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Adding Sidebar - How to classify?

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Engin

Hey, wanted to add a sidebar to our articles/blogs to get that premium ad placement.
If we add it, will the ad be placed automatically? Should we give that sidebar a special name for the <div> or will it be recognize automatically? We are using a pagebuilder (Divi) and it works properly.

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    • Journey Support Team

    Hi Engin ! If you give the sidebar a common class like .sidebar, the script should be able to pick it up and place an ad there. The only other thing to keep in mind is the sidebar needs to be static and not stick as the user scrolls for the sidebar ad to work properly and for the script to be able to place an ad there.

    Hope this helps!

  • Engin

    Thank you so much. Is it also okay du name it “sidebar-right” ? We will test it :)

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  • Esme Slabbert

    Please help me out here.  I was approved only yesterday and wanted to make sure that I have the sidebar setup done properly but as a total newbie, do not know how and what to do.  Rachel, or any of the support team, be able to help me, thanks in advance.

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  • Support
    • Journey Support Team

    Hey Esme Slabbert! I see a sidebar ad implemented correctly on your site, so no further action is needed. 

    Generally speaking, Journey can target a sidebar ad on most themes without issues. 

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  • Esme Slabbert

    Hi Ryan, thank you so much for your response.  Happy to hear all is good.  Thanks again Ryan

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  • Esme Slabbert

    Ryan, Sorry me again.  I went incognito and only saw the “Want fewer ads like this one” for Grow in the body of my posts and on the side.
    As its only one day will it populate with other ads soon?

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  • John
    • Journey Support Team

    Hi Esme,

    We have another thread on the topic that goes a bit more in depth about this topic here. Ultimately, you'll be served the placeholder ads if ad spend is low for you, but that doesn't mean that anything is broken or not working correctly. Ad spend could be low due to how often you visit the site, your location, detected cookies, and a host of other factors. So seeing the Grow placeholders on your end isn't uncommon given the nature of programmatic advertising. There can also be a ramp up period for advertisers to get to know your site since you just launched.

    The site is looking just fine on our end, and we're not able to see the the backend or your wp admin. If you're having trouble accessing that, you'd want to reach out to your host. Thanks!!

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  • Esme Slabbert

    Thanks, I am trying to reach my host to look into that, much appreciated John, have a great day.

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