Who Here Uses Google Adsense Revenue Sharing?

[8thos]

Who here uses it or is considering using it? If you use it, has it been worth it? From what I've learned so far, your site must have at least 100,000 daily hits to be accepted. From what I've experienced so far, your site will undergo a strict review stage to make sure your site is not violating their Terms of Service.

Just recently they got on to me about one of my threads and have threatened to turn off ads on my site.


http://www.the8thlegion.com/threads/...eads-in-3-Days

What this means to me is that I can't use the Google Adsense integration modification in vb4 because I cannot turn ads off for certain subforums. I cannot choose which subforums or threads gets adsense ads or not. It only does a blanket effect therefore rendering vbulletin adsense integration useless.

So I have to use channels for each subforum by putting them in the templates and exclude the subforum that I will be moving threads into that would seem like they are violations of an adult nature by their thread title alone. I was hoping it would not come to this but I have no other way. My only worry is that removing the ads from threads that have 'violations' won't be enough. I will also have to remove that subforum from my feedburner feed because it also uses adsense.

I'm going to have to find another ad service. Probably chitika, for the subforums that do not have ads.

[BirdOPrey5]

The built in adsense integration was made to be very simple for admins with little experience to use as an easy way to ad ads to their forum- and it does that job fairly well.

When you need more advanced options like in your case you should simply be using the ad-location templates and the code direct from google. Combined with some simple template conditionals you can specify exactly what forums and threads to show ads in or not. It's only marginally more difficult then the built-in integration to begin with.

[8thos]

Yeah this code someone posted in the templates article has been a lifesaver.

<vb:if condition="!in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(1,10))">