Plugin: Adsense Manager
Posted on July 29, 2007 | By Enkay | Leave a Comment | 1,344 Views
This post would have been published yesterday but I am not at home and the lack of images would make this post seem out of place but I decided to write it anyway. Most of you are using Google’s Adsense Ad network and if you are money minded then you probably have the ads integrated into your website. A lot of times, I have talked about ad placement and things of that nature but today I wanted to feature a plug-in that I use on the blog called Adsense Manager. Martin Fitzpatrick is the developer of the plug-in but since he wanted to keep hosting costs down he recently has the plug-ins hosted directly on Wordpress.org itself. The plug-in has saved me a lot of time.
Initially, I would copy and paste the code for a particular Google Ad block onto my posts separately but this code allows me to integrate an ad into a post with the help of a nifty drop down menu located on the “write post” page in the admin section. You can see what it looks like below:
It generates the Adsense code automatically and allows you to position the ad accordingly. For example, I have the Adsense block float to the right of my post as you can see in this post itself. When you go to the Manage link in the admin section, you can create several template ads. For example, you can create a square ad block for your posts and name it “adblock1″ and you can create an vertical banner ad block for the bottom of your posts and name it “adblock2″. The names you create actually show up in the drop down menu mentioned earlier making it easy to integrate the ads. In the Manage section you can also set what kind of ad you would like for this to be - text ad, image ad or text & image ad. Along with that, you can set the color scheme you would like to use allowing you to use different color schemes for your ad blocks, if you like. A screenshot of the “Manage Ads” section can be seen below:
Although, the Adsense Manager doesn’t improve performance it surely makes integrating Adsense a lot easier. The plug-in is the 9th most popular plug-in and is free. The plug-in also allows you to integrate ads into your template by copying a simple piece of code. The best part is, any time you feel like changing the type of ad or color of the ads on your blog, you just have to go to the Manage Ads page to do so without having to change it on every post that an ad is present. If you feel that this could be what you are looking for then please check it out. I will be featuring some more of my favorite plug-ins on a weekly basis. Thanks for reading!
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i prefer having my adsense advert throughout the site rather in the middle of post just had bad experience with them mid post!
Would you share your bad experience from a mid post ad?
Just like Tyson said, what was your experience? I have never had a bad experience as such with ads in the middle of a post.
before this I using adsense deluxe for all my adsense ads. From the screenshot I can see the different between these 2 plugin. The color picker features in the adsense manager maybe will be an advantages since the adsense deluxe don’t have that features.
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Adsense Deluxe can be used with YPN. I am wondering if I should switch out and try Adsense Manager.
Adsense Deluxe is also good but I haven’t used it on the blog. Maybe I will give it a try and report on that.
[...] After talking to Abdalla, I realized that JohnChow has a system where he runs 3 ads on the first 3 posts of his blog. This reminded me of a plug-in called Adsense Deluxe. Although, Adsense Deluxe isn’t as full featured as Adsense Manager that I normally use, I realized that with Adsense Deluxe I can maximize the number of ads that I run on the blog by having the plug-in pick the posts to put the ads on. Another thing that came about as a result of this was that I noticed that when I was picking the posts to put the ads on, I would probably only have one or two posts on a page. It was rare to find a page that made use of all 3 ad blocks. I began to look around and wondered how many people used Adsense Deluxe and how many used Adsense Manager. Both of the plug-ins are pretty popular and in an earlier post I had even featured Adsense Manager. [...]