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!

[d.dragonslay]

use the plugin manager, just import it.. and it will be working

[mofeu]

Also can you explain me from where I have to make this step?

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

[d.dragonslay]

go to User Profile Field> Add New User Profile Field

[nfn]

Hi,
Does this mod works with vB 3.7?
How to use this mod with the new Adsense format (google_ad_slot)?

[cyberdog]

usign 3.6.8 patch level 2 and shows nothing. no ads, no iframe, no signs in code. Although activated.

[cyberdog]

A fix for 3.6.8 or availability for 3.7.x - 3.9.x please? Any help will be apprecaited.

Thanks

[dieselpowered]

I would like to see this for 3.7 please

[CP,]

What about false clicks, my adsense account being on as the share provider and if false clicks are made who's in the firing line? Just speaking in hindisight.. if this was the case which way does the finger point...? Im guessing the user itself and my forum? as it would be users ad's within the threads they make within my forum taking a share...?

[user_not_found]

How I can delete or remove it?

[user_not_found]

I have observer the following , works fine for an ads imression but if thepage is full at secone or thirdad returns blan ads and I see
google_ad_client = "";
google_ad_channel ="";
empty?
How can by pass that? and display second and third time (3 are max per page)