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
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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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]

Originally Posted by Emad ELsayed

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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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%C 9+%CF%ED%DF%ED+%CF%ED%DF%ED+%C7%E4%CA+%D5%CF%ED%DE %ED+%E3%E4+%DE%E4%C7%C9+%D8%ED%E6%D1+%C7%E1%CC%E4% C9+%C8%ED%C8%EC

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Emad ELsayed

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%C 9+%CF%ED%DF%ED+%CF%ED%DF%ED+%C7%E4%CA+%D5%CF%ED%DE %ED+%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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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.getElementById(%22queries%22))).render"> </script>
</vb:if>

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

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by 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.

Did you install the latest version?

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Emad ELsayed

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]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

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