WordPress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins. Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program and proper custom integration with WordPress can help to increase Adsense earnings.

Google Adsense WordPress Plugins

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Adsense Inline – inserts Google adsense in blog posts.
• 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.
• 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)
• AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar – Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
• AdRotator WordPress Plugin – rotates 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.
• AdSense Manager – is a WordPress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blogIt generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.
• AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System – allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.
• Author Adsense WordPress Plugin – allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author’s ads to admin ads.
• Author 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.
• Google Ad Wrap – wraps posts and comments inside Section Targeting tags for better targeted ads.

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Probably one of the most undervalued features of WordPress are its category structure and commands. The category feature of WordPress can change a blog into a powerful CMS (Content Management System) tool.

One of my friends, didn’t want to use a real calendar for events since many of them are general, like “Fall 2008″, so I decided to use Posts and Categories instead. Though the process of maintaining these events are manual, it really works well for them.

I split the sidebar into different sections. The sections marked, “Events”, “Classes” and “Trunk Show” are three different categories. Actually, they are sub-categories of the main category “Events & Classes”, which you’ll find in the Menu section on the top right.

When he wants to create an Event, he just writes a normal post and select the “Events” category. The Post automatically appears in the Categories proper place in the sidebar. The same with creating “Classes” or “Trunk Shows”. You’ll also notice that the post does not appear on the home page. That is because I used the static front page option, which you’ll find under: Options – Reading – Front Page.

Since these are all sub-categories of the main category “Events & Classes”, when you click on the “Events & Classes” link in the Menu section you get a list of all the posts under all the sub-categories. Essentially allowing you to view all the Events, Classes and Trunk Shows on one page.

You’ll notice at the bottom of the “Events & Classes” page there’s a link marked “See our past Events and Classes”. This is another category. Once an event date passes, our client edits the Post, unchecks the current category, and then checks “Past Events and Classes”. The post is removed from it’s section (category) in the sidebar, and is added to the “Past Events and Classes” page.

NOTE: WordPress doesn’t do a very good job of displaying different categories separately in the sidebar. We used Scott Reilly’s “Customizable Post Listings” Plugin, which you can find here.

Hopefully this post will inspire you to be creative with WordPress Categories, I’ll post later a better tutorial with real examples!

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