Note: This post is made especially for beginner in wordpress environment.

Have you ever seen some peoples are placing their ads in the middle / between their posts on the homepage but don’t have a clue on how to do that?

Then this short tutorial will help you insert Adsense on the Middle of your Homepage, Manually.

Although there is a plugin that will automatically set adsense to be appeared at your homepage, manual editing give you full control on how many ads that you are going to display.

This post was inspired by this image and how Engadget do this strategy on their megablog. (engadget insert adsense ads between the 3rd and 4th post and between 4th and 5th post):

This is Adsense’s recommended ads positioning. But it’s wise to not cluttering your blog with google ads if you are going to build credibility. Inserting only one between post is better than 3.

There is a study said that inserting 1 ads could be more profitable than 3 ads. Believe it or not, it’s your decision.

Below is my personal tutorial to insert google ads between post. If you happen to find problem after following this tutorial carefully, you can either commenting at this post or email me to ask for a help.

First thing first - preparation:

1. Go to Google Adsense and log in to your account.
2. Go to Adsense setup, and get your adsense code
3. Open up your Notepad or Text editor application and paste the code.
4. Save it with the name you like. And don’t close it yet.

Preparation - Stage Two:

1. Open up your Wordpress panel (manual URL: http://yourblogname.what/wp-admin/)
2. When the page has successfully load up, go to your presentation tab and then theme editor menu
3. Find this file in the list (right column) and click it: Main Index Template (note: every theme should have this standard file name)
4. Now you will have a pile of code that you should edit carefully.

Preparation - Stage Three:

1. Download this zip file, extract it and edit it with notepad (file name: adsense_in_homepage.php)
2. Paste your adsense code according to the instruction inside the file
3. press CTRL+S to save it. (do not use ’save as…’ because it will change the file format)

Preparation - Final Stage:

1. Open your FTP uploader application (recommended: CuteFTP)
2. Upload adsense_in_homepage.php into your wordpress theme folder in your web host (standard location: wp-content/themes/[yourtheme]/ )
3. After success uploading. Close the application and you have done preparing!

Now, let’s dive into the editing steps:

Start Editing:

• Switch back to your Wordpress Admin Panel (The windows in Preparation - Stage two)
• Don’t get fuzzy by the code ugly face. You just need to find and focus on this line of code:

<?php the_content (‘inside here will be vary for each template’); ?>

• Hope this image will clear your cloudy mind

• Move your cursor to the end of the </div> (the one below <?php the_content( ); ?> )
• Press enter twice to make spaces
• Now add this code to display google adsense ads between 2nd and 3nd of your post:

<?php if ($count==1) { include('adsense_in_homepage.php'); } ?>
<?php $count = $count + 1; ?>

• the ($count==1) means the second space between your post. If you want to insert it between 4th and 5th post, change it to ($count==3).

What if you want to add another ads between other post?

Well, Specify the location and add this another line of code:

<?php if ($count==1) { include('adsense_in_homepage.php'); }?>
<?php if ($count==n) { include(’adsense_in_homepage.php’); }?>

<?php $count = $count + 1; ?>

Notice the n, Change it to the desire number. If your blog have 5 posts on the homepage, use this guide to insert the ads:

• between 1st and 2nd: 0
• between 2nd and 3rd: 1
• between 3rd and 4th: 2
• between 4th and 5th: 3
• below 5th post: 4

Hope this post useful. Cheer!

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