At any rate, it’s pretty simple.  You’ll need to use this code to prevent your ad code from appearing after every single post, as Wordpress would just loop and keep showing it (which would likely be against Google’s TOS as they only allow 3 ad blocks per page).

First, open your index.php (or home.php, archive.php, or any other file you want to do this for) and find this line:

<?php if (have_posts())

and before, add:

<?php $count = 1; ?>

This will be used to track which post is being displayed. Next we’re going to add the code to display your Adsense. Find:

<?php the_content

and after, add:

<?php if ($count == 1) : ?>
Adsense Code Goes Here
<?php endif; $count++; ?>

There you have it, quick and dirty. Remember, this has to go inside the loop otherwise it won’t display properly (place it before the <?php endif; ?> which closes the loop. If you wanted this outside the loop (completely before or completely after all your posts), there would be no need to iterate through a post count. You can change this code to display after any number of posts by changing the $count == 1 to whatever post number you’d like.

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Internet Explorer users can simply edit their host file, found in these places:

Windows 9x, ME C:\WINDOWS
Windows NT (and some 2K) C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc
Windows 2K, XP, 2003 C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

At the first blank line you see (probably under a localhost line), add:

127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

Pretty easy huh? This will cause all references to the Adsense server to refer to your own computer (localhost) instead – resulting in nothing being returned. If you use Firefox you can install the AdBlock extension, which is easy enough and instructions can be found on that site.

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