Can i put ads on my wordpress site hosted by wordpress itself.?

[Vinayak]

[Peter Nikolow]

Yes - you can use Google AdSense

[Abhay Khurana]

Yes, you can.

[Jonathan]

Yes, this will only work for self hosted WordPress sites, not wordpress.com

1) Register with Google AdSense

2) Build your advert- Once you are activated on Google AdSense, you can build the advert for your website. Log into AdSense, click ‘My ads’ then ‘+ New ad unit’. then select the type of advert- banner ad for the top of your page, or a sidebar ad.Once you are finished click ‘Save and get code’.

3) Add the code to your website-
Log into your WordPress website
Go to Appearance > Widgets
Click and drag a ‘Text widget’ into your sidebar
Paste the AdSense code into the widget
Click Save

This Google AdSense ad running within the sidebar of your website.