[how to] put adsense in your forums

[Dream]

Kinda interesting info to share.

Adsense TOS says you can't put ads in pages that are exclusively asking input from the user, which means in vBulletin creating a thread page, replying or editing a post.

This code will put your ads between the navbar and forum/thread listing. Edit your "navbar" template, and after

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

add

<br />
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'newthread' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'newreply' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'editpost'">
<!-- Google AdSense -->
YOUR_ADSENSE_CODE_HERE
<!-- Google AdSense -->
</if>
<br />

not sure about other locations, hope that helps.

[MRGTB]

Yea, there TOS says you can't put an adsence banner on a registration page for example. Which you would be doing I think if you added the adsence banner to your header or footer for example.

Breaking there TOS rule

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I think a good option to get around this, but I'm not sure would be to use this hack here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123281

And then add the banner to that to keep it away from registration pages etc, and only on the main forums board postings.

[MRGTB]

so how can you add you adsence banner to your footer or header, but stop it from appearing on certain pages that Google say in there TOS your not allowed to have it appear.

Also, what are these pages exectly that you need to make sure it doesn't appear on. Because I would like to add the adsence banner to both my footer and header without breaker there TOS. A list or the exact code to wrap around your code would be nice.

[Tony-OH]

I've put mine in the header and I've worked with a Adsense guy and he has no problem with it being in the header. I think as long as it's not EXCLUSIVELY on a registration page you are ok.

[MRGTB]

I've put mine in the header and I've worked with a Adsense guy and he has no problem with it being in the header. I think as long as it's not EXCLUSIVELY on a registration page you are ok.

Well I have not read there TOS recently, but the last time I did. It did say that you are not allowed to put the adsence banner on any pages were people enter information. Like a registration page or a new thread/reply page.

Just how strict they are in regards to putting it in your header so it does appear not just on them pages, but all others pages as well I'm not sure. But by placing it in your header or footer it will appear on the pages that there TOS said you are not allowed to display it on. That's why people were talking about using conditionals so it could be excluded from certain pages while still displayed in the header for other pages.

I use the adsence on my portal page in a block and also I use a hack that displays it after the last post in each thread. So it never appears on a page were you add text or information.

[gobbly2100]

The thing is, there is tons of portal sites out there and you can't really control which pages the ads display on as it is usualy controlled in a single file so how can this even be possible to follow unless you were to pretty much get rid of your ads lol

[TheExpatDirector]

Google adsense intergration into vBuletin

Hi,
I used a Combination of the input from Deam and Jake Bunce and came up with a banner that looks a little cleaner than the ad just thrown on. Ideally I would prefer to just float an ad on the right of forum postings but I just cant seem to get it to work properly, some advice would be welcome.

Anyway,

Go into the navbar template and insert the text shown after

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

 <!-- Advertising segment start -->
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'newthread' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'newreply' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'editpost'">
$spacer_open
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
 <td class="thead" align="left">Sponsored Links</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td class="alt1" align="center">
    ENTER AD CODE HERE
 </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
$spacer_close
</if>
 
        <!-- Advertising segment end -->
 

an example can be seen here

I am also concerned about the ads appearing on data entry pages but also think that google will apply common sense when reviewing this. The ads appear on entry pages by default not design.... anyway until I get a better solution I think I'm stuck with this.

Can anyone else shed some light?

[scotsmist]

The thing is, there is tons of portal sites out there and you can't really control which pages the ads display on as it is usualy controlled in a single file so how can this even be possible to follow unless you were to pretty much get rid of your ads lol

with vbportal you can control what scripts the side column does not appear, through the portal options. Examples are -

newreply
newthread
editpost
showpost
register
login
usercp
private
subscription
subscriptions
profile
postings

but you can add any script name.