I'm writing this in the hope that one or more aggressive WordPress plugin developers will see it and turn my dreams into reality. I have written about optimizing AdSense in the past, but I don't want to go back into those articles to point out relative information.


The Idea

I know for a fact that any blog can be optimized for AdSense, even personal blogs. There are no real secrets involved. Certain techniques can be used:

  • Proper size, colors and placement
  • Proper categorization and tagging
  • Showing AdSense ads only to search visitors
  • Blocking the showing of AdSense ads for certain topics

The Requirement

The plugin would need to be able to do all the above. I use a plugin now in which only search visitors are shown AdSense. I also wrote custom code to block the showing of AdSense to certain categories and tags. The ideal way would be the ability to do that as well as selectively exclude some posts.

While I can't mention my exact CTR, I can tell you that I get well over 5 percent every single day on this blog. At least half of all my visitors never see AdSense. Others, who don't fine-tune it as much as I do, are seeing 0 to 3 percent CTRs and guess what? They're probably smart-priced. I am not.

Final Thoughts

The reason, even though I know how, I won't write a plugin myself is because of my programming ethics. I rarely finish anything I start, unless I do it for money. I don't believe WordPress plugins should cost money, therefore…