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

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 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....2&postcount=89
Review 2: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=86

Results will vary depending on site traffic and subject matter.

Installation

Google Custom Search Setup

1. 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
2. Go to https://www.google.com/cse/create/new
3. Enter all information and click Create
4. Under "Edit search engine" go to "Look and feel"
5. Click "Full width" and click Save
6. Go to "Setup"
7. Click the "Make money" tab, and make sure "Search Engine Monetization" is on and your AdSense account is hooked up
8. On the "Basics" tab under the Details section click - "Search engine ID"
9. Take note of your Search Engine ID

See More install & setup

1. Once you download the package, unzip it
2. Upload gsearch.php to your forum root
3. Install the product xml under the admincp. Plugins & Projects > Manage Products > Add/Import Product (at the bottom)
4. Go to Settings > Options > "See More" Google Custom Search
5. Insert your pub id as noted in the last step of the previous section
6. If you wish to change how the results page looks the template is named see_more_gsearch
7. 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.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by 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

Did you try my suggestion above?

[ezak]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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/...9443585290.png

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by ezak

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/...9443585290.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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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]

Originally Posted by ezak

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]

Originally Posted by ezak

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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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

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[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by ezak

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

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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.