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!

[uruguay234]

Hey guys,


I installed it without any complications, however I'm not getting impressions or clicks registered in my adsense account.

I think I might be just posting ads with no account :/

The following is a screenshot of my PAGE SOURCE CODE

See what I mean ?
This happens both while i'm logged in and out of the forum, and using different web browsers too.
Anyone got this problem as well ?

Ideas ??

[zoro007]

hi and thx for sharing,

i have a prolim, i think its not workin will with the 3.6.8, is that right or i didnt install it right ?

best regards

[Michael Biddle]

Ok, I have a fix, change the plugin location from showthread_postbit_create to postbit_display_complete.

Works for me on 3.6.8

[dougeetx]

Originally Posted by uruguay234

Hey guys,


I installed it without any complications, however I'm not getting impressions or clicks registered in my adsense account.

I think I might be just posting ads with no account :/

The following is a screenshot of my PAGE SOURCE CODE




See what I mean ?
This happens both while i'm logged in and out of the forum, and using different web browsers too.
Anyone got this problem as well ?

Ideas ??

If I'm not mistaken, it won't show an ID if you don't have any users who have input their google id. I think it's setup that way to prevent click fraud. I might be wrong, though.

[Phosphorus]

works for me in 3.6.8

thx

[nimonogi]

How can i share revenue with last poster as well? Ex:
A new thread starter, there is a 40% chance your Adense Code will be displayed for each page view. The last replier in a particular thread will have a 10% chance that their Adense Code will be displayed for each page view and the administrators have the final 50% chance.

Thanks.

[junaid1]

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

I dont see it and I did everything right

[energetic]

Great. It works in my 3.6.8 Chinese version.
But How can I also put the ads in top left corner ?

[forumrating]

it works fine with me, but it places the ads below the first post.

i was thinking if its possible to show the ads in different location, at the footer of the thread maybe.

[TJFweb]

It would be great if you could specify which forums this add-on applies to. I only want a few forums to have this feature - not all of them.

The ability to specify where the ad appears would also be very welcome.