Change to Syntagma page
Returning to the subject covered in a recent post here on Google’s change of format for Adsense blocks which occur more than three times on a page, we have now reduced the default Wordpress posts-per-page package from 10 to three.
So, if you want to read more than the top three posts — and why not? –just click on the link “Previous entries”. You will then be presented with nearly 700 posts dished up three at a time.
This gets round the awkward cut off after three posts, when Google puts up “This web page cannot be found”, or at least triggers it locally.
I hope this will gain more aesthetically than it loses in convenience. Please let me know if you have any problems.
John, if the reason you were showing them under every post was a programming one, why not say so.
I can whip up code that’ll only show the adsense blocks where you want them shown if you want!
By jeremy wright on October 21st, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Jeremy, it’s not a programming matter, we already use the Adsense Deluxe plugin. I just don’t like big iFrames in the sidebar unless they’re paid for in advance.
Our small Adsense inserts go inside every post on the site. I have found it works very well and increases clickability, while being unobtrusive to casual visitors.
By John Evans on October 22nd, 2007 at 9:14 am
Who said anything about the sidebar.
Seems to me that the only reason you made the layout change was so you could have 3 adsense units below your first 3 posts, as well as in all your archives.
I offered to write a handful of lines of code that would do that, without the need to shorten your page (and, thus, decrease traffic).
If you have something against help, say so. Don’t hide behind this being some kind of strategic decision.
By jeremy wright on October 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Jeremy, don’t be so touchy. I would happily try out your lines of code, but I thought you were going to suggest the plugin.
By John Evans on October 22nd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Email me what you’d like it to do and I’ll write it in the next couple of days for you
By Jeremy Wright on October 22nd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Thank you, Jeremy, that’s very good of you.
By John Evans on October 22nd, 2007 at 4:21 pm