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Hi Ben,

Thank you for this info!

Our ultimate goal is to 1) have 3 ads on our site 2) 1 ad placed at the header, 2nd ad on the sidebar above the fold, 3rd ad below the first post on the home page (if not on the homepage then at the bottom of the article).

However, we continue to have a couple issues:

1) Using the WP Quads plugin, we have placed the ad sense code in the widgets ad code section. We are limiting ads to just 1 per page so that we can check if the settings are indeed working. We also limited ads to “beginning of post”. However, we continue to see multiple ads per page (at top, side, and bottom).
2) On further inspection, on our WordPress Dashboard, we found ad sense code listed in our header. We must have inserted that code a long time ago, when we were first setting up Google Ad Sense.

Do you think this could be why we are seeing so many ads? Is there anything that you think we are doing wrong in setting up our Google Ad Sense.

Thanks in advance,

Stephanie

Hey Ben,

Hope you’re doing well! Just wondering if you have any suggestions about the ad issue.

Thanks!
Stephanie

Hi Ben,

Thank you so much. I’ve downloaded the plugin but I have a question. I indicated that I want a maximum of 3 ads per page but our website is showing way more than 3 ads per page. Have you come across this issue?

Thanks!
Stephanie

Hi Ben,

How have you been? It’s been a long time!!

We are trying to optimizing our site for monetization using Google Ad Sense. We have a Google Ad Sense account but we are struggling with ad placement. Our question is, how can you put the code so that the ad appears in the exact place we want it to? Is it through a Plugin? If so, could you please recommend a plugin to use. I’ve been playing around with Ad Inserter but I’m not finding it intuitive to use.

Thank you so much in advance.

Stephanie

Perfect! I’ll test that one out. Thank you very much!

I was just thinking of ways to maintain user interest on our page when someone sees our page. Is it possible to help us out with inserting some kind of “Posts you may like” at the bottom with image/title of other posts?

Thanks Ben

Great thanks Ben. I’ve changed the settings but waiting to hear back from their tech support since it didn’t seem to have an effect. The image issue seemed to clear on its own!

Another question I had: on the right side, we have our recent posts listed. Is there a way to insert the featured picture below/above each title? Not sure how difficult this would be to do…

Thanks!

Just changed the RSS post count – it didn’t update right away but I’ll wait another day to see if there was an effect.

I did install the regenerate thumbnail plugin – it said it was successful but the images on the site (Bloglovin’) are still blurred. Was there something I was suppose to do afterwards? Media settings has been changed to 350px but I dont see the regenerated thumbnails in media library…

Okay thanks Ben, I’ve made the adjustments!

Also, would you know how to increase the number of posts pulled from the RSS feed?

“When you first begin your profile, bloglovin’ will pull the 30 most recent posts from your blog’s RSS feed. I’ve taken a look at your RSS feed and it looks like it only has 10 posts:

https://www.modernflourish.com/feed/

To display more content in your profile, you’ll want to increase the amount of posts included in the above feed. For help with this, you’ll want to work with your blog provider, or whoever helped you with the technical aspects of your blog.”

Perfect! Thank you that worked (it was automatically checked off in the settings to close comments after post 28 days).

Another question for you if you don’t mind. We’re just trying to connect our site to Bloglovin’ with the RSS feed. Unfortunately, the images appear blurry on their site, and their support person said it’s because our thumbnail image sizes are too small (they said to change ours to at least 350px).

Would you mind helping us change that? I was looking to changing it in the Media settings but I read somewhere that the featured images could also be affected?

Thanks!

Hi Ben,

Thanks.

We want the comments to be re-opened, though. Not sure why they suddenly were closed all of a sudden.

Thanks,
Stephanie

Hi Ben,

We hope you have been doing well!! We were wondering if you might be able to troubleshoot an issue for us. On some of our posts on our blog, it says that the comments are closed. Not exactly sure when/how this happened, we just noticed it yesterday. I’ve tried troubleshooting using strategies I found on Google (making sure the discussion box is checked, etc) but nothing seems to work. Have you ever encountered this issue? As an example of a post with comments closed: https://www.modernflourish.com/things-went-wrong-office-workers/

Thank you!
Stephanie

Great thanks!!

Hi Ben,

Just wondering if you would be able to help us make a tweak to remove the titles on the Pages? For example, the About page. If you click into the About category, the title won’t show up on the page. They’re just in a different font that we can’t get to match some of our subheadings. I think you may have helped us do this for another page before…

Thanks!

Perfect thanks – I’ve submitted sitemaps to Webmaster Tools so I think we’re set for the internet to find us!

I’ll be working on trying to optimize the speed in the next few days so I may have some questions if that’s okay ??

Thank you once again!

Oh I see, thanks for the help. I was very confused about the “sitelinks”. I kept thinking that there was somewhere on Yoast that I was supposed to fill this in!

So for example, one of the categories is “Working”. I see under Titles & Metas> Pages> “Title Templates” = %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Do I leave the “Title Templates” as is and the “Meta Description” blank? Because Google will pick up the title etc. from my “Working” Page and eventually list this as a description of that category?

Webmaster Tools: I’ve submitted our site and verified it (finally). Under Google Index> Total Indexed> it reads 0. Does this mean that none of our pages has been indexed? I have a feeling that something is missing because our Search Analytics has no data…

Also I’m trying to generate a site map using https://www.xml-sitemaps.com, but as usual it has given us an ERROR message.

As you know we are completely new to blogging etc. So far I’ve read that it’s important to check out keywords using Google Trends, Set up Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools. Is there something critical that we’re missing?

All the help you provide is very appreciated! Thanks Ben.