Adsense as a poster on your forums

So I've been playing around a bit with my new vb board, and figured out how to make it appear as if the "advertiser" has the second post on every page.

You can play around with the code some more to change some of the messages from the ones I have on there (i.e. posts: location:, etc)

For kicks, I have the "online" icon set to say "Google is online", so change this tag if you want it to say something else.

This was designed for "legacy". I do not know if it works for the new forum layout

You can also ad a custom ad "Avatar" as well. Just replace the "<!-- IF YOU WANT TO GIVE THE AD AN AVATAR, BUT IT HERE -->" with the code for the avatar.

Add this code to the END of your postbit_legacy template

PHP Code:

<if condition="$post[postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 1">

$spacer_open
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td class="thead" style="font-weight:normal" align="left">        
            <!-- status icon and date -->
                         Sponsored Ads            
        </td>
        <td class="thead" style="font-weight:normal" align="right">
            &nbsp;
            #<a><strong>1.5</strong></a>
        </td>
        
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
    <td class="alt2" width="175">
            
            <div>

                <a class="bigusername" href="">Advertisement</a>
            </div>
            
                        <div class="smallfont"><div class="smallfont">Sponsored posting</div></div>
            <div class="smallfont">
                    &nbsp;<br />
                    <!-- IF YOU WANT TO GIVE THE AD AN AVATAR, BUT IT HERE -->
            </div>
                        
            <div class="smallfont">
                &nbsp;<br />
                <if condition="$post['joindate']"><div>$vbphrase[join_date]: the beginning</div></if>
                <if condition="$post['field2']"><div>$vbphrase[location_perm]: everywhere</div></if>
                <if condition="$post['age']"><div>$vbphrase[age]: really old</div></if>
                <div>
                    $vbphrase[posts]: lots
                </div>
            </div>                                    
        
    </td>
    <td class="alt1">
    

            <!-- icon and title -->
            <div class="smallfont">
                <if condition="$post['title']"><strong>Sponsored...</strong></if>
            </div>
            <hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
            <!-- / icon and title -->
        
        <!-- message -->
        <div align="center">
                         <!--PUT YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE -->
                         </div>
        <!-- / message -->
            
    
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt2">
        <img class="inlineimg" src="images/statusiconrunes/user_online.gif" alt="Google is online" border="0" />
        &nbsp;
    </td>
    <td class="alt1" align="right">
    
        <!-- controls -->
        <!-- / controls -->
    </td>    
</tr>
</table>

</div>
$spacer_close

</if> 


[Smiry Kin's]

it isnt agaisnt it, google can bann you with out contacting you, tell you, and replying to your future emails, theres nothing you can do, google adsense is crap full stop, i use this for other adsense sites, far more better.

[Keyser520]

What sites would you recommend that are far better?

[Keyser520]

Moparx...what would the if statement be in order to have it check for how many replies are on that page? i.e. so that it shows if you have more than 5 replies on a page rather than more than 5 replies total?

[Smiry Kin's]

Originally Posted by Keyser520

What sites would you recommend that are far better?

depends what your sites about? if its porn theres some nice places, if not, theres a few. im currently on two of them, one only open to large sites, other, is publicly.

[Moparx]

Originally Posted by Keyser520

Moparx...what would the if statement be in order to have it check for how many replies are on that page? i.e. so that it shows if you have more than 5 replies on a page rather than more than 5 replies total?

Add this to the end of your conditional

PHP Code:

AND $GLOBALS[threadinfo][replycount] >= 5 


[Keyser520]

smirky, it is NOT porn. So what are the sites?

Moparx.. That conditional sets it for 5 posts or more in the whole thread. I want to do it as 5 posts or more per page. In other words, if the thread has 1 2 3 or 4 posts, no ad is shown, but at 5 or more, then and add is shown. If a thread shows 20 posts per page and there are 21 pages, then page 2 shows 1 posts and 1 add...but I don't want it to show the ad UNTIL there are 5 posts on page 2.... and the same for each subsequent page...

Does this have to be done as some kind of formula such as:

(last thread number shown on current page) mod (total replies shown per page) >=5

If so, then what are those variables stored as?

[theodonnells]

I installed this and it worked fine, but my pages seemed to hang a little before they loaded.So have uninstalled it....

[Smiry Kin's]

Originally Posted by theodonnells

I installed this and it worked fine, but my pages seemed to hang a little before they loaded.So have uninstalled it....

thats your adds, if you use slow loading ones..

[Keyser520]

theodonnells, try changing the ad type you are displaying, play around with image vs links vs text and see if any give you faster loading time?

[thedvs]

i inserted mine and if the quick reply click icon is enabled
the 3rd post qr icon doesnt seem to work..