Adsense earnings without clicks

Today I checked my adsense reports and realized I had earned 0.01(next to nothing but that’s not the point) but I had zero clicks.
After searching all over the Internet for an explanation I only came back to google adsense help and got the answer I was seeking.

I was under the impression that you did not get paid for ad impressions (excuse the silly pun). Contrary to my belief there are certain ads that do pay for impression. CPM ads as they are known, pay per thousand impression. Silly me.

So there i can still earn with zero clicks

Google explains it here.
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=18192&ctx=en:search&query=earnings+without+clicks&topic=&type=f

Adding adsense to wordpress blog.

Today i had a short flirt with wordpress.I created a new blog with them. Obviously my immediate action was to try and add google adsense to my blog.

I searched and searched the Wordpress dashboard but there seemed to be no place to edit or configure ads. It turns out you cannot place ads if you are being hosted on a free wordpress subdomain e.g bugsniper.wordpress.com.

However I did a little research on how Wordpress users configure adsense on their blog and came across this link. It shows how may add PPC ads to their wordpress blogs.

http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Tomhanna/Adding_Ads_to_Wordpress

If you want to be able to display adsense on a Wordpress Blog Follow these steps

- Get a Hosting account that provides hosting with at least:

* PHP version 4.2 or greater
* MySQL version 4.0 or greater

- Download Wordpress from http://wordpress.org/download/

- Install this on your account.

- Go to presentation > Themes editor and select where you want the ads displayed