On the homepage, one of the more effective places to implement Google Adsense is after the first post (same for any other archive type page, like the categories). While the CTR (click through rate) won’t be as high as placing the code above the first post, or after the first post title, it’s much cleaner and will provide a ‘less spammy’ place to put the code. Remember, folks are here for your content - not your ads.


At any rate, it’s pretty simple. You’ll need to use this code to prevent your ad code from appearing after every single post, as Wordpress would just loop and keep showing it (which would likely be against Google’s TOS as they only allow 3 ad blocks per page).

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