When a huge percentage of your visitors are on mobile phones, you definitely need to optimize your site for mobile view to encourage them to keep visiting. Also, there’s need to monetize your mobile traffic by inserting inmobi, admob, buzzcity or google adsense for mobile ads to make some extra income. There are several plugins to make your wordpress blog mobile which includes WordPress Mobile Pack but the one I prefer most is MobilePress. If you try visiting this blog on mobile, should see the mobile version exactly as shown below.
MobilePress allows you to insert google adsense, inmobi and admob ads into your WordPress mobile site but it can only be done through Aduity, a third party site. I’ve been trying to visit aduity since I installed MobilePress but the site is never available. I’m not sure if the problem is temporary or they’re totally off the internet and not coming back. Anyway, I had to insert inmobi and google adsense for mobile ads and finally figured out a way to do it.
To get this done, you have to directly edit your MobilePress theme by logging in to your cPanel or fetching the needed files through FTP.
1. Log in to cPanel file manager or use your FTP login details to access your file manager from ftplive.com
2. Copy your ad code to a text file and save as adsense.php, inmobi.php or admob.php depending on your choice.
Note that if you’re creating a google adsense for mobile unit, you shouldn’t select ads for high end phones only, your selected ad type should be one that would be for both high end and low end phone. This code is in php which is preferable because it can be rendered on all phones.
The same thing goes for inmobi, buzzcity, admob and others, just copy the code to a notepad and save.
3. Upload this to public_html
4. Go to /public_html/wp-content/plugins/mobilepress/system/themes/default
If you’re using a custom theme, the directory should be /public_html/wp-content/mobilepress/themes/themename
Here, we’re dealing with just two files depending on where you to display the ads: header.php and footer.php .
5. If you want the advert to display at the top, you’ll have to edit header.php and insert the ad where you want it to display with php include function. Preferably, paste this in the very last line:
You can as well use this code anywhere else you want to display the advert in your WordPress mobile theme.
6. If you need to show the ad unit at the footer, edit footer.php and paste that same code on the very first line.
7. Now check your wordpress site on mobile to see if the ads are displaying. If not, give it some time before checking if you made a mistake. Inmobi sometimes takes up to theee days before displaying but adsense for mobile takes less than 10 minutes
It isn’t a bad idea customizing the look of your MobilePress if you know a bit of CSS. You can toy around with the CSS in the head section just to give it a unique look since you cant find MobilePress templates around. You can as well add some category links at the header to make navigation easier and all you’re deling with here is purely HTML. Just write the links where you want them to show.
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nice one, well I still have a slight problem with mine. I can't add it in the footer, its not showing instead the footer remains blank.
You can add it on the first line and btw, hope you're aware that only one google adsense for mobile unit is allowed on a page.
Don Caprio oh i see. Maybe that is the reason it wasnt showing cuz i added it in the header too.
Maybe that's why but I've seen mobstac users insert two which is against google's TOS. Using inmob isn't a bad idea, I even prefer it to google adsense for mobile because the ads are more mobile targeted and payment is in paypal.
Okay, I am finding that if someone is using Google adsense (say for some months no problem and money increases double month over month) and then they sign up with advertising on Bing – even though Unique visits continues to climb, the adsense clicks suddenly drop by more then 60%!!! Nothing anyone can do I’m sure, which is why and how Google can do this crap, but I wanted to at least let people know what is happening. Its more then scammy its fraudulent! At least one website this is happening too is http://www.BridgeToRussian.com -FYI
God bless you for sharing this, it really helps.
Thats good example thanks
Hello,we are trying to install mobilepress but its doesn’t seem to work.Are there any conflicts with mobilepress and W3 total cache.
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There’s likely to be a conflict with another plugin but I’m not sure because I never encountered the problem and don’t have W3 total cache installed. You can try WordPress Mobile Pack though.
Finally,i decided to go with a responsive design for my tech blog
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Not working for me. I dont know what i did wrong. When saving the as php, do u use ANSI or US8 or something?
It seems you’ve found your way around it. I check your blog on my mobile phone now and the ads are showing.
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Hi,
I have tried this technique on my blog but it doesn’t work. Do you have any idea of what I can do to make it work…I think I’m missing it at in the SYSTEM folder. I’ve pasted the code at the last line of the file but I got the same line of code in the header.php. Hope you can give me some tips?
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I just found out my post editor automatically made a change to the code the last time I edited it and rendered it useless. It’s been fixed, you can try it now.
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Don am going for admob is it good
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Can one place two ads on the template? lets say header and footer?
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Yes, so far it’s not two adsense for mobile units. Only one is allowed as seen here.
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Don Caprio i will love to know how you added the navigation on your mobile site…i will love to do same with http://www.netmediablog.com so i will love it if you write on it.
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I replied you on facebook.
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Yea, adsense only allowed one ad space for mobile, you can add two but remember that is against policy and you could get the hammer, so stick to one and enjoy from your mobile traffic.
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i have been trying to create a mobile version of my blog so that i can add google mobile ads to it. I have use those plugin you mentioned & others bt it seens not be working. I don’t know why? Help pls.
PLease, i need your help. sorry for commenting out of line. I want to Optimise my site in all wise. I have read a lot of reviews but still cant deside on the best premium wordpress theme to go for. I need a standered 3 column theme for http://www.jobsandscholarship.com/ Please help.
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I suggest you go for Genesis. There are loads of child themes to suit your need. Just take a look at http://www.studiopress.com
Thanks for your suggestion. I’ll do as suggested. But another major problem I’m facing with http://www.jobsandscholarship.com/ are bunch of duplicate meta description and title tags in my google webmaster like these
/?paged=2,
/page/2,
/page/2?paged=2 etc .
Can you please help me on how to remove or prevent them.
I’m using Yoast SOE Plugin and set /?paged to noindex, yet the duplicates kept increasing. Hoping to hear from you soon.
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It’s self explanatory. You either pasted the code at the end of header.php or the very beginning of footer.php
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don thanks so much for your help just did as you instructed but am yet to confirm if it appears or not
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Thanks for this wonderful information, its what i need desperately right now on my blog hariyorblog.com but i hope it works with mobiledetector plugin.
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Thanks Don this is the one that I’m looking for.
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Great tip thanks a ton.
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How about adding the ads code in between posts
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