Adding adsense code to your Serendipity blog just need a little step, as easy as 1-2-3. The easiest way of accomplishing this is to use the "Adsense Plugin". The Adsense plugin isn’t a terribly complex plugin, it simply allows the user to add a block of adsense code to one of the sidebars on your blog.

Simple step to add your adsense code to your Serendipity blog :

• Download adsense plugin from Spartacus

• Extract and upload adsense plugin folder (serendipity_plugin_google_adsense) to your Serendipty plugin folder.

• Install adsense plugin. Please refer to Installing Plugin at the Serendipity wiki if you need a Serendipity plugin installation how-to.

• Fill out the form

Client-ID : Fill with your adsense ID. Start with pub-
Format : Select your Adsense ads format. Refer to Google Adsense ads format
Type : Select your ads type, image with text, text only or image only
Channel : fill with your tracking channel
Number : how many ads you will display

• Save

That’s it. Quite Simple .

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Installing Serendipity blog engine is quite easy and need a few step only. Serendipity need webserver with MySQL or PostgreSQL and PHP Support. If you install Serendipity on your local computer, you may use XAMPP. Click here for XAMPP installation assistance.

Below are step-by-step how to install your Serendipity blog :
1. Download Serendipity blog from it’s website.

2. Ekstrak zip / tar.gz file. You will get Serendipity folder contains Serendipity files and modules.

3. Upload your Serendipity file to hosting location by FTP.

4. Create MySQL / PostgreSQL database

5. Start installation. Open your favorite browser and type your domain installation. Serendipity will automatically detected your installation proses

Welcome to the Serendipity Installation.
First we will take a look at your current setup and attempt to diagnose any compatibility problems.
Errors are displayed in red [!], recommendations in yellow [?] and success in green.
- Serendipity v1.1.1 pre-installation report -
7. Make sure you have no option marked in red. You may find this error if Serendipity found an invalid permission for some folder / file(s). To olve this problem, use you FTP client to CHMOD 777 to an error permission item and then click "Recheck"..

8. Installation Choice.
There is 2 (two) installation option, Simple dan Expert Installation. Simple Installation will only display primary option. If you need more installation option, try Expert Installation

9. Change Installation Item.

Database Setting.

Database Type : MySQL or PostgreSQL
Database Host : Database server location. Database hosting used "localhost" by default.
Database User : MySQL or PostgreSQL database user
Database Password : Your database password related to database user
Database Name : Your database name (created on step 4)

General Settings
Admin User Name : User Administaror nick name
Admin Password : Administrator password
Real Name : Full name will be displayed as an author on article
Blog Name : Your blog name
Blog Description : Describe your blog about here
Language : Default Language.

Appearance & Options
Use WYSIWYG Editor : Yes, rich text format editor. Only for Firefox, Mozzila and IE only

10. Click "Complete Installation". Serendipity automatically create .htaccess file to protect your blog.

11. Open Administration Suite. In Administration Suite, you can make New Entry, Edit or delete existing entry, change themes (Manage Styles), add or mofify plugin and change another option to your Serendipity blog.

Related Link : Installing Serendipity

I used Serendipity blog for about 2 years and started 3 months ago I tried to add Google Adsense to my blog. Serendipity seems to fit with our requirement to make our blog profitable with Google Adsense and another ads type.

There is hundreds blog engine but I’ve satisfied with Serendipity blog due to my experience until now. Here is some interesting reasons to use Serendipity as your blog engine and make it profitable with Google Adsense :

• SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Compliance

Serendipity link and title has a nice model which compliance to SEO friendly. By default, Serendipity using the title of posting or article to link format.

• Static HTML for Dynamic Content

Serendipity is a dynamic blog but it has a capability to produced and formatting the content as static content. Cacheable static content make Serendipity a nice speed to display blog contents.

• Google Adsense Support

Serendipity supporting various Google Adsense type and various location or layout. You can display Google Adsense as sidebar ads, top, bottom, inside, head, footer or end of article.Below are another reasons to used Serendipity (taken from official site of Serendipity) :

• WYSIWYG Editor and HTML Editor HTML

You can create or modify an entry with WYSIWYG or HTML editor.

• Threaded comments, Nested categories and posting to multiple categories are supported.

• Anti-Spam / Comment moderation. Through use of a (bundled) plugin you can enable CAPTCHAs, SURBL-blacklisting, automatted comment moderation based on the content of a comment. Highly configurable.

• Support for XML-RPC Editing. Support for both the Movable Type? and Blogger XML-RPC APIs.

• Dynamic. You don’t need to constantly wait while your weblogging system regenerates pages. Caching is dynamically managed, so you don’t need to worry about it when publishing your weblog. Optional advanced URL rewriting rules and customizable permalinks are available.

• Trackback and Pingback. Serendipity can accept, send and autodiscover trackbacks and pingbacks. Of course you can also ping common weblog services like technorati, blo.gs, blogger, yahoo and blogg.de.

• Plugins. A robust plugin system allows you to modify Serendipity without digging through the core source code. Sidebar plugins allow easy customization of your blog with dozens of features. Event plugins are a powerful method of method callbacks, which can hook in into any place in s9y to make it one of the most flexible APIs available. Our online repository (Spartacus) supports adding plugins within a few mouseclicks and no manual file up/downloading! Powerful plugins exist for maintaining static page content, displaying galleries, making rss aggregators, ldap authentication, customized template view, multilingual content and much more.

• Multiple Databases. Serendipity supports MySQL(i), PostgreSQL and SQLlite database backends.

• Multiple Users. Multiple users can edit and administrate the weblog. A free permission setup can tell which user is allowed to do what.

• Internationalized. Serendipity is available in English, German, Danish, French and many more, and adding new translations is a snap.

• Skinable. Templates can easily be added by the magic of CSS. Several templates are included by default. Even visitors of your blog are able to change the layout on-the-fly if you use the template-dropdown plugin. For the advanced user, the full flexibility of the Smarty templating engine allows to change every aspect of the Serendipity look.

• Open Source. Serendipity is licensed under the BSD License.

• Standards Compliant. Serendipity supports XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.0, RSS 0.93, 1.0, and 2.0, Atom 0.3 and 1.0. Supports conditional GET for caching RSS feeds on the client-side. It also supports UTF-8 environments.

• Shared library. You can use Serendipity as a single installation to serve multiple and independent weblogs, but only maintaining a single codebase.

• Easy Upgrading. An easy and automatic upgrader helps you in the process of upgrading between Serendipity versions (starting with version 0.5).

• Flexible Input/Output. Choose between HTML, Textile, Wiki, BBCode and a boast of other markups. For both users and your editors!

• PHP-powered to fulfill the needs of ever-growing PHP-enabled websites and easy integration with support of embedding Serendipity into your webpage.

• Actively maintained by some skilled and open-minded developers who enjoy the touch to the actual user and give support on the Forums as well as listen to every new user suggestion.

Why is Serendipity better than…

First off, choosing the right weblog tool is like choosing your religion. You should be wise in your requirements and where your focus lies.

Serendipity is aimed to make everything possible you ever wish for. It is technically up to par to other well-known weblog scripts like Moveable Type or WordPress.
WordPress

• Easy plugin integration. No hacks, no problems during upgrades, good compatibility and a central plugin repository. Enhance flexibility without the need to touch any core files.

• BSD-licensed, WordPress is only GPL. That means, you can use Serendipity to power your commercial sites without any issues. Of course, the Serendipity team still likes to get credited where credit is due.

• Supports a well-known and flexible templating system, the Smarty Framework. No PHP knowledge is required, and its a good established standard for templating.

• Cool plugins that behave well with the Core, like Multilingual Entries, an aggregator plugin and a flickr-like tagging infrastructure.

• Multiple DB support speaks for itself.

• Good PHP code style. Open and responsible release management, covering fast security updates.

Moveable Type

• A great plus for Serendipity: BSD-Licensing. PHP instead of PERL, which often is harder to get on shared servers. Also, PHP tends to be better suitable for the web than Perl.

• Easy and extensible plugin API.

• Online Plugin repository.

• Responsive and caring Open Source community instead of the interests of a large company.

There is some good point about Serendipity. Click here to read "Top 5 reasons why Serendipity is Better"