Add Google Adsense to Blogger Header

This is the third article in a series on adding Google Adsense to a Blogger Blogspot blog. In this tutorial you will learn how to add Google Adsense to the header of your blog. This tutorial assumes no knowledge of Blogger and provides a walkthrough of the steps involved to add Google Adsense to the header of your blog.

How To Add Google Adsense to the Header (Above the Title)
If you want to add Google Adsense to your header for instance above the title you can by adjusting your template to give you the option of adding more than one widget to the header area.

1. Login to Blogger and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML

2. Back up your template as a precaution by downloading the full template to your computer

3. Check the Expand Widgets Template box

4. Find the following code. Easiest way is to select CTRL + F to bring up the toolbar. Then enter

into the find box:






5. Replace maxwidgets='1' with maxwidgets='3'

6. Save Template

7. Navigate to Layout > Page Elements and view the new option to add a gadget to the header area



8. Click on Add a Gadget and select Google Adsense.

9. Choose the type of ad unit you want. For this example I chose a new linked 728x15 ad unit from the dropdown format menu for an ad that would sit above the title. Configure colors if necessary. Color blending is usually done automatically by Blogger according to the color schema of your template.

10. Click Save

11. Click View Blog to see your new Google Adsense unit in place. all going well your new ad unit should appear look something like the image below



How to Add Google Adsense to the Header (Below the Title)
To have your new Google Adsense linked unit appear below the title the steps are the same as above. The difference is that you will need to shift the ad unit into position by using the drag and drop feature to move the widget below the header title in the Layout > Page Elements page.



Troubleshooting
By default Blogger will left align these ads so if you want to center the Adsense unit then use the






In this tutorial you have learnt how to add a Google Adsense unit to above and below the title in header section of your Blogger Blogspot Blog.