Integration with vBulletin - vB Google Adsense for Search plus Integration

I've done an overhaul on this and you will need to resetup your adsense for search account for this to work. If you aren't happy with that, please use the 3.6 version of this, which works fine for 3.7 from what I've been told.

Step 1:
You may have to resetup your adsense. If you do, you will get a new pub ID - this one includes your previous pub and tacks on your GALT (which is set up when you resetup your adsense account). I used www.christianboards.org and www.google.com (so it would search my site and the web - you can choose only your site, or any location that is web-accessible for results)

Example: partner-pub-0123456789012345:lnucfbm5dtp

If your partner-pub ID does not look like the example, you will see an error.

Also, keep in mind, all sites you put into the box for the adsense (one per line) will be integrated into the search and the search results.

Step 2:
Edit your searchresults.php file.
Find:

chdir('/path/to/your/forums/');

Put your correct value.

Example: chdir('/var/www/vhosts/yoursite.com/forums/');

Step 3:
Upload this file your forum's root. An example of your forum's root is below.

Example: http://www.yoursite.com/forums/searchresults.php

Step 4:
Install the product
Go to Admincp => Plugins & Products => Manage Products => [Add/Import Product] => Browse for product-davidw_vb_google_search.xml => Import

Step 5:
Configure your Admincp options
Go to Admincp => vBullitin Options => vBulletin Options => Find vB Google Search (Adsense) then click [Edit Settings]
Edit your new Partner-pub ID (the one you just had reset up - see example in red above), Google box width, iframe widthfor your results (I use 800 in the screenshot, but you can change this based on your needs), and the full URL to your searchresults.php.

NOTE! If you do not enter these in, you will see errors.

Step 6: Optional
Edit 1 template:
Admincp => Styles & Templates => Style Manager => Edit Templates (on your style) => Search Templates => search_forums => under $navbar, add $google_siteadsearch

Step 7: Optional (for vBAdvanced 3.x only)
vBa CMPS => Default Settings => Main Options => Portal Output Global Variables

Add these variables:
template_hook
google_navadsearch
homeurl

=> Save

vBa CMPS => Edit Modules => Search Forums => Select Action => Copy Module

Main Options
Module Title Google Search site / Forums
Template To Include search_google

Module Wrapper Template Options
Form Code Replace default code with

<form action="http://www.yoursite.com/forums/searchresults.php" type="hidden" name="search" target="_blank">

Click Save
Edit locations where you want to set this active to.

[davidw]

What you need to have entered in your admincp is this:

partner-pub-0123456789012345:lnucfbm5dtp

but it looking like yours.

I just checked my Adsense (for search) page with Google, and surprisingly, I actually made money (which I usually don't.

Today's Earnings: $0.03
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Queries Clicks CTR eCPM [?] Earnings
AdSense for Search 32 1 3.12% $0.80 $0.03
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Total Earnings $0.03

Keep in mind this will NOT have any bearing with your Adsense Ads (this is search only). Your Google Adsense for Content is different - and I've not checked to see if they use the same pub IDs as I don't use Adsense for Content. This is something I will be exploring in the near future.

[Chunky Monkey]

Thank you. Do you know if it matters whether the X in FORID: X is the same in the code your plugin produces vs the code Google Adsense for Search provides? I copied the code you provided for how to put the adsense search above the default forum search, which may be why my X is different?

[davidw]

You should be able to ignore that. That is why there is there is
lnucfbm5dtp
at the end of
partner-pub-0123456789012345:lnucfbm5dtp
The old style used that.

[demoniavbh]

Can something be done to have a different search results page for each style?
I have many styles in my board and I'd like to have the search results page showing accordly in each of them...
Is it possible?

thanks

[davidw]

Is this not working for each style? The way google's search itself is displayed is static, whereas the style the results are displayed in is dynamic to your style of your site. As far as the display page itself it should change depending on whatever style the user is using. As far as the results go, unfortunately I can only see one instance of a style - and that is based on your adsense setup. That is the part located here:

partner-pub-0123456789012345:lnucfbm5dtp

I hope that helps.

[demoniavbh]

But I want to know if it's possible to have a different pub number for each style. i don't want my page to appear as in the third attachtment, with the search background in white and all that, I want it to fit my style, and I can only do that in the adsense setup as you said.

So, could it be possible to do it but changing templates, puting the pub code in templates? Something like in your other mod, in the 3.6. It would be like a mixture of both

[davidw]

Can you show me an example of this? If you are using the old style pub number this will not work (this is based on the new pub number - as per example).

[demoniavbh]

Well, I have a skin that is like attachment nr 1, dark blue, and I configured my adsense search results to look like that to fit my style.

But then, when I changed skin It looks like att. nr2, horrible.

So, I'd like to know if there could be the posibility of changing the pub ID for each style, so I can have style nr1 like the first attachment and style nr 2 like in att. nr3 (here I have changed the pub code to look as I want, but style nr 1 would be messed up)...

[davidw]

The style itself is changing; the results themselves are a direct result of your pub code. They aren't part of your style but are actually in an iframe. That information is derived from google and the display is generated by the pub code. As far as I know you can only have one variant of the pub code - the most current one.

It might be possible to "trick" Google, by using several different pub codes by going to google.com/adsense and getting all the different variations that you want and then using those, but two things you have to think of...
1) This is displaying in an iframe so an iframe's results are going to be independent regardless of what style you are using and which condition applies
2) That it could be against Google's ToS.

While an if condition (if style = x) might work, there is no guarantee.

[popowich]

Is it possible to move the "Search Site / Google" box above "Search Forums" in the search dropdown?

I'd like to make it more likely that members and visitors use the google search.

-Raymond