I added the common adsense forum integration of an ad after the first post. The reason is that in my upcommon optimization article I mention this as a recommendation and so its easier to illustrate if I do it here.
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I added the common adsense forum integration of an ad after the first post. The reason is that in my upcommon optimization article I mention this as a recommendation and so its easier to illustrate if I do it here.
its not that annoying either. Its not great, but i thought it would really annoy the hell out of me. Hows it convert?
I don't track it separately from the other adcodes and I don't think I have enough uniques on this forum for accurate statistics.
Chris - did you use a vb hack for this?
I'm testing "vB Ad Management" - but can only get my ads to show to registered users... if they aren't registered - no ads :(
Yes I did, it was a specific "adsense" hack for vb 3.0 that I only had to do minor edits to for it to work in vb 3.5.
Put this at the very end of your postbit_legacy template, obviously changing your google id.
PHP Code:<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1">
$spacer_open
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-3280446741348688";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="4554257847";
google_color_border = "DFDFDF";
google_color_bg = "DFDFDF";
google_color_link = "DD0A2D";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "DD0A2D";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
$spacer_close
</if>
Do you have a link... or do you know what it was called :)
Sorry Chris - didn't see your code :)
Cool - works great :)
I had to post it at the end of my Postbit template as well - but it works great :)
Thanks
here is the vb 3.6 version
PHP Code:<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style = "margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<tr>
<td class="thead" $scrolltothis style="font-weight:normal">Word from our Sponsor:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" style="padding:0px">
<div class="smallfont" align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-3280446741348688";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="4554257847";
google_color_border = "DFDFDF";
google_color_bg = "DFDFDF";
google_color_link = "DD0A2D";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "DD0A2D";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</if>
Be sure to check out this thread on vB.com. It's got some good info and links to code snippets.
It's already been like that since september last year :p
Anyway, I doubt you get much clicks on these forums since even if we (webmasters) do recognize them, we usually don't click.
I agree with Emancipator: it's not really intrusive or anything.