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July 23, 2019 at 1:31 pm #499127

Matthew
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Having moved from another directory platform I am looking at how to integrate Adsense into Geo.

So far I have made a bad job and I am only generating 10% – 20% per day, so I need to make some tweaks!

On my old platform it was possible to have Adsense ads included between listings returned in search results at a frequency that I could dictate. This worked very well.

In addition, as each listing package (Bronze, Silver, Gold) had its own template, it was possible to control how much external advertising appeared on listing details pages. So for ‘Bronze’ listings there might have been 3 Adsence adverts, For ‘Silver’ two adverts, and for ‘Gold’, no Adverts.

I am looking to find a way to weight so the ‘Free/Bronze’ package listing details page has Adsense adverts but ‘Gold’ has none.

I would also like to add Adsense adverts to the Events page and the Blog page and posts page.

Is it best to use ‘Ad-inserter’ type plugins, or manually apply the snippets into the templates? Can anyone recommend the best way to work with Adsense on Geo (running Listimia)

July 23, 2019 at 7:23 pm #499209

Alex Rollin
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You could show or hide a tab based on package
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/addons/pricing-manager/#hide

We have a new advertising plugin coming soon.

Other than that you will have to work through your theme or builder options to place and organize ads as GD does not organize ads.

July 23, 2019 at 7:39 pm #499214

Paolo
Site Admin

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You could use one or more “admin only” HTML custom fields with the ads script as the default value and restrict them according to your prices.

At that point, you should be able to show the listings more or less where you want.

I flagged this for Stiofan in case he knows a better way.

Thanks

July 25, 2019 at 11:24 am #499525

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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The ways mentioned above are about the only ways for now, though more ways are coming soon.

Stiofan

July 25, 2019 at 11:34 am #499529

Matthew
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Thanks.

I have managed to bodge it the best I can using control on widget visibility, and an ad inserter where I have to manually edit each place listing where I don’t want the ads to show – tedious, but it works!

I wasn’t able (with my skills) to have the ads show in search results (which is where it counts).

Even with this in place I am currently making much less than half what I used to with PMD. It wasn’t a lot of revenue then, but it makes the difference between my site being viable or not being viable (and e.g. being able to pay for GD membership in future) so I would really appreciate any help or improvements in this respect.

August 20, 2019 at 7:36 am #503878

Matthew
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Over the last few days I have improved the revenue being generated from Adsense. This was by increasing the number of adds being displayed to more than I was having to run on PMD, of course their is a trade off with visitor experience.

I think the function of including ads within search results is being looked into, I feel this would really improve the performance of adsense .
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