Is AdSense code, placed in a <div> tag a good idea SEO-wise?

[Bulldozer]

I want to have AdSense ads in between the text lines and the paragraphs of my pages, not only in the WordPress sidebar.

I can insert those AdSense ads in the bodies of the posts by placing the AdSense codes in <div> tags and inserting those tags in the HTML of the posts.

Will those <div> tags with AdSense codes in them harm my SEO ranking?

I have some of them in the very beginning of the HTML, before the first sentence of my SEO-optimized posts.

[paulgl]

<div> by itself has nothing to do with SEO for the most part.

Many people, myself included, use it to wrap text around adsense.

In fact, google even suggests it and gives you the code.

<div> is just like any other html tag. If html tags were bad, your
whole page would be nonexistent.

It's not having the tag, or where, but how you use it. Many times
people use div tags in places where something else would work.
Nothing is easier to format adsense than the div tag.

Paul

[Bulldozer]

Originally Posted by paulgl

<div> by itself has nothing to do with SEO for the most part.

Many people, myself included, use it to wrap text around adsense.

In fact, google even suggests it and gives you the code.

<div> is just like any other html tag. If html tags were bad, your
whole page would be nonexistent.

It's not having the tag, or where, but how you use it. Many times
people use div tags in places where something else would work.
Nothing is easier to format adsense than the div tag.

Paul

Well, yeah, I use those <div> tags to place my AdSense ads in the body of the posts. But they contain the AdSense script in them and I was worried if the content of that AdSense script would f*ck up my SEO. Because after all, it contains some text in it too and this text is not related to your post's text or keyword.