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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!

StarBuG · #42 10-23-2010, 08:01 PM

It is just that this ideology makes me sick and I can't believe that people are still that stupid to follow it even though everyone knows it costs millions of innocent lives.

Even some Germans are still denying history and uphold old "ideas" and idealize them blinded to the truth.

I just hope that you are not one of those people.

I hope that one day the world will learn that racism leads only to destruction of us all and that we are all humans living on the same planet regardless of our origin.

So back to topic.

stained · #43 10-24-2010, 12:05 AM

I've already explained what my forum is. We could of course disagree on the ethics of exploring the science of click-through rates on a site visited by people looking for help with their medical problems but hey, let's not go there. As you say, back on top

barcena · #44 10-24-2010, 12:16 AM

When I'd install everything on the child forum everything went well StarBug, but on the original/parent forum style is just not. I sent you a private message with a more detailed explanation, help.

BarelyHangingOn · #45 11-07-2010, 01:48 PM

An easier way to incorporate your hack is to alter the default Guest Message through the Notices interface in the admin panel.

StarBuG · #46 11-08-2010, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burtman

An easier way to incorporate your hack is to alter the default Guest Message through the Notices interface in the admin panel.

If you like the yellow out of the box message go ahead and alter it.
I like the look of mine better

kether1 · #47 01-11-2011, 04:15 PM

Starbug,
I very much like this. Thank you. I do have a question that has not been addressed here. How does this play with VBSEO and SEO in general. I notice on the vbseo site that they recommend replacing welcome text with images so that spiders read your content and don't see the same thing over and over. What are your thoughts on this sir?

Thank you for your time. This is a very attractive modification. I am currently playing with this on my test installation to get it styled like my site.

I wish I could create the drop shadow and curved corners as you have on your site:http://www.patientenfragen.net/en/. It is very attractive. Nice work! :up:

Kether

StarBuG · #48 01-12-2011, 11:36 AM

You can put the Text next to the Ad as image if you are concerned about SEO influences.
I don't do it because I think Google can figure out which parts on a page (like navigation and footer) repeat themselves without much meaning.

Also the drop shadow is simple CSS. You can copy it from my site.

kether1 · #49 01-12-2011, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StarBuG

You can put the Text next to the Ad as image if you are concerned about SEO influences.
I don't do it because I think Google can figure out which parts on a page (like navigation and footer) repeat themselves without much meaning.

Also the drop shadow is simple CSS. You can copy it from my site.

Thanks for your reply.

Regarding the CSS drop shadow, I would not know how to copy it from your site. LOL. I have been reading about how to do it on different code sites on google. The thing that puzzles me is that, from what I can tell, the css you supplied is supposed to create a drop shadow. A div inside another div that is slightly offset and a different color (usually grey) seems to be how it is done. I will keep trying to figure it out. I will also take another look at your site using firefox to see if I can view the source of your page. Maybe I can copy it that way.

Regardless, thank you.
K

StarBuG · #50 01-12-2011, 08:42 PM

no the drop shadow is done by this:

Code:

.ads_lr_wrapper { border: 2px solid #274C84; -moz-border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; -khtml-border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; -webkit-border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; -moz-box-shadow:4px 5px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); -khtml-box-shadow:4px 5px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); -webkit-box-shadow:4px 5px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); background: #ffffff; width:850px; height:315px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; }

Anyway, you'll find updated versions of my AdSense modifications on my new Website:

www.AdSenseExperts.com

kether1 · #51 01-13-2011, 05:22 PM

Thanks, I have visited your site several times.

Best regards,
Kether

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