How to Position An Adsense Ad within a Widget

So yesterday I was experimenting with some new themes and found one I liked that utilized those tall, thin “Skyscraper” Adsense ads. It had a left sidebar which I was looking for because I thought I read somewhere that the left side of the page is better on Google’s “heat map.” And then I read somewhere else that the right side was better. So who knows? Do you know?

Well anyway the only problem was that the side bar was a lot wider than the ad, and simply inserting the Adsense code made the ad show up to the far left of the sidebar. It didn’t look right or appealing. So I googled. Right? What did I google?

• How to position “and” adsense ad within a widget
• How to position an adsense ad within a widget
• How to position a java script
• How to position a Java script Adsense Code

That last one did the trick. About the third result brought me to this page where I found the simple answer, although it’s a little bit down the page and I had to read a bunch of gobledy-goo techno stuff I didn’t understand first.

But the simple answer is using the DIV tag like so:

<div style=”float: right; margin: 10px;”>
(Insert Adsense Code Here)
</div>

Then you tweak it how you like. For instance that exact code moved my ad too far to the right, and I had to tweak my margin to 35px to center it. But you get the picture. However I had to deactivate the theme. I don’t know if there is some bad code in it, or if my servers were just having a problem because my pages suddenly were taking minutes to load, and it was the same for trying to work within the WordPress console itself. Too bad. It was a nice looking theme. Maybe I’ll try it again to see whether it was my servers or not.

Anyway hope that helps. As far as top and bottom positioning, I don’t know. Do you know? I would guess you would use the DIV tag again and some kind of Top or bottom float assignment to it. Just guessing. Of course if I ever need that, I can just Google, right? There’s no need for instruction manuals anymore. Google is the instruction manual. Save the paper. Apple does.