Michael
Posts:16
| | 07/14/2007 9:56 AM |
| When you first log into your Adsense account you are on the overview page. There is a box that has a high level report of your Adsense for Content, Adsense for Search and Referrals. Each of these in turn lets you know the number of Page Impressions, Clicks and earnings. Adsense for Search will also let you know the number of searches and the Referrals will show the number of sign ups.
You can then create "channels" amd place them throughout your site to determine the portions of your site that are generating the most revenue, page impressions, etc.
I show no data in my Adsense for Search row. The same as if I didn't have it installed on my site. The communication link between Google and the Search box appears to be not working. I've even tested it out at a friend's house to see if it was tracking. It isn't.
Thanks. | |
Michael
www.sgchs.us | |
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John Mitchell
Posts:2787
| | 07/14/2007 11:02 AM |
| Ok, I did some more investigation and it appears that the DNN 4.5.3 version of Google Web - Site search is not passing all the variables needed for google to track it properly. I think it is the forid=1 one variable specifically.
I did some searches from your homeschool site with the added variable if you want to check your reports for today.
If you compare the Url on your search to the one the DotNetNuke.com is currently using it looks like they have added the extra variables for the next version. | | | |
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Michael
Posts:16
| | 07/14/2007 12:09 PM |
| I'll check. The Google Adsense page is temporarily unavailable at this time...
Thanks,
Michael | |
Michael
www.sgchs.us | |
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Michael
Posts:16
| | 07/14/2007 7:20 PM |
| | Didn't see anything. Maybe I have a different id? | |
Michael
www.sgchs.us | |
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SnapsisHost
Posts:82
| | 07/14/2007 7:37 PM |
| I think it's just a problem with not having all the information needed in the Url when the Google window search results page is opened.
If you look at DotNetuke.com they have all the other variables so I think it'll be fixed in the next version.
What the DNN boys should have done is just made a module that allows the google code from your adsense to be pasted directly in. The way this works, they are violating the Google TOS.
In fact, I wouldn't even use it at all, because you are actually violating the TOS too, which says that you should not alter the code that is generated from the Adsense Setup in any way.
If you really want to keep using the new DNN adsense for search then you could probably make it work by changing the resource file mentioned above to include the extra variables that are needed. <dataname="URL.Text"><value>http://www.google.com/custom?q=[TEXT]&sa=Search&client=pub-9770992166002654
&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A1&hl=en&sitesearch=[DOMAIN]value>data> | | | |
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John Mitchell
Posts:2787
| | 07/16/2007 1:20 AM |
| I created a Google Adsense for Search on this site and put it in an IFRAME to display the information if you are interested in trying that out. The IFRAME can be implemented like the following code by changing your src and height/width as required to display your own form.: <iframesrc="http://www.snapsis.com/portals/0/Adsense/GoogleSearch.html"width="350"
height="30"frameborder="0"scrolling="no"marginheight="0"marginwidth="0">iframe> | | | |
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Declic Video
Posts:51
| | 07/31/2007 9:26 AM |
| Hello, I have installed the latest 4.5.5 version. Everything is perfect, excepted that the "site-web search" breaks my skin... Check the screen capture: 
For the moment, I have disable it (thanks to John for the tip), but I would like to re-enable it, without the ugly rectangle around the tick mark... I do not know how to do this, can anybody help me ??? I have bought the skin, it was not designed by me...
Thanks a lot,
Déclic Vidéo FX | | | |
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John Mitchell
Posts:2787
| | 08/01/2007 5:57 PM |
| Hi DV,
If you have a width set in CSS for the INPUT elements then it will also apply to those radio buttons. You will need to remove that width, or somehow try to target just the textbox to get rid of the border around those other input elements.
If you give me a link or the html and css you are using I can give you a more exact answer. | | | |
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Declic Video
Posts:51
| | 08/02/2007 3:02 AM |
| Hello John,
I know that the problem is with my skin.css, but I can not target the problem... I have sent you the links.
DV FX | | | |
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John Mitchell
Posts:2787
| | 08/02/2007 10:27 AM |
| In your skin.css change this:
#SearchTextBox INPUT
{
font-size: 11px;
width: 140px;
color: #005877;
height: 17px;
text-align: right;
}
to this:
#dnn_dnnSEARCH_txtSearch
{
font-size: 11px;
width: 140px;
color: #005877;
height: 17px;
text-align: right;
} | | | |
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Declic Video
Posts:51
| | 08/03/2007 2:08 AM |
| WOW ! I am impressed... It works just perfectly !!!!!!!!!! Thanks a lot John !!
I tried to understand how you found this and how I could have found it. With FireFox, "View Style Information", I understand the way it is designed. But it is not so evident, you must be a specialist....
But I think that in the future, I may try alone and by testing it, I can re-do something similar. I learn a lot here.
Just one question, why in my old skin it was: #SearchTextBox INPUT and not #SearchTextBox ??? Why 'INPUT' ?? What is it for ? An attribute ? DV FX | | | |
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John Mitchell
Posts:2787
| | 08/07/2007 9:10 AM |
| Hi DV,
INPUT is an element type. You can specify element types as CSS selectors. The problem with that one is that the textbox and the radio buttons are all INPUT elements. | | | |
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Terp
Posts:80
| | 08/08/2007 8:45 PM |
| My AdSense account number begins with ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxx; do you think the 'ca' is needed, or is this purposely left out of the URL? I only ask, as mine is not working, either, to the best of my knowledge...was thinking perhaps the ca stood for content ads or something, but not really sure whether to insert it or not. | | | |
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John Mitchell
Posts:2787
| | 08/08/2007 9:13 PM |
| To make sure you have the right code you should login to your google adsense account and go through the setup to do adsense for search.
Then at the end you can copy look at all the values for the different items.
You could also implement it with a regular html file and an IFRAME like I did on this site. That way you can be sure to use the code that google is giving you. | | | |
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Terp
Posts:80
| | 08/08/2007 10:14 PM |
| Good call, John. After setting it up in Google, a new category was added to my reports for searches...and will also go the IFrame route this weekend; perhaps I'll drop it in my header. I took yours for a ride to see how it works.  | | | |
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Declic Video
Posts:51
| | 08/12/2007 1:06 AM |
| For me, ca is not useful, only pub-xxxxxxxxx DV | | | |
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