AI Placeholders not fitting website layout

Test000

Hi everybody,
first, I would like to thank all of you of Ezoic, because I am learning so much here, and I already implemented some fixes that are improving the website. And please, sorry for my English....

This is my situation:
I already wrapped all the existing adsense snippets in the website. I am not using Flickify, because my website is not a blog and I don't post articles (it's a financial website, providing simulations and updated stock data). I cannot have a high cache age, since the website shows updated near real time data.

There are some issues that I am not understanding how to solve. It looks like that the AI generated placeholders don't "understand" correctly the html components width where they appear in, and also the detected positions apparently looks wrong. Probably issues are due to the fact that Ezoic doesn't "like" a layout with 2 sidebars?

I try to explain better:
In the homepage, when a ad appears into the table, the width is not correct. It often enlarges the table below, so some columns are not visible anymore.
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Same story here, in another page (https://www.lazyportfolioetf.com/allocation/ray-dalio-all-weather/). Ads are overlapping each other.
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In the same page, if I check the ads with the Chrome Ezoic extension, I see that the ad at the top of the sidebar is tagged as "bottom of page". For this reason, it often appears there an horizontal ad, and it's not the spot for ads with an horizontal layout
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Probably I will solve everything with a new website layout with only a sidebar on the right, but I would like to understand if I am setting something in the wrong way. I already have another website (the other in my Ezoic account), it has only one sidebar, and everything is ok.

Furthermore, and it's a very strange thing, after joining Ezoing, I am earning less compared to AdSense and since my website has thousands of monthly visits, it's a pity. EPMV suddenly dropped (from 33 to 10) on March 6th (probably because of Ezoic CMP misconfiguration), and it never recovered.

Do you think it's a good idea to change layout, reset AD automated placement and start again from the beginning? Or do you think we can change some configurations now?
I can mitigate this weird effects putting some CSS, forcing ads width, but it's not the clean solution, I suppose.
I already implemented this CSS, but I've disabled it, so to let you do your checks.

I think I am eligible to Ezoic Level 3, so in case I can wait for it to have a more specific support.

Thank you very much for your patience
Have a nice day

Heather

Test000 Hello Heather here I hope you are well. I have taken a look at your account and can see that you are currently working with a set up specialist - to get the specific help you need for your site please reach out to them and they can arrange a call to take a look at this for you in detail.

The AI ad placeholders can be trained to understand your site better and also removed. To do this switch on the chrome extension and then click on the ad placeholder and click on don't show on this page.

In terms of the double sidebars and the ads overlapping each other this will be because the code is showing the edge of the page as the edge of the screen size. For your site essentially the edge of the page is the position of the sidebar as you have coded the right hand side bar to be 'stuck' in position. The ad placeholder that you have done this with is a sidebar top and so our system doesn't understand that there is an ad placeholder there as the ad placeholder with the functionality to stay in one place is a sidebar floating ad placeholder.

If you would like to change your theme now is the time to do it as when you reach the last quarter of the year the ad rates are traditionally at their highest.

At the moment your site is relying on AI ads rather than the ad placeholders themselves, the AI ads are meant to be used as fillers in between well set up ad placeholders. They don't collect data in the same way as the other ad placeholders do and so aren't able to learn and adapt at the same rate. Is your site built on wordpress?

Test000

Heather Thank you very much!
Yes, the website is built on wordpress.

About the stuck position, the theme that I use forces only the last widget of both sidebar in "stuck" position. This is the CSS:
section#secondary aside:last-child {position: sticky; top: 30px;}
So, only the widget at the bottom is stuck.

It's not a problem to remove this line of code. Actually, I had already removed it weeks ago, but I realized that, without it, only one Ezoic sidebar ad remained sticky, never both, even if the Ezoic CSS class was "ez-sticky".

So, if I had understand correctly, it's better for me to remove the existing AI placeholders that don't fit good, and put my placeholders with the Chrome Ezoic extension. After that, new AI placeholders will be re-generated again as fillers.

About the new layout, it's ok to change it, I can do it in an easy way.
Based on your experience, is it better to have only one sidebar? I have now 2 sidebars, because in our experience, it performed much better with google adsense.

And yes, we are followed by a set up specialist, he's always prepared and willing to help us, I just tried to write here because I realized that here answers come really fast!

Thank you very much!

Heather

Test000 Hello no problem at all we are happy to help 🙂

For the sticky sidebar ad placeholders only one is allowed through Google policy and so we would recommend removing one of them so that your site is compliant.

For the setting up of the ad placeholders I would recommend using the wordpress plugin, you can find the instructions of how to set these up and troubleshoot them here: https://support.ezoic.com/kb/article/setting-up-ad-tester-placeholders-with-the-ezoic-wordpress-plugin When you change themes the ad placeholders will then move into the other theme. For the chrome extension ad placeholders these may not transfer and so you will lose all your sites data and have to spend time re-setting them up.

many thanks

Test000

Heather Heather Thank you very much!
I setup the new theme, so now I have only one sidebar, on right side.
I also installed wordpress plugin and I generated all the wp_ placeholders. I can see them in Ezoic placeholder dashboard too.
I need to do something else to make them working, or it only needs some time to start working? For now I am only seeing, from times to times, the ads in the AI generated spots, and not it the placeholders generated by wordpress.

Thank you!!

Test000

Forget it... it looks ok now!
Thank you very much for your support! I'll keep monitoring the EPMV