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[glen]

Hi everyone,

I just mentioned in the "News" section that Google have just introduced a new adsense feature called "Section Targeting".

You can read more about it here -

http://www.adsensefo...p?showtopic=113

I have used this idea to make the some changes to my Invision Power Board so that the Board Header, Member Bar, Navigation Bar, Board Footer, Stats and Copyright section will be not given much priority by Google when it is deciding which ads to display in one of my forums.

It was a very easy to make this change.... I just added the following two lines to the Invision Board Header/Footer (which can be edited via the Admin Control Panel in the Skins section) -

(changes are maked in red) -

Quote

<% GENERATOR %>
<% CSS %>
<% javascript %>

<% BOARD HEADER %>
<% MEMBER BAR %>
<% NAVIGATION %>
<!--IBF.NEWPMBOX-->
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

[some other code of mine]

<% BOARD %>

[some other code of mine]

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

<% BOARD FOOTER %>
<% STATS %>
<% COPYRIGHT %>

Now I have to sit back and wait for the Google spider to re-spider my site and display more relevant ads!

Cheers, Glen

[Mido]

great topic i was searching for it but i want to know how to focus on words in threads also

[glen]

i guess you could put the code <!-- google_ad_section_start --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end --> closer to the threads.

you would have to find the right spot in the HTML templates (rather than the header/footer). sorry i forget where that would be.

but my guess is...that a good place to start would be "All Global HTML".
let us know how you go.

cheers, glen

[lynx]

Thanks for this tip glen! I've implemented this on my board. I hope this will get rid of those pesky forum ads. It looks like I have to wait a few weeks for the full effect.

[glen]

lynx, on May 17 2006, 01:36 PM, said:

Thanks for this tip glen! I've implemented this on my board. I hope this will get rid of those pesky forum ads. It looks like I have to wait a few weeks for the full effect.

hi lynx,

that is the main reason i added that code lynx.

i hope it works for you.

cheers, glen