Topic: How to show ads also on the wap2 and printpage type pages

[PersianDeveloper]

actually 2/3 of my forum's visitors are visiting the wap2 and printpage pages
I used to use "Global Headers and Footers" package to show ads on my SMF1 forum and it used to show ads both on the regular and wap pages

but the "Global Headers and Footers" package on SMF2 is not showing ads on wap2 and printpage type pages, accordingly I'm losing $   

[Storman™]

actually 2/3 of my forum's visitors are visiting the wap2 and printpage pages

Are u sure ? What makes you say that as I find it highly unlikely. Are you sure it's not search bots influencing those stats ?

[PersianDeveloper]

according to the stats page of my PPC provider
the number of hits are almost 1/3 that of I had previously
and the number of clicks is also decreasing, so if the bots were ding that, so who was clicking on the ads?

[Arantor]

I think what Storman is saying is that this 2/3 of the forum visitors is likely to be quite heavily to be bots, who wouldn't click ads but would push your figures up.

Personally I just disable both WAP and printpage and be done with it

[PersianDeveloper]

really have you disabled them both?
and how?

BTW
what would it show when someone click on a google search result that was previously used to be a WAP page?

[Arantor]

really have you disabled them both?
and how?

Yes, piece of the proverbial.

To disable WAP, change index.php

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if (!defined('WIRELESS'))
define('WIRELESS', isset($_REQUEST['wap']) || isset($_REQUEST['wap2']) || isset($_REQUEST['imode']));

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if (!defined('WIRELESS'))
define('WIRELESS', false);
Disabling print page is trivial too. Only takes two changes.
1. Display.template.php - and you'll need to do this in all themes that have their own Display.template.php

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'print' => array('text' => 'print', 'image' => 'print.gif', 'lang' => true, 'custom' => 'rel="new_win nofollow"', 'url' => $scripturl . '?action=printpage;topic=' . $context['current_topic'] . '.0'),

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/* 'print' => array('text' => 'print', 'image' => 'print.gif', 'lang' => true, 'custom' => 'rel="new_win nofollow"', 'url' => $scripturl . '?action=printpage;topic=' . $context['current_topic'] . '.0'), */
Then remove the line from index.php which refers to printpage.


As far as Google results go, I never worried about them, I only ever applied these before the site ever launched, so I never had a duplication problem. In your case, the WAP stuff will just fade out of the index over time because of how it's implemented, the print page will all just refer to the board index, but you can probably fix that in .htaccess rewrite rules (more effort than I can be bothered with right this moment in time)

[PersianDeveloper]

thanks
and could this change make  things go wrong while installing or un-installing packages?

[Arantor]

If a mod package changes that code, sure it could. Mods that change the code will always rely on the code that they expect to find, there's no way to change that.

[mrintech]

really have you disabled them both?
and how?

Yes, piece of the proverbial.

To disable WAP, change index.php

Code: [Select]

if (!defined('WIRELESS'))
define('WIRELESS', isset($_REQUEST['wap']) || isset($_REQUEST['wap2']) || isset($_REQUEST['imode']));

Code: [Select]

if (!defined('WIRELESS'))
define('WIRELESS', false);
Disabling print page is trivial too. Only takes two changes.
1. Display.template.php - and you'll need to do this in all themes that have their own Display.template.php

Code: [Select]

'print' => array('text' => 'print', 'image' => 'print.gif', 'lang' => true, 'custom' => 'rel="new_win nofollow"', 'url' => $scripturl . '?action=printpage;topic=' . $context['current_topic'] . '.0'),

Code: [Select]

/* 'print' => array('text' => 'print', 'image' => 'print.gif', 'lang' => true, 'custom' => 'rel="new_win nofollow"', 'url' => $scripturl . '?action=printpage;topic=' . $context['current_topic'] . '.0'), */
Then remove the line from index.php which refers to printpage.


As far as Google results go, I never worried about them, I only ever applied these before the site ever launched, so I never had a duplication problem. In your case, the WAP stuff will just fade out of the index over time because of how it's implemented, the print page will all just refer to the board index, but you can probably fix that in .htaccess rewrite rules (more effort than I can be bothered with right this moment in time)

Thanks a lot

[Storman™]

Hang on, you're hijacking someones else's thread (from August) with a slightly different issue. You should really start a new topic.

[CS Sentinel]

Okay I will start a new topic

[Shambles]

But fair play to you for searching first... something that a lot of members don't bother doing