Adsense as a poster on your forums

So I've been playing around a bit with my new vb board, and figured out how to make it appear as if the "advertiser" has the second post on every page.

You can play around with the code some more to change some of the messages from the ones I have on there (i.e. posts: location:, etc)

For kicks, I have the "online" icon set to say "Google is online", so change this tag if you want it to say something else.

This was designed for "legacy". I do not know if it works for the new forum layout

You can also ad a custom ad "Avatar" as well. Just replace the "<!-- IF YOU WANT TO GIVE THE AD AN AVATAR, BUT IT HERE -->" with the code for the avatar.

Add this code to the END of your postbit_legacy template

PHP Code:

<if condition="$post[postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 1">

$spacer_open
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td class="thead" style="font-weight:normal" align="left">        
            <!-- status icon and date -->
                         Sponsored Ads            
        </td>
        <td class="thead" style="font-weight:normal" align="right">
            &nbsp;
            #<a><strong>1.5</strong></a>
        </td>
        
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
    <td class="alt2" width="175">
            
            <div>

                <a class="bigusername" href="">Advertisement</a>
            </div>
            
                        <div class="smallfont"><div class="smallfont">Sponsored posting</div></div>
            <div class="smallfont">
                    &nbsp;<br />
                    <!-- IF YOU WANT TO GIVE THE AD AN AVATAR, BUT IT HERE -->
            </div>
                        
            <div class="smallfont">
                &nbsp;<br />
                <if condition="$post['joindate']"><div>$vbphrase[join_date]: the beginning</div></if>
                <if condition="$post['field2']"><div>$vbphrase[location_perm]: everywhere</div></if>
                <if condition="$post['age']"><div>$vbphrase[age]: really old</div></if>
                <div>
                    $vbphrase[posts]: lots
                </div>
            </div>                                    
        
    </td>
    <td class="alt1">
    

            <!-- icon and title -->
            <div class="smallfont">
                <if condition="$post['title']"><strong>Sponsored...</strong></if>
            </div>
            <hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
            <!-- / icon and title -->
        
        <!-- message -->
        <div align="center">
                         <!--PUT YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE -->
                         </div>
        <!-- / message -->
            
    
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt2">
        <img class="inlineimg" src="images/statusiconrunes/user_online.gif" alt="Google is online" border="0" />
        &nbsp;
    </td>
    <td class="alt1" align="right">
    
        <!-- controls -->
        <!-- / controls -->
    </td>    
</tr>
</table>

</div>
$spacer_close

</if> 


[basskiller]

anyone have this working in 3.5.4?

[basskiller]

I did a little bit more configuring to make it seem like a real user on the boards. It has fooled some into thinking we were hacked with some form of adware..LOL

But I had to place the code at the end of the template postbit
it wouldn't work in postbit_legacy on 3.5.4
I named him KHAN
http://www.worldclassbodybuilding.co...ad.php?t=22666

[MaK10]

i got an email from google yesterday it says im in violation of policy, but only in one of my forum sections cause its a "Not work safe" section, which I understand is against their policies so I need a slight conditional that only allows this code to post the adsense in as the 2nd post in everything except a certain forum id... can anyone help? Im searching around here, but any help would be appreciated. Thanks

*EDIT*

Nevermind, found the answer.

[xec]

Originally Posted by MaK10

i got an email from google yesterday it says im in violation of policy, but only in one of my forum sections cause its a "Not work safe" section, which I understand is against their policies so I need a slight conditional that only allows this code to post the adsense in as the 2nd post in everything except a certain forum id... can anyone help? Im searching around here, but any help would be appreciated. Thanks

*EDIT*

Nevermind, found the answer.

So how did you do it? Thanks.

[kall]

<if condition="$forum[forumid] != 3">Blah blah</if>

That should work for forums...

[category]

where is the user ID so i can show for specific user groups?

[Harley D]

I am having a tough time getting the code to match my skin.

So I was thinking... What if you added a member, used your google adsense code in that specific members signature, then called the added member to post in the second post of each thread. similar to what the orginal code does.

Am I making sense? rather than having the original code in the postbit "in my case" create a fake member, have it call that specifc "Fake" member so it will match the layout and all skins.

can anybody help?

[VBUsers]

is there a working one for 3.6.0 ? i have installed this and its coming broken up.

[Smoothie]

Can someone update this for 3.6 please?

[Jealousy10312]

For some reason, my ad is messed up in the forums:

http://blabsource.com/showthread.php?p=551