I look after http://www.thesteepletimes.com
I currently have some adsence ads running but despite 50k real visitors monthly, we barely make $20-35 a month from these ads.
I have a couple of questions:
To Make more revenue we are looking to sell some directory listings to local businesses and take Banner advertising from them too.
I am looking for the best plugins or other ways of creating directory pages and listings with several categories with interesting and varied content (several images in listing, videos and reviews etc).
I can currently place Adsense ads using the theme ad-block, but I would like to sell banner ads to local clients So I need a good way to place these banner Ads in the theme, so as to be responsive and work on AMP and mobile theme and rotate (change) every minute or so, as well as have statistics. I can create images but the options are limited and they do not respond well,
Can You guys or anyone reading this suggest a solution that works and does not add code that causes problems, or slows site down or conflict with SEO or subscription popups etc.
PS currently I am using thrive themes for the pop ups, is there something better as Thrive seems to slow the site and mess up the page-speed and core web vitals?
Hello!
Unfortunately, we do not have a tested plugin for that.
We are sorry for the inconvenience!
Could anyone make a suggestion? Of a good one to try, rotatable banner ads are a very important part of running a news blog…
Re the business directory idea: I can run that under a subdomain so I don’t need to use newspaper at all, seems a bit sad to do it that way and probably not ideal for SEO.
Hi, I’ve used this: https://adspro.scripteo.info/ Ads Pro by Scripteo. It’s a paid plugin.
Although it didn’t have any issues with Newspaper, I’ve found it a little difficult to learn to use it and eventually deactivated it.
I’m open to other suggestions.
The main issues seem to be that banner ad managed by the theme are not really responsive (although you can use some code to offer different sizes) and one cant rotate multiple ads in one spot or get stats. making it hard to sell ads to clients.
I am looking for a plugin that can do that, some exist but they use shortcodes and the theme does not seem to really support 3rd party shortcodes in the page builder??
Advanced ads
can you give me your url so I can take a look?
