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 Emad ELsayed

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

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[Emad ELsayed]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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

Yes Dear
Exactly

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Emad ELsayed

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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by Emad ELsayed

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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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