"See More" Google Custom Search (Lite) - Increase Adsense revenue!

[tpearl5]

ForumSetup.net?s ?See More? Google Custom Search will allow visitors to easily find similar content on your site and increase your Adsense revenue! Many sites that have this modification installed have also reported a bump in pages per visitor and a decreased bounce rate as well!

How does it do this? A ?See More? link is inserted in the first post of a thread. If a user is coming from a search engine, the keyword they used to search will be used to link to a Google Custom Search to find more similar content on your site. If the modification cannot get the keyword or a user is browsing your site, the title of the thread will be used instead. The free version of Google Custom Search inserts relevant ads, increasing your Adsense revenue at the same time.

Features:

Displays search results within your site (does not go to Google)
Statistics in Google Analytics
Customize the See More font and link
Change ?See More? text to whatever you want
Change the HTML around the See More link
Option to show popular queries & the time period they are from


Pro only (http://forumsetup.net/plugins/see-more-google-custom-search/) features:

Option to show the See More link to members or specific usergroups
Turn off showing the thread title as the See More link
Choose from 4 different locations for the link (before/after first post, before/after signature)
Replace the default vBulletin search box with Google Custom Search
Option to show the replaced search box to members or specific usergroups
Removes link to ForumSetup.net in footer


Case Studies & Reviews

Case Study: cellphoneforums.net
Cell Phone Forums saw a number of different positive metrics immediately after installing See More Google Custom Search. The See More link is set to display just below the first post content and thread titles are turned on.



Bounce Rate decreased by 5.5%
Pages/Session increased 12%
Avg. Session Duration increased 10%
Search page RPM: $15.88
Adsense revenue: 64% increase



Case Study: nikonites.com
Nikonites also did well and saw better numbers with See More Google Custom Search installed.


Bounce Rate decreased by 2%
Search page RPM: $9.39
Adsense revenue: 23% increase


Review: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2507482&postcount=89
Review 2: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2507461&postcount=86

Results will vary depending on site traffic and subject matter.

Installation

Google Custom Search Setup

First, you'll need to set things up with Google Custom Search if you haven't already. We are already assuming you have a Google Adsense account setup and it is linked with Custom Search
Go to https://www.google.com/cse/create/new
Enter all information and click Create
Under "Edit search engine" go to "Look and feel"
Click "Full width" and click Save
Go to "Setup"
Click the "Make money" tab, and make sure "Search Engine Monetization" is on and your AdSense account is hooked up
On the "Basics" tab under the Details section click - "Search engine ID"
Take note of your Search Engine ID



See More install & setup

Once you download the package, unzip it
Upload gsearch.php to your forum root
Install the product xml under the admincp. Plugins & Projects > Manage Products > Add/Import Product (at the bottom)
Go to Settings > Options > "See More" Google Custom Search
Insert your pub id as noted in the last step of the previous section
If you wish to change how the results page looks the template is named see_more_gsearch
That's it!


Release Log


6/18/14 - 1.0 - Initial Release
6/20/14 - 1.0.1 - corrected issue with Google ID verification
6/28/14 - 1.2.1 - Added option to display popular queries on search results page & choose the period of time they are from ? Caching of search page template ? Fixed validation error with Google Search ID - Fixed an issue where links were not appearing for some setups ? Removed search page centering ? Added support for different character encoding.
7/24/14 - 1.2.2 - Fixed character encoding issue - Added Who's Online location
9/16/13 - 1.2.3 - Fixed another character encoding issue - Added mobile style support


The lite version adds a link to ForumSetup.net to the footer of the search results page and thread pages. The pro version does not have this and adds some other features. To learn more, please see this page. (http://forumsetup.net/plugins/see-more-google-custom-search/)

[Alan_SP]

Excellent mod, I like it very much.

Only preg string is not correct. My partner ID is 013849763082920131497:b_pcqr4_9q0. Also, I needed to add partner-pub- prefix before mod started to work. When I look in custom search link, I don't see that prefix. Please, clarify explanation in your mod for others.

As I had already included custom search in my site I needed to change template (removed search code completely, as I had to searches active), but it's probably not relevant to others.

What if the link to see more threads is under every post? Would this help or not? Not sure on this one...

And yes, sign this mod as working with all vB4 versions, it works with vB4 versions other than just vB4.2.2.

[tpearl5]

Excellent mod, I like it very much.

Only preg string is not correct. My partner ID is 013849763082920131497:b_pcqr4_9q0. Also, I needed to add partner-pub- prefix before mod started to work. When I look in custom search link, I don't see that prefix. Please, clarify explanation in your mod for others.

As I had already included custom search in my site I needed to change template (removed search code completely, as I had to searches active), but it's probably not relevant to others.

What if the link to see more threads is under every post? Would this help or not? Not sure on this one...

And yes, sign this mod as working with all vB4 versions, it works with vB4 versions other than just vB4.2.2.

Thanks for the feedback! I was unaware that a pub id could have letters in it. I'll get that fixed shortly.

I'm not sure that adding the link under every post would be effective. Honestly, it would probably just add clutter.

[tpearl5]

1.0.1 corrects an issue with verifying the google ID. If you didn't have this issue there is no need to update.

[puertoblack2003]

1.0.1 corrects an issue with verifying the google ID. If you didn't have this issue there is no need to update.

did you update the pro version? I'm having that issue that alan is having

[tpearl5]

did you update the pro version? I'm having that issue that alan is having

I just updated the package. :) Download it again using the same link you were given.

[lapiervb]

Nice mod is there a setting to pick usergroups to show it to? I don't show advertisements to my Senior members. If it has that I will buy it.

[puertoblack2003]

I just updated the package. :) Download it again using the same link you were given.

same issue with updated package.

149431

[tpearl5]

Nice mod is there a setting to pick usergroups to show it to? I don't show advertisements to my Senior members. If it has that I will buy it.

I'll look into adding this option :)

same issue with updated package.

149431

Can you confirm that you downloaded 1.0.1.zip? If so, can you PM me your partner-pub code?

[puertoblack2003]

I'll look into adding this option :)



Can you confirm that you downloaded 1.0.1.zip? If so, can you PM me your partner-pub code?

yes pro package say 1.0.1. sending pm now

[tpearl5]

Nice mod is there a setting to pick usergroups to show it to? I don't show advertisements to my Senior members. If it has that I will buy it.

This has been added to the pro package!

[Emad ELsayed]

Dear / Tbarlkh
very special hack, Installation was successfully
But the hack did not work anywhere in the forum
What is the problem

[puertoblack2003]

Dear / Tbarlkh
very special hack, Installation was successfully
But the hack did not work anywhere in the forum
What is the problem

are you running a custom skin on your forum?

[Alan_SP]

same issue with updated package.

149431

You didn't read carefully first post and instructions that come with this mod.

You need to put prefix partner-pub- before your partner ID for this mod to start working. Even if preg string check marks it incorrect, saving this option that way (partner-pub-YourPartinerID) will work. Your image shows you didn't used it.

But, without using prefix partner-pub- mod doesnt' work.

It could be solved so we need enter only partner ID and this prefix is already put in link by mod's code. Or, by us manually inserting prefix partner-pub- as it is now.

Dear / Tbarlkh
very special hack, Installation was successfully
But the hack did not work anywhere in the forum
What is the problem

Do you looking at your site as a guest? Free version shows this link only to guests, so I too check if it works in other browser where I'm not logged in.

[Emad ELsayed]

Do you looking at your site as a guest? Free version shows this link only to guests, so I too check if it works in other browser where I'm not logged in.
Dear
I already use Forum as a guest
I've experience on explorer browser, Google, Firefox

[Alan_SP]

Ok, I don't know what to say, if you used prefix partner-pub- before your partner ID I don't have any more ideas.

[puertoblack2003]

You didn't read carefully first post and instructions that come with this mod.

You need to put prefix partner-pub- before your partner ID for this mod to start working. Even if preg string check marks it incorrect, saving this option that way (partner-pub-YourPartinerID) will work. Your image shows you didn't used it.

But, without using prefix partner-pub- mod doesnt' work.

It could be solved so we need enter only partner ID and this prefix is already put in link by mod's code. Or, by us manually inserting prefix partner-pub- as it is now.



Thanks for the input, already resolved.:)

[Emad ELsayed]

Ok, I don't know what to say, if you used prefix partner-pub- before your partner ID I don't have any more ideas.

Thanks for your help
I've disabled the hack now , In waiting for a response coder
Best regards

[tpearl5]

Dear / Tbarlkh
very special hack, Installation was successfully
But the hack did not work anywhere in the forum
What is the problem

So you're not seeing anything after the first post in a thread? Even if you didn't enter your Google id in properly the link should still show up as long as the modification is turned on.

[Emad ELsayed]

So you're not seeing anything after the first post in a thread? Even if you didn't enter your Google id in properly the link should still show up as long as the modification is turned on.

Hello Dear
I added a code example
partner-pub-0741762618947392:7904377153
See Attachments

[tpearl5]

Hello Dear
I added a code example
partner-pub-0741762618947392:7904377153
See Attachments

Honestly, I have no idea why it's not showing unless you have some caching going on for guests. The only thing I can think is there is something different with right to left or character encoding with the thread title that I'm not accounting for, but that shouldn't matter.

[Emad ELsayed]

Thank you Dear
And it's bad luck
beautiful hack, but I have not worked
I hope work the hack

[lapiervb]

Why is it when I go to this suggested link it locks up my computer?

https://www.google.com/cse/create/new

[tpearl5]

Thank you Dear
And it's bad luck
beautiful hack, but I have not worked
I hope work the hack

Unfortunately there isn't much I can do without having access to your admincp. If you want to PM me a temp login I can take a look.

Why is it when I go to this suggested link it locks up my computer?

https://www.google.com/cse/create/new

Uh, I don't know. Something is up with your browser/computer.

[lapiervb]

I have purchased and followed all install directions however the "see more" is not working. Any suggestions?

[tpearl5]

I have purchased and followed all install directions however the plugin is not working. Any suggestions?

Can you be a little more specific? Are you viewing your forum as a guest? The See More link isn't showing? The gsearch.php page isn't working? Do you have a modified style? What do you have "Location of the See More link" set to?

Edit: responded to your pm

[lapiervb]

Can you be a little more specific? Are you viewing your forum as a guest? The See More link isn't showing? The gsearch.php page isn't working? Do you have a modified style? What do you have "Location of the See More link" set to?

Edit: responded to your pm

The forum is setup so all members view it and I'm viewing the forum as admin.

Yes the "see more" link isn't showing.

[tpearl5]

FYI, anyone having issues with the See More link not showing up, try this:
Admincp -> Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager - > Edit "See More Postbit", change Execution order to 10.

I found that this is conflicting with other plugins that do something with the postbit. I'll release this fix in the next update, but until then this is the solution if you can't get the link to show up.

[tpearl5]

Apparently not all Google ID's have 'partner-pub-' in front of them. If you don't then just enter your ID, and click save. Right now it will throw an error - don't worry about that. It'll be fixed in the next release.

Also, if you're experiencing a lag when loading the search results on the search results page, then open up the 'see_more_gsearch' template, find gcse.async = true; and change it to gcse.async = false;

[ezak]

not working for me too
the gsearch.php file working well, can search and suggestion and show links

but I can't see seemore link after the post (and see it as gust)
try it with default style, also no luck

[tpearl5]

not working for me too
the gsearch.php file working well, can search and suggestion and show links

but I can't see seemore link after the post (and see it as gust)
try it with default style, also no luck

Did you try my suggestion above?

[ezak]

Did you try my suggestion above?

I have try
Also, if you're experiencing a lag when loading the search results on the search results page, then open up the 'see_more_gsearch' template, find gcse.async = true; and change it to gcse.async = false;

still can't see seemore link
I test thread posted by me and browse it as guest , also I have signature
http://www.img.gem-flash.com/images/00154821879443585290.png

[tpearl5]

I have try


still can't see seemore link
I test thread posted by me and browse it as guest , also I have signature
http://www.img.gem-flash.com/images/00154821879443585290.png

I meant the other one...


FYI, anyone having issues with the See More link not showing up, try this:
Admincp -> Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager - > Edit "See More Postbit", change Execution order to 10.

[tpearl5]

Updated the Google Custom Search setup instructions to be more clear.

[ezak]

I meant the other one...

its now working
but there us another problem,
my forum in arabic, and there is lot of thread title in arabic, when click see more(in thread with arabic title)

its open cse with search box "UTF-8"

also, my forum is right to left align
"see more" shown in the middle of thread not align to right

[tpearl5]

its now working
but there us another problem,
my forum in arabic, and there is lot of thread title in arabic, when click see more(in thread with arabic title)

its open cse with search box "UTF-8"

also, my forum is right to left align
"see more" shown in the middle of thread not align to right

I will have to make an option for character encoding and alignment.

[tpearl5]

1.2.1 Released -

Added option to display popular queries on search results page & choose the period of time they are from
Caching of search page template
Fixed validation error with Google Search ID
Fixed an issue where links were not appearing for some setups
Removed search page centering
Added support for different character encoding.

[tpearl5]

also, my forum is right to left align
"see more" shown in the middle of thread not align to right

To get this add float:right to the end of the "See More font" field.

[ezak]

To get this add float:right to the end of the "See More font" field.

thats working fine for align

but after install new version 1.2.1 and try thread with Arabic title

when click seemore :
1- IE explorer said "This page can’t be displayed"
2- Firefox 30 show "windows-1256" instead of "UTF-8" in previous version, also Firefox switch all font in the page to unknown encode (show it as symbols unreadable)

Note: you can test at your project with thread in arabic with this expamle
تجربه جديده للاضافه

[tpearl5]

thats working fine for align

but after install new version 1.2.1 and try thread with Arabic title

when click seemore :
1- IE explorer said "This page can?t be displayed"
2- Firefox 30 show "windows-1256" instead of "UTF-8" in previous version, also Firefox switch all font in the page to unknown encode (show it as symbols unreadable)

Note: you can test at your project with thread in arabic with this expamle
تجربه جديده للاضافه

The mod now gets the character encoding that your forum is set to. Yours is set to windows-1256. Honestly, I'm not sure why UTF-8 wasn't working for you before.

[Alan_SP]

New version works ok for me, only I don't see recent popular searches, but I don't know if they would be shown over time, so maybe it's everything fine.

[tpearl5]

New version works ok for me, only I don't see recent popular searches, but I don't know if they would be shown over time, so maybe it's everything fine.

You may not have enough searches yet. If you set it to one day does it display anything?

[Alan_SP]

I've set it to month and still couldn't see any. But, it could be ok, my forum isn't very large.

[Emad ELsayed]

Hello Dear

work the new release 1.2.1

But there is a problem when you press the title See More after signature
Receive an error message is not to go to the search page

Text error

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/liaea54/public_html/vb/gsearch.php
Line: 1

Best regards

[nick-harper]

Is there a way to stop it from showing in a popup and show it inside my template or is that against the rules?

Ignore me, my change to full width hadn't saved!

[nick-harper]

How long is it before ads appear?

[tpearl5]

Hello Dear

work the new release 1.2.1

But there is a problem when you press the title See More after signature
Receive an error message is not to go to the search page

Text error



Best regards
The mod doesn't add additional cookies. I would clear your browser cache and try again.

How long is it before ads appear?
Shouldn't take too long. Make sure you have ads enabled in gsc per the install instructions above

[nick-harper]

I have done this:

Click the "Make money" tab, and make sure "Search Engine Monetization" is on and your AdSense account is hooked up

Then it says:

The account is associated with AdSense id:

Do I have to do anything within Adsense?

Link : http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/gsearch.php?cx=009406233558278078132:vyamgo4virg&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Watch+Dogs

I have nothing under : Custom search engines in Adsense

[tpearl5]

As long as it's showing an Adsense ID hooked up under the make money tab, you should begin seeing ads soon.

For some reason if you set up the search engine under Custom Search it doesn't show up in Adsense, but you'll see impressions under Performance reports > Products

[Emad ELsayed]

The mod doesn't add additional cookies. I would clear your browser cache and try again.


Dear
I remove the cookies, but the same problem
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/liaea54/public_html/vb/gsearch.php
Line: 1

[tpearl5]

Dear
I remove the cookies, but the same problem

Try this gsearch file. Just overwrite the one on your server.

[Emad ELsayed]

Dear
Work product successfully, but the problem appeared again
It is when the pressure on any title will be place text search box: Windows -1256

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/07/28.jpg

[tpearl5]

Dear
Work product successfully, but the problem appeared again
It is when the pressure on any title will be place text search box: Windows -1256


That's what happens when you click on a link from a thread?

[Emad ELsayed]

That's what happens when you click on a link from a thread?

Yes Dear
Exactly

[tpearl5]

Yes Dear
Exactly

Honestly I have no idea why it's doing that. When you installed the latest version did you select 'allow overwrite' ?

[Emad ELsayed]

Honestly I have no idea why it's doing that. When you installed the latest version did you select 'allow overwrite' ?

Yes Dear
I delete the old version and install the new

[cric2k]

Unfortunately I don't think it is picking up Google search terms to populate the link on the first post - a quick search has told me that Google have stopped passing search terms into their query strings, which is where the plug in tries to read from.

[tpearl5]

Unfortunately I don't think it is picking up Google search terms to populate the link on the first post - a quick search has told me that Google have stopped passing search terms into their query strings, which is where the plug in tries to read from.

Right, this is only if the user is logged into Google and using https, which most people are lately. This is also why the thread title is inserted if it can't get the query, which is pretty effective.

[tpearl5]

Yes Dear
I delete the old version and install the new
My guess something is getting saved or uploaded incorrectly or I'm still not doing something right with rtl.

[Emad ELsayed]

My guess something is getting saved or uploaded incorrectly or I'm still not doing something right with rtl.

Dear
The problem in the Encoding
Encoding my website Windows -1256
When the pressure on the title in Arabic show the previous problem, a place the search text encoding type
But when pressed on the topic title in English hack works without problems

[tpearl5]

Dear
The problem in the Encoding
Encoding my website Windows -1256
When the pressure on the title in Arabic show the previous problem, a place the search text encoding type
But when pressed on the topic title in English hack works without problems

Right, and with the last update I accounted for different encoding.

What do you have in the "See More HTML" and "See More text" fields?

[Emad ELsayed]

Right, and with the last update I accounted for different encoding.
What do you have in the "See More HTML" and "See More text" fields?

Hello Dear
See attached picture

[tpearl5]

Hello Dear
See attached picture

What happens if you change See More HTML to this:

<hr style='border:none;background-color:#dddddd;height:1px'>

?

[Emad ELsayed]

What happens if you change See More HTML to this:

<hr style='border:none;background-color:#dddddd;height:1px'>

?

The same problem
Shows the search box type encoding windows-1256

EX:
gsearch.php?cx=partner-pub-0741865614455215:1901073191&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=windows-1256&q=%CA%CD%E3%ED%E1+%DD%ED%CF%ED%E6+%C7%DB%E4%ED%C9+ %CF%ED%DF%ED+%CF%ED%DF%ED+%C7%E4%CA+%D5%CF%ED%DE%E D+%E3%E4+%DE%E4%C7%C9+%D8%ED%E6%D1+%C7%E1%CC%E4%C9 +%C8%ED%C8%EC

[tpearl5]

The same problem
Shows the search box type encoding windows-1256

EX:
gsearch.php?cx=partner-pub-0741865614455215:1901073191&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=windows-1256&q=%CA%CD%E3%ED%E1+%DD%ED%CF%ED%E6+%C7%DB%E4%ED%C9+ %CF%ED%DF%ED+%CF%ED%DF%ED+%C7%E4%CA+%D5%CF%ED%DE%E D+%E3%E4+%DE%E4%C7%C9+%D8%ED%E6%D1+%C7%E1%CC%E4%C9 +%C8%ED%C8%EC

That URL actually looks fine. "q=" is the query. What is the encoding set to in Google Custom Search? (Setup > under Language click Advanced > Search engine encoding)

Also what is in your 'see_more_gsearch' template?

[puertoblack2003]

just got around updating the mod. Something happened it's not working properly.When i search it don't show the results at all.

added:

in the url after the search, it's looking for my admin folder.. not sure why it's asking for it.

[Emad ELsayed]

That URL actually looks fine. "q=" is the query. What is the encoding set to in Google Custom Search? (Setup > under Language click Advanced > Search engine encoding)
Also what is in your 'see_more_gsearch' template?

Hello Dear
Thank you for help me
Search is encoded UTF-8, See Attachments
Template see_more_gsearch

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">
<head>
<title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle} - {vb:raw pagetitle}</title>
{vb:raw headinclude}
{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}
</head>
<body>

{vb:raw header}

{vb:raw navbar}

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="alt1">

<script>
(function() {
var cx = '{vb:raw vboptions.google_search_id}';
var gcse = document.createElement('script');
gcse.type = 'text/javascript';
gcse.async = true;
gcse.src = (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 'https:' : 'http:') +
'//www.google.com/cse/cse.js?cx=' + cx;
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s);
})();
</script>
<gcse:search></gcse:search>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['see_more_popular_queries'] == '1'">
<div id="queries"></div>
<script src="https://www.google.com/cse/query_renderer.js"></script>
<script src="https://www.google.com/cse/api/{vb:raw $searchid1}/cse/{vb:raw $searchid2}/queries/js?view={vb:raw $queriesperiod}&callback=(new+PopularQueryRenderer(document.getEle mentById(%22queries%22))).render"></script>
</vb:if>

{vb:raw footer}
</body>
</html>

[tpearl5]

just got around updating the mod. Something happened it's not working properly.When i search it don't show the results at all.

added:

in the url after the search, it's looking for my admin folder.. not sure why it's asking for it.

Did you install the latest version?

[tpearl5]

Hello Dear
Thank you for help me
Search is encoded UTF-8, See Attachments
Template see_more_gsearch
Yeah, try setting it to Arabic (Windows-1256)

The template looks right.

[Emad ELsayed]

Yeah, try setting it to Arabic (Windows-1256)

The template looks right.

I did this
But the same problem
Strangely there is no problem with English titles

[Marv]

Hi tpearl,
always try before you buy ;)

I gave it a try on my httpd and so far it worked - almost - fine. But there is an issue with special chars, like the german ?,?,?,? or @ and € and so on. Sorry to say that, but it messes the whole search site up - from the header to the footer.
May be you could come up with a workaround for that? Would be nice. Thx!

[tpearl5]

I did this
But the same problem
Strangely there is no problem with English titles

Hi tpearl,
always try before you buy ;)

I gave it a try on my httpd and so far it worked - almost - fine. But there is an issue with special chars, like the german ?,?,?,? or @ and ? and so on. Sorry to say that, but it messes the whole search site up - from the header to the footer.
May be you could come up with a workaround for that? Would be nice. Thx!
Try the attached. Make sure to select 'allow overwrite'. I have no easy way to test this since I don't have a site that uses non-english characters.

[Marv]

Thanks tpearl, but this xml isn´t working. With this one the mod isn´t working at all. But - shouldn´t it be the gsearch.php, that needs the tweaking? Just wondering, no offense.

[tpearl5]

Thanks tpearl, but this xml isn?t working. With this one the mod isn?t working at all. But - shouldn?t it be the gsearch.php, that needs the tweaking? Just wondering, no offense.

Okay, how about this? I'm thinking it has something to do with the characters not being saved correctly in the code that creates the see more link. gsearch just displays the page and has data passed to it. It already accounts for the character encoding of your site.

[Emad ELsayed]

Try the attached. Make sure to select 'allow overwrite'. I have no easy way to test this since I don't have a site that uses non-english characters.

Thank you Dear
I hope a solution in the next release
Best regards

[puertoblack2003]

Did you install the latest version?

yes the latest pro version via email.

[Marv]

Okay, how about this? I'm thinking it has something to do with the characters not being saved correctly in the code that creates the see more link. gsearch just displays the page and has data passed to it. It already accounts for the character encoding of your site.

Thank you for trying to sort that out, tpearl. Unfortunal, the xml hasn?t changed anything.
If noone else can reproduce this, than may be the error is a local one on my end. But i can hardly believe that. It?s only happening on gsearch.php.

BTW: meanwhile I noticed, that the see more link is placed with the hook postbit_signature_start. Shouldn?t that be postbit_signature_end as default in the lite version? At least the link is displayed between the post and above the signature.

[tpearl5]

Thank you for trying to sort that out, tpearl. Unfortunal, the xml hasn?t changed anything.
If noone else can reproduce this, than may be the error is a local one on my end.

BTW: meanwhile I noticed, that the see more link is placed with the hook postbit_signature_start. Shouldn?t that be postbit_signature_end as default in the lite version?

Can you post the URL of a see more link with special characters in it? Are you matching the character encoding on Google Search to that of your forum?

actually it doesn't use that hook at all in the lite version - it's appended to the post to place it after the signature.

[tpearl5]

yes the latest pro version via email.

Can you post the see more link too? Don't need the full URL just everything after and including gsearch.php

[Marv]

Can you post the URL of a see more link with special characters in it? Are you matching the character encoding on Google Search to that of your forum?

actually it doesn't use that hook at all in the lite version - it's appended to the post to place it after the signature.

May be you got me wrong, tpearl. The search results from the custom search are perfect. The issue is only appearing in the header and in the footer. Parts, which are inlcuded by global.php.
My forum is using 8859-1. In the see-more-link the charset "8859-1" is referenced and thats working. But only for the custom search results - not for the part coming from global.php.

[tpearl5]

May be you got me wrong, tpearl. The search results from the custom search are perfect. The issue is only appearing in the header and in the footer. Parts, which are inlcuded by global.php.
My forum is using 8859-1. In the see-more-link the charset "8859-1" is referenced and thats working. But only for the custom search results - not for the part coming from global.php.

ohh okay. There's a clue. Overwrite the gsearch on your server with this one:

Edit:removed, fixed in v1.2.2

[tpearl5]

and anyone else that was having a problem with different characters or the page being broken, use the above gsearch file.

[Marv]

ohh okay. There's a clue. Overwrite the gsearch on your server with this one:

Great, tpearl. This one is working. :up:
What was it? May be it?s to early, but what have you changed in the file? I?m to blind to see it.

[tpearl5]

Great, tpearl. This one is working. :up:
What was it? May be it?s to early, but what have you changed in the file? I?m to blind to see it.

It was the actual encoding on the file. I will be updating the package shortly.

[Alan_SP]

Now is one month since I installed this mod, and I'd like to share my experience with it.

I don't have a big forum, at the moment I have about 5,500 pageviews a day, so you could have some idea about impact of this mod for your sites.

Anyway, the moment I installed it, the mod raised GCS pageviews. Before I had maybe 1, up to 10 GCS pageviews per day. Now I have abot 200 GCS pageviews per day.

Also, this means much bigger impact on clicks on ads there. In average I have about 10% clicks per pageviews, which is excellent. But you need to know, at least for my site, clicks in GCS are worth much less money. Anyway, I make about 20% of my income through GCS right now.

As Google shows both clicks (for content and for search) together, it looks like I have much more clicks with much less money for each click, but in total, I make more money.

Of course, I couldn't guarantee that same statistics would apply for your site too, but I think you certainly should see increase in your income, number of clicks (and probably, because of worth of search clicks, less money per click).

All in all, great mod, I voted for it as a mod of the month and it leads at the moment quite deservingly. :up:

[tpearl5]

Thanks for sharing your experience and I'm glad its working well for you :)

[Alan_SP]

Well, thank you for your mod. :up:

It certainly makes us see more money with it. :D Great idea, that also works superbly. :)

[Marv]

Alan, that?s nice to hear and I have similar numbers. GCS and this mod are both implemented for 6 days now, I started using GCS with this mod. My forums have about 25.000 PI/d and a CTR at about 1,5%.

I was worried that this GCS-Link-Placement in the first post stands in direct competition with the placements Leaderboard_top and in_first_post, which are generating about 65% of the overall revenue.
In fact this mod has an impact on both placements in terms of clicks.

The following 3 screenshots should give an overview, how my site performs regarding display ad-units. Implementation of this GCS-Mod was July, 14th. (Monday):

Revenue (by placement violet: first_post, brown: leaderboard_top):

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/07/28.png


Clicks (by placement violet: first_post, brown: leaderboard_top):

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/07/29.png


AdRequests (by placement violet: first_post, brown: leaderboard_top):

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/07/30.png

So, as you can see, there is an untypical drop at the end of this week. No wonder, the weather in my site-reach area has changed from rainy and cloudy to super sunny. Like always, this has an impact on visitor numbers. Therefor I make the most of my income by Ads, I pray for arctic temperatures and cats n dogs for all of em, while sitting in my beach chair at the bahamas resorts, enjoying my 5th caipirinha. You know what I?m talking about - guess we all share the same dream, somehow ;)
But back to topic.


Google Custom Search - CPC

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/07/31.png

Google Custom Search - Clicks (orange colour)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/07/32.png
The generated clicks indeed are concurrent to my main ad-placements. In total the GCS clicks are stealing 25% of the Ad-clicks from both other concurrent placements.
That?s a large number and I wasn't expecting this.

In total this Mod is deflecting only 4% of all AI's to the GCS-page - generating a CTR of 9,59% there. That sounds pretty darn good, but you have to take in account, that GCS-Ads are paid with only up to 1/3rd of the concurrent placements. On my site GCS has just been implemented and as you can tell by the graphs, CPC seems to raise as a result of gaining more adviters using the GCS placements on my site during the last days via GoogleAdWords.

At the moment I can see a decreasing overall revenue of 15%. This is a result mainly due the unwelcomed good weather (estimated on empiric stats: ~ -10%). So there is a 5% off left, that is related directly to the GCS on my site. Depending on how the CPC evolves in the upcoming weeks, I?ld expect an increasing overall revenue, but at least at the same level as before GCS started on my site.

At one glance:
This mod has the potential to increase your revenue, even if you can?t expect it to be significant from the start. You have to weight between the facts of another Ad-Placement that visitors don?t feel happy with and a potential revenue increase. But especially for sites not using display ads like leaderboard_top or in_first_post, this should be an unintrusive way to make some money out of your foums.

I will keep this mod on my site and watch closely, how things evolve. Hopefully I can give you a feedback in the near future, that shows more significant stats. I?m very positive, that this mod in fact helps increasing your revenue and I say "Thanks, tpearl!" for this mod. Keep up the good work :up:

[tpearl5]

Thanks for sharing your results Marv. I would revisit those stats in 3 weeks and compare the previous month. :) I encountered something similar, but since the ads on the search results paid out more, it made more sense and was more profitable in the long run.

[Marv]

That?s my conclusing, tpearl. I?ve just started working with GCS, so I guess the CPC should reach educated levels, soon ;)

[Alan_SP]

So, as you can see, there is an untypical drop at the end of this week. No wonder, the weather in my site-reach area has changed from rainy and cloudy to super sunny.

Summer time is also bad for my pageviews. This winter I had about 11.000 pageviews a day (so my statistics are halved now).

[tpearl5]

Summer time is also bad for my pageviews. This winter I had about 11.000 pageviews a day (so my statistics are halved now).

It may be better to compare to a previous season if you had a similar ad setup then.

[puertoblack2003]

Can you post the see more link too? Don't need the full URL just everything after and including gsearch.php

sorry John alot going on ..

http://www.mywebsite.org/gsearch.php?cx=004917422255610974977%3A7ja5dfgrxqi&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=roms&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&siteurl=www.mywebsite.org%2Fforum.php&ref=www.mywebsite.org%2Fgsearch.php%3Fcx%3D0049174 22255610974977%253A7ja5dfgrxqi%26cof%3DFORID%253A1 0%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Droms%26sa.x%3D0%26sa.y%3D0%26siteurl%3Dwww .mywebsite.org%252F%26ref%3D%26ss%3D647j139957j4&ss=640j144850j4

[Marv]

John, btw:

regardless which browser used, sometimes it happens in an unregular pattern, that the gsearch.php searches for "ISO-8859-1". Seems something in the link before that is misformatted, misinterpreted or misunderstand from this link part http://www.myhost.com/gsearch.php?cx=005666965057560812695:ictv0snupi0&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Battalionskommandeur+begr%FCsst+Verlegung+des+Ge bPi-Battalions- .

May be you have an idea and if you can spare the time have a look into it, if others can confirm that on their sites. Not a big deal though, happens in average each 5-15th request so it doesn?t bother me much.

[Alan_SP]

It may be better to compare to a previous season if you had a similar ad setup then.

I had then a bit different situation. Also, statistics was more or less "stable" before I installed your mod.

So I think this is pretty good info on what your mod did.

[tpearl5]

sorry John alot going on ..

http://www.mywebsite.org/gsearch.php?cx=004917422255610974977%3A7ja5dfgrxqi&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=roms&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&siteurl=www.mywebsite.org%2Fforum.php&ref=www.mywebsite.org%2Fgsearch.php%3Fcx%3D0049174 22255610974977%253A7ja5dfgrxqi%26cof%3DFORID%253A1 0%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Droms%26sa.x%3D0%26sa.y%3D0%26siteurl%3Dwww .mywebsite.org%252F%26ref%3D%26ss%3D647j139957j4&ss=640j144850j4

Try the gsearch file located above (the file is the same in the pro version)

John, btw:

regardless which browser used, sometimes it happens in an unregular pattern, that the gsearch.php searches for "ISO-8859-1". Seems something in the link before that is misformatted, misinterpreted or misunderstand from this link part http://www.myhost.com/gsearch.php?cx=005666965057560812695:ictv0snupi0&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Battalionskommandeur+begr%FCsst+Verlegung+des+Ge bPi-Battalions- .

May be you have an idea and if you can spare the time have a look into it, if others can confirm that on their sites. Not a big deal though, happens in average each 5-15th request so it doesn?t bother me much.
That's really strange that it's only happening sometimes. Does it seem to depend on what is being searched for? (only special characters maybe?)
I had then a bit different situation. Also, statistics was more or less "stable" before I installed your mod.

So I think this is pretty good info on what your mod did.

Ah I see, that works :)

[Marv]

That's really strange that it's only happening sometimes. Does it seem to depend on what is being searched for? (only special characters maybe?)

That?s what I thought first, but no. With or without special chars, it?s the same.

BTW: May be you could put a WOL loaction in your mod. Otherwise the WOL-Page breaks the layout with this nearly mile-long link /gsearch.php?cx=0056669621380057560812695:ictv0snup i0&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Hartkern ;)

[tpearl5]

That?s what I thought first, but no. With or without special chars, it?s the same.

BTW: May be you could put a WOL loaction in your mod. Otherwise the WOL-Page breaks the layout with this nearly mile-long link /gsearch.php?cx=0056669621380057560812695:ictv0snup i0&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Hartkern ;)

If you catch it in action, send me a screen shot.

I update the mod to include the WOL (1.2.2) :)

[naisho]

Hi
Nice mod.
I noticed the same issue as Marv regarding "ISO-8859-1" searches, instead of the full title search.
It happens only when there is a caracter with an accent in the title.
If you look at Marv's example, there is a "?" in the title.
I get the same problem with french accentuated letters in the titles. It returns a "ISO-8859-1" search.

Here is an axample:
http://www.lejapon.org/forum/threads/17871-Gojira-chan-O-tanj?bi-omedet?-gozaimasu
The link looks nice at the bottom (when you mouse over it), but when you click on it, you get a "ISO-8859-1" search and accentuated letters are replaced in the link.

[Marv]

Hi
Nice mod.
I noticed the same issue as Marv regarding "ISO-8859-1" searches, instead of the full title search.
It happens only when there is a caracter with an accent in the title.
If you look at Marv's example, there is a "?" in the title.
I get the same problem with french accentuated letters in the titles. It returns a "ISO-8859-1" search.

Here is an axample:
http://www.lejapon.org/forum/threads/17871-Gojira-chan-O-tanj?bi-omedet?-gozaimasu
The link looks nice at the bottom (when you mouse over it), but when you click on it, you get a "ISO-8859-1" search and accentuated letters are replaced in the link.

Confirmed on my site too, John. I haden?t noticed the accentuate chars in my links.
Thanks for the head up, naisho :up:

[tpearl5]

Hi
Nice mod.
I noticed the same issue as Marv regarding "ISO-8859-1" searches, instead of the full title search.
It happens only when there is a caracter with an accent in the title.
If you look at Marv's example, there is a "?" in the title.
I get the same problem with french accentuated letters in the titles. It returns a "ISO-8859-1" search.

Here is an axample:
http://www.lejapon.org/forum/threads/17871-Gojira-chan-O-tanj?bi-omedet?-gozaimasu
The link looks nice at the bottom (when you mouse over it), but when you click on it, you get a "ISO-8859-1" search and accentuated letters are replaced in the link.

Thanks. I think I finally figured out the problem with this. Allow overwrite with the xml below...

In case anyone wants to know the details, google prefers we don't encode the special characters and that's what I was doing. I took out the urlencoding function that does this. This works: http://www.lejapon.org/forum/gsearch.php?cx=002283760010581385931:xam3fl02tzg&q=Gojira%20chan%20O%20tanj%C3%B4bi%20omedet%C3%B4% 20gozaimasu

Edit: removed attachment

[puertoblack2003]

Try the gsearch file located above (the file is the same in the pro version)

no cigar with this issue. I deleted v 1.0 pro by mistake, that was working well for me.Can i get that version back? I need to get the search back online soon

[tpearl5]

no cigar with this issue. I deleted v 1.0 pro by mistake, that was working well for me.Can i get that version back? I need to get the search back online soon

No results at all makes me think something isn't configured correctly. Are you sure you didn't change something in Google Custom Search?

[puertoblack2003]

No results at all makes me think something isn't configured correctly. Are you sure you didn't change something in Google Custom Search?

no, didn't change anything.I updated file and plugin, sec's later after testing nothing showed up.

[tpearl5]

no, didn't change anything.I updated file and plugin, sec's later after testing nothing showed up.

And you allowed overwrite, right? Are the templates the default ones?

[puertoblack2003]

And you allowed overwrite, right? Are the templates the default ones?

yep to all of the above.

[puertoblack2003]

And you allowed overwrite, right? Are the templates the default ones?


found the problem originally you asked to add the "partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxx" i removed the "partner-pub" prefix and viola it worked.

[fai99al99]

Thanks. I think I finally figured out the problem with this. Allow overwrite with the xml below...

In case anyone wants to know the details, google prefers we don't encode the special characters and that's what I was doing. I took out the urlencoding function that does this. This works: http://www.lejapon.org/forum/gsearch.php?cx=002283760010581385931:xam3fl02tzg&q=Gojira%20chan%20O%20tanj%C3%B4bi%20omedet%C3%B4% 20gozaimasu

iam haveing a problem with Arabic language ,It returns a "windows-1256"

[naisho]

In case anyone wants to know the details, google prefers we don't encode the special characters and that's what I was doing. I took out the urlencoding function that does this.

Sorry, but I tried the new xml file (overwritting the previous one) and it does'nt work:
http://www.lejapon.org/forum/threads/17873-Conseils-Methodes-pour-preparation-au-N4

I also tried to remove the charset included in the link with no success.

[tpearl5]

found the problem originally you asked to add the "partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxx" i removed the "partner-pub" prefix and viola it worked.
Ah, yes. I realized that partner-pub is not in everyone's ID. Only earlier accounts.
iam haveing a problem with Arabic language ,It returns a "windows-1256"
Did you try the xml above?
Sorry, but I tried the new xml file (overwritting the previous one) and it does'nt work:
http://www.lejapon.org/forum/threads/17873-Conseils-Methodes-pour-preparation-au-N4

I also tried to remove the charset included in the link with no success.
It does the same thing as before? What does one of your see more links look like now? You need the charset in the link for Google.

[fai99al99]

Did you try the xml above?


yes , I did.
english titles works good ,but if there is any
Arabic letter in the title It returns "windows-1256"

[naisho]

It does the same thing as before?

Yes exactly the same.

What does one of your see more links look like now?

I am using your last xml file so you can check this link:
http://www.lejapon.org/forum/threads/17873-Conseils-Methodes-pour-preparation-au-N4

[tpearl5]

yes , I did.
english titles works good ,but if there is any
Arabic letter in the title It returns "windows-1256"

Yes exactly the same.



I am using your last xml file so you can check this link:
http://www.lejapon.org/forum/threads/17873-Conseils-Methodes-pour-preparation-au-N4


Okay, try this one (allow overwrite)...

edit:removed

[fai99al99]

Okay, try this one (allow overwrite)...

did not work.. now it returns letters like this "????? ???? 30 ???? ?? ????? ?????"

[tpearl5]

did not work.. now it returns letters like this "????? ???? 30 ???? ?? ????? ?????"

Alright I think I see what's going on now. Last try, then I give up on character encoding :)

[fai99al99]

Alright I think I see what's going on now. Last try, then I give up on character encoding :)

didnt work .. return UTF-8

[tpearl5]

didnt work .. return UTF-8

Can you paste here or pm me a thread page that links to the search page?

[naisho]

OK I found a solution to make it work.
I just replaced urlencode with utf8_encode and everything is fine now on my site.

[tpearl5]

OK I found a solution to make it work.
I just replaced urlencode with utf8_encode and everything is fine now on my site.

Ah! That's the one combination of encoding that I didn't try! But what happens if you have an &, question mark, or comma in your title?

[naisho]

With question marks and commas it works fine.
When there is a & in the title, the part starting from & is stripped. But it's not a big deal as this kind of titles are rare (0,5% on my forum)
Example here:
http://www.lejapon.org/forum/threads/617-Indispensable-pour-les-transports-en-train-metro

[fai99al99]

OK I found a solution to make it work.
I just replaced urlencode with utf8_encode and everything is fine now on my site.

didnt work for Arabic titles, return letters like this "??? ?? ????? ????? ??".

Iam not a coder, but I tried to add a function to convert text from windows-1256 to UTF8 and it worked.

[tpearl5]

didnt work for Arabic titles, return letters like this "??? ?? ????? ????? ??".

Iam not a coder, but I tried to add a function to convert text from windows-1256 to UTF8 and it worked.

That also makes sense since utf8_encode only handles ISO-8859-1.

I've made it so this version handles every form of character encoding and just makes them all utf-8 for simplicity. It'll also handle characters that shouldn't be in a URL. Google seems to be very picky about what comes after the q=

For those of you that were having issues, please let me know if this works and I'll update the product. Unfortunately I have no easy way to test this if you couldn't tell. :)

[fai99al99]

That also makes sense since utf8_encode only handles ISO-8859-1.

I've made it so this version handles every form of character encoding and just makes them all utf-8 for simplicity. It'll also handle characters that shouldn't be in a URL. Google seems to be very picky about what comes after the q=

For those of you that were having issues, please let me know if this works and I'll update the product. Unfortunately I have no easy way to test this if you couldn't tell. :)

works great :up:

[tpearl5]

works great :up:

Awesome! :D

[tpearl5]

fyi, anyone looking to get this working on the mobile style, you just need to create new template under the mobile style, name is "see_more_gsearch", and copy the contents of the template with the same name in your main style into it. Google automatically adjusts things for smaller screens.

[tpearl5]

fyi, anyone looking to get this working on the mobile style, you just need to create new template under the mobile style, name is "see_more_gsearch", and copy the contents of the template with the same name in your main style into it. Google automatically adjusts things for smaller screens.

and, I'll include this in the next release...

[rememusa]

Hi all,

I need help with the plugin above. I installed the plugin on my site following the instructions but it did not work for me.

I cant see the ads and I cannot see the Google Search bar.

I followed all the instructions as I was told to do so.

One stupid question Do I need to have the Vbulleting integration with Google adsense in order to this plugin to work?

I dont have that option integrated between both plataform.

Another thing is my forum site is in Portuguese, I am not sure if it affects anything because of the language.

Thank you!

[tpearl5]

Hi all,

I need help with the plugin above. I installed the plugin on my site following the instructions but it did not work for me.

I cant see the ads and I cannot see the Google Search bar.

I followed all the instructions as I was told to do so.

One stupid question Do I need to have the Vbulleting integration with Google adsense in order to this plugin to work?

I dont have that option integrated between both plataform.

Another thing is my forum site is in Portuguese, I am not sure if it affects anything because of the language.

Thank you!

try the product file in this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2509238&postcount=122

what happens when you go to yoursite.com/gsearch.php? Make sure that you followed the instructions exactly for the CSE setup and that you have your settings set correctly.

No, you don't need the adsense integration - no one does. haha

[rememusa]

try the product file in this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2509238&postcount=122

what happens when you go to yoursite.com/gsearch.php? Make sure that you followed the instructions exactly for the CSE setup and that you have your settings set correctly.

No, you don't need the adsense integration - no one does. haha

I tried the file and still not working. When I go to mysite.com/forum/gsearch.php? it send me to another page without showing any results or messages, plain page.

thank you

[rememusa]

I tried the file and still not working. When I go to mysite.com/forum/gsearch.php? it send me to another page without showing any results or messages, plain page.

thank you

I do have this error message on setup my account

Error:
You did not enter a valid value for this setting.

[tpearl5]

I do have this error message on setup my account

Error:
You did not enter a valid value for this setting.

Sounds like you didn't enter your google cse id correctly...

[bosanci28]

I will keep this mod on my site and watch closely, how things evolve. Hopefully I can give you a feedback in the near future, that shows more significant stats. I?m very positive, that this mod in fact helps increasing your revenue and I say "Thanks, tpearl!" for this mod. Keep up the good work :up:

Hello Marv,

So how the mod is doing now after more than a month ?

Just curios how the stats looks after all this time.

Thanks!.

[tpearl5]

Updated to v1.2.3
- Fixed another encoding issue
- Added support for mobile style

[puertoblack2003]

Updated to v1.2.3
- Fixed another encoding issue
- Added support for mobile style

any update for the pro version ??

[tpearl5]

any update for the pro version ??

Whoops, almost forgot. That has been updated as well.

[rory2000]

Hi,

Is there a sample website in English which this feature is installed on correctly and working we can see / try ?

Thanks Rory

[ozzy47]

Hi,

Is there a sample website in English which this feature is installed on correctly and working we can see / try ?

Thanks Rory

Why not install it on your site or a test site and test it out?

[tpearl5]

Hi,

Is there a sample website in English which this feature is installed on correctly and working we can see / try ?

Thanks Rory

The two sites mentioned in the first post have it installed.

[Gadget_Guy]

Just installed on my site.

Working fine so far.

For those that can help guide me.....

How can I track the mod via Adsense and Google Analytics?

Anything I need to add or change to see what the results are?

For those that are using the pro version.... Did you enable this for your members?

What about using the adsense search instead of the VB search? Any negative feedback?

If you enabled it for members, did you get any negative feedback? I get enough grief having ad banners for members to the point where I only have a footer ad for members. Guests have full ads everywhere.

D.

[Alan_SP]

I track it in AdSense, you have special report for custom channels as this mod uses custom search integration. So, money earned with this mod you'll see there. Don't know about GA, didn't checked where info would be shown.

And you don't need to do anything (of course, you need to install this mod following instructions and conect custom search with AdSense).

[joeychgo]

I track it in AdSense, you have special report for custom channels as this mod uses custom search integration. So, money earned with this mod you'll see there. Don't know about GA, didn't checked where info would be shown.

And you don't need to do anything (of course, you need to install this mod following instructions and conect custom search with AdSense).


Can you tell me how you did this? I cant seem to figure out how to connect this search to a custom channel...

[Alan_SP]

You don't do that. You just need to configure custom search how do you like it and in tab Make money you need to associate it with your AdSense ID. After that everything works, ads shown on your custom search pages are linked to your account.

[joeychgo]

I believe I am. I'm showing ads: (see: http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/showthread.php?84615-Let-s-talk-front-shocks-street-strip)

I just don't know if its connected to a custom channel or not, or does it do that automatically?

[Alan_SP]

If you just show ads, that means nothing. Google shows ads until you purchase option without ads. Only thing is, if Google shares earnings with you or not. You need to connect your AdSense account to receive some money from your these ads.

As I said, you do this in Custom Search CP (https://www.google.com/cse/all)->Choose your site (I have more than one, if you have only one maybe you don't need to choose your site)->Setup->Make Money. In that tab (Make Money) you connect your AdSense account.

If you did that, you see your AdSense ID there. And money starts to come. And it's not channel. It's type of product.

Go and see custom search ACP, it would be much clearer there what you should do.

[khalled]

i pay for pro vrsion but every time i enetr Google Search ID i get the following erroe massage
Error:
You did not enter a valid value for this setting.

attached screan shoot

also can i add my adsense ad unit in serach result page after queriesperiod , and where i need to insert ad code

[tpearl5]

i pay for pro vrsion but every time i enetr Google Search ID i get the following erroe massage
Error:
Thanks for purchasing! You did not enter a valid value for this setting.

attached screan shoot

You can ignore this as long as the ID is correct


also can i add my adsense ad unit in serach result page after queriesperiod , and where i need to insert ad code
You can't add additional ad units on the search results page, no. The ads that are displayed should already have your ads displayed, so you really don't need any more ads.

[kemraj]

i have a dark theme installed on my forum do do i remove the white google custom search text from the search box or alter it?

BTW i bought the paid version.

[tpearl5]

Just installed on my site.

Working fine so far.

For those that can help guide me.....

How can I track the mod via Adsense and Google Analytics?



For GA, there is a report under Behavior > Site Search - the query parameter is still q , so nothing should have to be changed.

[tpearl5]

i have a dark theme installed on my forum do do i remove the white google custom search text from the search box or alter it?

BTW i bought the paid version.

Thanks for purchasing!

You can modify the template 'see_more_gsearch_form'

[joeychgo]

If you just show ads, that means nothing. Google shows ads until you purchase option without ads. Only thing is, if Google shares earnings with you or not. You need to connect your AdSense account to receive some money from your these ads.

As I said, you do this in Custom Search CP (https://www.google.com/cse/all)->Choose your site (I have more than one, if you have only one maybe you don't need to choose your site)->Setup->Make Money. In that tab (Make Money) you connect your AdSense account.

If you did that, you see your AdSense ID there. And money starts to come. And it's not channel. It's type of product.

Go and see custom search ACP, it would be much clearer there what you should do.

I am associated -- the only thing is the revenue doesn't show under the custom channels like was said earlier, it shows under the Products tab

[kemraj]

Thanks for purchasing!

You can modify the template 'see_more_gsearch_form'

Thank you very much, it looks better now.

[tpearl5]

I am associated -- the only thing is the revenue doesn't show under the custom channels like was said earlier, it shows under the Products tab

To get a custom channel I believe you have to set things up initially in Adsense. There is no way to do it from the CSE control panel.

[tpearl5]

Thank you very much, it looks better now.

Great! Glad to hear you figured it out.

[khalled]

You can ignore this as long as the ID is correct


You can't add additional ad units on the search results page, no. The ads that are displayed should already have your ads displayed, so you really don't need any more ads.

very thanks for your reply , what if i want yo edit gsearch.php and insert ad code to be as part of the page is it possible

[Alan_SP]

What ads are you talking?

It already has one ad in navbar and one ad in footer. This is standard Google AdSense integration within vBulletin. You can also made money from integrating GCS with AdSense.

[khalled]

What ads are you talking?

It already has one ad in navbar and one ad in footer. This is standard Google AdSense integration within vBulletin. You can also made money from integrating GCS with AdSense.

The result of of search appear in gsearch.php page , what i mean how i can edit this page to make anther unit of adsense appear in this page in addation to ad appear by defult by google search engine

[Alan_SP]

Actually, results are shown in template see_more_gsearch, gsearch.php file serves to create this template. You need to edit see_more_gsearch to make changes you want to make, but this template already includes navbar and footer, "usual suspects" for showing AdSense ads in most configurations.

If you don't use navbar and footer for this, than you can manually enter AdSense code in this template on place(s) you like.

Just don't forget that by AdSense TOS you can have up to three ads on one page. That don't includes GCS ads.

[khalled]

Actually, results are shown in template see_more_gsearch, gsearch.php file serves to create this template. You need to edit see_more_gsearch to make changes you want to make, but this template already includes navbar and footer, "usual suspects" for showing AdSense ads in most configurations.

If you don't use navbar and footer for this, than you can manually enter AdSense code in this template on place(s) you like.

Just don't forget that by AdSense TOS you can have up to three ads on one page. That don't includes GCS ads.

Very thanks for your help , i try to edit and insert code in see_more_gsearch to make code appear in first of search result or end of it but not successed can you help me to where to insert code

[Alan_SP]

You can't place code inside search results, only outside. And, if everything is as it should be, as I already said two times, it is so by default (navbar and footer). You don't need to do anything.

If you don't see ads, something isn't setup as it should be. I can't say what.

[khalled]

You can't place code inside search results, only outside. And, if everything is as it should be, as I already said two times, it is so by default (navbar and footer). You don't need to do anything.

If you don't see ads, something isn't setup as it should be. I can't say what.
Very thanks

[iiioroh]

I have purchased and followed all install directions however the "see more" is not working.

the gsearch.php file working well, can search and suggestion and show links
but I can't see search - http://take.ms/WLvyu

[tpearl5]

I have purchased and followed all install directions however the "see more" is not working.

the gsearch.php file working well, can search and suggestion and show links
but I can't see search - http://take.ms/WLvyu

It looks like you have a custom style. This may be interfering with how things are inserted automatically. Are you seeing the "See More" text under (or where you've specified) the first post?

[iiioroh]

It looks like you have a custom style. This may be interfering with how things are inserted automatically. Are you seeing the "See More" text under (or where you've specified) the first post?

Yes (http://primspinning.ru/-/367-rockfishing-streetfishing.html) - http://take.ms/Loifx

[tpearl5]

Yes (http://primspinning.ru/-/367-rockfishing-streetfishing.html) - http://take.ms/Loifx

So, you need to modify the template that includes the search box on your custom style to include what is in the added see more search template, not to be confused with the seemore_gsearch template.

[bosanci28]

So this works with vb 4.2.3?

Thanks.

[geosharing]

im getting this error


404. That’s an error.

The requested URL /cse?cx=partner-pub-004325762671656731285:teztejqaaem&cof=FORID:10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=dstv&sa=Search&siteurl=www.geosharing.net/forum/search.php%3Fsearchid%3D122671&ref=www.geosharing.net/forum/search.php%3Fdo%3Dprocess&ad=n9&num=10&rurl=http://www.geosharing.net/forum/google.php%3Fcx%3Dpartner-pub-004325762671656731285%253Ateztejqaaem%26cof%3DFORI D%253A10%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Ddstv%26sa.x%3D8%26sa.y%3D13%26sa%3DSearch% 26siteurl%3Dwww.geosharing.net%252Fforum%252Fsearc h.php%253Fsearchid%253D122671%26ref%3Dwww.geoshari ng.net%252Fforum%252Fsearch.php%253Fdo%253Dprocess %26ss%3D was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

[geosharing]

please guide me how to resolve

[friendlymela]

I am using it already.. i want to increase my earning more.

[tpearl5]

So this works with vb 4.2.3?

Thanks.

Yep, it should.

im getting this error


404. That?s an error.

The requested URL /cse?cx=partner-pub-004325762671656731285:teztejqaaem&cof=FORID:10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=dstv&sa=Search&siteurl=www.geosharing.net/forum/search.php%3Fsearchid%3D122671&ref=www.geosharing.net/forum/search.php%3Fdo%3Dprocess&ad=n9&num=10&rurl=http://www.geosharing.net/forum/google.php%3Fcx%3Dpartner-pub-004325762671656731285%253Ateztejqaaem%26cof%3DFORI D%253A10%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Ddstv%26sa.x%3D8%26sa.y%3D13%26sa%3DSearch% 26siteurl%3Dwww.geosharing.net%252Fforum%252Fsearc h.php%253Fsearchid%253D122671%26ref%3Dwww.geoshari ng.net%252Fforum%252Fsearch.php%253Fdo%253Dprocess %26ss%3D was not found on this server. That?s all we know.

Did you follow the setup procedure in Google. Did you upload gsearch.php to your forum directory?

[friendlymela]

someone give me tip to incease my earning please :(

[rcull]

I have just installed this and unfortunately I can't find the "show more" link:(
I have activated it for all user groups and unregistered.
I suppose that means there is a problem with my site?
It loaded the "see more" link on the bottom.

I was planning on purchasing the Pro version if all went well anyway, so would it be a good idea to purchase it and see if other locations for the "see more" link worked?

www.teambuick.com/forums

I am wondering if it has to do with https:

Thanks

[khalled]

I have just installed this and unfortunately I can't find the "show more" link:(
I have activated it for all user groups and unregistered.
I suppose that means there is a problem with my site?
It loaded the "see more" link on the bottom.

I was planning on purchasing the Pro version if all went well anyway, so would it be a good idea to purchase it and see if other locations for the "see more" link worked?

www.teambuick.com/forums

I am wondering if it has to do with https:

Thanks

i have the same problem , i purchased the full version and it work good , but when i update to vb4.2.5 and install SSL certificates , the ""show more" link not appear

i hope the Developer solve this problem

[khalled]

i have the same problem , i purchased the full version and it work good , but when i update to vb4.2.5 and install SSL certificates , the ""show more" link not appear

i hope the Developer solve this problem


ok i solve the problem by enable php-iconv in PHP Extensions