Jetpack Mobile Compability with Google Adsense

Could you walk me through the steps you followed to configure the Google Adsense plugin, so I can try to reproduce the issue?

Could you also confirm that you use this plugin, and not that one?

Thanks!

Until we fix this issue, a temporary work-around could be to use this plugin:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/jetpack-mobile-theme-ads/

Surely, Jeremy, I will do the best I can:

Obviously I downloaded the Google Adsense plugin and activated.

1) Settings -> Adsense
2) I don’t recall the initial screen prompt to link to your Google Adsense account, but I followed them without issue and my publisher-ID correctly displays under “Ad Manager”
3) I followed prompts under the Webmaster Tool setting to verify my site. This has since and always read “Your site is verified.”
4) Under “Automated Mobile Ads,” I enabled the service by clicking to display the green check mark. Since that time, it has always read “Ready for Automated Mobile Ads.”
5) At some point after this date, text displayed that said “Your Site was analyzed on (Date, Time). This date and time updates regularly, so it still scans for mobile ad placement.
6) Ads began populating on the Jetpack-mobile site shortly thereafter. On my home page, it displays an ad in the top header which was HUGE for me. It also displayed some ads in the sidebar (bottom) of the home page underneath all recent posts. Further, it automatically populated ads into each post, within the content, without having me to choose locations.
7) Recently, all mobile ads disappeared (desktop still works), though all of the settings still display as indicated above and it says scans my site for automated ad placement.

To your other comments, I am using the Google Adsense plugin whose author is Google (your second link; not the plugin by BestWebSoft). I also use the plugin for Jetpack Mobile Theme Ads, which will display only one ad at the top or bottom of posts (nothing on the home page will display based on my site setup).

I am currently working around this issue via the Advanced Ads plugin, which again will allow me to insert ads within post content but nothing to the home page.

Basically right now, through the Jetpack Mobile Ads plugin (1), and Advanced Ads plugin (2), I am able to display 3 ads on all posts but neither of these plugins will give me access to ads on the home page. This puts me at the 3-ad limit for Google Adsense, and I also configured their Page-Level Ad code which is allowed in addition to the 3. This page-level ad is the only one that displays on the home page, anchored to the bottom of the mobile browser.

I hope this helps and thank you for looking into it!

Thanks for all the extra details!

So it would seem that all ads were properly displayed on your mobile theme’s front page before, but aren’t anymore.

Could you let me know what happens when you deactivate Jetpack’s Mobile Theme module? Do you then see ads on your home page on mobile?

No problem!

Yes, I just de-activated the mobile theme and all Google Adsense ads display in the exact same configuration they do on the desktop site. Also, the mobile ad from the Jetpack Mobile Theme Ads plugin displays under each of my post titles (temporarily putting me well over the Google Adsense limit with that configuration).

I went ahead and re-activated the mobile theme after checking this for you.

And to clarify, yes that was the home page I was referring to when accessing my site through a mobile device WITHOUT the Jet-pack mobile theme enabled.

@brugtown Sorry for interruption, I see that you have a different ads layout for mobile site from the desktop version. I am trying to achieve this for a while but I cannot figure it out.so could you please tell me how you do it?

@sameer,

This took a lot of trial and error for me. Basically, I enabled the Jetpack mobile site via the Jetpack plugin settings. Now my mobile site and desktop have two different layouts.

The desktop layout remained unchanged. All my ad placements via the Goodle Adsense plugin (author: Google, not BestWebSoft) remained in tact on the desktop.

For the mobile layout, there were no ads at all. I was able to configure 4 additional ads for the mobile site as follows:

1) Jetpack Mobile Theme Ads plugin automatically inserts ONE mobile ad at the top or bottom of each post you make. It does not display any ads on the homepage.

2) Advanced Ads plugin lets to publish ads using your Google Adsense account. I had to access my Google Adsense account on desktop, create mobile-optimized ads using their settings, and then copy the Ad-ids into the Advanced Ads publisher. When you go to publish a new ad via the Advanced Ads plugin, you MUST set the Display Visitor Conditions to mobile only. Otherwise, you run the risk of your site showing more than the 3 Adsense Ads on the desktop site and you do not ever want to get banned from that program. Once you publish the Ads, you go to the Placements settings of the Advanced Ads plugin and display them where you want to (within post, below content, etc.) I added 2 ads this way. These will only display on posts – not the homepage of my mobile site.

3) I got access to the beta for page-level ads in Google Adsense to display the banner ad anchored to the bottom of my mobile site. I had to look up some tutorials to figure this out, but I cannot recall the exact steps.

Hope some of that is helpful. My ideal scenario is that the Google Adsense automated ads work again, and I can de-activate all ads identified above except for the page-level ads. Then I know I am never breaking the Google Adsense 3 maximum limit, and I will have access to ads on my home page in the top banner.

Since it was mentioned here: when you have a question regarding Advanced Ads on your home page, just let me know. I am the developer of the plugin.

Thanks
Thomas

@brugtown
Thank you so much , I appreciate your help. finally everything works the way I want .
@thomas
You build a powerful plugin I like it.

@thomas Maier
Any help you could offer in using the Advanced Ads plugin to manually publish Adsense Ads below the site title and tagline on my home page, under the custom header on my home page, or between posts on the home page would be greatly appreciated! However, I fear this could involve a level of understanding of html that I’m not familiar with. I’ve edited files before, but I’d require a walkthrough. Please let me know if it’s easy enough – I love your plugin!

@sameer
Happy that you were able to figure it out based on my input!!

@brugtown Could you post your site URL here, so I can have a look?

If you want it to remain private, you can also contact us via this contact form:
https://jetpack.me/contact-support/

Sure, no problem. The URL is JunkBanter.com. It’s an entertainment website/food blog.

Keep in mind that all ads displaying on mobile right now are not via the Google Adsense plugin that I am inquiring about.

All ads on the mobile site are running through Advanced Ads plugin, the Jetpack Mobile Comments plugin, and a page-level code provided via Google Adsense (not via the plugin)

I’m particularly interested in the automated mobile because it inserted ads in the header of my home page.

Thank you.

Thanks! I actually don’t see any ads within the post content on mobile right now. I get the following Javascript error, on mobile and on desktop:

Uncaught TagError: adsbygoogle.push() error: Only one 'enable_page_level_ads' allowed per page.
— adsbygoogle.js

Would you mind switching back to the Google Adsense plugin only for a little while, so I can run some tests?

Jeremy,

I caught something since you posted that Javscript Error relating to page-level ads. I had previously followed a tutorial to insert page-level code on my site. Page-level ads have been displaying correctly for quite some time. However, I just noticed that I had tried to setup the page-level ad in Advanced Ads as well. That may have been causing the error. I just removed this placement.

Additionally, I’ve had no problem seeing ads within post content on mobile. One ad is below the post title (through your Jetpack Mobile Theme Ads plugin), and the other two were after the 2nd paragraph and below the ratings for each post (through the Advanced Ads plugin). Interesting that you couldn’t see them but I could…

Per your advice, I’ve deactivated the Advanced Ads plugin and the Jetpack Mobile Theme Plugin. Accordingly, no ads should be displayed on posts at the moment. The Google Adsense plugin is the only one active (it was active before this as well).

Please let me know when I can re-activate them if you don’t find a fix in the near future, as their deactivation is going to cause a major decline in revenue.

Thanks Jeremy!

Per your advice, I’ve deactivated the Advanced Ads plugin and the Jetpack Mobile Theme Plugin.

I can now see the ads added by “Mobile Theme Ads for Jetpack”. I wonder if all this confusion could be caused by WP Super Cache. The plugin seems to be enabled on mobile pages as well.

Could you try the following:

1. Go to Settings > WP Super Cache > Advanced
2. Check the following option: “Mobile device support. (External plugin or theme required. See the FAQ for further details.)”
3. Save changes
4. Go to Settings > WP Super Cache > Plugins
5. Enable the Jetpack Mobile Theme option there
6. Save your changes
7. Go to Settings > WP Super Cache > Contents
8. Delete all your cache

If that doesn’t help, you can reactivate the previous option. It’s getting late here, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to look at your site again until tomorrow. I’ll post here first thing in the morning, so we can work on that together again!

Let me know how it goes.