Blank Ads
There are times that you will visit your site and not see any ads loading. This is entirely normal and even expected when viewing your own site. When a reader is on your site, there is a bidding process that takes place. Our job is to optimize that bidding process to ensure the best return […]
Blacklisted or Banned from Google
If Google has found content on your site in violation of their policies, you will likely receive an email stating that you are blacklisted. The email may or may not include the reason for the blacklist and it may or may not include examples of what content was the culprit. Publishers often complain that the […]
Beginning Ramp-Up and Acclimation Period
During the first 30 days of your ads going live, the ad performance and revenue you see are not indicative of your site’s full earning potential. Advertisers are still acclimating to your site’s content type, its traffic, and the behavior of that traffic with the content to determine the prices they are willing to spend […]
Bad Ads: Monumetric’s 5 Step Defense
Malvertising or “Bad Ads” are an industry-wide issue that we take very seriously. We know how irritating it can be both for readers and for publishers which is why we execute a 5-step defense to best prevent, protect, and respond to bad ads on sites that run Monumetric ads. The first 3 steps of our […]
Approved WordPress Caching Plugins
We know how helpful a caching plugin is to help your site’s efficiency. By storing lighter versions of your pages in static files on either the WordPress hosting servers or a reader’s browser, your readers experience a faster site as the stored pages are accessed instead of the full dynamic alternative. While most caching plugins […]
Ads.txt: How an Ads.txt File Works
How the file works: Ads.txt creates a publicly accessible record of authorized digital sellers (this is where the acronym of “ads” in ads.txt comes from) for advertisers to index and reference if they wish to purchase inventory on a site. When a site is in onboarding and has received the necessary approvals to have ads implemented on their […]
Ads No Longer Displaying on My Website
Monumetric proactively checks for ad code that is not calling our server but if you notice that ads are not displaying on your site and that previous days’ ad data is not showing in your Ad Performance dashboard, please follow the steps below or send an email to emergency@monumetric.com so we can escalate the reinstallation […]
Ads Excluded from Specific URLs
Under the Tools Section of the Console, you will find a tab called “Exclusion URLs.” This is a very convenient way to block ads temporarily or permanently from specific posts on your site. URLs can be added to this list in one of three ways: You have added a URL to the Exclusion URLs Tool […]
Adding 3rd Party Ads.txt Lines to Your Monumetric File
Adding Lines via the Monumetric Console Log into the Console Go to Settings Click the ‘Ads.txt Settings’ tab Click on ‘Add 3rd Party Ads.txt Lines’ Copy and Paste your lines and hit Save Adding Lines via the Monumetric Ads Plugin Go to the Settings section of the Monumetric Ads plugin in your WordPress backend Open […]
Actions To Help With Site Speed
Monumetric has default optimizations in place to ensure the load of our code on your site’s speed is minimalized. However, further optimizations can be made upon request. Asynchronous Loading: With synchronous loading, the browser will load each resource one by one based on the head code and won’t move on to the next resource until […]