Have you found it difficult to control the placement of Adsense ads on your site? Would you like to be able to turn one or more Adsense ads on or off for a specific page/post?
Following is a method that can provide more flexibility and control over where Adsense ads are placed on your website.
Defining Custom Fields
So what is a custom field? According to WordPress (http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/wordpress-custom-fields-101-tips-tricks-and-hacks/):
Custom Fields are a form of meta-data that allows you to store arbitrary information with each WordPress post. While this does not sound so powerful, it is the single most powerful component of WordPress posts and content types (aka post types). This meta-data is handled with key/value pairs. The key is a 'name' which identifies the specific field thus it is a constant and should stay the same for all posts however you can use the same key multiple times within one post. The value is the information that will be displayed for the field when you call it in your WordPress theme thus it can change with each post.
To get more detail about custom fields, search for "custom fields wordpress" in any search engine.
Adsense Keywords and Values
There are at least six custom field keywords associated with Adsense ads. These are:
adsense
adsense-top
adsense-middle
adsense-bottom
adsense-widget
adsense-search
Values associated with these keywords include no, left, right, and center.
The "no" value, combined with any of the location related keywords, will restrict Adsense ads from being located in that area of your post or page (top, middle, bottom, or sidebar/widget).
The "adsense" keyword with a "no" value will restrict all Adsense ads from that particular post/page.
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Is that what you were hoping for? I checked several posts and didn't see any ads other than the sidebar.
This one of the post where I used adsense-widget keyword.
When I go out and search the internet for your issue I keep finding references to the plugin along with the control fields.
Are you willing to add the Easy Plugin for Adsense plug-in? It allows you to define where you want ads positioned (not sure how you did it first). Perhaps the control fields are defined by that plugin.
Any help please.
Once you are signed up, you will click on the My Ads tab at the top to create your "ads." On the My Ads page, you'll click on the "New Ad Unit" button at the top to specify the type and size of the ad you want on your site.
For example, you may want to allow image-only ads of size 300x250 on your post or page. Or you may want a larger text/image 300x600 allowed in your sidebar. Or you may want both. You define them on this page, then Adsense place the ads on your site.
A WA friend recommended the plugin Easy Adsense, so I installed and initialized it. The plugin allowed me to specify where I would allow ads, in general, on all my posts, pages, and/or sidebar.
Then, I implemented custom fields to add additional flexibility in ad placement.
The main ad codes are stored in the Quick Adsense Settings page on the WP dashboard.
Different ads are assigned to certain Ad Names, and these appear as buttons on the editor just below the default text icons. As you position your cursor into the desired location of your text, just click the ad name and the code is inserted.
Very straight forward.
Custom fields allow you to control which locations can be used post by post (see the examples on the 4th page).
I can see why your method had its advantages.
Thanks for the info. Something new for me ☺
