Problem with certain widgets on Home page, but only home page…

Hey, I’ve been having issues that have really hurt me as far as Adsense is concerned.

My CTR has dropped considerably after making numerous changes to my website (due to the fact that I had a huge traffic drop in a three day span in August and have tried to do everything to fix that). In working on that, I came across another issue worse than the traffic issue.. For some reason the side widget on my site won’t show any Adsense units despite having only 2 ads on my page (so its not a terms of service issue); and it doesn’t matter if I do the manual “text” widget and entering the Adsense code that way; or if I use the Easy Adsense unit from the plugin, neither ways work. My site is https://festivals4fun.com/ by the way.
Oddyly, this only seems to happen on the homepage for some reason; the ads appear on the other pages.

Also, and this may be a related problem; had a friend check out my page to tell me if they saw ads show up on my site; and they mentioned an error message they were seeing; which I hadn’t been seeing. Well it turns out on IE there’s a script error showing up.

I normally use Chrome, occasionally mozilla; so I haven’t noticed this before. i think these are both effecting my CTR rate that went from around 3.4% to around 1% or less. I get around 1,500 page views a day; so that equates to around 30 paid clicks difference or so a day.. with my clicks being decent over $0.50 each; that is breaking down to at least $15 in lost profit a day. So I need to get this fixed ASAP.

Yet I don’t know who to turn to for the answer; I call up Go Daddy and they say that they talked me into buying Premium DNS; which made it so my page is loading faster, in company with the extra service I pay for MaxCDN which is a content delivery network for images and common js etc. to get things loading fast and working with the Super Cache. Tried the W3 Total Cache before and it was causing too many bugs with plugins.

With the exception of the Adsense CTR being really low, the ads not showing up on the front page widgets, and the error message on IE; I think the page is okay as far as functionality…
Here’s some screen shots; First this is how the sidebar widgets show up on Chrome for the home page only; the only problem here is that the adsense ad isn’t showing up.
https://imageshack.com/i/f24b27p

Next, this is how it shows up on IE:
https://imageshack.com/i/gv7tv0p
The problem here is that the adsense ads don’t show up; and there is the error message that shows up on IE browsers

I don’t really have a complex site as you can see; its beasically the different sites, I get submissions from people and add them, drop them in a particular category, and then drill down the states by monthly events, and have pages created for some of the biggest cities in the nation that warrent their own section.

I keep dumbing down the site, making it less appealing as far as design and etc. because I keep trying to correct these issues and want to get back to blogging and getting my traffic back up again; its frustrating that I am spending all my time working on the design of such a simple site.

Here’s an image of how one of the state festival pages shows up (Note: I dropped the Chrome and IE views to 50% here to show more)
Here’s the Chrome view of a state page
https://imageshack.com/i/0n1skdp
And here’s the IE view of the same page
https://imageshack.com/i/jmo409p

These pages both work and I can get the ad showing up on the sidebar with the widgets.. the same widgets should be working on the home page, but it doesn’t… And it isn’t a matter of the visibility being turned off on the home page; the visibility is the same, and I even tried putting in new widgets with visibility ONLY for the homepage, and even those didn’t work so i removed those widgets.
Don’t know what the problem could be and how to fix it…

Here’s some information that might be needed to help me out;
Currently I’m using Pinboard theme
The plugins I use are the bare minimum in my opinion:
Jetpack with just a few of the options activated
Easy Adsense
WP Super Cache
SEO by Yoast
Akismet
Mobile Website Builder for WordPress by DudaMobile
Ultimate TinyMCE
Redirection
YARPP; Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

From my understanding these are all fairly common; and these were found after some research as to the best plugin to use for each of the particular issues I was working on.

I have been in contact with Adsense; they assigned someone to help me out when I first started having a drop in my traffic, but he takes forever to get back on questions; and he’s not being very helpful. Here’s what he wrote me today…

Hey Tony,

Thanks for keeping me in the loop. I think this makes sense. From a CTR perspective there’s no clear answer so I’d encourage you to keep experimenting.

In terms of traffic, I’d encourage you to take a look at your mobile traffic. There could be some plugins to help you make your site responsive, which will help.

Thanks,

Abdul

Well that’s all well and good, but I am losing money each day I waste time trying to fix this problem. I understand he can’t correct errors in my page, and probably wouldn’t know how to besides; but I think he could at least tell me what the best ads to use on my page is looking at the data and knowing the trends of Adsense etc. How do I spend time to figure out how to fix the script error, work on blogging and creating good unique content, and also do all the research on what ads work best etc.

I just want to get back to the festival site and working on the content, but this is getting frustrating since I can’t do it all and don’t have the answers on these things..

If anyone can help out, it’d be appreciated,
~Tony