Ads not showing, recrawl request
Ads are not showing after our latest design changes, could we please have our site recrawled? pokemonprice.com
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Hey Jason - thanks for reaching out! It looks like the Journey script may have been missing, but as I was taking a look, I'm now seeing it in place. Looking around, I see the adhesion and universal player ad loading on your site, as well as a sidebar ad on individual card pages.
Since you're using flex styles in your sidebar, look over the flex styles currently applied to your sidebar to ensure that the ad doesn't overlap. Alternatively, you can try setting a display:block style here, as outlined in this thread.
It looks like the site is mostly in a grid layout with varying HTML structure, and Journey will typically only place content ads throughout long-form blog post content with consistent HTML structure since, otherwise, these ads could break the layout of pages. We also don't currently have an option for manual ad placement, but you'll still have the adhesion banner ad and Universal Video Player able to load on pages, which are some of the most performant ad placements.
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Got it! How long form are we talking about, was planning to have a overview section which contains 200-400 words, what are the odds that ads get placed in that section?
Also, it seems like we're still seeing 0 session count despite being able to confirm that the grow script is present https://journeymv.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/32271419591323-Diagnosing-0-Sessions-Pageviews
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Hi Jason ! It's possible that length could accomodate ads, but it'd also have to be a post template with a unique HTML class on the parent element of the content area with all of the post content under this one parent element instead of nested within groups. You can read more about long form content in this blog post.
As for your sessions, it looks like your site is a single page application, which can be tricky when it comes to tracking analytics. I've escalated this to our engineers though so they can take a look. The good news though is you're paid through impressions - not sessions. Your earnings and impressions are tracked separately by the ad server, and they're not based on analytics. This means that your earnings will still be accurate and unaffected by any analytic issues.
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Hey Rachel, thanks for the info!
Regarding the content length and structure for ads, I understand the need for a "post template" with a unique parent element. Our card pages (like https://pokemonprice.com/base-set-1st-edition/drowzee-49-1st-edition) are currently set up a bit differently. Aside from adding 200-500 words to each, which we are planning to do, are there any other options we could explore to make them appear more like a traditional blog post to the ad system?
For example, could we:
Wrap existing sections in a designated parent div with a unique class? We could potentially group existing elements (like the card image, price chart, and other details) within a new parent element that Journey could identify as the "content area."
Adjust our current markup to better align with typical blog post structure, even without long-form text initially? Perhaps by using more semantic HTML5 elements like <article>, <header>, <section>, etc., within this new parent container, we could signal that this is a distinct content piece.
Introduce a hidden or very minimal "intro" section that fulfills the long-form requirement without being visually prominent? This is less ideal, but could it be a temporary workaround?
Our main goal is to improve ad placement without sacrificing the clean, data-focused layout of our card pages. We're open to exploring different approaches.
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Jason this article has a good example of what type of HTML the script works well with (under the heading Example of a WordPress site WITHOUT a Page Builder).
Ultimately, a typical blog post structure is always going to work better when it comes to ad placement, and all the content (paragraphs, images, headings, etc) should be directly under a unique parent element in a block layout instead of a grid layout. If you do a grid layout, you'd need to make sure all of the grid items were in their own block, or each row of the grid had its own block directly under the unique parent element so ads could load between the grid items.
You could also do a intro section with a unique parent selector, but if it isn't long enough, there's no guarantee ads would load, and the type of format is up to what you think is going to be best for your site/readers.
Thanks!
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Hi Rachel, thanks for that, this is helpful. As a rough number, what is a normal revenue split between sidebar, video and in-content ad. I'm trying to figure out if it is worth spending time tinkering around with our site to get the in-content ads to work.
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Jason every site is different so we wouldn't be able to give any sort of estimate, and how beneficial content ads are will depend on where your readers are and how many ads are able to actually populate given the length of the content. Having content ads is always going to be beneficial, but it just depends on the site and the set up. You could always experiment by adding long form content to one post that could accomodate content ads and seeing how that performs vs others.
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Hi Jason - just following up about sessions not tracking. Our engineers got the chance to take a look and noticed the underscores in the Grow script were being stripped out. This is likely causing the issue. You'll want to make sure the exact Grow script from your dashboard is what's being output in your website's source code.
Thanks for your patience while they looked into this!
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