Edit/Remove The Google Ads In The Sidebar

Your blog will most likely either be displaying your google ads, or none at all. But in some cases you guys ask me to leave my ads in while you set up your adsense account. So this is a post to help you make the switch.

But, you can also replace the AdSense code with ANYTHING. If you want an amazon banner there, that will work. Yahoo ads. Text links. An image. ANYTHING. You just replace the AdSense code, which you learn how to do here.

Follow these steps:

* Log in to your blog.

* Hover over the ‘Appearance’ tab at the top and click on ‘Widgets’.

* Look to the right of the page, and you will see ‘Current Widgets’, and a drop-down box with ‘Middle Content’ in it. Click ‘Middle Content’ and change it to ‘Sidebar’.

* Then click ‘Show’.

* When the page has reloaded, you will notice that the two blue bars just beneath that drop down box have changed. These blue boxes are the ‘widgets’ that make up your sidebar. Think of them as lego blocks. You can move them around the re-arrange the elements in the sidebar of your blog.

* Look for the blue block that contains the Google Ads and click ‘Edit’. [Hint: it will probably be titled 'Sponsored Links']

* You will then see some code which looks like this:

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[code]<script type="text/javascript"><!--

google_ad_client = "pub-5760144287192160";

/* adsense-sidebar */

google_ad_width = 300;

google_ad_height = 250;

//-->

</script>

<script type="text/javascript"

src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">

</script>[/code]

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You will either need to delete this and paste your code directly in its place (if you want a different style), or if you know about your AdSense Pub ID and want to keep the standard ad style you can just find your Pub ID in the code and change it to yours.

* Now click the ‘Change’ button at the bottom of the box and you’ll see the box close again. Only once it is closed, click the ‘Save Changes’ link. The page will then reload and you will see a message at the top telling you that your changes have been saved.

And now the Google Ads in the sidebar are yours! Every time they are clicked on, you earn money. But make sure you don’t go clicking on them yourself. Google will know.

Lewis