AdSense Action!

Tonight, I almost had to learn some PHP. For those of you who know me well, you can stop laughing now. I’ve been interested in learning more about placing AdWords on this site. AdWords for clients is easy to set-up and manage. Plugging them in to a site is something altogether different.

My first task was to understand the system basics — creating the ad layout and tracking. Then, I needed an easy way to test it. My MediaWiki installation proved to be a great test. Once it was in the left gutter, I migrated over to this TypePad blog.

If I hosted this blog with TypePad, it would be very easy to add the code. However, I host with Yahoo so its up to me to edit the PHP/CGI/whatever and I elected not to do so. My attempts have stalled for two reasons: 1. Placement — I’m not sure where I’d like to see the ads, and 2. Upgrades to Moveable Type are automatic at Yahoo! by default. Since the upgrades are automatic and I do not have to worry about it, I’m probably going to put in manual AdSense code until I locate a variables script/file for the system that does not get overwritten by Yahoo.