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How To Connect AdSense With WordPress & Display Google Ads | Site Kit

Connect AdSense With WordPress
(Last Updated On: August 24, 2022)

Do you want to connect your WordPress website with Google AdSense and view your Google AdSense stats like earnings, clicks, impressions, RPM etc, on WordPress dashboard? You are in the right place, we will guide you step-by-step to how to connect your Google AdSense account to your WordPress site, so that you will be able to display Google ads on it.

As you know that by default WordPress does not provide you the feature to directly connect AdSense from your dashboard, so in order to display auto Google ads on your website and view AdSense stats like earnings, ad clicks, RPM, CPC etc, on your dashboard, you need to install a plugin.

There are many WordPress plugins for displaying Google ads on your website that you can use, but here we are guiding you to how to use Site Kit by Google plugin.

Site Kit is a powerful and secure free WordPress plugin for connecting services such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, PageSpeed Insights, Google AdSense, Optimize(For Creating A/B Tests) and Tag Manager, to WordPress.

In this tutorial we will cover following topics:

  • How To Install Site Kit by Google
  • How To SignUp/Apply For Google AdSense
  • How To Connect Site Kit To AdSense
  • How To Insert AdSense Ad Units In WordPress

 

How To Install Site Kit

We have created a separate tutorial to guide you how to install and activate Site Kit plugin in WordPress. In addition you can also learn how to connect Google Search Console & Google Analytics to your WordPress site using Site Kit. Read this tutorial:

How To SignUp/Apply For AdSense

Before you go through this tutorial you must have a Google AdSense account linked to your website. It does not matter whether your website is approved for monetization or not, if you have added your website in your AdSense account you can still connect AdSense to Site Kit.

If you don’t have an AdSense account OR If you don’t know how to signup/apply for Google AdSense then read this step-by-step tutorial:
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How To Connect Site Kit To AdSense

Before you start make sure to sign-in to your Gmail account with the Gmail ID that you use for Google AdSense, so that Site Kit plugin will directly access your AdSense account.
  • Click “Site Kit”.
  • Click “CONNECT MORE SERVICES” tab.
  • Click “Set up AdSense”.
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  • It will take few seconds to connect.
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  • It is telling you that you are already using AdSense.
  • Drag the slider towards right that says, “Let Site Kit place AdSense code on your site to get your approved”.
  • Click “CONTINUE”.
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  • Now Site Kit wants you to do two things (1) Enable auto ads for your site (2) Verified that your site is marked as “Ready”.
  • Click the “Enable auto ads for your site” link.
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  • In “Ad settings” turn on the “Auto ads” by dragging the slider towards right.
  • Click “Apply to site”.
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  • Click “Apply now”.
  • Click “Save”.
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  • In your AdSense dashboard, click “Ads”.
  • Click “Overview”.
  • You can see that the Auto ads have been turned on.
  • Now go back to Site Kit.
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  • Click ‘Verified that your site is marked as “Ready”‘.
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  • You will see the status of your website like, it is “Ready” or it is “Getting Ready”.
  • Here you can see that the site is not yet approved for monetization. It’s status is “Getting ready…”, but don’t worry you can still connect AdSense to Site Kit.
  • Go back to Site Kit.
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  • Click “CONTINUE”.
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  • Here you can see that the AdSense has been successfully connected to Site Kit.
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  • To access your AdSense dashboard click Site Kit.
  • Click “AdSense”.
  • You can also see the “AdSense is connected” status.
  • Currently it is showing you the “No ad impressions yet” because the website has not been approved yet by AdSense. As soon as your website is approved you will see the stats here.
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  • Click “Site Kit”.
  • Scroll down to “Earnings” section.
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  • You can also see here, the overview of your AdSense stats and earnings like RPM, Total Earnings, Ad Impressions, etc.
  • Since this site is not approved yet, so it is not showing anything.
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How To Insert AdSense Ad Units

Above you have just learned to how to connect AdSense and Site Kit for displaying Auto Google ads on your website, here you will learn to how to insert individual AdSense ad units in your website.
  • Login to your AdSense account.
  • Click “Ads”.
  • Click “Overview”.
  • Click “By ad unit”.
  • Click “Display ads”.
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  • At top enter the name of ad unit, it could be anything.
  • There are three types of ads i.e Square, Horizontal and Vertical. Choose the type according to the position where you want to display the ad. Here we have chosen “Vertical” because we want to display ad on sidebar. If you want to display ad on header choose “Horizontal”.
  • In “Ad size” you can enter a size. Normally we choose “Responsive” because it is the recommended ad size and can adjust its size whatever space is available.
  • Click the “Create” button to generate the code.
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  • Click “HTML”.
  • Click “Copy code snippet” to copy the code.
  • Go back to your WordPress dashboard.
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  • Click “Appearance”.
  • Click “Widgets”.
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  • Select the “Custom HTML” widget and drag it to Sidebar.
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  • Paste the AdSense ad unit code that you have copied into the widget’s content area.
  • Click “Save”.
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  • Click “Done”.
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  • You can move the position of the widget up and down.
  • If you want to add more AdSense ad units repeat the steps again.
  • Similarly you can place individual AdSense ad units at any position of your website.
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Meer Basit is the founder of Meer’s World. He’s been running the show since launching the blog back in 2018. By background he is a computer scientist. Primarily, he creates content around blogging (WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr), SEO, affiliate programs, earn-online, reviews, eCommerce, & technology. He has got years of professional experience in web programming, computer programming, databases, data warehousing, & transcription. In general, he likes traveling, gardening, creating TikToks(@iammeerbasit), watching movies, is a passionate cricketer, creative writer, and a GSD lover.

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