Adsense not showing up on sight - I have read other posts but no current advice helps

[ConstantNoah]

Hi,

I signed up for AdSense a few weeks back (just before new years). It said the approval was pending.
At that point I added the adsense code to WPD.
Then I checked again a few days ago and the pending message has gone. So I figured it's been approved?

I then tried adding adsense to my blog via market summarai. However, nothing showed up on my page!

I then tried installing a wordpress plugin for adsense, and that still didn't work.
So I'm confused... can anyone tell me what might be going wrong?

Also, in the mean time, I went and signed up for some affiliate programs and peppered the products in my posts (with links to the affiliate sights). I have already made $35 over the last 3 weeks, so that's nice! If the point of installing google adsense is to determine whether it's a profitable niche, then perhaps I've already acheved that goal., and I don't need to worry about adding adsense. However, either way, I'd really like to solve this issue and have the ability to add adsense to my site should I want to in the future.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Kendra]

I am also very confused, and I think it's related to this post.

I cannot follow the clear instructions provided in the video for Module Six - Day 2 because I don't see the 'Plugins' menu option in my Wordpress(.com) dashboard.

Any advice?

[DeanRichards]

I cannot follow the clear instructions provided in the video for Module Six - Day 2 because I don't see the 'Plugins' menu option in my Wordpress(.com) dashboard.

You don't put adsense on a Wordpress.com site, you put it on your main site.

[Kendra]

-Many thanks for the quick reply, Dean. I still may need a little more help.

-The problem, which I finally figured out after hours of combing this forum and the related tools' websites, is that my main website is on WordPress Direct, per the training Module 2 available in Feb/March 2012. But the instructions to get AdSense code onto your main website in Module Six Day 2 no longer correspond to me (WPD) and I'm stuck.

-How do you put AdSense code in the HTML of the main website on WordPress Direct? I already added my Adsense ID into the Website Settings on WPD. Are there simple instructions still leftover that I can follow?

-I'm not a techie, and so any help would save me hours of head scratching and frustration. Maybe I have to go straight to WPD support. Or maybe I should I scrap my WordPress Direct main website and re-create it on Wordpress.org using Construct.ly...

-What would be your advice for finishing out this first Challenge? (I'm worried, too, that Market Samurai instructions in the Challenge have been updated and may no longer correspond to WPD.)

Thanks,
Nicole

[Barry Unruh]

This is 100% a personal opinion, not golden advice...

If it were me and I was not too far into the process I would start over with Construct.ly so I could follow the new instructions.

[micronet]

Kendra,

From your last posting I have the feeling you are a little confused about the different platforms and services.

Wordpress .COM is a service that lets your have a blog on their hosting. They make it simple to have a blog
but the problem is you are confined to their rules and your blog is not completely yours. For instance they
basically don't allow advertising.

At The Challenge we simple use wordpress .com as one of the ways to help get our pages indexed and/or ranked.
Not as a main site.

Wordpress .ORG is a free repository for all things wordpress . ie: the wordpress software, plugins, themes etc.
If you were to create a wordpress plugin or theme, Wordpress.org is where you would want to get it published
for others to get and use.

So wordpress.com lets you have a blog but you don't have full control of it and Wordpress .org is a site to get stuff for your blog
"That you are hosting"

WPD and Constuc.ly are not hosting and you don't put a blog on them.

They are services to help you install and maintain your blog(s) on your own hosting.

So the process for your main blog that you control and can put basically anything on is.

1. Purchase a Domain Name

2. Purchase Hosting Account (both can be obtained at Hostgator or your preferred choice)
Note:
If you are going to use Construc.ly you'll want to check what hosting companies it
will work with before purchasing a hosting account.

3. Install Wordpress on your hosting.

4. Start publishing and have fun.

[DeanRichards]

The thing to understand here is that your website isn't "on" WordPress Direct. WordPress Direct is nothing more than an administration interface and you never have to use it if you don't want to. The difference in the training between the old and new systems evaporates once you understand that you can (and always could) administrate your blog directly from it's own dashboard.

Log into your blog by adding /wp-admin to your domain name... so it's www.(whatever).com/wp-admin

Once on that page, you log in with your username and password (the ones you set up when using WPD) and then you're good to go. You'll see the administration menu on the left and you'll be able to follow all the step by steps in Module 6 Day 2.

Let me know if you run into any snags!

[Kendra]

Dean and Ron,

FIXED!!! :-)

Dean's instructions on how to "log into your blog by adding /wp-admin to your domain name... so it's www.(whatever).com/wp-admin" is EXACTLY what I needed, and now everything you both wrote about the different services and platforms makes a little more sense. (btw, I had already purchased a Domain Name / Hosting Account.) Right now the ads spaces are blank blocks pushing over my blog text, no actual ad text showing up, but I will hunt around on the forum first to try and figure out the solution.

Many thanks for taking the time to educate me. I will study the terminology as it takes me awhile to digest what, to me, is a foreign language.

[DeanRichards]

Right now the ads spaces are blank blocks pushing over my blog text, no actual ad text showing up, but I will hunt around on the forum first to try and figure out the solution.

You might review the first part of Module 6 Day 2 to make sure you're set up correctly at the Google end of things. Just a guess...