Add-On Releases - Adsense Revenue Sharing for 3.5.x and 3.6.x

Overview
This hack will allow you to offer Google Adsense revenue sharing to your vBulletin board users. Basic idea generated by AlexanderT, who developed the hack for previous version.

* Revenue is split between board administrator and thread starters.

* User needs to enter their Adsense Publisher ID and Channel ID (optional) in the edit profile.

* The percentage of probability is customizable by the administrator

* Number of min. post in order to show the ads is customizable by administrator.

* Works on 3.5.x and 3.6.x



Demo
http://www.spoofee.com/forums/



Background
Thanks to webmastershome for creating this and rob30uk for making it easier by creating a plugin and I suppose myself for small tweak


Instructions ( literally takes 5 minutes to install )

1. Download zip file and extract ( 3 files : adsense_admin.php, adsense_revenue_sharing.xml, cpnav_adsensesharing.xml )


2. Add Adsense Client ID and Channel ID to your user profile fields
1. Add the following following new user profile field in AdminCP:
Type: Single-Line Text Box
Title: Google AdSense Client ID
Description: If you have an AdSense account, you can enter your client ID here. You then have a 50% chance that the AdSense ads displayed are credited to your account on threads you participate in. It should be in the form of <b>pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</b>
Max length of allowed user input: 20
Display Size: 25
Field Required: No
Field Editable by User: Yes
Private Field: No
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No

2. Add the following following new user profile field in AdminCP:
Type: Single-Line Text Box
Title: Google AdSense Channel ID
Description: If you choose to enter your AdSense client ID, you can specify a channel ID as well.<br /><br />It would be a good idea to have a unique channel ID for this forum (then you can track stats specifically for the forum).<br />
Max length of allowed user input: 10
Display Size: 25
Field Required: No
Field Editable by User: Yes
Private Field: No
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No


3. Go back to userfield manager and get the field# of the two new fields you created. (ex : field5, field6)


4. Open adsense_revenue_sharing.xml and change the field5 to whatever your adsense field# is and field6 to whatever your channel field# is


5. Add Adsense snippet in your style
- Go to Admincp->Styles & Templates->Style Manager->Edit Templates->Post Bit (if you are using legacy style, choose to edit "Post Bit Legacy"

Add the following to the bottom of your postbit.

<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1">
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' AND ($post[postid] == $GLOBALS['qrfirstpostid'])">
<if condition="$show['spacer']">$spacer_open<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px"></if>

<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" bordercolor=white width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td class="alt1" style="padding:0px">
<div class="smallfont" align="center">
                <script type="text/javascript"><!--
                google_ad_client = "$post[ad_client_id]";
                google_ad_width = 728;
                google_ad_height = 90;
                google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
                google_ad_channel ="$post[ad_channel]";
                google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
                google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
                google_color_link = "000000";
                google_color_url = "666666";
                google_color_text = "333333";
                //--></script>
                <script type="text/javascript"
               src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
                </script>
</div></td></tr></table>

<if condition="$show['spacer']"></div>$spacer_close</if>
</if>
</if>

6. Import adsense_revenue_sharing.xml plugin


7. Upload cpnav_adsensesharing.xml to forums/includes/xml/


8. Upload adsense_admin.php to forums/admincp/


9. Configure
- Go to admincp, now you will see "Adsense Share Settings" where you can configure how much revenue you want to share!

10. Click here to mark it as INSTALLED!

[tsptom]

Originally Posted by jamsiejay

Does anyone offer support for this mod i have been trying for 3 days to find out how to place this mod outside of the postbit template.

It only works in the postbit template but i want it on the header.

Any help please even a guess if you have it.

HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP

I played with it a little but couldn't get it to work right in the header ad either. I kept getting a null in the ID field instead of my client number. I'll play some more.

[The Prince]

I get a message that adsense_revenue_sharing.xml is not a Product.

Running 3.6.4.

What now?

[tsptom]

Did you do step 6 through the admincp?

6. Import adsense_revenue_sharing.xml plugin

[The Prince]

Originally Posted by tsptom

Did you do step 6 through the admincp?

6. Import adsense_revenue_sharing.xml plugin

Ok forget it I got it.

[jamsiejay]

Originally Posted by tsptom

I played with it a little but couldn't get it to work right in the header ad either. I kept getting a null in the ID field instead of my client number. I'll play some more.

Let me know how you get on i just cannot get this to work in any other templates.

[tsptom]

Still no luck with header but I moved onto another scenario I'd like to see work.

Has anyone tried to combine this revenue sharing hack with some of the other adsense hacks (like adsense in 2nd post or every x # of posts - or even putting an adsense ad as the 2nd post on every page, not just 2nd post of thread) Two problems I'm finding:

The rev share 1st post on 1st page of thread seems to work fine but:

1) The "+ x posts" sets the client ID to null

2) The "1st post on each page (except the 1st post on first page of thread) only shows the primary site owner ID, never the thread starter's.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[jamsiejay]

I have been trying every forum and board to get this to work outside of postbit template but it seems it is not known by anyone.

I am in need of this please anyone who can help i will appreciate it.

[jamsiejay]

The problem is outside of postbit it will not pull up the google ids it just shows

"$post[ad_client_id]";
"$post[ad_channel]";

[tsptom]

The only site I've seen that has done it successfully is digitalpoint.com. And he won't divulge his secrets.

[vietfancy]

digitalpoint is not the only forum can do this.

check out dntalks.com