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.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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



Best regards

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

Originally Posted by nick-harper

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/gsearc...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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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