Using Adsense Custom Channels on Blogger

It’s very important to track your ads and Blogger doesn’t allow using customs channels by default. This step-by-step article will equip you to place your Google Adsense Ad code along with Adsense Custom Channels on Blogger.

1. Get the Ad code
All of you know that this is done from the Setup tab in your adsense dashboard. What’s important is setting up the custom channels when you do this. Name your channels such that you can easily figure out which ad units they represent. An easy way keep mistakes at bay is to follow a naming convention like this: SiteName_Position_Size_Colour (ex: - mysite_toprt_336x280_blue)


Getting the ad code from Adsense Setup

2. Blogger Layout
Log into your Blogger account and navigate to the Layout tab and then to the Page Elements tab. Now, you will be able to see the layout of your blog.


Navigating to Page Elements in Blogger

3. Adding a Gadget
You will be able to see many “Add a Gadget” links in your layout like the one shown below. Click on any one of these and you will see a pop up window with many gadgets to choose from. From this list, select the “HTML/JavaScript” gadget.


Finding the "Add Gadget"

Choosing "HTML / JavaScript"

4. Pasting the Code
On selecting the “HTML/JavaScript” gadget, you will be shown a pop-up like the one shown below. It will have spaces for a title and content. Leave the title field blank and paste the ad code that you generated in step 1 into the content space provided. Press save and the pop up window closes.


Pasting the Adsense Code

5. Placing the HTML/JavaScript Gadget
You have just now created an HTML Gadget. By default, this gadget would be placed just below the “Add a Gadget” you started off with in step 3. Now you need to move it to the best position for maximum CTR. How do you do it? Just click this gadget, drag and drop it to the desired position.


Default position of the newly added gadget


Moving the gadget to a desired position

6. Previewing and Saving
Now press the preview button and a pop-up with how you blog would look after the changes, would open up. You can look at the preview and see how your das would look. If you are not happy with the placement, close the preview window and go back to step 5. Use a different position now.


Previewing your blog using preview button

Once you are happy with the position, close the preview window and hit the save button!

The preview and save buttons

You are done with implementing adsense with custom channels on your blogger blog. Now it’s time to view your blog and start looking at some detailed adsense reports!

Hope you will find this post useful. Please let me know if you have any questions.