I'm following Kyle's Online Certification Training and just got to the part where we monetize our sites with Google Adsense.
Course 3, Lesson 7: Getting Paid for Ads on Your Site
Signing up for Google Adsense was simple but being very un-techy I couldn't work out where to add the verification code. The instruction was as follows:
Eek! Adding HTML code is definitely not my forte. But I couldn't find any training on it so I gave it a shot.
How NOT to add the code to your WordPress site:
Took a deep breath and logged into my Wordpress Back Office.
Clicked on Appearance - Editor - Theme Header (header.php file), found the spot to place the code and clicked update file.
Another deep breath and Fingers crossed that I hadn't disturbed the peace of my back-end HTML code rendering my site useless.
Fortunately, all that happened was this email arrived in my inbox today: