Show Thread Enhancements - Adsense Integration above similar threads - StarBuG optimized blending

Introduction:
I am StarBuG, a clinical Physician for Children, and I am running several health Forums to support patients with medical questions. During the many years I am running my Forums I constantly worked on optimizing my Advertising integrations to maximize my earnings and the user experience using my forums. The click through rates for my Adsense integrations are good to very good for forums and may increase due to further optimizations so mark this mod as installed if you use it to make sure you always use the best optimized version of my adsense integration.

What this mod does:
This mod adds a Google Adsense leaderboard above active users and similar threads below each thread. It is blended to look like the other moduls below the thread without violating google adsense TOS. Make sure you use the same colors you use on your forum to optimize blending!

Installation instructions:

in the template SHOWTHREAD find:

<div id="thread_info" class="thread_info">

and add below:

<h4 class="threadinfohead"><span class="optiontitle">Advertising</span></h4>
    <div id="thread_onlineusers" class="thread_info_block">
        <div class="inner_block">
            <h5>Advertising</h5>
            <div>
             <div class="ads_lb_container_forumdisplay">
              <div class="ads_lb">
               <!- Your Google Adsense Code for a 728x90px leaderboard -->
              </div>
             </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

add the following to the template CSS >> additional.css

.ads_lb_container_forumdisplay {
    background: #FFFFFF;
    width:100%;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

.ads_lb {
    position: relative;
    width: 728px;
    margin-top: 5px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

Additional Comments:
Make sure you change all lines marked RED to fit your forum.
If you only want this Advertising shown to guests like I do wrap the above code in this condition:

<vb:if condition="$show['guest']">

</vb:if>

Screenshot:



More of my Adsense Integrations:

• Adsense Integration as second post - StarBuG optimized blending
• Adsense Integration as last post - StarBuG optimized blending
• Adsense integration together with nice welcome message - StarBuG optimized blending

Demo:
Patientenfragen.net - we have the answers

Of course feedback is welcome and if you have suggestions to further improve CTR please let me know!

StarBuG



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[StarBuG]

first post reserved

[NightLord]

thank you very good :P

[rtyagis]

Installed. For Demo - www.policywala.com/forum.php

[asus78]

Originally Posted by rtyagis

Installed. For Demo - www.policywala.com/forum.php

How did you place adsense within the forum post and is it possible to show this only to unregistered/not logged in visitors?

thx

[WriteToEnlight]

Originally Posted by asus78

How did you place adsense within the forum post and is it possible to show this only to unregistered/not logged in visitors?

thx

I'm curious about that one too, minus the unregistered/not logged in visitors part. (but wouldn't mind knowing that either)

I'm also interested in adding that same size adsize block underneath the text in the post and not just at the start of it like you did, can you comment on this for us and/or point us in a direction to learn more about this?

[StarBuG]

If you want the ad below the message text and only in the first post for guests only find this in postbit_legacy template:

<blockquote class="postcontent restore ">
                            {vb:raw post.message}

and add below:

<vb:if condition="$post['isfirstshown'] AND $show['guest']">
<!-- YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE
</vb:if>

However this is not tested!
Try it and see if it works

[Veer]

Is this ad allowed by google adsense for every publisher?

[StarBuG]

why shouldn't it?

[Hawkgirl]

Thanks for this. I modified it for our forums, and I love the way it looks. Very well done. I am learning a lot from you!