WebDiggin.com: An Adventure to Make Money Online

I use the Google AdSense Manager Wordpress Plugins to manage my Google Ads on a variety of sites. To be honest, I’ve set up a number of custom Ad blocks with specific channel, names, colours, etc and I didn’t want to have to repeat the process of creating these blocks across 6 or 7 websites. I wanted a quick way to cut and paste or import and export my Google AdSense Manager data from one website to another to save the time.

I had a heck of a time trying to figure out how to move the ad blocks. I couldn’t find the answer on the internet or even the developer’s website: mutube.com. When I found a series of old posts on the WordPress site stating that the Google AdSense Manager plugin was banned by Google, I was more than a little alarmed.

Unfortunately, AdSense Manager has been banned by Google for being in violation of unspecified T&Cs, and my account has been suspended. Without any information to correct the problem I have no choice but to remove AdSense Manager from distribution.

However, the author has since posted an update on his site stating that the problem was that he asked for users to be nice and use his adsense account 3% of the time - which was a violation of Google’s Terms and Conditions. The new version of the Google AdSense Manager doesn’t include this “be nice” feature, and his Google AdSense account has since been reinstated by Google.

Update July 10th, 2007

Please note that my AdSense account has been reinstated on the understanding that the Be Nice feature is removed from AdSense Manager. This has been done & the plugin is now “safe” to use. Thankyou for your support in getting this resolved.

Eventually, I discovered that plug-ins can save data directly to the WordPress database, or create a new table in the WordPress database. Google AdSense Manager does the first option.

Here’s how you can move your Google AdSense Manager plugin data from one website to another. You can use this trick if you’re switching webhosts, or manage multiple websites and don’t want to create the Google AdSense Manager blocks in each of the sites.

Step 1. You need access to phpAdmin. Any good webhost should provide you with this tool. We switched to BlueHost because our old webhost, webserve, didn’t provide this service (among other reasons).

Step 2. If you run multiple websites, you’ll have to figure out where your wordpress database is located. Once you find it, navigate to the table wp_options in your wordpress database. Click on Browse to see the list of fields. This is what ours looks like:

Step 3. Find the line where the option name is plugin_adsensem. (Ours has an option id around 90, but that will differ for you depending on how many plugins you have and the order in which you activated them.) Edit that row by clicking on the little pencil icon.

Step 4. Copy the information you find in the Option_value. This is where the Google AdSense Manager plugin stores your data about your custom google adsense settings.

Step 5. Repeat Steps 1-4 to navigate to your other WordPress blog where you want to copy your Google AdSense Manager data. Paste the data that is in the Option_value and click GO to save.

Warning: You might want to copy the original data in there before you paste anything over it just in case you make a mistake. I’m not sure what the plugin will do if you have two ad blocks with the same custom name. We wanted all of our websites to have the same Google AdSense Manager blocks so we just deleted what was there before and pasted the proper data in.

This works with AdSense Manager v2.5. There is a Adsense Manager v3.0, but we haven’t switched over yet because we were afraid there might still be some tweaks in the project to be made. The developer states that “version 3.x represents an almost complete rewrite to support a number of changes in the Google AdSense service and the recent explosion in new blog-targeted ad networks.” As a result, I’m not sure whether this trick works in the latest version of Adsense Manger.

Bottom Line: Google AdSense Manager is a great plug in to control where your Google Ads appear in your WordPress blog. If you manage multiple blogs and have access to your WordPress Database (i.e. through phpAdmin), then you can move your Google AdSense Manager settings by copying and pasting the plugin data. This won’t work if you’re using the free version of WordPress, but then you can’t use Ads on your free version of WordPress anyways.

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