Isn’t it ironic how I can do one post on how blogging is not all about money and then not long after, I do another one on how bloggers can increase the earning potential of their blogs by merely using the right plugins. I think it would be safe to say that a lot of bloggers rely on adsense as the predominate source of their blogging income. This being the case we can optimize our earnings by having adsense appearing on individual posts but because it is a virtual pain in the ass to place the code in a post most don’t bother with it.
Enter the WhyDoWork Adsense Plugin, a plugin that enables you to do this automatically giving you complete control over where the ads occur and even when they occur. For example, you may not want the ads to appear on your newer posts so you set it to only appear on posts that are older than ‘x’ amount of days. This plugin is extremely versatile and comes with a whole heap of settings giving you complete control.
Although I haven’t tried it I don’t see why you can’t use codes other than adsense allowing you to display Yahoo ads or perhaps even your affiliate banners. When displaying banners I would suggest if possible that you use rotating banners as these will give those selected affiliates maximum exposure. One thing that I hate about affiliate banners are those damn emails telling me that one ad or another has been suspended and could I please remove the banner and replace it with another. The only problem is I can’t remember which post is displaying that particular ad. Rotating banners solves that problem as only current ads are displayed.
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I think I came upon this plugin previously, but then forgot about it. Are you employing it yourself?
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I have done on my other blogs, but not to it’s full potential. It’s making it’s debut on this blog with this very post. I have set it so that it displays a small ad at the top of the post, but only when it’s in the single page view, so that it won’t show from the home page.
Ah, I see it now. I didn’t notice it last night. I like the timed aspect of it; I really need to add it, and the other one you talked about.
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Mitch, do you reckon I’ve done too good a job of blending it in?
Actually, no. The Adsense book says that blending in is actually the best way to go. However, you’ve chosen the wrong type of ad block. Though it’s a short article, the best articles are either box ads or slightly triangular ads. Also, trying to find the closest color so you don’t have a border and the background color of the website area is best. You probably need to check your CSS to find out what color the article area background is.
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OK, I’ve never seen a triangular ad before. Hows this one look? Not too in your face is it?
Uhhh,… nope, that doesn’t work. We might have to take this to email. This ad is too big, the wrong background color, and in the wrong place. Look at this older post of mine to see what I mean.
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OK, I think I have it now, although for the ad placement to work properly I will have to do longer posts.
That, or shrink to 125×125 ads, which will work just as nice. Google has lots of sizes, as you know; doesn’t this program have access to them all?
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Sure, all I need do is paste in the code and the program does the rest. I just may try the smaller ad, being such a lazy blogger and all.
And there you go; glad to be of service.
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Hmmm isn’t it better to do the placement yourself? So you know which position is optimised..
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Sure, you could do that, but I find that sort of stuff boring and it would spoil the enjoyment I get from blogging.
Sounds like a great and useful plugin! Thanks for the heads up!!
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No worries Taris, wherever I go, whatever I do I always aim to please .
Ha quote of the day for me! I love this..
This is a fantastic plugin. I use the larger adsense block in all my posts with great success. I find it is a bigger earner than the sidebar widget blocks.
Blogging as you say Sire, is not all about the money…but it adds to the ‘fun’!
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As I said to Mitch, I haven’t actually used the plugin to it’s full potential, yet! First chance I get I will be using it’s many features to optimize the earning potential of my blogs.
Hi Sire,
That’s a cool plugin. I’ve used one called WhoSeesAds that is very similar to this one. I mainly use it to only show adsense to search visitors. I can honestly say that I’ve only ever clicked maybe 1 or 2 adsense ads in my life … I would imagine other bloggers aren’t much different. Why waste the page impressions on people who are unlikely to click anyway.
Todd
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Hiya Tom, I had a quick look and I found this WhoSeeAds plugin, and I am not sure that it is the one you are referring to, but if it is I must say that it does look pretty good. While it doesn’t have all the features of the one in the post I reckon there would definitely be a lot of people who do not want their regular readers to see the ads.
On thing though mate, as you yourself admitted to actually clicking on one or two ads, imagine that multiplied by the myriad of potential visitors any particular blog may get. Seems to be a waste of possible earning capacity. Just a thought. Thanks for your comment.
I totally agree. Rotating banners is the answer! I also can’t stand those emails telling you to remove the banner as the ad got suspended. There’s no way to remember where those ads are located within your blog.