If you're new to SHE Media, you'll want to disable AdSense on your site as soon as SHE Media's ads are live.

This all depends on how you've configured AdSense or installed it on your site.  So bear with us.

But most importantly- DO NOT CLOSE YOUR ADSENSE ACCOUNT.  It's part of the MCM connections, so if you close it, it will disable your ads with us and make you have to go through MCM again.  We are simply going to remove the code from your site, and leave the account itself open.

Disabling AdSense AutoAds

First things first, you'll login at adsense.google.com.  We'll be navigating through to uncheck a couple of options, and this will disable AdSense's auto ads. They have it set to inject ads all through your site, and the SHE Media team needs them removed so that we can insert our own.

Click on Ads in the sidebar, and it will show you a list of the sites in your account.  Click on the pencil icon to the right of your site.

This will bring you to the ad options for your site.  At the right side, there should be a toggle under Ad Settings for Auto Ads.  If it's on, the toggle will be green. Click on it, so it's gray.  If it's already grayed out, and you had ads all over your site, then odds are - there's a script we need to remove on the page.

There is one more section that you'll want to check.  In the left toolbar is a section called Optimization.  Click on Experiments under it.  Make sure that the the icon to the top right of that section says Auto-Optimize Off.  If it says anything else, click on that box and on the page it opens, select Auto-Optimize Off.  This will keep Google from inserting any additional ads.

Removing AdSense from your site

In Google Tag Manager

A lot of publishers will use Google Tag Manager to insert code into their site.  To remove AdSense from it, login to tagmanager.google.com and open the container for your site and look at the tags that are installed.  You should be able to find it and remove it.

Wordpress Sites

Plugins

If you're using SiteKit to install your AdSense, you'll go in your Wordpress dashboard, into SiteKit (it should be its own menu option on the left hand size of the page), and in the menu that pops up when you hover - click Settings.

The default page will list every Google product that's connected.  If it's there, open the AdSense section and click on the red link to Disconnect this service.  Follow the prompts and that will remove AdSense!

If you used a plugin to insert AdSense's header code into your site, you'll want to navigate to that plugin - and remove the AdSense code.

If you manually inserted AdSense ad tags into each page, you will unfortunately have to remove these all yourself.  We recommend that you start with your 25 most popular posts, and then work back chronologically from most recent to oldest.

In your theme

This is a more advanced removal, and was likely set in place by a developer.  You can ask a member of our team to help you - but your best bet is to ask that developer to remove it. Or to ask your host to help.

Blogger Sites

AdSense code would need to be installed either in a widget, or as a site-wide tag in your theme.

To remove the widgets, simply open the widget areas up and find the AdSense widgets and remove them.

For a site-wide tag, go to your Theme and Edit in HTML.  This will open the full theme.  Before you do anything, copy the entire theme and paste it into a text file.  This is so that if anything happens, you have a backup copy.

In the theme page, you're going to want to be very careful and use the find feature to search for adsbygoogle.js - this will lead you to the script that installs AdSense across your site.  It should be before the </head> tag, and will begin and end with <script>.  Make sure you remove all of this.  Then save your theme.

Squarespace Sites

Odds are, you installed the full AdSense tag in the Code Injections section.  Remove all of it, and then save.  This will remove the ads.

If you installed individual ad tags, you will need to go through and remove those one by one.  We recommend that you start with your 25 most popular posts, and then work chronologically from most recent to your first post.

Other platforms

We can't give directions for every other platform out there - but some platforms will have an AdSense integration built in.  You'll want to disconnect to remove AdSense.

If your platform doesn't have that, it would either be installed individually on the page, or where you insert code into the <head></head> tags.

The support team is happy to help you figure this out!  Please reach out to us at support@shemedia.zendesk.com if you are having issues removing AdSense from your site.