Adsense on a WordPress blog.

Anything I should know about?

[Perfection]

I'm thinking of adding a blog to my site, and I'm leaning towards using WordPress.

I was wondering if there are any problems or just anything I should be aware of if I plan to put Adsense ads throughout a WordPress blog, or any blog in general for that matter?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[jimbeetle]

My Wordpress blogs don't run Adsense as yet, but I've been setting them up to be Adsense friendly.

I've used Adsense section targeting above and below the body of each post. And also set section targeting 'ignore' in navigation and housekeeping blocks.

I avoid the word 'blog' like the plague. Looking around at other sites I find it pulls too many blog-related ads.

If you plan to run Adsense within the post body, be sure to include it only after the 'more' tag, that way you won't run into the possiblity of 10 or 20 ad blocks on any page where snippets from multiple posts might be displayed.

There are a couple of Wordpress plug-ins that make it simple to insert the ad code in individual posts. Play around with a couple of them to see which best suits your needs.

[gendude]

You'll find that WordPress is an outstanding platform for AdSense, but the main thing to remember as jimbeetle pointed out, is to avoid using the word blog as AdSense loves that word for targeting.

You'll find a lot of websites, including some of the larger blogs and blog networks use WP. It "just works" and works very well.

[Perfection]

Thanks for the help guys.

Is using the word "blog" really THAT bad? Up until now I was ready to call it "The ::Site's Name:: Blog." This sorta puts a damper on that idea, I guess?

[gendude]

Only one way to find out :-) The problem isn't with WordPress - it's with using any blog software because there are a lot of ads targeted towards blogging (but they all pretty much pay low, which makes it strange that they would override your better paying topics).

Make sure and use the AdSense targeting and you should be able to keep the name with "Blog" in it without getting blogging ads.

There are a few AdSense-oriented themes for WordPress (although they are for the most part three-column, if that matters).