Google Adsense

[Peter Cook]

I have registered with Google Adsnse, however they keep turning our forum down as users have to log in to view topics. I would like to ask if there is any way I can get around having to open up the forum for guests to view everything just so that I can get a Adsense account running.

Thanks in advance

[al3bed]

you need to edit user-group permissions from AdminCP

[Peter Cook]

I had already allowed visitors to read the forums but they are not allowed to reply. Could this be the issue it's having. I would also like unregistered guests to be able to view the articles but for some reason I cannot get it to allow guests to view the CMS section evem though they have read access!

[NickyDee]

If you sign up with adsense seperately (not through vBulletin) and generate adverts manually you can set up a thing called site authentication. Its possible you can also do this with the inbuilt adsense but we don't use that so I'm not sure.

Site authentication will let you provide adsense with a dummy login that their crawler will use to access member-only areas of your forum so it can retrieve keywords from those pages to display relevant adverts.

Its a bit fiddly getting it to work but in short you'll need to enter:

Protected Path: http:/ /www.mysite.com/forum
Authentication URL: http:/ /www.mysite.com/forum/login. php?do=login
Authentication Method: POST
Parameters:
vb_login_username = WHATEVER_USERNAME
do = login
vb_login_md5password = THE_MD5_HASH
vb_login_md5password_utf = THE_MD5_HASH

Change the stuff is red as appropriate.

For the last two bits, the stuff after the = is the MD5 hash code of the password for the username you have setup. Finding that out is fairly easy if you're internet savvy but could be quite challenging if you aren't as you'll need a firefox plugin. Google it for more info.


Don't give it the password for an admininstrator account! Thats just asking for trouble. Just create a fake registered member.
Give it a simple/non-obvious username like 'Apple' or something.

[Peter Cook]

Thanks for the reply Nicky. I did sign up seperately but google just asked for the web address and nothing else! Where do I add the dummy log in etc.

Sorry for being a noob :)

[Eslob]

NickyDee

i tried to use this method, but after the bot sign up it goes back to main page and it seems its not logged in?!