Deemphasizing the footer section

I want to deemphasize the footer section of my site. Can I use this sequence?

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
<div id="footer">
    <p class="google">
        <!-- Google advt starts-->
        <br />
        <script type="text/javascript"><!--
                google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
                google_ad_width = 728;
                google_ad_height = 90;
                google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
                google_ad_type = "text";
                google_ad_channel = "";
                google_color_border = ["FFFFFF","FFFFFF"];
                google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
                google_color_link = ["FFA600","FFA600"];
                google_color_url = ["FFA600","FFA600"];
                google_color_text = ["000000","000000"];
                //--></script>
        <script type="text/javascript"
          src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
        </script>
        <!-- Google advt ends -->
    </p>
    <p> &copy; Copyright 2006-2007 <strong>Satish Talim</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;
</div>
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

Code (markup):

Please note that the footer has Adsense code in it too.