Set Up Google AdSense in Your Jekyll Chirpy Site

Introduction

• This pages provides the steps to setup google adsense in your jekyll chirpy theme.
• Below are the step by step instructions:

1. Setup a Google AdSense Account

• Quickly sign up for AdSense using the following link: Google AdSense

2 . Copy the default.html

• Copy the _layouts/default.html file from jekyll-theme-chirpy and copy it in your repsitory under _layouts folder (Create the folder if it does not exists).

3. Get AdSense Code

• Login into Google AdSense account.
• Click on Ads and then click on Get Code to get the AdSense code.

4. Paste AdSense Code in _includes folder

• Create a file under _includes folder (I named it adsense_center.html) and paste the Adsense code into the file.
• If you are ad unit in Google AdSense to have Ads displayed at specific location, you can create multiple files(max 3) with different names.

5. Update default.html template

• Copy the _layouts/default.html from the jekyll-theme-chirpy to your repository.
• Based on your requirement, you can place the include statement and the file name to get the ads displayed at specific locations.
• Please refer to the changes that I have made in my repository Cloudutsuk.com Repo.
• Please note that the ads will start appearing after 30 minutes or more.