So, you have successfully created your AdSense account? Congratulations. Now you are only one step behind from earning money by displaying Google ads on your blog or website. After opening an AdSense account, the next step is to get your AdSense code and paste it on your web pages. In this article, I am going to tell you how to create your first AdSense ad code.

Google displays advertisements on Publisher sites via a simple Javascript code. As a publisher you need to generate and add your custom JavaScript code to web pages. That’s why it is important that you know how to edit the source code of your web pages. Here, I assume that you know how to edit your web page source code! Now, let’s move on to generate your first AdSense code.

Steps to generate Google AdSense code:

1. Open Google AdSense (https://www.google.com/adsense) on your web browser and log in to your account.
2. Locate the AdSense Setup tab inside your account.
3. Choose your product – AdSense for content to place ads on your site and AdSense for search to add a search box to your site.
4. Then you will be asked to choose ad type (Ad unit or Link unit). Choose your preferred ad type and press the ‘Continue’ button.
5. Then you will be asked to choose Ad Format and Colors. Select your preferred ad unit size and specify colors by using a pre-designed color palette or by creating your own. Optionally you can specify font settings, corner styles and alternate ads.
6. Once you have specified your ad preferences, move to next step pressing the ‘Continue’ button at the bottom.
7. The next step is to choose your Ad Channels. Custom ad channels can help you track the performance your ad units. Click the “Add new channel” link to create a new ad channel and add it to your ad unit.
8. Press the ‘Continue’ button and you will be asked to choose a name for the new AdSense unit. Type any name in the text box. This name will help you quickly identify you ad unit when you want to edit it in future.
9. Now press the “Submit and Get Code” button and you will get you ad code.
10. Copy the code for your new AdSense unit and add it to the desired location on you web pages to start displaying ads.

That’s it! If implemented correctly, Google ads will soon appear on your pages. Test it by opening your web page on a browser. If nothing appears even after 10 minutes, you have probably made some mistakes in pasting your code. To avoid errors, always copy and paste the ad unit code exactly as it appears in your account, without making any changes or edits. Also note that you code must go between the body tags of your HTML. If you’re using a WYSIWYG editor, always paste the code  in Code or Source view. And don’t forget to save your edits!

This article is suitable for beginners.

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Blogger.com is one of the most popular free blogging platforms in the world. But as it is a free services, features are limited in Blogger.com. For example, Blogger don’t offer any features to add static pages. But what if you want to add a static page to your Blogger-powered blog? Is there any way to create static pages on blogspot blogs? Don’t worry! Though there are no default static page features on Blogger.com, static pages can be easily added with simple tweak. Read on to know more.

Steps to add a static page to your Blogger.com blog:

1. Login to your Blogger.com account.
2. As usual, click on “New Post” to create a blog post.
3. Write the content that you want to display on your static page.
4. Once you are ready with your content, expand the “Posts Options” section on the bottom left of your blog post editor.
5. Once expanded, the “Post Options” section displays options for reader comments on left. Check the appropriate button. Normally, you may not want to enable comments on your static pages. In that case check the “Don’t allow, hide existing” button.
6. In expanded view, the “Post Options” section displays “Post date and time” options on right side. As you don’t want your static page content to appear on blog home page and on RSS feed update, you need to backdate your post. Specify a date and time which is earlier than your first blog post.
7. Then publish your post. That’s it! You have just created your first static page.

Steps to remove date from static pages:

After publishing the post, you my want to hide the date and time stamp from the post. To hide date and time stamp from your blog post, follow these steps:

1. In your Blogger blog dashboard, go to the “Layout” section.
2. Open the “Edit HTML” tab.
3. Check the “Expand Widget Templates” checkbox.
4. Search for <data:post.dateHeader/> in your template code (You can use Ctrl+F to easily search and find your code).
5. Add the following code before the above mentioned code:

<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>

6. Now, add the following code after <data:post.dateHeader/>:

</b:if>

7. That’s it! Now, date will be hidden on posts that have comments disabled. As you have disabled the comments on your static page, the page won’t display the post date as well.

Steps to add a static page link:

Copy the URL of your static page and add a link to it from home page, sidebar, header or from anywhere on your blog. For example, if your new static page is about “Advertising” and the URL is http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/advertising.html, then you can use the following code :

<a href="http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/advertising.html">Advertising</a>

You can add it directly to your template code. But if you are not familiar with HTML and CSS, simple use HTML/JavaScript or Link List gadget to insert the code. If you want the static page link to appear on blog header, you can also add the link code in “Description” field under the “Basic” tab of your blog “Settings” section.

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After two weeks of it’s initial release, another version of WordPress 2.9 is already available! Yes, WordPress 2.9.1 has been released. WordPress 2.9.1 fixes an important problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. Besides this, WordPress 2.9.1 also comes with a few minor bug fixes and modifications related to administration, media, feed, upgrade/install, notices etc.

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Year 2009 is ending and a new year is coming. Happy New Year 2010! Hereby, I would like to thank all my subscribers, readers and advertisers for their continuous support during year 2009. Without you all, this blog wouldn’t be here today. Thank you all and I wish you all a Happy New Year.

Year 2009 was great, but I hope that the new year will be even better. May the New Year bring you all happiness and peace, and the strength and courage to follow your respective dreams. May the year 2010 bring success to your personal and professional life. And let’s hope that we all Make More Money Online in the New Year!

See you in year 2010!

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