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]

Originally Posted by Marv

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]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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%3D004917422255610974977%253A7ja5dfgrxqi%26cof%3DFORID%253A10%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...Pi-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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

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%3D004917422255610974977%253A7ja5dfgrxqi%26cof%3DFORID%253A10%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)

Originally Posted by 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...Pi-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?)

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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]

Originally Posted by Marv

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...det?-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]

Originally Posted by 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...det?-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: