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]

You are welcome

[final kaoss]

Why have it above similar threads? I like mine to be right above the quick reply box
http://vgchat.info/forum/threads/153631-Xtreme-Sports
and when someone clicks reply to thread, it shows up in the reply box, under the title and above the editor

[RichieBoy67]

Why is there a closing tag at the end??

PHP Code:

</vb:if> 


[StarBuG]

I had it wrapped in a guest only condition. Fixed

[Aquestor]

If u want to use it with vb 4.1.1 you have to change this:

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

into this:

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

Greetz Kai

[abumohamed]

thank you very good