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vBulletin Google Adsense Deep Integration Tutorial
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14 Feb 2006
This tutorial is written to show you how to use your Google Adsense codes efficiently in your vBulletin (3.5+) templates. I have a very heavily modified vBulletin style but i used the original style for this tutorial to be simple and match the colors. You can change everything as you want to find the most fitting results for your vBulletin. Alternate ads-PSAs to Collapsible ads:
Create a HTML file with this code and save it as collapsible_ad.html: HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd "> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title></title> <script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/google_adsense_script.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body style="background-color: transparent;"> </body> </html> Go to your Google Adsense account and grap your google_ad_client and google_ad_channel codes. (google_ad_channel is optional) Open Notepad and paste these codes as you will change them with youradsensecode and yourchannelcode on the following steps. We will use these there ad layouts in this tutorial: 728 x 90 Leaderboard 468 x 60 Banner 234 x 60 Half Banner ...and one link unit: 468 x 15 Note: navbar template editing step is optional because it may be against the Google Adsense rules for you. If you edit navbar template, almost all of your vBulletin pages will have Adsense ads at the top of the pages. My navbar and header templates include some flash, gif and text content and i update them regularly. It's why i use Adsense ads in navbar. You may apply this step (the ad unit) manually to your FORUMHOME, FORUMDISPLAY, etc templates... Open your navbar template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates > navbar (for the link unit) Find:
 (for the ad unit) Find:
Save. Open your FORUMDISPLAY template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Forum Display Templates > FORUMDISPLAY (First thread) Find:
(Last thread) Find:
Save. Adsense below the last thread Open your search_results template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Search Templates > search_results (First result) Find:
(Last result) Find:
http://img302.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snap98ab.gif Save. Open your postbit(legacy) template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Postbit Templates > postbit(legacy) (First post and last shown post) Find:
Spoiler (click to open)
What's more fun and challenging - because of ajax issues, is adsense in the last post.
 That really gets the ad right where the reader's eyes are.http://www.eaforums.com/forums/364919-post1.html Find: Code:
<!-- message --> <div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div> <!-- / message --> Code:
<if condition="(($post[postcount]==1) or ($post[islastshown] and !$GLOBALS['vbulletin']->GPC['ajax']))"> <span id="google" style="float:left;margin:2px;" width="340" height="290" align="center" valign="top"> put banner code here </span></if> Close
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