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March 12, 2009

Add Google Adsense to WordPress without plugins

I was just trying to add Adsense to this blog and found several plugins available to add Google adsense to wordpress. Finally, I managed to add Google Adsense to this blog without any plugins – this solution takes around 5 mins to setup and it only uses the text widget available in wordpress by default.

Step 1: Login to your blog as administrator
Step 2: Click on Appearance
Step 3: Select Widgets
Step 4: Select the sidebar you want (Default Sidebar 1)
Step 5: Add Text widget
Step 6: Click on Edit widget
Step 7: Enter Caption. I have used “Useful Links”
Step 8: Paste your Google Adsense code in the text area. See example code & screenshot

Example (Copy and Paste below into Widget):

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
google_ad_client = "pub-9990819195828769";
google_ad_slot = "7810166087";
google_ad_width = 200;
google_ad_height = 200;
// --></script>
<script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>

Screenshot

Wordpress Text Widget - Add Google Adsense code

Step 9: Click done & Save changes.

You should now be able to see Ads from Google showing on the left side of your sidebar. Just like we have on the top right of this page.

Comments

dred said on March 22, 2011 at 3:26 am:

thanks tips
Business Seminar said on April 7, 2011 at 7:07 am:

Excellent and informative blog. Thanks for posting this. It’s informative and enlightening. Keep up the good work.
Ankit Saini said on April 9, 2011 at 5:55 am:

Great guide…
Thanks for sharing
abhishek said on April 9, 2011 at 1:56 pm:

I have tried to do what you did above, and after saving the script in the txt block, it will not show on the page. and it is blank. While it is saving the Useful Links txt it is not saving the google ad script. Please help!
Ben said on April 11, 2011 at 4:42 pm:

I just put in my web, check it out!
Mat said on April 14, 2011 at 2:53 pm:

I found this post through Google, searching for adding adsense to a post without a plugin. I’m trying to add adsense to madrasrecipe website below the 1st picture on the post and before the text starts. I don’t want to mess around with plugins. Can I just paste it into the HTML or how do I do it?

Any help much appreciated as my searches aren’t retuening much info.

Mat
Roch said on April 16, 2011 at 1:33 am:

The only thing this cannot accomplish is to have different sub-accounts of Google adsense to track which sub pages make the most money and which ad layout and ad space covert best.
Brandy said on April 19, 2011 at 6:38 pm:

I tried this and nothing happened. I hit the save button and it just deleted the text.:(
- php-manual said on April 28, 2011 at 9:18 am:
  
  As above comments if your blog is hosted on wordpress.com then it might not work. They work fine for self hosted wordpress blogs like this blog.
irene said on May 11, 2011 at 4:52 am:

helo. i tried this before and i tried it now. I still won’t show ads. pls help.
look at my page, i put sponsors for google ad. 🙁
Jaimie said on May 12, 2011 at 5:27 am:

This is one of the great blogs I’ve read today. Your site contains lots of good information and I’m sure many people will like it as I do. I would like to give this site a thumb up rating. Keep up the good works guys. I think I’m going to come back to this site regularly. Thanks.
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pimsainnum said on May 24, 2011 at 8:03 am:

Good sharing ….
This time I had string Google Ads.
I try to create blog for share coding on blog.

Thank for sharing…Jomy
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Rohan said on May 26, 2011 at 7:34 am:

Thanks for great post
please tell me how to add text widgets in my website. i am unable to find such option in my admin.
Mohamed Awad said on June 9, 2011 at 8:38 am:

This was really helpful, Thank you man.
Chris said on June 20, 2011 at 10:07 pm:

Thanks for the tips, but could you please let me know how to / where to paste the adsense “search page” code??

Thanks in advance..
asif said on June 22, 2011 at 1:46 pm:

i have a wordpress.com blog how to add adsen code on my blog front & below not sidbar
genie86333 said on June 23, 2011 at 8:03 am:

We have a blog hosted by wordpress, but it’s not a free wordpress blog (which are the ones wordpress says can’t use adsense on) – it’s got it’s own domain but we still can’t get the text widgit to save (like others, you click save & the code disapperars.) Any ideas?
Aniefiok Ukang said on June 23, 2011 at 1:39 pm:

Thanks. I want to tried it at classifiedweblist.com and i hope is going to work. i really appreciate your post here and you have save me time. keep it up.
pai said on June 25, 2011 at 7:28 am:

Works on mine
Melanie said on June 28, 2011 at 5:49 pm:

This was my first impulse – but all I get is a big, blank box. Been all over trying to figure out why. Ideas? Running 3.1.1 hosted by fatcow
iMad said on June 30, 2011 at 2:02 pm:

I don’t know why but when I do this, wp change my google_ad_client to a default xxx-00000000000000 that’s realy hard to debug …
Raj said on July 5, 2011 at 4:06 am:

Hi. Found this post very useful. I am planning to make a new website and was just planning to use wordpress based layouts. But I’m a newbie and I’m really lost as to how to start with – where to host the domain and how much effort it takes to set up all these layouts. I want to devote more time on my content rather than getting stuck for long time on technical know how of setting up the website. Can you guide me pls? My email id is provided. Thanks in advance.
Tony said on July 7, 2011 at 6:41 am:

I still don’t see my ads showing…maybe you can help a rookie.
ahmed said on July 15, 2011 at 5:04 am:

thanks guys for your sharing.. 🙂
Makara said on July 16, 2011 at 1:15 pm:

Can use that with text html in my page…
Shane said on July 21, 2011 at 1:08 am:

I was trying to ad adsense this way but it wont allow me to! after clicking done all the script I added disappears!
the writer said on July 23, 2011 at 10:14 am:

hi, I have placed the ads as you have described on my blog (thenextgenwriter.com/blog) but they appear only on the homepage not on every post? Can anyone explain please?
Thanks
Amanda said on July 25, 2011 at 8:40 am:

I have a wordpress.com account, but they do not allow adsense, i’ve tried with the sidebar/text, exactly how its shown but this only brings up the “useful links” title? I’m wondering if all these people commenting have wordpress sites or have had sites they’ve developed? Or have things changed with adsense working on wordpress.com sites?
Get Daily Jobs said on August 2, 2011 at 3:13 am:

I have also put ads on my site.
ankitagarwal15.wordpress.com said on August 4, 2011 at 5:09 pm:

It was really very helpful.. loved it… Thanx a lot
Kol said on August 6, 2011 at 1:50 am:

I love you for posting the obvious answer that never occurred to me!
Sachin said on August 8, 2011 at 1:49 pm:

Thanks, this post proved to be very useful to me
Love you webdigi said on August 17, 2011 at 1:34 pm:

Thanks a lot!! It worked perfectly for me.
GoArticless said on August 30, 2011 at 5:02 am:

Thanks, I’ll try in my post 🙂
Deborah Wazir said on September 1, 2011 at 10:10 am:

Thanks so much for writing this up! I just signed up for AdSense recently, and after changing my WordPress theme, the plugin I was using stopped displaying ads. It had completely lost all settings, and I couldn’t quickly figure out where to insert my ad code again.

Your method is so much better! Plus, one less plugin to manage!
Ronny Mayers said on September 3, 2011 at 1:33 am:

Works like charm. I never thought that it would be so easy.

Thanks
Darren said on September 5, 2011 at 11:01 pm:

Thanks awesome!
Buyjew said on September 7, 2011 at 6:39 pm:

Is it possible to add adsense to wordpress blog not on your custom blog?
arivu said on September 8, 2011 at 1:21 pm:

hi i dont have a adsense account…. how sould i get it ?… and which URL sould i give ?
Blessing said on September 15, 2011 at 5:05 pm:

Wao! This worked like magic! I never thought it could be so easy compared with other blogs I have read on how to add Adsense to wordpress. Thanks man! Can you also help on how to change from free wordpress to name.dotcom.
Viktor said on September 22, 2011 at 2:18 pm:

I thought the text widget only supports html. Ad sense code in this widget doesnt reflect.
Viktor said on September 22, 2011 at 2:21 pm:

Is there a way you can help me.I would like to put a plugins tab on my blog (myname.org). Or maybe recommend a theme where your method will work.I have failed to use the text widget or any other to put adsence code on my blog.
Sharif said on September 26, 2011 at 9:53 am:

I have a blog in wordpress too!you can visit there. Yes, it seems simpler to add google addsense.
kady said on September 30, 2011 at 8:34 am:

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// i have problems on cdata error , I just need the normal code for this error
Mariana said on September 30, 2011 at 5:03 pm:

I tried this when I first signed up for Adsense and it still doesn’t work.. I’m wondering if maybe it has something to do with my theme?
Dhrumil said on October 5, 2011 at 1:08 pm:

I was looking for same information and got here…thanks for the post 🙂
Vishal Jagtap said on October 7, 2011 at 9:08 am:

Excellent information. Many thanks!
waseem said on October 23, 2011 at 5:20 pm:

Thanks a lot for such very simple but useful trick
Bob said on November 1, 2011 at 3:57 am:

Thanks!! That was easy!
lucky said on December 4, 2011 at 6:13 pm:

Thanks for this tip! After spending hours searching for a plugin, I discovered this page and had my ads up in 30 seconds, no plugin required!
sardar ayaz said on December 5, 2011 at 6:58 pm:

nice
Devon said on December 8, 2011 at 3:42 am:

I would recommend to remove your adsense ID from the example because AdSense will ban you if someone else is integrating it and abusing it from a third party site.
john said on December 21, 2011 at 5:55 pm:

Thanks for the nice instructions
aufa said on January 3, 2012 at 6:45 am:

so, how to insert it to our post?
huseyin sekmenoglu said on January 17, 2012 at 8:01 pm:

thanks man
it really helped a lot
Mina said on January 19, 2012 at 4:15 pm:

Thank you so much!!
aufa said on January 21, 2012 at 5:05 pm:

is that plugin compatible with WordPress 3.3.1. How to insert adsense code inside wordpress post?
Justin said on February 1, 2012 at 10:27 pm:

Worked perfectly… Thanks!
tech84 said on February 3, 2012 at 9:46 am:

thanks, I was having trouble with this and I did not want to install additional plugins on my site just for the codes to work.
Useful Web Link said on February 4, 2012 at 9:09 am:

Great post.Thank you for sharing.
Brad said on February 8, 2012 at 4:12 am:

That is SO simple – and I did it in 30 seconds just now. Immediate result and so much better than ANY plugin I have tried (and I’ve tried a few!!) Thank you!
rohit said on February 13, 2012 at 5:19 am:

Thanks for showing us how to put google ads in word press blog quickly. I now have put googleads on my site Again thanks.
Riqwan Thamir said on February 15, 2012 at 1:47 am:

Thanks for this. Plugins are sometimes really pissing off. This is a great way!
Philip said on February 15, 2012 at 8:04 pm:

Thanks for the help, I’ll be implementing your ideas on my site in the VERY near future. 🙂 Keep up the good work!
arunvinud said on February 21, 2012 at 1:23 pm:

Thanks for the info man.It works like a charm.
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Gaurang said on February 23, 2012 at 4:42 pm:

Cool trick to get rid off plug-in..
Adsense blog said on February 27, 2012 at 9:09 pm:

That was way too cool and easy.
RainSlick said on March 1, 2012 at 8:30 pm:

Just had to say that this is a very quick and easy way to do this. I was looking around at the various plugins and was shaking my head trying to figure out which would work on my new blog stosite.com Thanks! Don’t know if you realize it but this also works for analytics as well.

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