vb.org Archive - Show Thread Enhancements - Adsense Integration as second post

Introduction:
I am StarBuG, a clinical Physician for Children, and I am running several health Forums to support patients with medical questions. During the many years I am running my Forums I constantly worked on optimizing my Advertising integrations to maximize my earnings and the user experience using my forums. The click through rates for my Adsense integrations are good to very good for forums and may increase due to further optimizations so mark this mod as installed if you use it to make sure you always use the best optimized version of my adsense integration.

What this mod does:
This mod adds a Google Adsense large rectangle after the first post of each thread.
It is blended to look like a regular post in your thread without violating Google adsense TOS. Make sure you use the same colors you use on your forum to optimize blending!
This mod shows the AD only to GUESTS!
If you want to show it to your members as well remove the " AND $show['guest']" condition!.

Installation instructions:

in the template postbit_legacy find:

Code:

{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_end}

and add below:

Code:

<vb:if condition="$post['isfirstshown'] AND $show['guest']">

<ul>

<li class="postbitlegacy postbitim postcontainer" id="post_{vb:raw post.postid}">

<!-- see bottom of postbit.css for .userinfo .popupmenu styles -->



    <div class="posthead">&nbsp;&nbsp;<img title="Alt" src="./images/statusicon/post_old.png" alt="Alt" border="0" /><span class="date">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.DOMAIN.COM/register.php" style="color:#FFFFFF; text-decoration:underline;">(No Advertising after the first post? Register now for free!)</a></span></div>

    <div class="postdetails">

        <div class="userinfo">

            <div class="username_container">

              <br />

                <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;color:#000000;">Advertising</span><br /><br />

                <img src="http://www.DOMAIN.COM/images/logo_ads.png" width="90px" height="90px" alt="advertising" title="advertising" />

                <dl class="userinfo_extra"> 

         <dd>Forumname.com</dd>

         <dd>has no influence</dd> 

         <dd>on advertisings</dd>

         <dd>that are displayed by</dd>

         <dd>Google Adsense</dd> 

        </dl>

            </div>

        </div>

        <div class="postbody">

           <br />

           &nbsp;&nbsp;<!- Your Google Adsense Code for a 336x280px large rectangle -->

         <div class="cleardiv"></div>

        </div>

    </div>

        <div class="postfoot">

            <div class="textcontrols floatcontainer">

                <span class="postcontrols">&nbsp;</span>

            </div>

        </div>

    <hr />

</li>

</ul>

</vb:if>

Additional Comments:
Make sure you change all lines marked RED to fit your forum.
For better blending I use my Websites Logo as "Avatar" to make it look more like a post. For the same reason I added the "we have no influence..." part below the "Avatar". You can remove the whole "userinfo_extra" part if you don't like the text.

Screenshot:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/08/26.png

More of my Adsense Integrations:

Demo:
Patientenfragen.net - we have the answers

Of course feedback is welcome and if you have suggestions to further improve CTR please let me know!

StarBuG

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

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