Blog Tricks and Tips: Add AdSense right After  Tag

This is a great tutorial which will multiple your current click through rate and add a new boom to your over all Adsense earning. With a big repository of plugins for Wordpress blogs like Quick Adsense, WP users never need to worry while adding Adsense to any part of the blog they wish but in blogger we lack plugins that could do the job automatically. Therefore this week my main focus lies in developing more of such plugins that could provide you great front end experience. The script developed this time will automatically insert your AdSense Ad right after the opening paragraph (Post summary) or the read more button(Jump Break). The read more link is distinguished by the HTML tag " " , we will use a simple Jquery code to tell the browser to append an Ad zone with a unique div ID, right before the more tag. In browsers where JavaScript is disabled the Ad zone will instead display at the end of post. You can see the demo on our blog, right after reading this line...

( You will see below a 468X60 Adsense for content Ad).

Installing the Script on Blogger

Go to Blogger > Templates
Backup your template
Tick the "Expand Widget Templates" box
Search for <head>
Just below it paste the following JQuery code only if you are not yet using jQuery script on your blog

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>

6. Next paste the following code below <head>

<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){

$('a[name="more"]').before($('#MBT-google-ad').html());
$('#MBT-google-ad').html('');

});
</script>

Optional: If you want to display the ad at two places i.e. below read more tag and also at the end of post then delete the highlighted yellow code.
7. Now search the following code:

<data:post.body/>

8. Just below it paste the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div >
<br/>
<center>
ADD ENCODED ADSENSE CODE HERE </center>
<br/>
</div>
</b:if>

Replace the bolded text above with your Adsense code. Remember that the code that you copy from your Google Adsense Account must be first encoded inorder to work with blogger templates. Simply copy the code and then encode it using the following MBT tool.

Encode your AdSense code using: MBT HTML Encoder

Copy the encoded code from MBT HTML encoder and then paste it on the bolded text that says: ADD ENCODED ADSENSE CODE HERE
9. Save your template and you are all done!
Visit your blog and then visit any post page, you will see an Ad hanging just perfectly right after the first opening Summary paragraph. :)

Need Help?

I am always open to curious and delicious questions so never hesitate asking for help. If your blog has no Read more functionality or you don't know how to add a a jump break then you can try these interesting tutorials:

If you wish to add Adsense just below post title or somewhere else then read: