Integration with vBulletin - Google Admanager Integration

Notice: This mod uses Re-usable Code, so please feel free to port it to vbulletin 4 under your username. Thanks.

Google Admanager Integration

This product targets ads to usergroup, script, forum. That way you can

• address ads to these targets.
  Example: Target all users except moderators in your favorite forums on index and forumdisplay directly in Google Admanager! (see admanager.jpg)
• Adsense Advanced Statistics. Have a detailed view which usergroups, scripts, forums bring best adsense results. You have a detailed view about all targeting values.
  Example: You see that your announcement forum has a CTR of 8% and an eCPM of 25 $. Unregistered users bring an eCPM of 15 $ while registered users only have an eCPM of 3 $.

By the way a maximum of 6 adsense ads are allowed, when using Google Adsense in combination with Google Admanager.

1. Install product
If you upgrade: Allow Overwrite: Yes

2. Change template headinclude
If you upgrade please also do this. Add to end of this template:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_service.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  GS_googleAddAdSenseService("YOUR CA-PUB");
  GS_googleEnableAllServices();
</script>
<script language="JavaScript">
  GA_googleAddAttr("usergroup", "$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]");
  GA_googleAddAttr("script", "<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='index'">index</if><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='forumdisplay'">forumdisplay</if><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='showthread'">showthread</if>");
$admanagerforums
</script> 
YOUR ADDSLOTS
<script type="text/javascript">
  GA_googleFetchAds();
</script>

3. Google Admanager Configuration
Configure Admanager like I write in #2 post in this topic.

Version History
9.11.2008 1.2 Solved a bug for forum targeting
8.11.2008 1.1 Improved forum targeting. Forums are shown with real names. Unlimited forum levels supported.
1.11.2008 1.0 Forums are targeted by using forumids. 3 forum levels supported.

Works with vbulletin 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8. This product works perfectly with vbSEO. This product doesn't make the vBulletin 3.8 implementation of Adsense work with admanager.

[ThorstenA]

I have updated this product:

9.11.2008 1.2 Solved a bug for forum targeting. If you upgrade, install product (overwrite: yes) and update headinclude template. Thanks.

I hope this helps adressing forum targeting error. Long forum names are no problem as long as there are no two forum names that have same name after normalization. Google Admanager allows you to have up to 200 values per targeting criteria. You can just put the forums within admanager you like to track.

Targeting usergroup and script works fine for me. Please note, that it takes up some really long time for admanager to adjusts custom targeting criterias.

[rob30UK]

How exactly is the adcode injected? I have a heavily modified forum - how does your script know where to place ads?

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by rob30UK

How exactly is the adcode injected? I have a heavily modified forum - how does your script know where to place ads?

Google Admanager knows about targeting criterias from your modified headinclude template (step 2 of product installation).

• Usergroups are fetched by $bbuserinfo[usergroup]
• Script name is fetched by THIS_SCRIPT
• forum names are fetched by product which fetches actual forum title and all parentforum titles via $foruminfo[parentlist]. It also normalizes all titles to match google target value criterias.

[rob30UK]

Hi Thorsten, this wasnt really my question but thanks al the same.

I know how the adcode is targetted, but how does the script know WHERE in the page to place the ads.

Parts of my header are not definined in the header tempate. Parts of my navigation system are not defined in navbar template.... do you see what I am getting at here?

Surely there needs to be some token or script in the exact place where you want the ads to appear??

Maybe I am missing something here, who knows.

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by rob30UK

Hi Thorsten, this wasnt really my question but thanks al the same.

I know how the adcode is targetted, but how does the script know WHERE in the page to place the ads.

Parts of my header are not definined in the header tempate. Parts of my navigation system are not defined in navbar template.... do you see what I am getting at here?

Surely there needs to be some token or script in the exact place where you want the ads to appear??

Maybe I am missing something here, who knows.

#1 You must put your adslots in template headinclude.
#2 You must put admanagers adcode in your page where it should appear.

Please note that you must do #1 and #2 to display ads for admanager. Regardeless if you use my mod or not.

My mod only takes care of targeting criterias. As these criterias are displayed on headinclude, and headinclude is always fetched within header, all sites that are delivered from vbulletin have this mods targeting criteria included.

Usergroup and Script are global values, so its no problem to put them in headinclude. Names of forums are not standard and therefore I have written this mod, which fetches them each time a site is presented. Hope I could answer your questions, if you have more questions, please ask!

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by diretur

I targeted banner 2, 3 and 4 putting "forums not equal to B". Still they do appear in forum B and banner 1 doesn't. What am I doing wrong?

Update. After waiting some time forum targeting finally works. Google Admanager takes really long time for custom targeting. After waiting for some days I can check my inventory with custom forum targeting.

[Rik Brown]

Thank you for this mod. I've just installed it and am wondering if anything needs adjusting for those of us running vbSEO?

For example, vbSEO rewrites forum names to this format...

http://[my domain].com/cars-automobiles-forum/

... where words are separated by a dash rather than an underscore.

I assume that you are doing your magic before vbSEO rewrites the URL (I haven't noticed any changes yet, but I've just installed). Or, should I rewrite the forum names using dashes before entering them into Google Admanager?

Please advise.

Thanks again. -- Rik

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by Rik Brown

Thank you for this mod. I've just installed it and am wondering if anything needs adjusting for those of us running vbSEO?

This mod works perfectly with vbSEO on my own forums. This mod takes original forum names for its own from vbulletin and changes its names to apply with google name rules. (Google only allowes for example a maximum of 40 characters which are only allowed to be alphanumerical).

Originally Posted by Rik Brown

Or, should I rewrite the forum names using dashes before entering them into Google Admanager?

As these normalized google admanager targeting forum names are of course different from original forum names I have programmed a small script (see post #2) that gives you this normalized list which you just have to copy&paste to admanager.

It is very important to only import this normalized list of forum names!

[Rik Brown]

Thank you for your reply. I'm glad no adjustments must be made for vbSEO.

I'm looking forward to seeing targeting results.

Thank again. -- Rik

[djwins]

Has anyone tried this on 3.7?