How to Put Ads in Your Blog Header

"Above the fold" ads generate more revenue for your blog.

These are the ads that are displayed on your blog without a user scrolling down.

Your blog header is an ideal place to put a big horizontal ad but by default Blogger doesn't let you.

If you haven't tried before give it a go - create a Gadget and try to drag it into the Header. You can't.

Luckily with a few tweaks to your template you can change this.

Before You Get Started

Before you make these changes do BACK UP YOUR BLOG!

Enable Header Gadgets in Blogger

• Click on Template
• Click on Edit HTML button
• Click inside the code scroller and then click Control F which will make a search box display
• Paste the following code into the search box: <b:section class='header' id='header'

• The line you searched for will be highlighted, as above.
• Next to the highlighted text, you will see it says: maxwidgets='1' 
• Change the number 1 to 5
• Next to maxwidgets it will say: showaddelement='no'
• Change the word no to yes
• Underneath the highlighted text, it will say locked='true'
• Change the word true to false
• Click the Save Template button
• The code will now look like this:

• Go to Layout and you will see above your Header an Add a Gadget field
• You can use this Gadget to add AdSense or the HTML for any other ad network

Feedback

Do let me know if this was useful - was it too easy? too hard?  And what other problems have got you stumped? Tell me about them and I'll come up with a solution.

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