Site Traffic Has Fallen and Adsense Down Since VB4 Upgrade

Hi,

I wonder If I could ask for a critique of my forum site: BIZFACE® - UK Business Forum

Since the upgrade I have lost a lot in Adsense revenue (from $30 per week to $4 which is a lot for a small site) and traffic has fallen obviously. The links directory is offline as Brian is having trouble with the new set up and I am using a skin workaround from VBorg as Chris from the skinzone is fighting the style vars system - so these might explain some of it.

Any help with the setup really appreciated - I have sitemaps working OK but with lost of errors but 25K urls indexed.

Thanks for any feedback

Roy

Hello Roy,

• Nice updates in vbseo style 1 to work with vb4, However that's not the officially vBSEO Style.
• Fix XHTML Errors : [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.bizface.co.uk/bizfaceforum/member-lounge/778-dont-forget-you-can-only-see-events-members-etc-if-you-have-joined-logged.html - W3C Markup Validator
• vBSEO Sitemap : Include only showthreads and forumdisplay pages
• Setup your vBSEO RR's.
• After setupt RR's use vbseo.com RR's format.
• You can add your Google adsense Ads in some other places on your forum look at this ads places : ?????? ???????? Norman Rockwell ?????? ?????? - ??????? ?????

Hey thanks for the tips,

I did spot today that the inpost ads were not showing up in the new style unless I resaved in the ad manager

One thing I do have are RR's but do we have to re-install VBSEO to refix the hooks? - I see that since the upgrade to 4.01 I cannot 'find' them.

VBSEO map only has showthreads and forum display and I now have 25K indexed and the errors are falling out.

many thanks

roy

No you will not need to re-install the Mod, Just Make sure you have added this in your "ad_navbar_end"

Code:

<!--VBSEO_RR_1-->

hello marco, i was referring to this thread and the above post of yours.
i checked my templates and i dont have ad_navbar_end template. only ad_header_end or ad_navbar_below.
what should i do?

ad_navbar_below will work. The template names are slightly different in vb4.

thanks brian.
i have pasted the code on the very top of the tmplate. is that ok?

yes, it is empty by default, so wherever you place in that template will be arround above or below any custom thigns you added to it.