Okay, I have been guilty of making even more money with Google Adsense than ever by implementing Link Units within the content as shown above.

Basically, Google lets you have up to 3 “regular” ads and 3 “link units”.

Now, I used to put the 728×15 link units at the top of the website.  I still do, but I found even a better way to monetize the link units.

Here’s how to do it:

1. You need to put the link unit ads within your content.  You can see an example here.

2. You need some custom programming as no Wordpress plugin will do this. (I wrote the code so…)

Here’s the code you need to replace “the_content()” function in your single.php and index.php files.  (Some themes use theloop.php instead)


<?php

$content = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $post->post_content);
$save = explode(“</p>”, $content);
$tcount=0;
$adon=0;
foreach($save as $item) {
echo $item;

if(preg_match(‘/img /’,$item)==0 && $tcount>=0 && $adon==0) {
$adon=1;
?>

<div style=”width:120px;height:90px;float:right”>
[Google Adsense Code HERE!]
</div>
<?php
}

if(preg_match(‘/img /’,$item)==0 && $tcount>=4 && $adon==1) {
$adon=2;
?>

<div style=”width:120px;height:90px;float:right”>
[Google Adsense Code HERE!]
</div>
<?php
}

$tcount++;
}

?>

Make sure the change “[Google Adsense Code HERE!]” with your actual adsense code.

Basically this code “avoids” ads where there’s an image.  You can change the values of $tcount which is variable for the number of sentences before printing.  (The first $tcount is set to 0 and $tcount to 4 here so your link unit ad shows up on the first sentence and 4th.  If there’s less than 4 sentences, the link unit won’t show up to make it look clean.)

Now the great part about this code is that I used DIV html code to make the link unit ad go within your content.
3. Watch as the link unit ads make more money than ads on the bottom or right of the content.

For each link unit added to your content, you can expect about 10% increase in revenue.  Now, if you had 3 of these link units, that’s about extra 30% revenue you didn’t expect before.

The reason I tried this link unit ad was actually because I was losing money on some of my blogs for some reason and I had to make it up.

The good news is that the blogs I was losing money on came back after 2 weeks so now I am making about 20% more on all my blogs through this method.

A lot of people put these link unit ads on their sidebar or as part of 125×125 pixel ads.  Don’t do that as you will not get many clicks.  The best way is to put it within the content so people notice them.

These link units are also great because they don’t take up much space either.  I use the smallest ones, 120×90 pixels and they work the best.

Now, if you have not link unit ads on your site (at least 1 or 2 of them!), you need to do so and start making more money.

Of course, if your web traffic is still under 1000 uniques per day, you need to get more traffic first.  (duh!) adon, AdSense, amp, Blogging, content post, custom programming, div style, gt 4, lt, Make Money Online, match, money, php content, sentences, Wordpress