I tried it and I won't use it.

  • The pro is: it’s nearly fully automated for you.
    The con is: it’s nearly fully automated for you.

    If you don’t care where your ads show up — it’s a good plug in.

    1. However, if you’re an experienced ad-sense publisher that understands “location, location, location” (position of your placements) is #1 for your success and the advertiser’s success with “click through” — it’s a bad plug-in. And, you would be better off to either manually insert your adsense code or — use widgets to place it where you want your ads to appear.

    Yes — the plug in give’s you “approximate choices” — but it doesn’t hold, isn’t consistent, and you have no control on a page-by-page, or post-by-post “location”.

    2. It’s not good at determining the “content type” of ad that it should select to appear on your site. You lose, and the advertiser loses and your space is wasted — while it will annoy your audience. If your audience doesn’t like you — they won’t be back and they won’t trust you and it will destroy the relationship with you and your audience.

    3. In some cases — it ignores Adsense Publisher Policy and guidelines (that could cost you money and risk losing your adsense account — by displaying ads on page-types that are “restricted” and call for “no adsense ads” on those kinds of pages. Namely, your contact form. ??

    I WISH the plug-in worked well enough for me to use it. a. It’s easy. b. It comes from google, so you should be able to trust it. c. it comes from google so you can expect it to work well. d. If something screws up you can always claim “google plug-in made me do it!” ?? But, Google Adsense will NOT listen to any explanation you might have IF the plug-in causes you to violate Google policy.

    I value my publishing reputation and relationship with Google more than I value an “easier softer way” of doing things. ??

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  • Thread Starter StudioGroup

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    I would like to edit this review to change it and also to re-rate it, but I can’t find the link to do this.
    Please DISREGARD MOST of my issues that I posted above!

    I just logged in to my admin dashboard and had a note from google plug-in that there was a problem to review and fix.

    While I was attempting to fix the problem — I noticed a link on the left-hand side of the page for “Design” and “Preview” — and to the far left of this is a select-field to choose individual post types, pages, categories, etc. — to modify your preferences for “ad placements”.

    So, I went through each — and made the changes I desired to posts, pages, category, archives, etc. then clicked “Save & Activate”.

    Then, I cleared all pages in “cache” and checked the results.

    The results would be a new RATING of FIVE Stars!

    The one thing I’m still concerned about is: IF ads show up on Contact pages or privacy notices, etc. where there should be no ads — and if the plug-in will make additional scans to fix this.

    I DO believe that Google wants to do all that it can to help it’s Adsense Publishers to be successful. So, I was surprised with my first experience with the plug-in.

    Good job Developers of this plug-in!

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