How To Change AdSense Ads The Quick Way

UPDATE: The tips and tricks on this are to do with XSite Pro Version 1 only. Click here for news on XSite Pro Version 2.

Let's say you had a website with "Small Rectangle" AdSense ads all over it.

One day, you hear from a friend who's seen Michael Cheney's AdSense Videos that the "Large Rectangle" ads are quite effective.

You now have to go back and change all your "Small Rectangle" ads into "Large Rectangle" ads. Depending on how many pages you've got, this could take you a very long time, time that could be otherwise spent adding articles to your site or marketing your site in related forums.

Here's how to change your AdSense ads in XSite Pro once, so that the changes show up everywhere on your site.

The first step is to create a page that you are not going to publish. This will be the place where we store our AdSense template ads.

Let's call this page "AdSense Templates" or something similar. Make sure you uncheck the "Publish this page" and "Show on site map" boxes on the "Info" tab:

Create an AdSense Templates page. Be sure to uncheck the "Publish this page" and "Show on Site Map" boxes.

Next, insert an AdSense ad in the Design view:

Right-click and insert a Google AdSense ad.

This ad will be the template. Let's say this will be a "Large Rectangle" ad, aligned to the right, using blue link text and black text for the ad content:

It will appear like this in XSite Pro:

Now copy the ad by selecting it and pressing Ctrl+C (you cannot use the right-click feature to copy AdSense ads in XSite Pro):

Use Ctrl+V to paste the ad into each of your article pages:

Now every time you change the AdSense ad in your "AdSense Template" page, all the cloned ads (the ones you pasted into your article pages) will change too. So if you want all your newly pasted ads to have a light grey url instead of a black one, simply change this in the ad on your AdSense Templates page. All your newly pasted ads will now have a light grey url instead of a black one.

Using this method, you can change the color of your AdSense ad's url, content, link, border and background. You can also change the alignment of your AdSense ad (left, right or normal flow) or even the shape of the AdSense ad itself ("Large Rectangle", "Small Rectangle", "Skyscraper" etc).

You can even change which channel your ads belong to. This is a great tip if you have forgotten to put a channel on the ads on your site. What you do in this case is simply add a channel to the AdSense ad on your AdSense Template page, and the cloned ads will all become part of this channel.

An important thing to note is that the particular advertisers that appear on each page will still be different. Using this method will NOT give you a site with the same advertisers on every page. The ads are still determined by Google's opinion of what each page is about.

So a page on bicycle helmets will still trigger ads about bicycle helmets, and a page on bicycle locks will still trigger ads about bicycle locks.

This article is based on a tip posted by "softstor" from the XSite Pro Forum.