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About Developer · **Released**: 09-15-2010

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 large rectangle below the navbar together with an eye catching welcome message and a call to action (registration). This ad is the best performing ad on my forum. I run a forum with a fixed width and I think that on a fluid style this mod wont look that good but give it a try if you want.

Installation instructions:

in the template navbar find:

Code:

{vb:raw ad_location.global_below_navbar}

and add below:

Code:

<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'search'  AND !$show['notices'] AND $show['guest']">
 <div class="ads_lr_wrapper">
  <div class="ads_lr">
    YOUR GOOGLE ADSENSE CODE HERE
  </div>
  <div class="ads_lr_welcome">
   <p id="welcome_bold_big">Welcome to YOUR FORUM NAME</p><br>
     
     <p id="welcome_normal">your forum for YOUR THEME</p><br>
     
            <ul>
             <li><b>&nbsp;&raquo;</b>  some things people find</li> 
             <li><b>&nbsp;&raquo;</b>  on your forum</li> 
             <li><b>&nbsp;&raquo;</b>  some reasons why</li>
             <li><b>&nbsp;&raquo;</b>  guests should register</li>
            </ul>
            
            <br>
            
            <p id="welcome_bold">...then you have come to the right place!</p><br>

            <p id="welcome_normal">we will try to help you with your problem.</p><br>
            
            <p id="welcome_bold_big"><a href="http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/register.php">YES! I want to register an account for free right now!</a></p><br />
            
            <p id="welcome_small">p.s.: For registered members YOUR FORUM NAME is free of ads</p>
  </div>
 </div>
</vb:if>

in template additional.css add:

Code:

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| #> Large Rectangle Ad + Welcome Text below navbar
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
.ads_lr_wrapper {
    border: 2px solid #274C84;
    -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:5px;
    -moz-border-radius-bottomright:5px;
    -moz-border-radius-topleft:5px;
    -moz-border-radius-topright:5px;
    background: #ffffff;
    width:850px;
    height:290px;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}

.ads_lr {
    position: relative;
    background: #ffffff;
    width: 336px;
    margin-left: 10px;
    margin-right: 30px;
    float:left;
}

.ads_lr_welcome {
    background: #ffffff;
    position: relative;
    width: 460px;
    margin-top: 10px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: 10px;
    float:right;
}

#welcome_normal {
  font-size:normal;
  font-family:Helvetica;
  text-decoration:none;
  text-align: left;
}

#welcome_small {
  font-size:x-small;
  font-family:Helvetica;
  text-decoration:none;
  text-align: left;
}

#welcome_bold {
    font-weight:bold;
    font-size:normal;
    font-family:Helvetica;
    text-decoration:none;
        text-align: left;
}

#welcome_bold_big {
    font-weight:bold;
    font-size:large;
    font-family:Helvetica;
    text-decoration:none;
        text-align: left;
        color:#274C84;
}

Additional Comments:
Make sure you change all lines marked RED to fit your forum.
Of course you should customize the welcome text to fit your forum and change the colors and size of the welcome box to fit your forums theme.

Screenshot:

More of my Adsense Integrations:

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!

ps: The welcome text in the screenshot is an automatic translation by google that's why it is hard to read

StarBuG

Google isn't paying you enough money! Discover WHY!

synseal · #32 10-19-2010, 07:11 PM

Hello, thank you for sharing this excellent mod, is there a way of adding another advertising block at the side of the first one.

When I try to add it in the navbar template after the first advert, it just adds the second add below rather than at the side of the 1st add.

Many thanks.

ictvb · #33 10-19-2010, 08:55 PM

Looks neat StarBuG. Do you know if this combination performs better than 2 large rectangles next to each other? (as suggested by many forum ad placement tutorials).

guni75 · #34 10-20-2010, 06:39 AM

Thanks for the good add on for my guests.

I have a fluid theme and i try to put it in a table. But then have a problem with the background from forum. the background stop direkt under your add on.

what is the right way?

Sorry about my english and i dont know so much about html and css.

Thanks

barcena · #35 10-23-2010, 06:13 AM

I can't get the two to be on the same rectangle.

The adsense will be on top of the Please Register blah blah blah, instead of everything looks "horizontal" it looks like "vertical", the Adsense in top of the invitation to join the site instead of been side by side.

Help Please.

Also, how can I make a border to wrap the whole thing like StarBug did on his site?

Thanks so much.

StarBuG · #36 10-23-2010, 07:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TalkDisneyChann

For some reason I can't get to the border to show. It's not the same color as the background, so im not sure what the problem is.

Which border?

Quote:

Originally Posted by synseal

Hello, thank you for sharing this excellent mod, is there a way of adding another advertising block at the side of the first one.

When I try to add it in the navbar template after the first advert, it just adds the second add below rather than at the side of the 1st add.

use float:left; as additional CSS command for the first Ad, that should do the trick.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ictvb

Looks neat StarBuG. Do you know if this combination performs better than 2 large rectangles next to each other? (as suggested by many forum ad placement tutorials).

Did not try that but I hate it to slap ADs into my users faces.
I want to at least offer them something which is the welcome and call to action.
But that is my approach, feel free to test other ways.

Quote:

Originally Posted by barcena

I can't get the two to be on the same rectangle.

The adsense will be on top of the Please Register blah blah blah, instead of everything looks "horizontal" it looks like "vertical", the Adsense in top of the invitation to join the site instead of been side by side.

Help Please.

Also, how can I make a border to wrap the whole thing like StarBug did on his site?

Sounds like you forgot to add the code into the additional.css template.
Without the CSS the mod wont work.

barcena · #37 10-23-2010, 07:37 AM

No I dind't forgot StarBug, in fact I actually changed the colors and all. But it just won't work side by side but rather one in top of the other and it does looks pretty awful.

PS. I copied the following, one into the Navbar and the other into the additional.ccs template

PHP Code:


			
<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'search'  AND !$show['notices'] AND $show['guest']">

 <div class="ads_lr_wrapper">

  <div class="ads_lr">

    <script type="text/javascript"><!--

google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

/* 336x280, created 10/22/10 */

google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

google_ad_width = 336;

google_ad_height = 280;

//-->

</script>

<script type="text/javascript"

src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">

</script>

  </div>

  <div class="ads_lr_welcome">

   <p id="welcome_bold_big">Welcome to sdadfadfdf!</p><br>

     

     <p id="welcome_normal">More adsfadfad blah blah dfadfa!"</p><br>

     

            <ul>

             <li><b>&nbsp;&raquo;</b>  adfadfadfadf</li> 

             <li><b>&nbsp;&raquo;</b>  sdfasdfasdfadf</li> 

             <li><b>&nbsp;&raquo;</b>  asdfasdfadfad</li>

             <li><b>&nbsp;&raquo;</b>  asdfsdfdf</li>

            </ul>

            

            <br>

            

            <p id="welcome_bold">.Etc etc etc</p><br>



            <p id="welcome_normal">blah blah blah!</p><br>

            

            <p id="welcome_bold_big"><a href="http://www.xxxxxxx.com/register.php">Register blah blah blah  </a></p><br />

            

            <p id="welcome_small">Yadah Yadah ?etc etc adfadjkfadkjfadjf!</p>

  </div>

 </div>

</vb:if>

PHP Code:


			
.ads_lr_wrapper {

    border: 2px solid #FFCC66;

    -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:5px;

    -moz-border-radius-bottomright:5px;

    -moz-border-radius-topleft:5px;

    -moz-border-radius-topright:5px;

    background: #ECE8DB;

    width:850px;

    height:290px;

    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;

}



.ads_lr {

    position: relative;

    background: #ECE8DB;

    width: 336px;

    margin-left: 10px;

    margin-right: 30px;

    float:left;

}



.ads_lr_welcome {

    background: #ECE8DB;

    position: relative;

    width: 460px;

    margin-top: 10px;

    margin-left: auto;

    margin-right: 10px;

    float:right;

}



#welcome_normal {

  font-size:normal;

  font-family:Helvetica;

  text-decoration:none;

  text-align: left;

}



#welcome_small {

  font-size:x-small;

  font-family:Helvetica;

  text-decoration:none;

  text-align: left;

}



#welcome_bold {

    font-weight:bold;

    font-size:normal;

    font-family:Helvetica;

    text-decoration:none;

        text-align: left;

}



#welcome_bold_big {

    font-weight:bold;

    font-size:large;

    font-family:Helvetica;

    text-decoration:none;

        text-align: left;

        color:#274C84;

}

StarBuG · #38 10-23-2010, 08:02 AM

Send me your link and I take a look.

But I guess that your welcome text is larger then 460px and that is causing the problem

stained · #39 10-23-2010, 08:51 AM

I've been using this (and your other enhancements for second and last posts) for the last few weeks and they are performing much better than anything else I've tried. The welcome message has performed particularly well so thank you very much for sharing your ideas StarBuG. The only change I made was to enter an extra line at the end of the welcome text to tell people to scroll down the page

StarBuG · #40 10-23-2010, 02:05 PM

You are welcome

As a German I just hope that you don't uphold nor emphasise the stupid ideology from the topic of your forum.
We all need to learn from our history otherwise it will repeat itself in our future and effect us and our children for the worse.

I also hope that you considered the Google program policies:

Quote:

Sites with Google ads may not include or link to:

Content related to racial intolerance or advocacy against any individual, group or organisation

stained · #41 10-23-2010, 04:02 PM

My forum doesn't contain 'ideology'. It's a militaria forum for collectors - something which is stated quite clearly in the box you designed and which I'm quite sure you looked at...

However, even if it were the type of forum you mentioned it would frankly have absolutely nothing to do with you. How dare you even mention that in this thread.

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