Adsense Integration above similar threads - StarBuG optimized blending

Adsense Integration above similar threads - StarBuG optimized blending

Mod Version: 1.00, by StarBuG

vB Version: 4.0.6	Rating: (1 vote - 5.00 average)	Installs: 24
Released: 21 Aug 2010	Last Update: Never	Downloads: 0
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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 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 leaderboard above active users and similar threads below each thread. It is blended to look like the other moduls below the thread without violating google adsense TOS. Make sure you use the same colors you use on your forum to optimize blending!

Installation instructions:

in the template SHOWTHREAD find:

Code:

<div id="thread_info" class="thread_info">

and add below:

Code:

<h4 class="threadinfohead"><span class="optiontitle">Advertising</span></h4>
    <div id="thread_onlineusers" class="thread_info_block">
        <div class="inner_block">
            <h5>Advertising</h5>
            <div>
             <div class="ads_lb_container_forumdisplay">
              <div class="ads_lb">
               <!- Your Google Adsense Code for a 728x90px leaderboard -->
              </div>
             </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

add the following to the template CSS >> additional.css

Code:

.ads_lb_container_forumdisplay {
    background: #FFFFFF;
    width:100%;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}
.ads_lb {
    position: relative;
    width: 728px;
    margin-top: 5px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

Additional Comments:
Make sure you change all lines marked RED to fit your forum.
If you only want this Advertising shown to guests like I do wrap the above code in this condition:

Code:

<vb:if condition="$show['guest']">
</vb:if>

Screenshot:

More of my Adsense Integrations:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2087325
Adsense Integration as last post - StarBuG optimized blending
Adsense integration together with nice welcome message - StarBuG optimized blending

Demo:
http://www.patientenfragen.net/en/

Of course feedback is welcome and if you have suggestions to further improve CTR please let me know!

StarBuG

http://www.AdSenseExperts.com

http://www.adsenseexperts.com/consulting/adsense-optimization-service.html

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