Contextual Ads

After you have placed banners for affiliate products you will then want to include ad codes for contextual advertising. We will use Adsense ads as an example to explain how this works. The first thing you need to do is grab your Adsense code.

To do this log into your Adsense account and go to the setup section. Here select “Adsense for content” then simply pick out the type of ad you want to use. You have a choice between ad links and ad units and even get to choose the color of the ad.

Normally a “leaderboard” is used for the top of a page and for the navigation bar or sidebar usually a “Skyscraper” is used. After you have customized the ad to fit your blog copy the code into Notepad. This way you will already have it if you want to start up another blog. You will make money each time a person clicks on your ad because your publisher ID is embedded into the advertising code.