Add-On Releases - Adsense Revenue Sharing for 3.5.x and 3.6.x

Overview
This hack will allow you to offer Google Adsense revenue sharing to your vBulletin board users. Basic idea generated by AlexanderT, who developed the hack for previous version.

* Revenue is split between board administrator and thread starters.

* User needs to enter their Adsense Publisher ID and Channel ID (optional) in the edit profile.

* The percentage of probability is customizable by the administrator

* Number of min. post in order to show the ads is customizable by administrator.

* Works on 3.5.x and 3.6.x



Demo
http://www.spoofee.com/forums/



Background
Thanks to webmastershome for creating this and rob30uk for making it easier by creating a plugin and I suppose myself for small tweak


Instructions ( literally takes 5 minutes to install )

1. Download zip file and extract ( 3 files : adsense_admin.php, adsense_revenue_sharing.xml, cpnav_adsensesharing.xml )


2. Add Adsense Client ID and Channel ID to your user profile fields
1. Add the following following new user profile field in AdminCP:
Type: Single-Line Text Box
Title: Google AdSense Client ID
Description: If you have an AdSense account, you can enter your client ID here. You then have a 50% chance that the AdSense ads displayed are credited to your account on threads you participate in. It should be in the form of <b>pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</b>
Max length of allowed user input: 20
Display Size: 25
Field Required: No
Field Editable by User: Yes
Private Field: No
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No

2. Add the following following new user profile field in AdminCP:
Type: Single-Line Text Box
Title: Google AdSense Channel ID
Description: If you choose to enter your AdSense client ID, you can specify a channel ID as well.<br /><br />It would be a good idea to have a unique channel ID for this forum (then you can track stats specifically for the forum).<br />
Max length of allowed user input: 10
Display Size: 25
Field Required: No
Field Editable by User: Yes
Private Field: No
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No


3. Go back to userfield manager and get the field# of the two new fields you created. (ex : field5, field6)


4. Open adsense_revenue_sharing.xml and change the field5 to whatever your adsense field# is and field6 to whatever your channel field# is


5. Add Adsense snippet in your style
- Go to Admincp->Styles & Templates->Style Manager->Edit Templates->Post Bit (if you are using legacy style, choose to edit "Post Bit Legacy"

Add the following to the bottom of your postbit.

<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1">
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' AND ($post[postid] == $GLOBALS['qrfirstpostid'])">
<if condition="$show['spacer']">$spacer_open<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px"></if>

<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" bordercolor=white width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td class="alt1" style="padding:0px">
<div class="smallfont" align="center">
                <script type="text/javascript"><!--
                google_ad_client = "$post[ad_client_id]";
                google_ad_width = 728;
                google_ad_height = 90;
                google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
                google_ad_channel ="$post[ad_channel]";
                google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
                google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
                google_color_link = "000000";
                google_color_url = "666666";
                google_color_text = "333333";
                //--></script>
                <script type="text/javascript"
               src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
                </script>
</div></td></tr></table>

<if condition="$show['spacer']"></div>$spacer_close</if>
</if>
</if>

6. Import adsense_revenue_sharing.xml plugin


7. Upload cpnav_adsensesharing.xml to forums/includes/xml/


8. Upload adsense_admin.php to forums/admincp/


9. Configure
- Go to admincp, now you will see "Adsense Share Settings" where you can configure how much revenue you want to share!

10. Click here to mark it as INSTALLED!

[Snider]

I am using it in 3.6.7 but I want to use it with my other adsense code- when I take away the channel and client id though and add
google_ad_client = "$post[ad_client_id]";
google_ad_channel ="$post[ad_channel]"; it doesn't show anything when viewing source code except the ""

Any help would rock - Thanks

[The Equivocate]

Would this also work with an articles system? I'd like to also be able to reward them for posting news/articles, and I assume since it still is technically a "thread" that their ads are displayed as well.

[juanmanuel]

Hi! Can this mod be activated to share adsense ads on selected forums? For example in a support forum I think it will not be ok to share revenue with people creating threads for support but in another forum users may share tips and share adsense ads.

[Taios]

Just an idea . Why not have it customisable so that it can only be used in certain forums? Ie, tutorial writing sections. It would thus encourage members to write tutorials etc =).

[exes_slayer]

Originally Posted by nahhh3075

I'm using the latest version of VBulletin and this is working fine with it

wow....and you didn't modify anything?

[ShawneyJ]

lmao at the support, me not bothing about this crap.

[thewebhostingdi]

Finally, with a little tweak, I was able to implement this hack (adsense revenue sharing) in all the areas of forum... Like header, forum display, thread display, etc...

[exes_slayer]

Originally Posted by MARKETPROFITS

This needs work.

Installed because it is a useful mod.

Cheers.

so it worked for you on vb 3.6.7?

[mickmel]

Originally Posted by exes_slayer

so it worked for you on vb 3.6.7?

I can't speak for him, but it did for me (at least it seems to be working...)

[exes_slayer]

Originally Posted by MARKETPROFITS

No, not working. I'm looking at another ad sharing mod here.

If that mod doesn't work, I'm going to get another mod from someone else as a last resort.

could you share your resources?