How to Add Google Adsense Ad Under Navigation Menu in WordPress

Google Adsense can generate huge revenue if you can use it wisely. One of the best way to increase revenue is placing ads on different places of your website. After few research we found that Ads under Navigation Menu works GREAT. Its CTR is high.

You can use different Ads like Leaderboard (728 x 90) or (728×15) Displays 4 links. For me, Link Unit generates more click, though earning isn’t so high.

So in this post I’ll show you how to add Adsense ad under nav menu in WordPress.

How to Add Google Adsense Ads Under Navigation Menu

If you are going to use Link Unit then I suggest you to make it look like navigation bar. Change the background and text link color according to your navigation menu just like this:

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For Leaderboard, use Image/rich media ads only.

Now follow the simple steps.

1. At first, Login your Adsense Account and create you desire ad unit. Copy the code.

2. After copying the code, login to WordPress dashboard. Go to Editor and Find Header.php file on the editor.

3. Open the header.php file and paste the Adsense codes at the bottom of the file.

4. To make it center just use the center tags like <center>Google Adsense Code</center>.

That’s it you’re DONE.

If you’re using Thesis 1.8 then just follow the bellow steps.

1. At first take a back up of your custom_functions.php and Custom.css file which are to be used in this steps. In case of any mistake you can back up will help you.
2. Now put the following code in your custom_functions.php file.

function addmenu() { ?>
<ul id=”addmenu”>
*PLACE ADSENSE AD HERE
</ul>
<?php }
add_action(‘thesis_hook_before_content_box’,’addmenu’);

Click on save button.

3. Then put the following code on your Custom.css file.

.custom ul#addmenu {
height: 20px;
background:#E6E6E6 none repeat scroll 0 0;
padding-top: 5px;
width: 100%;
}

Click on save button and you are done.

Hope this post helps you to put Adsense Ads under nav menu. Do let us know if you face any difficulty via comments. If you find this useful consider sharing with your friends.