Ok been playing around with the setting to try and get an ad to show on every post page no matter if there is a response or not.
I decided to use the:
Ad position under navigational header
To accomplish this, but it seems like none of my ads will show up there unless I also have an add in:
Ad position in the left column under tags on frontpage
What's weird is if I do not have my ad code in the left column under tags position then an ad will never show up under the navigational header. I would leave both except for the fact on mobile the left navigational one moves to the top and then I have two stacked ads...
Side note, since I was doing some custom size code with the ad under the navigational header maybe there is something in the code that is preventing it to run by itself:
<div align="center">
<style type="text/css">
.adslot_1 { width: 320px; height: 100px; }
@media (min-width:500px) { .adslot_1 { width: 468px; height: 60px; } }
@media (min-width:800px) { .adslot_1 { width: 728px; height: 90px; } }
</style>
<ins class="adsbygoogle adslot_1"
style="display:inline-block;"
data-ad-client="myID"
data-ad-slot="myAdID"></ins>
<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});</script>
</div>
The code for the left side ad under the tags looks liek this:
<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<!-- Seek Adventure In Post Ad -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
style="display:block"
data-ad-client="myID"
data-ad-slot="differentMyAdID"
data-ad-format="auto"
data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>
Not sure why the first ad code will only display an ad if the second code is in the left side under the tags....really odd.
Update:
After doing more investigation, I really think the top ad cannot be displayed unless my left side ad is there. For example on my home page the top ad loads right now because I have the code for the left side ad.
But if I go directly to a discussion via a link and not through my home page the left side ad is not loaded and thus in my instance, the top ad will never load: https://www.seekadventure.net/d/108-partington-cove-trail-julia-pfeiffer-burns-state-park-big-sur
