Received Google AdSense PIN

This morning I received a card from Google. It is the Google AdSense PIN. I remembered that my AdSense income reached over $10 last month. To my surprise, it is not very large and it came from Mountain View. After lunch I came back to my dormitory, then login to my AdSense account and entered the PIN code. The second is the telephone verification. After I entered my telephone number, in less 3 seconds, the telephone rang. I got an code from the phone and entered it in my AdSense account.

The process is very easy. This mail is the first mail that I received from Google. I hope I will receive the first earning from Google in some day.

Adsense, Adsense...

More than twenty days have gone since August 1st. I am very glad that the Adsense in this blog give me more than $5. Although it is not much, it is the best result since I used Adsense. Adsense gave me dreams before, now I hope the dreams will come true.

Up to now, I have got 12 clicks from this blog in August. A strange thing is that all the clicks are from the right sidebar instead of the big rectangle below every article. I thought the big rectangle would give me more income. But it seems that I was wrong.

I know to get more income, I should to get more traffic. I think the value of a blog not only depends on its traffic but also its contents. Providing useful information is the most important thing. So I should put my heart into writing better contents. Several days ago I posted a thread on DigitalPoint that said I wanted to earn $10/month with Adsense. I believe it is not just a dream any more.

Integrating Adsense into Blogger (for Experts)

Blogger is a famous free blog service provider (BSP). It belongs to Google.com. Although it is free to use, you can use Adsense on you blog to make money. Inserting adsense is very easy. But sometimes we need more. For example, I want to show a 468 x 60 banner above the first article in the index page or achive pages. But I don't want it to be shown in a single post page. Moreover, I want to show another 468 x 60 banner below the article in each single post page only, but it won't appear in the index page or achive pages, etc. See below:

• index page screenshot
• single post page screenshot

So the simple way won't work. How to solve it?

First we need some software tools. What I will use are Firefox, Firebug extension for Firefox, a text editor (Notepad++). That's all. Now let's begin.

Go to your Blogger -> Layout -> Edit HTML. Download the full template and use your editor to open it. Then use Firefox to visit your blog. Enable Firebug (right click its icon and make sure "Disable Firebug" isn't selected). Then click the icon and you can see the its interface. Click "Inspect" button (top left), and move your mouse on the webpage to find the right HTML code segment. Here's the screenshot.

I used Firebug to find out that the main content is located in a "div" whose id is "content". Then open your editor to find <div id='content'>. Add these lines after it:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>
  <div id='index_banner'>
    <b:section id='index-banner-only' locked='false' preferred='yes'>
    </b:section>
  </div>
</b:if>

Save and upload it. Then go to Layout -> Page Elements. You will see a new "Add a Page Element" above the blog posts area. You can add an Adsense banner. This banner won't appear in any single post page.

Now let's add the article page ads. In the same way, use Firebug to find the right HTML code. And then search it in your text editor. Or you can search for "<data:post.body/>". data:post.body stands for the content text. Add these lines below it:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
your adsense code
</b:if >
Because I want to add Adsense below the article, just add Adsense code below it. But it won't work. You must use Ad Code Converter to convert your Adsense code, and then put it into your template.

OK. Now save your template and upload it. Go to "Page Elements" panel to add an Adsense banner. This banner will only display in the index page and archive pages, etc. It won't display in a single post page. However, if you open a single page, the ads below the content will appear.

PS: I think this trick will increase the Adsense CTR.