Adense Matched Content

Can you tell me , I got offer from adsense about matched content, in which you will be able to show native and recommended articles (related posts), i cant see related post here – http://prnt.sc/dd8wiu , but they recommended how you can do so

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can you please tell me how can we show related articles via theme or editing something in the theme?

I have the same problems with Adense Matched Content.
Ilu777 you were able to solve?
Someone managed to do about it?
Thank you

Nop buddy .. anyways i changed the theme now so can’t tell much about this….

Ilu777 particularly with what theme you have solved the problem?

Thank you!

Hi- I was able to set this up. I use a plugin called “WP Simple Adsense Insertion” to insert Adsense into my posts. Basically, you get the ad code from Google, add it to the settings area for the plugin, and then get a shortcode like [wp_ad_camp_1], [wp_ad_camp_2] etc. that you can use anywhere. It works with the Matched Content code the same way.

I imagine there’s probably also a way to add it to the template instead of each individual post, but I haven’t set that up yet as I have other changes I’m working on.

Hope that helps!

Hi – I am testing Matched Content with NP theme right now. Even though NP does not have the correct size settings in place, I can see (for my sites), that Matched Content has a good RPM and overall has added to my income.

NP – I’d like to see the ad sizes/auto changed. The Ad options in the Theme Panel are great (for all ads) – however, the Auto setting is all wrong. No matter how big an area I allow it with a Google responsive ad, (banner, full page width at bottom, etc), NP chooses a 468×60 ad. Which is way too small and won’t generate revenue. It looks terrible in the header (so I had to manually code a 728 ad) and it disappears as matched content when added to Article Bottom Ad (where MC should go).

In the pull down settings, there are no good options for sizes that will go with matched content (or most Google ads actually). With or without a Sidebar in place. With a sidebar, the closest is 640×300 but that still is too big for the width of the column and cuts off a third image. 500 width gets 2 images across and 750 gets 3 images across.

So for matched content, we need width choices of the same to make them work. Or, NP should allow the Google responsive ad without overriding the google choice – which are bigger ads.

Exactly – the sizes of NP are not inline with Google standards. So you lose a ton of adsense – which makes the ads useless all together. Matched content SHOULD look like related posts – whether a specific size or responsive per NP standards. But they don’t look anything alike because NP sizes are different than standard Google and if you let NP control the ad sizes via responsive ad setting, it shrinks them too much, making them near invisible.

So matched content won’t perform well for anyone using NP.