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Advanced Ads

<a href="https://wpadvancedads.com/add-ons/genesis-ads/" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Ads</a> enables you to easily display any kind of advertisement – including Google AdSense and Amazon – in various positions in your Genesis based theme.
In order to use Ads for Genesis, you also need
<ul>
<li>a theme based on the Genesis Framework built by StudioPress,</li>
<li>the free ad management plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-ads/" rel="ugc">Advanced Ads</a>.</li>
</ul>
This combination with Advanced Ads allows you to inject adverts like Google AdSense, Amazon, images banners, etc. managed by Advanced Ads into the predefined positions (called “action hooks“ many Genesis based themes have included in the frontend) and to make use from features like ad rotation. 
Please be aware that your theme author might have left some of them out. Also, the styling of the content added by these hooks depends on your theme. Please contact your theme developer about styling issues.
<h4>Positions for ads</h4>
There are currently 51 positions you can target with Genesis Ads. Among them are:
<ul>
<li>a couple of positions around and within the header – the part where the site’s title and description and maybe also a navigation and a search form are located</li>
<li>around the main content and sidebar wrappers</li>
<li>before, within and after the main and the alternative sidebar</li>
<li>around the loop – the part where the posts and pages gets loaded, but not within the actual content itself</li>
<li>plenty of positions around the content. You can even specify positions around the content title here</li>
<li>around the comments, pings (websites that link to your post) and the comment form</li>
<li>before, within and after your site’s footer</li>
</ul>
Keep in mind that content positions might be repeated on overview pages like home or category pages and the ad might be injected multiple times per page.
<h4>Usage</h4>
Make sure that you have your Genesis-based theme and the basic version of Advanced Ads activated.
Go to your dashboard and navigate to Advanced Ads > Placements.
When creating a new placement, select the one with the G in the symbol.
After saving the new placement you find it with additional options in the placement list. Here you can specify or change the ad and select the position (see below) from the list.
There are currently 51 placements in 7 logical groups. You can find extended information on them in the <a href="https://my.studiopress.com/docs/hook-reference" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Hook Reference</a> (Genesis login needed).
The positions are mostly self-explanatory. When you check the reference against the positions in the Genesis placement then you should keep in mind that I removed the genesis_ prefix.

Ads for Genesis

Somehow my ad injection plugin was not working. I installed this plugin and it worked to inject ad inside content.  

It works!

Ads for Genesis allows you to display any kind of ads without coding in your Genesis theme.

broadstreet

This is the easiest way to place ads in your WordPress site. Just drag a widget 
to the sidebar, upload, an ad, and save.
Watch a short video demo: <a href="https://youtu.be/E9CC3ZWOaLU" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/E9CC3ZWOaLU</a>
Note: If you have an adblocker installed, it will prevent this widget (and parts of WordPress) from working properly.
<ul>
<li>Extremely intuitive for beginners</li>
<li>No clunky ad management interface</li>
<li>Easily place image banner ads</li>
<li>Easily place Google ad tags and other ad code</li>
</ul>
If you like Ad Widget and you’re selling ads, you might like our new <a href="http://broadstreetads.com/ad-platform/ad-formats/" rel="nofollow ugc">ad formats for publishers 
and salespeople</a>.
You will not find an easier way to run ads on your website!
<h3>Demo</h3>
Watch a short video demo: <a href="https://youtu.be/E9CC3ZWOaLU" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/E9CC3ZWOaLU</a>
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
The Ad Widget is a very simple plugin. If you are having trouble 
loading ads on your site, please make sure that:
<ul>
<li>You do not have an ad blocker installed (you would be amazed how often this happens). Disable it and refresh the page a few times to see if the ad appears.</li>
<li>You don’t have CSS in your theme which is hiding images (rare, but it happens)</li>
</ul>
If you have any other trouble, email kenny@broadstreetads.com – try to avoid 
the WordPress support forums because they’re awful.

Ad Widget for WordPress

Easily upload ad images and ad code to your sidebar. For those that don't need or want a complicated ad management system.

Ads for Genesis vs Ad Widget for WordPress