These days, most people use Wordpress for blogging, it seems to be the easiest blogging software to set up, and with the large number of themes, plugins, and support websites, there is no reason to look anywhere else. Setting up a wordpress based blog takes around 5 minutes if you have an idea of what you are doing, finding a theme takes some time, and installation takes a few minutes. All in all, the process does not take long at all. What happens now when you want to monetize your blog, and you are unsure of how to do with by editing the files manually? Plugins. Plugins are amazing modules, which add great features to your website, and there are plenty of plugins available to help you inject advertising into your template.

Ten excellent Wordpress plugins for Google Adsense:

1. Adsense Delux
   AdSense-Deluxe is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts.

2. Adsense Injection
   My new Adsense Injection plugin just takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let’s you pick how many to show on single post pages. It lets you pick how many total ads to show at any time as well (0-3) and it lets you set the formats and colors you want it to randomly select from.
3. Adsense Inline
   Places Google adsense in blog posts.
4. Mighty Adsense
   Place code in wordpress without having to change templates. Ads are displayed in posted items, with the option to choose how many blocks its going to show up in a page.
5. Adsense Sidebar Widget
   An adsense sidebar widget.
6. Adsense Beautifier
   Helps with placing of images next to adsense. (Illegal)
7. Wordpress Adrotator
   Allows you to rotate your affiliate programs.
8. Earnings Plugin
   Shows you your adsense revenue in your admin area.
9. Adsense Profit
   Displays your adsense revenue to the public. (Illegal)
10. Author Adsense
    Enables blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue.

These are ten of a greatest plugins, which any Web Entrepreneur would die for. Take a good look and read at all of them, and decide which one will best suite what you are trying to acheive.