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Trouble with Adsense

by Matt281
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I'm still really new to IM, but I finally got my site to around 150 hits a day (almost all from search engines) and put up adsense. I got an email saying I was past the trial stage and that I was fully approved.

The thing is, the ads don't appear on most of the pages. There's just a blank box. Sometimes they do, but it seems a bit sporadic. I figured it might be:

1) google still needs more time to figure out what type of ads to use (although it's been at least 24 hours) and some pages do have ads, or

2) Maybe I have too many ads per page or something. I don't have more than 3 a page, but they're all in-content ads since I used a plugin.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
#adsense #trouble
  • Profile picture of the author lovboa
    Banned
    Wow it seems adsense is getting stricter on their approval process.

    I've never had to deal with things like that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt281
    I guess it's possible that there's a problem with the plugin. It's rated well by a lot of people though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt281
    Alright, looks like it was a problem with the plugin or something. I went into several of the sections in the wordpress editor and after about an hour figured out how to get the ads where I want them (seriously, why is it so hard to find good information on this?).

    Having one last issue though. I've got the big text block thing that I'm putting at the top of my articles, and I want to wrap the text around. Everything I can find says just to use <div> tags to wrap text around ads. It's not working at all.

    For example, one might say:

    <div style=”float: right; margin: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px” mce_style=”float: right; margin: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px” >

    AD CODE HERE

    </div>

    and everything else I can find looks pretty similar. Nevertheless, when I put the ad inside, the text does wrap. Any ideas?
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  • Profile picture of the author networm
    Try the simple code first and adjust it later to your requirements...

    This always works;

    <div style="float:right">
    AD CODE HERE
    </div>

    If you have a wordpress optimize for adsense like CTR Theme, Clickbump or Heatmap...it's so much easier to setup ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt281
    ^I have that exact text surrounding the ad code, but the article text just sits below the block ad rather than wrapping around it.

    Maybe there's something weird with where I put it?

    For this particular ad that I'm trying to get wrapped (the large rectangle), I went to "editor" in wordpress and put it in the "single post" tab, right under a line that looks like this:

    <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
    <h2 class="entry-title"><?php weaver_post_title('single'); ?></h2>

    The ad shows up fine, but the text won't wrap around it.

    Anyone have any ideas?
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    • Profile picture of the author matrixnova
      Try this code:

      <p><div style="display:block;float:left;padding:5px;">
      ADSENSE CODE HERE
      </div></p>

      At least in my wordpress it wraps the text nicely around the ad.

      You can change the "left" into "right" if you want the text on the left.

      By changing the number before "px" you can increase the space between the ad and the text.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt281
    Yeah I realize what all the code does. I've tried like 6 different versions of div code, aligned left, right, padded, non-padded, etc. There's something else that's wrong - I just have no idea what it is.

    *edit*

    I'm guessing it's somehow pasted below the title, above the body, but it's not actually part of the body. I tried moving it up and down a bit in the source code and it doesn't seem to change it though.

    Any thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author ainmohd
    I know nothing about fancy scripts & codes but I been getting 90% of my income from adsense program since 1995 by building very simple basic sites with quality contents (regularly updated). Many of my sites (old and new domains) are on pages 1 of G. I have no preference for the top three domains (com, net & org) since all domains are equal.

    The most important point is to have keyword domain names. Try searching for "tips to improve memory", "adsense for dummies" & "digital products" and you will notice I have beaten all the top giants sites. My latest is whatisagastricbypassdotnet (I don't want an active link since it is against TOS).

    Don't worry about low hits. One of neglected sites is getting less than 50 hits/day but getting good income.

    I wonder whether it is true that visitors will click adsense ads because they want to get away from bad contents.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt281
    Well that's rather irrelevant to my situation, but nice self-promotion
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  • Profile picture of the author ainmohd
    You can say self-promotion but I'm proving a point.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt281
    Bump........... =/
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  • Profile picture of the author alantay
    I just got my adsense approved about 2 months ago but do not have such condition. The minute my ads is up, it will start to show in about 10-15 minutes i will say. Is the content regarding porn, adult or gambling? If so, they are not going to show as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Are you plugging in your publisher ID, or the whole code?

      If just your ID, then you need to put the whole code in
      there, exactly copied and pasted as you created on google.

      Many css, divs, etc. play havoc with any code you try and alter.

      It's the price you pay if you don't want to hand code. So many
      people seem to have so many questions about using WP, I don't
      know why people don't go another route.

      Try hand coding it to where you want.

      Then if you get a blank space, google can't read your content,
      there are no ads for that content, or (not likely) the site was banned.
      (Unless you have content that breaks the rules)

      People think that as soon as they get a new account, slap adsense on it,
      ads (high paying) are going to magically appear. At first you will get
      a whole bunch of global advertisers until your site gains some momentum.

      3 ad blocks are never too many.

      Change to image and text, see what happens.

      But you probably have some tweak in your code that won't
      display the ads properly at all times. That you have to figure
      out for yourself and sift through the code and do it right.

      I'm in the minority, but I don't believe in WP or plug ins.
      hand coding or some other CMS is the way to go.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author Matt281
    I guess I should start a new topic since everyone's still seeing the first question.

    I already disabled the plugin and hand-coded it.

    Ads are showing up now and I'm making money.

    Unfortunately I still can't get the text to wrap around the ads. I think the problem is that it's somehow inserted in a place that's below the title but isn't actually part of the post. I have no trouble getting the text to wrap around pictures in the post.
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