40 Responses to “Shylock Adsense Plugin – Hack To Avoid Smart Pricing”
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Really great post. I will try this and post (comment) my results here. Thanks
well, this is a really nice post. thank you for tips.
That’s a great idea. I’m going to bookmark this page and come back to it after I’ve had my beauty sleep. I know that adsense still works, it just depends on the visitor you are attracting.
April
Pain and Jan, thanks for stopping by.
April, Thanks. Yes it definitely depends on the type of visitors you get. There are quite a few different factors to being successful with Adsense, this is just one of them. By the way, you’ve got some really nice photos on your site – I love Scotland.
An excellent hack, Stephen. I hacked it once myself, but for different reasons. If I switch back to using this plugin, instead of WSA, I’ll definitely be using this hack.
It definitely sounds good…I’m not very “techy” though but I will give it a shot. Thanks
RT, Thanks. Sorry about the delay in responding. I live on a university campus. It has become a ghost town because everyone’s gone home for the Spring Festival – even my ISP! No access at home now and limited access at work.
I remember your post on hacking Shylock Adsense. In fact, if you google “Shylock Hack” (without the quote marks), your post is number 1 and my post number 3 (with BlogCatalog page referencing my post at number 2). Interestingly, you’re number 1 for “Shylock Adsense hack”, but I’ve slipped to number 4 and it’s my introduction post, not this post. Weird!
PokerStars, I hope it works for you…
Actually, I wasn’t expecting an answer.
Ah well, sorry to disappoint, but I try to answer all comments if I can!
BTW, Stephen, you need to update your copyright statement (in the footer).
Hey Stephen,
After having this in my to-do list, I finally took the plunge and implemented in both our blogs so that we display Adsense only to search engine traffic.
Our CTR before this was anywhere between 1% – 4%. Today, in ShanKri-la the CTR has gone up atleast 4 times including the value of clicks. I didn’t expect to see such a difference the very next day. I don’t think it’s a coincidence but it’ll be interesting to see how much of a difference it makes overall this week. I haven’t had a click yet in spicytasty.com yet, so I can’t comment on that right now.
Either way, I wanted to thank you for this awesome hack as I prefer Shylock Adsense over the others too.
On another note, is there a way to use your iFrame widget plugin besides the sidebar widgets, for example using your function in theme template elsewhere.
Cheers!
RT, Thanks – I’ve fixed it up now.
Hi K, wow – that is a quick improvement. I’d be interested to hear if that’s maintained. Let me know how it goes!
As for the IFrameWidgets plugin, there’s no way to use it outside of the sidebar at the moment, but I’m planning on creating a solution in future. Just when I’ll get to it is another matter – I still haven’t rebadged the current version as v1.0 and ‘released it’ (ie added it to the various lists of plugins). I’m guessing it will be about a month’s time (after Chinese New Year is out of the way).
I better bookmark this page, so when the time comes and start running the ads I do it the right way …
thanks for the hacks dude!
Fahmishah, No worries! Hope it helps…
This is a great and simple modification to make to your blog, from the testing I’ve done from various search engines and other sources, it displays just as it should – I’m interested to see how that affects my CTRs and income.
Thanks for a really cool addition to my website, much appreciated!
Zath, Thanks… I hope it helps with CTR and income – if you have time, I’d love to hear how it goes…
Thanks very much for this Stephen, I can confirm that after 2 weeks of testing this out, that it really does help with increasing CTR and the CPC seems to be more consistent.
I have just one suggestion to improve this – is there anyway that ads can be shown to search engine visitors beyond the first page that they view? I’m guessing that would involve too much tracking as opposed to just looking at the origin of a visitor?
Thanks for a great piece of coding and I’ll probably put it on my other sites too following this experiment.
Thanks a lot! I was searching this modification but didn’t found it! Now I can modify the plugin and use it!
Hey Stephen!
Wow, what a post you have here! I have a few blogs that use Adsense, so I’ll be sure to give this one a try.
Stumbled!
Hey Stephen – You are a genius: This is real magic and just what I was searching for, a method of detecting Search Engine clients. I married two of your bits of code above, and then I “include” this code as inc_adsense.php anywhere I like and Viola, Google ads appear or hide as required.
See a working in the sidebar top here weblog.biznz.net – and all much easier than installing the plugin – it only works on WordPress anyway.
Personally, I prefer to edit the code myself to optimize the adsense placings. Top left part of the post gets the highest CTR, so that’s where I usually put it. Do you get higher CTRs when you manage it your way?
Good post. I do have one wordpress blog I’m developing and I do expect tons of repeat visitors to the forum. Wish they had the same plugin for vbulletin or phpbb forums. I think sites with forums get the most repeat visitors and could really get you smart priced in a hurry. Anyhow thanks for the hack.
I have my card blog site and I thought that I could paste some adsense ads on my blog. I have around 400 unique visitors per day and hope I can get some
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Very cool, i’ve been looking for something like this. I’ll probably break my site trying this but its worth a shot..
thanks for this!
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Hi Stephen,
Does the Adsense preview in the plugin count as an impression. If so, how do we modify the plugin to remove the preview?
By the way, there’s a small change in the code for the current plugin. Instead of “shylock_adsense_filter” it should be “whydowork_adsense_filter”
Thanks!
The shylock hack is a good one. Thanks for figuring it out it saves everyone alot of work. This should help people earn more from adsense.
Wow, this is pretty cool stuff. Thanks for the info and I’m posting a linkback to this page. I’m just now getting into this stuff, but so far so good. thanks!
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This is a great! From the testing I’ve done with various search engines it displays just as it should – I’m interested to see how that affects my CTRs and income.
Thanks for a really cool addition to my website, much appreciated!
I’m using adsense to make money on my blog, but I’m also trying my luck in affiliate marketing, it seems though it really works out well.
Great instructions Stephen. Any idea if Shylock updated his plugin? If not maybe its time for you to create an alternative that does this out of the box?
thanks for the info man. Is this method legal?
This is a great modification to make to your blog.
Thanks for a really cool addition to my website, appreciated.
Nice instructions over there, but is it allowed or will google ban ur adsense account
hey, great post. search engine traffic does seem to give me a better ctr
Yes, thanks for the Tipp. Nice post
Oh man. This is sweet. I used to be an idiot when it came to php, but now I should be able to config this all up.
Good question, since it’s been roughly a year, what’s googles take on this plugin? and are there any updates yet?
Great little hack and something i will find very useful, going to give it a try and see what happens.
Great job Stephen ! This is what i’ve been looking for
Thanks a lot dude