Stallion WordPress Theme AdSense Setup – Updated for Stallion 7.1.1 Update for Stallion Responsive soon… Log into your sites WordPress Dashboard after installing the “Stallion Theme” via the “Appearance” >> “Themes” page and on the left menu click: “Stallion Theme” This opens the main Stallion options page (labeled “Stallion Theme”). If you’ve not registered Stallion with your unique Stallion ID, please do so now, you can not save any options settings before registering. When the Stallion theme is registered change the “AdSense Publisher ID” setting to your Google AdSense Publisher ID. The AdSense ID listed by default is mine : pub-8325072546567078 How to Find your Google AdSense Publisher ID You can get your AdSense Publisher ID from your Google AdSense […]
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Google Adsense Not Showing Content Related Ads
Hi Dave,
From talian5 to stallion 6.0.1. That was a great job.
However, i am having a problem as my adsense sidebar banner 160×600 and others are not returning the proper keyword results. I have done all i could but no way.
What must be the problem? Please help.
Thanks
Irrelevant AdSense Ads
The relevance of the AdSense ads shown are decided by AdSense, not the WordPress theme or you. We have very little control, everything that can be done to improve ad relevance at WordPress theme level is added to Stallion.
With a newly installed site (where AdSense not run before) you will tend to get poor quality keyword matching irrelevant AdSense ads, this is normal and as long as your site includes content that advertisers are willing to pay for it will improve over time as the AdSense bot re spiders your site and learns what the content is about.
If it’s an old site (running AdSense a while) can be you are in the wrong niche. If no advertisers are willing to pay for that type of content you’ll tend to get irrelevant AdSense ads where advertisers are paying way below 10 cents a click for general traffic. Other than changing the content to another niche, not a lot you can do about that.
David
Irrelevant AdSense Ads
WordPress Peel Away Ads
Hello David,
I was wondering whether you could please help me out.
I’m trying to implement Peel Away Ads into my blog (upper left corner), but it only shows up when I’m in the home page (when I open a post or I go to another page it does not show up). Any ideas??
This is what I added to the footer:
Thanks a lot for your help
Héctor
WordPress Peel Away Ad Code Setup
Code doesn’t come through a WordPress comment.
If you added code to the footer.php file it should be loaded on every page of the site. Your best bet is contacting the author of the Peel Away Ad code for advice how to incorporate it into a WordPress theme.
Some plugins (assuming it’s a plugin) work with no editing others need it adding to the footer.php file and others the functions.php file. I’ve never used Peel Away Ads so not familiar with any of them.
David
WordPress Peel Away Ad Code Setup
A/B Testing AdSense Ads
A feature I’d love to see is the ability to A/B test AdSense ads.
I’ve used both javascript and PHP methods to serve one ad 50% and another 50% of the time. Those percentages can be changed. I prefer PHP methods as the show source reveals javascript methods.
When combined with tracking custom channels (in adsense) I’ve found that text ads earn 200% more than image ads of the same size on some sites. I a/b test for 250 to 1000 impressions of each ad. 250 is only enough if there is overwhelming evidence.
Trickier is to a/b test competing ad units of different size or even different layouts altogether. I can’t think of a good way to test that without breaking a theme. Radical design changes would probably require a/b testing with different themes.
A/B Testing AdSense Ads
Split Testing AdSense Ads on a WordPress Theme
Adding split testing of ads to the Stallion theme would be a cool feature, but I think it would mean adding a LOT of code that most users wouldn’t use.
I’ve thought about adding split testing before, but not thought of an elegant way to add it to the Stallion theme, if I ever do would definitely add it.
What I do when testing different ad layouts is run a particular layout for a period of time (a full week) and compare the same number of AdSense impressions. I use at least a week because different types of people use the Internet at different times of the day and week, you wouldn’t want to compare early morning Saturday users to late evening Wednesday users.
Little bit of basic maths and you can figure out which layout works best. Have to admit not tested some of the new ad layout options available with Stallion (there’s so many possible layouts now :-))
Used to be so much easier when I had basically three fixed points for adding an AdSense ad, all I had to figure out was which AdSense ad format to use.
David
Split Testing AdSense Ads on a WordPress Theme
AdSense Ads Placement Split Testing
I think the most elegant way will end up being something that serves two different versions of the template, possibly a cache or static page script.
So it would live outside the template, you are right about a lot of code for little use.
AdSense Images Only - New Test Results
It may be time to try a test on AdSense image ads only vs AdSense images and text.
I have tried this in the past and have found that the text / images always works better.
Lately – for the last two weeks, I have found an increase in clicks and income with images only.
Weird. I will change back soon to see if it was fluke.
Of course, many other various influences may have influenced the results as well.
The market I am in, the season of business and competition for the AdSense ads and other factors may have impacted the results.
AdSense Images Only - New Test Results
125px Ads on WordPress
I need to stop adding new features for the Stallion 6.1 update otherwise I’ll never release it :-)
The Stallion theme is by far the best WordPress SEO theme available online today, nothing (other than Talian 5) comes close to perfect WordPress SEO, I’m that confident of this claim there’s $1,000 available to the first person to show me a more feature rich WordPress SEO theme (all Stallion SEO features plus one more).
I want Stallion to also be the best WordPress Ad Theme as well and though with Stallion 6.01 it’s up there with the best WordPress ad themes, it wasn’t the best.
I’m hoping with what I’ve added to Stallion 6.1 might be enough to consider it a serious contender for the best WordPress ad theme, certainly the best if you take into account SEO (can achieve a lot if you don’t care about SEO, I do which means I only add features that are not SEO damaging).
There’s a new section in Stallion 6.1 where you can add 125px by 125px wide banner ads, up to 20 of them.
Add a URL, 125px image, alt text (hover over text) and indicate whether you want the ad cloaked using the built in Stallion cloaking (see Stallion Theme Cloak Affiliate Links Tutorial), frag and drop a Widget to a sidebar and you’ll have 125px wide ads.
Add up to 20 of these banners and select how many to show at a time, from 1 to 20. If you add 10 banner images for example and select 4 to show, each page load will randomly show 4 of the 10 banners.
This is a really good addition to Stallion, many Stallion users are into Internet Marketing and promote a lot of affiliate products via 125px wide banners wasting link benefit on nofollow links. This Stallion ad feature not only does what many plugins or custom built banner widgets can do it has built in link cloaking (the cloaking that’s SEO friendly, saves link benefit), as far as I’m aware no other theme or plugin offers this as an ad feature: you can have both cloaked and non cloaked banner images at the same time with Stallion.
Also added a Custom Ad Widget you can build a single banner ad (any image size) for your sidebars. If you are used to adding banner ads via a text widget and manually setting the styling, this widget saves a lot of time with built in alignments left, right and center. Optional heading and ability to paste entire ads. This currently doesn’t include link cloaking.
These new ad features work particularly well with the new Stallion 6.1 layouts.
For fun I’ve added a Pink Stallion colour scheme :-)
MUST stop adding new features and release Stallion 6.1.
David
125px Ads on WordPress
The Science of Ranking High in Google
A few of my friends and I, who have purchased your theme have said, – I can not wait to see what SEO Dave has cooking in his mad scientist English excentric Chitty Chitty Bang Bang workshop (I mean this in a positive way of course!).
Google likes to employ many scientific university type people. I think it is also no coincidence that you were on this scientific university path yourself, and you now use that same type of tinkering, experimentation, testing and objectivity for creating the best SEO Adsense theme on the market.
The Science of Ranking High in Google
Clicksor Ads
Hi David,
The center column 4″ x 4″ ad box is a pain in the butt.
It has been taken over by clicksor. I have tried everything but can’t find an option to disable it.
Please provide instructions to disable it.
Thanks,
Terry Kent
Clicksor WordPress Theme
Stallion doesn’t include Clicksor ads, if you are seeing Clicksor on a Stallion site it’s been added some other way (hacked???).
When I looked at the site you linked to I only saw AdSense ads and they have my default AdSense ID (you’ve not changed it). As a side note I don’t get the money from clicks from your site, there’s a setting in AdSense control panel to only allow sites I approve to count as mine: had my AdSense account temporarily banned because someone was using one of my themes on a site that broke the AdSense TOS.
To setup AdSense with your ID see Stallion WordPress Theme AdSense Setup.
If you want it turned off completely (no ads).
Under your Dashboard click the “Stallion Theme” menu link on the left. Tick the “AdSense OFF” radio button and Save Settings.
If you are seeing Clicksor ads over the main AdSense ad that would suggest you have malware on your computer that’s showing you Clicksor ads instead of AdSense ads. Take a look at the ads on the page you are on now, do you see a Clicksor ad in the main content?
You should see an AdSense ad (same setup as your site), if you see Clicksor it’s your PC infected.
If you think you are infected I’d suggest:
SpyBot Search and Destroy
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
rkill.exe (this shuts all programs down that could be Malware so you can run the other two to remove them).
David
Clicksor WordPress Theme