Advice or suggestions on setting up Google Adsense

Hello Apple Vis,
Does anyone have any suggestions on setting up Google adsense on a website? I am wanting to install adsense on my site to make a little from my web work. I've tried setting it up, but i've kept on running into issues trying to get it started.
I have an adsense account, and i have my website. I currently have Dream Host's Shared hosting, but do plan on switching over to green Geeks Cloud hosting in a couple of weeks.
I already have the plug in installed, but keep running into the issue of you have a host only adsense account.
Any help would be appreciated.
Chuck