I just received a message from Google Adsense that says I have 2,428 opportunities to earn more by adding 3 units on the page. What would be the easiest to find out what those pages are, so that I can add Adsense to them?
Thanks,
BJ
Lame_Wolf
9:26 pm on Apr 15, 2011 (gmt 0)
Don't believe everything Google says. There are a number of ways, but it depends on the program you use.
I have a 10k page website, and I know exactly what pages have adsense on, and which ones do not... and that is without looking at the site.
I hope they do not write to me as i've added 1500 pages recently, and not one advert on them. In fact, less that 20% of my site has adsense on it. And I don't use the full amount of adblocks etc.
SteveWh
5:57 pm on Apr 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
What would be the easiest to find out what those pages are, so that I can add Adsense to them?
The "grep" utility (standard in Linux, available for Windows as the GnuWin32 project at SourceForge): [en.wikipedia.org...]
By examining your source code, determine the exact text that you use for putting AdSense on your pages. It might be AdSense code or it might be an include() line that includes your AdSense code if you use PHP includes. The snippet you choose should be unique to your AdSense usage and needs to be one-line (not interrupted by line ends).
Then open a terminal or Command Prompt, navigate to the top folder of your website, and type:
grep -RiIPc "CodeToMatch" *.*
-R Recursively searches all directories -i Ignore case -I Don't bother searching binary files -P Perl regular expressions -c Display the number of times the snippet was matched in each file (the count)
Any file that has < 3 as the count is a candidate for additional Ad Units.
seointern
4:51 am on Apr 17, 2011 (gmt 0)
Excellent thanks SteveWh! I'll give this a shot & see what I can find.
Thanks,
BJ
seointern
6:37 pm on Apr 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
Steve: Without getting a programmer involved on the site I wouldn't know how to search the through as you outlined. Do you know of any more simple methods that someone might find these pages?
I'm using Wordpress and a simple template. So I would assume that Adsense would appear on every page?
SteveWh
7:14 pm on Apr 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
Yes, in that case I believe the AdSense code would likely be in one WordPress template file.
Hunting through CMS templates and modifying them isn't always easy and typically requires knowledge of PHP.
The project could be more trouble for you than it's worth. As has been mentioned here and more specifically in some other recent threads here, too, just because the AdSense Team has identified "potential opportunities to place more AdSense ads" doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good idea. It doesn't even imply that another division of Google (search quality) will consider it a good idea.
It's possible you're using some sort of standard AdSense plug-in for WP, in which case it could be best just to leave it alone.
seointern
7:43 pm on Apr 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
Ok, thanks for the advice. I am using using the widgets section of the theme that allows me to add Text in the right column is how I'm currently displaying the ads.
I plan on just leaving it alone for now, unless I can find some other reason why the ads wouldn't be appearing on my entire site? Thanks!
gmb21
9:22 pm on Apr 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
It just means that you don't have the maximum number of ad units on each page (3 ad units and 3 link units) -- not necessarily that some of the pages have NO ad units. (In other words, if you have 1000 pages with one ad unit on each page, they would write and say that you are missing 2000 opportunities to earn more because you could add 2 more ad units to each of the thousand pages.)
However, having the maximum number of ad units has disadvantages according to many experienced members on this forum. These include: - bad user experience - Google search possibly not liking it - lower earnings per click (on the extra ad units)
seointern
9:28 pm on Apr 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
I do have 3 ad units in the side bar at the moment, so they all should appear on every page & not have any missed opportunities?
As for the 2 vs. 3 ads comment. I had heard that & went back & forth. For this site particularly I get better revenues when we have 3 ads.
That is an interesting point with Google Search not liking it. I'll have to do more research there.
