AlexWebsites Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Has anyone here implemented Google Adsense Auto Ads? Might be too early to tell if it is working well because it seems to have just been introduced this week, but just curious on thoughts. https://adsense.googleblog.com/2018/02/introducing-adsense-auto-ads.html sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABGenc Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I had seen the email from Google but had not implemented till seen your post. I have just enabled on one of my sites. We will see how it will perform both on desktop and mobile version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cemmos Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Haven't tried it myself, but I'll give it a shot on one of my sites using Google Tag Manager. Seems like it could be a really good asset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexWebsites Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 I'm going to implement it myself but for guests only. I will probably just create a custom ad tag and insert it into the template. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABGenc Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 When you select all options, it puts ads between messages, within post/message feeds and even paragraphs. That may be annoying for users and visitors. Is it possible to limit the ads to guests only @AlexWebsites ? sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cemmos Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 24 minutes ago, ABGenc said: When you select all options, it puts ads between messages, within post/message feeds and even paragraphs. That may be annoying for users and visitors. Is it possible to limit the ads to guests only @AlexWebsites ? {{if \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->member_id === NULL}} Adsense Auto Ad code goes here {{endif}} Just paste your ad code in the IF statement. This way the script won't load for users that are logged in. sobrenome, ABGenc and Markus Jung 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABGenc Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 20 minutes ago, Cemmos said: Just paste your ad code in the IF statement. This way the script won't load for users that are logged in. The script is supposed to be put between <head> tags. Will this work there too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cemmos Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 5 minutes ago, ABGenc said: The script is supposed to be put between <head> tags. Will this work there too? Yup. If you're adding it directly to your theme's globalTemplate, template syntax will work there. sobrenome and ABGenc 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABGenc Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 46 minutes ago, Cemmos said: Yup. If you're adding it directly to your theme's globalTemplate, template syntax will work there. Yes, I put the code directly in globaltemplate and between <head> tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 I've not implemented yet as waiting to see how everyone else get on with it Sounds interesting but don't want Google splattering ads everywhere and angering my members Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cemmos Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 6 hours ago, Sheffielder said: I've not implemented yet as waiting to see how everyone else get on with it Sounds interesting but don't want Google splattering ads everywhere and angering my members Yeah, that's definitely something to think about. But one thing that I like about Google is that they're very much against ad-spam themselves. I noticed that there won't even be ads on pages where there's very little content (like text). It also seems to insert ads decently in article body text, but I've noticed that sometimes they leave big white gaps where an ad should be. For someone that really likes to make sure a site looks nice, that bit is a little jarring. On an old forum of mine, it inserts an ad something like every 2-3 posts down and actually looks fairly tasteful. Overall, I think it's a nice way to get ad placements on a site, but it does need some tinkering on Google's end. I can't speak for earnings yet since it hasn't even been a full day since I put them on a few sites I run. Haven't yet put it on my Invision Community though, except when I was testing some things. Markus Jung and Sheffielder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexWebsites Posted February 25, 2018 Author Share Posted February 25, 2018 9 hours ago, Cemmos said: {{if \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->member_id === NULL}} Adsense Auto Ad code goes here {{endif}} Just paste your ad code in the IF statement. This way the script won't load for users that are logged in. All I did was create a custom ad tag and insert that tag into the global template. Within the ad settings, I have it showing to guests only. I did nt use any IF statements. It seemed to display more ads on mobile and it feels like it's slowing down the site a bit on smaller screens. I have everything on in adsense to show and it's too early to make a judgement so I'm going to continue to leave it up for a few days. Cemmos, ABGenc, Markus Jung and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABGenc Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 2 hours ago, AlexWebsites said: It seemed to display more ads on mobile and it feels like it's slowing down the site a bit on smaller screens. I Thats what I observed too. Much agressive on mobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 I'm not excited about the thought of slower site or aggressive mobile ads sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgin Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I just added the ad code in with my analytics code through the ACP. Analytics code goes in the <head>, so it works perfectly! Markus Jung 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 3 hours ago, Morgin said: I just added the ad code in with my analytics code through the ACP. Analytics code goes in the <head>, so it works perfectly! Let us know how it affects your revenues and user experience :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABGenc Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) 59 minutes ago, Sheffielder said: Let us know how it affects your revenues and user experience :-) Revenue depends on several variables so it may differ but I according to adsense statistics click ratio was twice and revenue was 5 times according to previous Sunday. But the user experience is awful. It wont take long before they moan abut the ads appearing everywhere. Here are the lists where ads appear ( I already have 3 ads, 2 below the menü , 1 on top of sidebar, the followings are additional ) Desktop; Forum View ; On top and bottom of (NB40) Recent Topics/Posts side bar widget On top of Popular Contributors Total : 6 Ads ( 3 already existed ) Mobile ; On top of page ( anchor ads, these used to be on bottom of page before 4.2 ) On some of the links ( vignette ) Between Categories Between Subforums Total : 9 ads ( except any vignette that may occur on clicking a link ) I will unselect the options one by one and see how it will affect Edited February 26, 2018 by ABGenc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David.. Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 So is adsense itself not respecting their 3 ads per page rule now? Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABGenc Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Just now, David.. said: So is adsense itself not respecting their 3 ads per page rule now? Lol As far as I recall it was stated so in the announcement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 2 hours ago, David.. said: So is adsense itself not respecting their 3 ads per page rule now? Lol That rule was discontinued by Google ages ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSSlife Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I've tried auto ads and I've had the issue where the in-article and in-feed ads are scaled incorrectly and often has large horizontal ads that for some reason are off to the right of the page and covering text. I'll try and demonstrate this, but it happens across all themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgin Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 14 hours ago, Sheffielder said: Let us know how it affects your revenues and user experience :-) User experience for everything except the first type (text & display ads) is awful. Seriously. Don't bother. Revenue has doubled even with just the first type turned on. Might be a blip due to new ads causing click confusion. Will wait a month to see how it averages out. 4 hours ago, CSSlife said: I've tried auto ads and I've had the issue where the in-article and in-feed ads are scaled incorrectly and often has large horizontal ads that for some reason are off to the right of the page and covering text. I'll try and demonstrate this, but it happens across all themes. Yeah I got that too. It's pretty awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Ahhhh that sounds nasty I'm going to avoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgin Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 8 hours ago, Sheffielder said: Ahhhh that sounds nasty I'm going to avoid To be clear, I like the auto ads for text and display. They've picked a few new spots (some additional sidebar ads as an example) that seem to work well. I'd recommend turning it on, but only for text and display ads. The rest is a big fat meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Lilley Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 I'm glad someone else is having issues. I just initiated them. This is what I'm getting: Double ads. Ad over the post, not in between posts. Anybody else seeing this? NiallC and sobrenome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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