Google Adsense Hack: Automated Section Targetting for bloggers!

12 Apr, 2007 Adsense, Blogger(BlogSpot), Hacks | by Rahul Bansal (449)

If you are a blogger showing Google Adsense ads, then this time I really got a awesome trick which worked well for me! This increased my Adsense earning with the help of section targeting!

Some Basics:
Adsense ads are loaded dynamically according to content of page! Now post people comes to your page to read post (probably they are coming via Google searching for some information). In this regard ads should be targeted to content of your post!

The Newbies Way…
Google provides following HTML comment tags to implement section targeting,

<!– google_ad_section_start –>
…….. your post …….
<!– google_ad_section_end –>

So at every time you are writing a post you have to make sure that you write your post between above two HTML comment tags!

You can automate this in two ways!
There are two ways to do this as explained below. The first way will work for all blogspot blogger while second one is for blogger beta user! Similar hacks can be applied for any blogging platform (e.g. wordpress, movableType, Typepad, etc).

#1. Formatting Post Template: (for all blogspot blogger)

Go to Settings >> Formatting >> Post Template
In text box there add following codes as it is!

<!– google_ad_section_start –><br /><!– google_ad_section_end –>

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venky said, on June 9, 2007 @1:38 pm

Is this legal as per google adsense or it crosses the terms of violation..Can u mail me please..
Rahul Bansal said, on June 9, 2007 @1:49 pm

Its 100% Legal Venky!
We are not modifying Adsense Code!
Moreover ad units getting placed on new lines!
Still to assure u further, I am using this from more than 2 months and believe me my earning increased twofold
namrata said, on July 9, 2007 @11:53 am

is this legal as per google norms please inform me …
Rahul Bansal said, on July 9, 2007 @1:14 pm

It has to be 100% legal! Actually there is one line on adsense policy page which says we can not …change the behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads… but on the other hand Google itself provided help for section targeting!

The problem with program policies is that they are never exhaustive! But I am using it here as well as used earlier on blogspot blog and I never received any notice from adsense!

The whole goal of contextual advertising is to show relevant ads and thats why Google want us to use section targeting!

Anyway technically speaking whether you use automatic method described above or follow mechanical way as suggested by Google the final output will be same and can not be differentiated by anyone including GOOGLE!

by the way will start a talk on this issue with adsense team but chances of any useful reply are bleak!
Bharat said, on July 9, 2007 @1:34 pm

Hello… I m using blogspot…
Nice trick but I can find in the edit place….
What i can see is

I tried dis…

But it cant be saved…

Pls advice the next step…

Thnx in advance…

REGARDS
BHARAT
Rahul Bansal said, on July 9, 2007 @1:39 pm

Bharat, I guess something is missing from ur comment! Please crosscheck wat u hv written!
anonymous said, on July 18, 2007 @10:50 am

will it act on my existing posts also if i do it the first way i.e adding in the “post template”?

and second, i don’t find any thing like in my template HTML.

Any help is highly appreciated .

thanks
Rahul Bansal said, on July 22, 2007 @10:54 am

Well if you have small number of posts you can manually edit HTML of each post separately!
For each post….
1. Select “edit HTML” option
2. Add <!“ google_ad_section_start “> before first line
3. Add <!“ google_ad_section_end “> after last line.

Also give me your blogs URL so that I can figure out where did u stuck! I advise you to go for AUTOMATED section targeting as it pays more in long run!
BHARAT KARNANI said, on July 22, 2007 @12:49 pm

Thnx for d tips Rahul… I have done dat…
My blog url is http://bharatkarnani.blogspot.com/

and

http://moneyplantation.blogspot.com/

Pls comment… My Adsense account is even slower den a snail… :-p

Not much traffic too… Any tips for dat ?

Take Care
Regards

Bharat
Rahul Bansal said, on July 30, 2007 @2:17 pm

Well the evergreen key to high traffic is GOOD CONTENT and frequent postings…

There are other factors like good design, great support and tricks like SEO and link exchange.

While in long run, nothing pays like Good Contents, I do optimize my blog for search engines.

I also had written a post on this topic…

Get higher Google pagerank by naming files and/or blog post titles optimally!
gaurav said, on August 23, 2007 @8:11 pm

I’ve been using wordpress n i dont think it allows u to change the html coding of ur blog…u can only add some preset widgets….and change the css coding(after buying an upgrade)….
also i believe that wordpress doesn’t allow adsense at all.
gaurav said, on August 23, 2007 @8:36 pm

here is mytemplate and i could not find “” anywhere….please help

[Admin Edit: Template Code removed]
Rahul Bansal said, on August 24, 2007 @11:38 am

You are write Wordpress blogs hosted on wordpress forum don’t allow you to access source code of template!

Will try to find a solution and will let you know… Sorry for now
Rahul Bansal said, on August 24, 2007 @11:42 am

Do not send template code like this! Mail me XML file of your exported template!

By the what you see on your dashboard! Template or Layout!

Above will work with Layout only!

Sorry for confusing between template and Layout but they are different!
Vishnu said, on January 11, 2008 @9:17 pm

Do you have any code for increasing fans?
Rahul Bansal said, on January 14, 2008 @7:14 pm

@Vishnu
NO. As of now. But in future please post your comment on relevant topic only!

You can subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates in future!
alex samsoe said, on February 6, 2008 @12:30 am

hiii rahul,thanks for ur tips.but i still cannot understand.can you help me ?
here my blog url :
http://gallerycelebrities.blogspot.com/

thanks
Rahul Bansal said, on February 11, 2008 @11:50 am

@Alex
Sorry for late reply buddy….
Do u use blogger in beta or old blogspot template?

Also let me know what problem/error message you got…
prasanna said, on April 23, 2008 @2:28 pm

very helpful information you have disclosed.Thank you for the same.
Rahul Bansal said, on April 24, 2008 @1:43 pm

@prasanna
Your welcome buddy… Welcome To Devils Workshop!
jeevan said, on June 16, 2008 @10:52 pm

hi rahul…good going….

recently my adsense account is disabled…i worked according to adense policies and terms but even then it is deleted and my monthly earnings are $300 only ….how could i get my account back…even i reissued it but they denied to re-activate my account ….
Rahul Bansal said, on June 17, 2008 @6:36 pm

@jeevan
Jeevan, sorry to hear that man but once you get ban from adsense it becomes really hard to get back again…
By the way have you contacted adsense support with all possible details on the issue??
cyberfly said, on June 23, 2008 @7:35 pm

hi..hi do u make the ads only appear in one post in main page like yours?i tried put the ads under post title but it appear in almost every post in my main page..now i removed till got answer for this problem..
Rahul Bansal said, on June 24, 2008 @11:22 pm

cyberfly
Buddy I am using wordpress and ads are shown once using PHP-codes.
I will first post PHP code I am using here on wordpress and will also try to figure out if similar thing can be done at blogger.
But I dont think on blogger we can do lots of things..
Gaurav said, on June 25, 2008 @1:04 am

Yea I tried to do same stuff but wasn’t successful. Blogger core hasn’t been updated since quite a time, and they should update it quickly to compete with other platforms.
Rahul Bansal said, on June 25, 2008 @10:00 am

@Gaurav
I persoally believe you should always go for platform which allow more control and customization.
We can never estimate what mods we will need in future.
On wordpress, we get all the power and plus freedom to modify it at any level.
Thats why I swticted to wordpress long time back from blogger.

I also coded a wordpress-plugin so that people switching from blogger to wordpress will not loose their traffic and search engine ranking…
lito said, on July 30, 2008 @6:20 am

it not working for me ……….
Rahul Bansal said, on July 31, 2008 @12:20 am

@lilo
What problem you got?
There nothing so technical about this post…
Irfan said, on August 4, 2008 @2:02 am

This was just amazing, I tried this and its just rocks.

Thanks!
Rahul Bansal said, on August 5, 2008 @7:30 pm

@Irfan
Your welcome buddy..