Google Adsense ready WordPress themes

Monetizing your blog can be a little tricky. Most themes are designed around content and navigation rather than advertisements, and with Googles limited range of available Adsense sizes, things don’t always go together perfectly.

If your looking to monetize your WordPress blog, here are 10 Adsense ready wordpress themes to get you started. There are a variety of ad placement locations depending on your style, everything from 125×125 pixels boxes to 728×90 pixel leaderboards.

First up, DarkZen, a simple, clean and minimalist design.

Connections by Vanilla Mist.

BlueSensation is a clean theme with a traditional look: large content column on the left and a single sidebar, ready to display 125×125 ads.

Monetizing the web’s MW theme.

Decker comes with a 300×250 AdSense unit integrated. All you will need to do is to copy and paste your AdSense code on the advertisement.php file.

Prosense by Dosh Dosh. This blog run by Maki is dedicated to online marketing and has tonnes of useful information on the subject if your looking to further your knowledge.

Deep Blue includes a 336×280 Adsense unit on top of the sidebar, Googles best performing ad unit.

Passion duo comes with a 468×60 banner spot on the header, and 6 125×125 spots on top of the sidebar.

Studiopress comes with three units integrated already. A 468×60 unit on top, a 336×280 unit on top of the sidebar and a 120×600 unit on the bottom of the sidebar.

A quick note…

Now you’ve got range of themes to choose from, an important thing to consider is when to monetize your blog. As tempting as it might be start advertising a.s.a.p. you probably want to put it off until you’ve got a decent amount of content.

Nothing will put your visitors off more than a website full of ads and no information.