Google Adsense Wordpress Plugins

Listed below are 10 best Adsense plugins which help you work smarter with wordpress.

1) Adsense Deluxe - Offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Easily switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.

2) Adsense Injection - Inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let’s you pick how many to show on single post pages.

3) Shylock Adsense WordPress plugin - Allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. Set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then ‘n’ days. E.g. insert a 468×60 ad at the bottom of a new article for regular readers, and replace with higher paying 336×280 ad after 7 days for the search engine visitors.

4) Adsense Inline - Inserts Google adsense in blog posts.

5) Adsense Beautifier - Makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings. (May not be compliant with Adsense TOS now)

6) AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar - Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.

7) AdRotator Wordpress Plugin - RDtates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.

Adsense Earnings Wordpress Plugin - Displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.

9) AdSense Manager - Is a Wordpress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.

10) AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System - Allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.

11) Adsense MU Plugin - Webmasters of Wordpress MU sites can generate adsense revenue from hosted blogs as this script allows you to set an admin ID and the ratio of admin ad’s to blogger’s ads.

12) Google Ad Wrap - Wraps posts and comments inside Section Targeting tags for better targeted ads.

Support and upgrades are provided by the respective authors of these wordpress plugins. Use at your own risk. If you know of more Adsense wordpress plugins you like, let me know in comments and I can add them to the list.

WordPress is well known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. The following installation guide will help you.

1. Download WordPress

The very first thing you’ll want to do is download a copy of WordPress 2.6. Now first go to the WordPress site. And download the latest version Download HERE. You should see it on the right side of the page with a dark Red background. When you see the link, click on it, and save the file to your desktop so it’s easy to find going forward. Now the file format will be in Zip Format…

2. Set Up Your Hosting Account
You may already have a web host, and if so, you can skip this section. If not, the web host I’ve been using for a couple of years is aSmallOrange., and I recommend them highly. They are 99% uptime guaranteed. They offer several hosting packages, and I’d suggest the “Medium Package” plan at $10 per month.

During the set-up process, you’ll need to choose a domain name for your site if you don’t already have one you want to use. Give careful consideration to the domain name you choose. Try to make it something memorable yet easy to spell as people will be typing it into their brower to get to your site. Also keep in mind, you can add on other domains very easily in the future if necessary.

3. Login to your cPanel
Now login to your cPanel control with your login details, given during the registration of the hosting packages. Now click on File Manager which will be seen in the cPanel under File Tab. Now a File manger Explorer will open, and will ask to open the home directory or web root. Select “Webroot” and  click on Go.

Remember this File manger works entirely on JAVA platform. Now click on public_html Folder. This is the folder which saves or stores all your files in the server. Now you can see some pre-installed or saved files in the explorer.

Now click on Upload Button, and you get a browse button click on that and upload the downloaded latest wordpress .zip file.

Next after uploading, click on the file once so that it gets highlighted. And click on Extract, now all the files in zip files gets extracted to your server.

4. Set Up Your MySQL Database With Your Web Host
This isn’t as scary as it may sound. Well, not if you have a good web host. It’s really simple to set up a database in their control panel.

* Simply log in to the cPanel.
* You’ll see a section that says “Databases” under which you’ll see a link that says “MySQL Databases.”
* Click that link, and look for a button that says “Create Database.”
* Enter anything you like for the description of the new database (e.g. blog), then click “SetUp.”
* That’s it. Your database is set up. On the following page, you’ll see the information about your new database, such as the database name, host name, user name, etc.
* Keep that window open or print the page as you’ll need the database information shortly.

5. Enter Your Database Information into Your WordPress Config File
Now open the File manger from your cPanel Server, and go to the public_html folder. There your can find a file named wp-config-sample. Now highlight that file and click as EDIT. Now the file is been open in the new window or browser. When you open the file you’ll see some text, much of which looks like gibberish, but it’s not. Look specifically for the lines that read:

define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(’DB_USER’, ‘username’); // Your MySQL username
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’); // …and password
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

This is the place to enter the database information you saved from the previous step. So whatever the database name is, enter that information in place of ‘wordpress.’ Just be sure to leave the ‘ marks before and after as it appears above. Do the same for the DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and DB_HOST. When you’re done, save the file, but save it as wp-config.php rather than wp-config-sample.

6. Run the WordPress Install Script
* If you installed WordPress in the root directory of your server, open your web browser and type the following: http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/install.php (replace “mydomain.com” with your own domain name).

* If you installed WordPress in a sub-directory, open your web browser and type the following: http://www.mydomain.com/subdirectory/wp-admin/install.php (replace “mydomain.com” with your own domain name and “subdirectory” with the name of the sub-directory you created).

After you go to this page, WordPress will do the rest. Just follow the onscreen directions, and then you’ll be all done.

“WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on web standards and user experience we can create a tool different from anything else out there.”

WordPress is publishing software with a focus on ease of use, speed and a great user experience. WordPress is blessed with an active community, which is the heart of open source software.

2005 was a very exciting year for WordPress, as it saw the release of our 1.5 version (introduced themes) which was downloaded over 900,000 times, the start of hosted service WordPress.com to expand WP’s reach, the founding of Automattic by several core members of the WP team, and finally the release of version 2.0.

After 1.5 we seemed to have something people really liked and we’ve experienced some fairly rapid growth. Here are some metrics for 2006 and 2007. In 2006 we had 1,545,703 downloads, in 2007 we had 3,816,965!

As for plugins we had 191,567 downloads of 371 unique plugins in 2006. In 2007 there were 2,845,884 downloads (15x growth) of 1,384 plugins. 2006 saw the introduction of the first WordCamp in San Francisco.

In 2007 we adopted a regular release schedule, putting out major feature releases roughly every 3-4 months, or three times a year. Because of the number of improvements in version 2.5 we took an extra 3 months on it, but 2008 looks on track to do three major releases again. It will be a very exciting year. There are now dozens of WordCamps around the world, from Vancouver to Dallas to Milan, Italy.