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> 


[FASherman]

I am amazed at all of the people installing this, knowing it violates Google TOU and that you will all eventually be banned.

When will the madness end?

[almukmin]

How more dorky + geeky can someone be?

Anyway, I was wondering if someone can mod the code so that it displays at the end of the page.

As the last post to be exact.

[Areku]

Originally Posted by FASherman

I am amazed at all of the people installing this, knowing it violates Google TOU and that you will all eventually be banned.

When will the madness end?

Does it!?!?!

Where? Why?

Wondering from un-knowledge, not because of untrusting you.

Thanks!

[almukmin]

Last post please.

[ZrH]

does this work for 3.5.4?? as i cant get it to work.. (im using a custom template, not sure if it makes a difference).

[Crissy18]

Originally Posted by ZrH

does this work for 3.5.4?? as i cant get it to work.. (im using a custom template, not sure if it makes a difference).

I couldn't get it to work either

[Netdesignz]

I have this working which is great as this is one of the first mods ive installed.

But as i am quite new to all this can you explain to how i make this advert the same size as all my other posts please as its looking a little out of place at the moment and i have no idea to change that.

http://www.netdesignz.org/showthread.php?t=12 shows what i mean.

[RDX1]

Could you make a non-legacy version?

[kartik786]

I remember i released SAME hack way back ...titled " google adsense optimised " or something and people pwned my a$$ .

Not only that, I got email from google to remove the damn thing

[kall]

Originally Posted by kartik786

I remember i released SAME hack way back ...titled " google adsense optimised " or something and people pwned my a$$ .

Not only that, I got email from google to remove the damn thing

You included your own google code in the template modification.

Not the best thing to do if you don't want to get banned from Adsense.