. This way they are visible to every visitor who is reading any post on your website.</p><p>Go for the Medium Rectangle (300 x 250), Square (250 x 250) or Large Rectangle (336 x 280). To really integrate them you can place the ads in a floating div:</p><p>3. Place the ad in a floating div</p><p>To really integrate the ads in your posting you can place them in a floating div. By doing so your text will be displayed next to the ad. A floating div looks like this: <xmp><div style="display:block;float:left;padding:5px;"> Your AdSense code</div><ol class="commentlist"> Place the following code directly after that: <li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>"your AdSense Code

Make sure your ad matches the layout of your comments.

Your ad will now show only if there are comments to a post. If you want to show an ad when there are no comments as well you can look for the following line:

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?> <!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->

and place your AdSense code right after that.

You can check out www.seo-portal.com to see what it looks like.

5. Section Targeting

Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you’d like to emphasize or downplay for the matching of ads to your site’s content. It's a technique to improve the relevance of the ads that are shown.

It's best to make sure you use this for every post you write, so that the ads shown for this post will be relevant. You can do this by placing the tags in the posting itself when you write it, or you can code it into your template. The tags you need to use are:

<!-- google_ad_section_start --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end -->

To code it into your template you have to edit index.php, single.php and archive.php (all in /wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/) What you need to do in all three files is to look for the function the_content() and place the tags around it. This will look slightly different for each file:

single.php and index.php Look for the line

<div class="entrytext">. Place your tags around the function the_content(). <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?> <!-- go<div style="float:right;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/32401/advice--Outsourcing-Strategies-and-Trends.html"> Outsourcing Strategies and Trends</a><br>Outsourcing was the topic in the 1990's and quite frankly it was a feared discussion. Outsourcing was introduced to business as a way to take cost out of the daily operational budget. Quickly, outsourcing rose to be viewed as a possible partner to application development, marketing and labor augmentation. Early in the 1990's and even now we see it morphing it's way to become more and more transparent within companies in the Fortune 500 and below. Examples of new and innovative thought leadership regarding outsourcing is emerging every </div>ce the following code directly after that: <xmp><li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>"your AdSense Code

Make sure your ad matches the layout of your comments.

Your ad will now show only if there are comments to a post. If you want to show an ad when there are no comments as well you can look for the following line:

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?> <!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->

and place your AdSense code right after that.

You can check out www.seo-portal.com to see what it looks like.

5. Section Targeting

Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you’d like to emphasize or downplay for the matching of ads to your site’s content. It's a technique to improve the relevance of the ads that are shown.

It's best to make sure you use this for every post you write, so that the ads shown for this post will be relevant. You can do this by placing the tags in the posting itself when you write it, or you can code it into your template. The tags you need to use are:

<!-- google_ad_section_start --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end -->

To code it into your template you have to edit index.php, single.php and archive.php (all in /wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/) What you need to do in all three files is to look for the function the_content() and place the tags around it. This will look slightly different for each file:

single.php and index.php Look for the line

<div class="entrytext">. Place your tags around the function the_content(). <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?> <!-- go<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/66891/advice--The-New-Wave-Is-Here---Virtual-Media-Advertising.html"> The New Wave Is Here - Virtual Media Advertising</a><br>Internet marketing has been around on the web for about seven years now and has grown in popularity since its inception. New techniques to gain favor with the search engines are springing up on a daily basis. The new technology is here as the front runner of marketing. It’s called virtual media advertising.Virtual media advertising and virtual marketing are the latest ways to reach the consumer to get them to buy products and services. New channels are opening up that allow the vendor to reach these consumers, and is becoming the p</div>5. Section Targeting</p><p>Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you’d like to emphasize or downplay for the matching of ads to your site’s content. It's a technique to improve the relevance of the ads that are shown.</p><p>It's best to make sure you use this for every post you write, so that the ads shown for this post will be relevant. You can do this by placing the tags in the posting itself when you write it, or you can code it into your template. The tags you need to use are: <xmp><!-- google_ad_section_start --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end -->

To code it into your template you have to edit index.php, single.php and archive.php (all in /wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/) What you need to do in all three files is to look for the function the_content() and place the tags around it. This will look slightly different for each file:

single.php and index.php Look for the line

<div class="entrytext">. Place your tags around the function the_content(). <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?> <!-- go<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/17992/advice--Are-You-Feeding-Your-Sales-With-A-Teaspoon-.html"> Breakthroughs Now</a><br>As a business coach I have written a great deal about building a higher performance venture, creating breakthroughs, inventing the future, and generally moving faster than the speed of change -- or at the very least -- moving faster than your competitors.The most important thing you can do now - right at this moment - is get moving on something that's going to make a big, a tremendous difference.Reading this little bit of coaching and simply setting it down, even if you say to yourself "Wow! That sounds like it will work!" w</div>tion_end -->

To code it into your template you have to edit index.php, single.php and archive.php (all in /wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/) What you need to do in all three files is to look for the function the_content() and place the tags around it. This will look slightly different for each file:

single.php and index.php Look for the line

<div class="entrytext">. Place your tags around the function the_content(). <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?> <!-- google_ad_section_end -->

archive.php Look for the line

<div class="entry">. Place your tags around the function the_content(). <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <?php the_content() ?> <!-- google_ad_section_end -->

More information on Section Targeting can be found here: www.seo-portal.com/section-targeting-for-adsense/2006/07/06/

6. Competitive Ad Filter

Make sure you use the Competitive Ad Filter in your AdSense account to block non relevant or low paying advertisers.

When you just start your blog, you have a high chance of getting weblog advertisers in your AdSense ads. These are of course relevant because they are displayed on a blog, but they are also low paying so you want to filter them out.

To do so you have to login to your AdSense account, go to the AdSense Setup tab and there you'll find a link to the Competitive Ad Filter. Type in the urls of the advertisers you don't want to be displayed on your site and you're done.

7. AdSense Deluxe Plugin

AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0) for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed. You can get the plugin here: http://www.acmetech.com/blog/2005/07/26/adsense-deluxe-wordpress-plugin/