Comments on: AdSense Updates Forums Help Pages

By: bernard

bernard — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:15:20 +0000

I wish I had seen this heatmap when i started my forum 2 years ago… since I adjusted and optimised all ads on my forum a few months ago just by trial and error I think I missed out on a lot of income. But the heatmap is indeed correct, except for the footer part, my experience learns that this adplacement is not really brining anything.

Also, I run a forum that is really simple in design but frequented a lot which makes up for the ’simplicity’ and something tells me that the ads are also more visible this way. Forums with lots of hocus pocus tend to drive attention away.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:40:07 +0000

Uh oh, it looks like the code doesn’t display at all–Michael, just send me an email at slattery at fidgeting dot net, and I’ll be more than happy to give you the code.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:38:58 +0000

Here’s how I do it:

This goes in your page outside of your posts (perhaps near the top of the page):

Then put this wherever you want the ads to appear in your post:

GOOGLE ADSENSE CODE HERE

If you want to change the number of posts that have ads, just change the 3 to a different number.

This is something that can work in just about any programming language too, and if I remember correctly from when I used Movable Type, you can do it with a plugin that allows you to set variables.

Anyways, give that a try, see if it works for you!

(Darren, hopefully the code will display correctly in the comment–if not, feel free to edit/delete whatever you feel)

By: Michael Hepden

Michael Hepden — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:10:23 +0000

Kyle,

Is there any chance of you giving me the source code for the PHP that you implemented to solve the problem.

Michael

By: My Money Note

My Money Note — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:52:24 +0000

Prime Spots for Adsense Ads – A Study…

Few days ago Adsense help centre suggested a new adsense heat map for forums. It can be applied to blogs as well, since blog is akin to forums in some ways. See below:…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:48:45 +0000

Michael, I think I understand your problem–you put the google adsense tags inside the tags for an individual post, and it repeated more than three times on the page? (Because you had more than 3 posts on the page)

If that’s true, the way I solved that was with PHP. I set a counter at the top of the page to equal 1 and inside each post I have it check what the counter is. If it’s less than or equal to 3, I put in the google code and added 1 to the counter. Otherwise, I just let it be. That way I always insure that I have only 3 ads per page.

Hey, maybe I’m completely off the mark to what your issue was/is, but I thought my solution was kind of cool :).

By: meblogger

meblogger — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:55:41 +0000

some times adsense ads doesn’t show up at all. when we use 3 different units, everything comes up blank and some times all 3 shows complete ad.

By: Michael Hepden

Michael Hepden — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:35:51 +0000

I would like to add on this…

I had trouble (im using blogger software) that when putting adds inside blogger tags in various sections that it repeated throught all the posts…

My solutions was to use Iframes as blooger accepted these tags… so now from inside my blog post body I call a hosted webpage with just the ads which is seen in the posts body.

Is this the wrong way to do this… would it get me introuble… any other ways of doing what I want.

Michael

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:18:07 +0000

A lot of this could also apply to blogs – most readers ignore the header and go straight to the article. I would think that this is where ads inside the post would benefit bloggers the same as forum owners

By: row1.info

row1.info — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:09:16 +0000

Its good solid sensible advise, I will be taking note of it when I get round to updating my site.