How to add Inline Ads in Jekyll blog | And increase your CTR
Updated on: April 14, 2020 ·
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With the coming of new blogging tools like dev.to and medium, People tend to post mostly on those websites. But owning a separate blog on GitHub using Jekyll can give you a lot of freedom. You can do whatever you want with it. While this issue is controversial, there is nothing wrong to monetize your work. If you love to write and blogs (like I do) you can add ads to your blog. Maybe you have launched a course and want to publicize it to your readers. Although adding ads to might increase the bounce rate, but we will add them in such a way so the user experience is not hindered. I only have Google Ads on this blog. Earlier the ads were placed on the sidebar and at the end of the blog. A few days ago, I was thinking about how can I copy other blog strategies who show inline ads in-between the post and improve the CTR of the ads. In this blog, we will try to add ads in-between the post content.
Strategy for adding inline ads in Jekyll blog
The strategy here is pretty simple, we want to show a Google ad after everyten paragraphs of the content.
For accomplishing this, we will have to concentrate on the file, _layout/post.html
Here is the old content of the file.
29th line the most important line and is responsible for showing the content of the post.
Adding inline ads in Jekyll blog: Tech Strategy
- Split the blog content on the basis of
<p>tags. - After every 10 Paras, add an ad.
div with class entry with this code.
On the 4th line, we split the content variable using <p> tag and assigned it another variable content_para.
Then we are looping over this content_para and start printing it one by one.
Inside each loop, we are checking the loop index and finding its modulo 10 which will give its remainder value and assigning the value to a variable para_number.
The value of para_number will be 0 when loop index is multiple of 10 i.e. 10, 20, 30 and so on.
You can add whatever you want to in the place. If you want to publicize your new course, you can do it.
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