Forum Display Enhancements - CpaLead Monetize Certain Forums For Guests or members [Archive]

hobsdv

03-10-2010, 10:00 PM

What it does ?
This Uses CPALead (http://www.cpalead.com/apply.php) to monetize certain forums, so for example if you have a forum for watching videos or downloading files you can block that forum from either guests or members until they complete a short free survey.

Once you join CPALead and create a widget code you can choose to have people complete a survey everytime they visit a page or just once or after x amount of hours.

This is a good option if you want members to only complete a survey once and then never again.

Example:
Forum Not Blocked (http://www.choiceforum.info/forumdisplay.php?4-General-Crap)
Forum Blocked (http://www.choiceforum.info/forumdisplay.php?7-Downloads)

Install instructions :
To block members and Guests.
Place this code in your FORUMDISPLAY template below the opening <head> tag. Replace the xx with your forum id Number.
<vb:if condition="in_array($foruminfo[forumid], array(xx))">
CPALead Script Here..
</vb:if>

To block Only Guests.
Place this code in your FORUMDISPLAY template below the opening <head> tag. Replace the xx with your forum id Number.
<vb:if condition="$show['member']">
<vb:elseif condition="in_array($foruminfo[forumid], array(xx))" />
CPAlead Code...
<vb:else />
</vb:if>

To place it on multiple forums replace array(xx)) with array(xx,xx,xx,xx)) replace xx with your forum id.

Please mark as installed if used....

hobsdv

03-11-2010, 07:55 AM

First post reserved

biosclan

03-11-2010, 08:52 AM

Just got this a few minutes ago and it works great :D

Thanks!

Ramsesx

03-11-2010, 02:13 PM

From a viewpoint of a user I really hate such survey things and I'm sure It's a good way to loose many users. In spite of that thanks for this addon and your work.

TimberFloorAu

03-11-2010, 07:02 PM

Adblockplus... Just been on those two links, made no difference to me.

hobsdv

03-12-2010, 03:51 AM

From a viewpoint of a user I really hate such survey things and I'm sure It's a good way to loose many users. In spite of that thanks for this addon and your work.

True a lot of people dont like them, but a lot of people make a lot of money from them.

Jabong82

03-12-2010, 03:56 AM

this looks interesting.

Just curious though, can u give an idea of what sort of earnings each of these surveys are worth? I know thats kinda a vague question, but could you give some sorta ballpark like how many per 1000 or something? Thank you.

sticky

03-12-2010, 08:13 AM

Instead of a survey can it just be you have to register to see this area?

hobsdv

03-12-2010, 11:31 AM

this looks interesting.

Just curious though, can u give an idea of what sort of earnings each of these surveys are worth? I know thats kinda a vague question, but could you give some sorta ballpark like how many per 1000 or something? Thank you.

it varies surveys are worth anything between $0.50 and over $10

i average around $3-4 per survey as you can block out the low paying ones

denman75

03-12-2010, 01:52 PM

looks great abp works good for me ;)
would only change the example forums ,since u are offering illegal warez links if they look past the survey blocker ;)
i dont mind ,but before u are getting in problems better save than sorry m8 ...

hobsdv

03-12-2010, 02:32 PM

looks great abp works good for me ;)
would only change the example forums ,since u are offering illegal warez links if they look past the survey blocker ;)
i dont mind ,but before u are getting in problems better save than sorry m8 ...

working on changing them, never realised until after i did it.

nyunyu

03-12-2010, 11:21 PM

Good trick, however, it would be best if someone can make it into product.
So, we can choose which group sees this instead of members, guests.
Or perhaps threads with which keyword trigger a survey. etc.

nyunyu

03-13-2010, 02:18 AM

Ok, on my forum, guests can see the thread and everything.
How can I make if using this edit, I want them apart from being shown CPAlead on forumdisplay, also being shown when they view the thread? (since they can see the thread from forumhome, they just can click on it and this edit don't render there).

Please advice.

hobsdv

03-13-2010, 04:20 AM

Ok, on my forum, guests can see the thread and everything.
How can I make if using this edit, I want them apart from being shown CPAlead on forumdisplay, also being shown when they view the thread? (since they can see the thread from forumhome, they just can click on it and this edit don't render there).

Please advice.

TO pace it on threads within a specific forum use the following code.

Add in SHOWTHREAD template below the <head> tag. replace the xx with forum id
<vb:if condition="in_array($thread['forumid'], array(xx))">
CPAlead code....
</vb:if>

nyunyu

03-13-2010, 12:02 PM

TO pace it on threads within a specific forum use the following code.

Add in SHOWTHREAD template below the <head> tag. replace the xx with forum id
<vb:if condition="in_array($thread['forumid'], array(xx))">
CPAlead code....
</vb:if>

Great! It's working! :)
Thanks mate. Now, time to monitor how much bounce rate will I get from using this..lol.

AzzidReign

03-13-2010, 04:14 PM

I'll have to look into this...I've been trying to monetize my site lately and I've been meaning to try out some CPA companies. Just don't know if 12-18 year olds are good demographics for CPA...if I could capitalize on something like this with the ~30mill pageviews I get a month, I'd be hella happy.

nyunyu

03-13-2010, 04:36 PM

Sorry, that code just shows the CPAlead to ALL members staff included.
I just want to show the ads to Guest/Unregistered.

I tried this instead but got invalid nesting.

<vb:if condition="$show['member']">
<vb:elseif condition="in_array($thread['forumid'], array(xx))" />
CPAlead Code...
<vb:else />
</vb:if>

Any advice?

Dr.osamA

03-14-2010, 10:49 PM

thanxx

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trungnt

03-19-2010, 10:49 AM

how to make cpalead on THREAD ON certain forum.

Let's say i want users to fill in survey form before access all thread on forum, ID 108.

Thanks

nyunyu

03-21-2010, 02:54 PM

Anyone could help?

dearinfinity

04-14-2010, 02:06 AM

hello-- how can I code this so as to make only guests and member ( NOT ADMINS / MODERATORS / ETC ) have to do survey?

trungnt

04-18-2010, 10:43 AM

how to make cpalead on THREAD ON certain forum.

Let's say i want users to fill in survey form before access all thread on forum, ID 108.

Thanks

can anyone help for this question. i will pay for the solution

Thans

Cedric_FP

04-18-2010, 04:15 PM

The referrer id links in this thread are a little disappointing.

Interesting hack though.

dearinfinity

04-19-2010, 02:59 AM

any idea how to make only certain membergroups have to do the CPA? anyone?

ketusa

05-01-2010, 02:04 AM

is this working with vb 3.8?

jmw

05-09-2010, 08:31 PM

Yeah, does this work with 3.8.4?

sosasoser

06-02-2010, 09:10 PM

This is a good idea, but I think my users would protest too much if I used this in the forums. We are a new site, so I can't alienate too many users.

If I could use this to restrict access to some other features, like addonchat and ibproarcade, I would do it in a heartbeat though.

TheChaosFactor

08-16-2010, 10:56 PM

This is a good idea, but I think my users would protest too much if I used this in the forums. We are a new site, so I can't alienate too many users.

If I could use this to restrict access to some other features, like addonchat and ibproarcade, I would do it in a heartbeat though.

That's a great idea, and I'm willing to bet it can be done in a fairly similar fashion. If not, the links for chat and arcade could be replaced with a link to a survey that redirects to the desired area on completion....

You're a genius. Thank you for this.

daveaite

09-28-2010, 05:22 AM

There should be a mod that if a person does X # of surveys, they are allowed into like a certain usergroup

That would be perfect. :)

From there you can control the usergroups to view certain forums etc

Hornstar

10-20-2010, 08:13 PM

I'd love it if there was a way to only have CPAlead work on attachments for certain usergroups. So CPAlead is only activated when a registered user goes to download an attachment, they then do their survey, then download the content.

That would be much more appealing ^^ Wonder if that is possible...