My strategy for making money with my blog is complex. Maybe that’s a bad thing but I’m thinking long term.

My plan is to make my blog the hub of my online marketing activities. I will have certain pages one my blog that is meant for affiliate sales.

And other pages just for adsense revenue.

This structure of my site was influenced by Affiliate Payload’s SEO Affiliate Guide.

While setting up my adsense code, I really didn’t know what to do. I read Joel Comm’s Adsense Code awhile ago but didn’t write good notes and had forgotten.

A quick Google Search brought me to: Rumbling Lankan’s How To Place Adsense Code In Your Blog.

What I end up doing was put a 468×60 banner ad, I called “adsense_title” right above “the_title();” Wordpress function in “single.php” for the individual blog post page.

Also using the:

<div align=”center”>

[adsense code here]

</div>

Tag to center it.

I also but a duplicate banner right about my comments field. This way when someone finishes reading my article they could click on my adsense code.

For the Adsense ad in my post I put a 200×200 small square banner. This with the code:

<div style=”float:left;”>

[adsense code here]

</div>

To make the ad’s float on the left of the article body.

I am experimenting with using the same link colors as my blog’s theme, to blend in the ads better. This was what I got from Joel Comm.

He says to not make your ads look like ads. It’ll get more clicks that way.

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