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[glen]

Hi everyone,

I have been experimenting today with Adsense placement within Invision Power Board.

The current Ad positions I am using are desribed below. For each Ad I used the following tags -

<br /><center>Adsense Code</center><br />

Ad Position 1 -

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Board Index / PageTop
(at the bottom of this section)

Ad Position 2 -

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Board Index / end_all_cats
(at the bottom of this section...was blank for me to start with)

Ad Position 3 -

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Forum Index / PageTop

(just above the following)

<div class="borderwrap">
<div class="maintitle">

Ad Position 4 -
ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Forum Index / TableEnd
(just above the following)

<table cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style='padding-left:0px' width="50%" nowrap="nowrap">{$data['SHOW_PAGES']}</td>
<td class='nopad' style='padding:5px 0px 5px 0px' align="right" width="50%">
<a href="{ipb.script_url}act=Post&CODE=00&f={$data['id']}">
<{A_POST}></a>{$data[POLL_BUTTON]}</td></tr></table>
<!--IBF.FORUM_ACTIVE-->

Ad Position 5-

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Topic View / topic_page_top_classic

(just above the following)

<div class="borderwrap">
<div class="maintitle">

Ad Position 6 -

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Topic View / topic_page_top_new_mode

(just above the following)

<div class="borderwrap">
<div class="maintitle">

Ad Position 7 -

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Topic View / TableFooter

(just above the following)

<!-- TABLE FOOTER -->
<div class="barc">

[glen]

Hi lucky_luke and welcome to the forums.

I orginally had google ads in my header/footer however the Ads could only be positioned well above or below the forum. By inserting the Adsense code directly into the HTML you can position the Ads much more closely to the content of the site. It is of course a lot more work. I have only made this change recently and so I do not know if it will improve my earnings. I hope so!

As an additional tip, if you intend to try the changes above, you should really create a "child skin" to work on. If you don't like the changes then it will be very easy to revert back to your previous skin setup.

All the best,

Glen

[Artvision]

Hi,

This works great, but I'm wondering is there any way, so that
"Guests" also can see AdSense?
Now only registered members can see the adverts.

Thank you!

EDIT: Strange, but it works now.

[glen]

Hi artvision,

If there was a problem with guests not seeing the ads that would suggest that we had incorrectly pasted the Ad Code into an area of the HTML template that was only displayed to members. There are some such areas. Just double check that the Adsense code is not inside any "if" or "else" statements such as the example below taken from "Pagetop" in the Board Index -

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Board Index / PageTop

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Cheers, Glen

[Artvision]

Hi Glen and thank you for the reply!

I think that I found where the problem is!
I setup "Alternate ad URL or color" ro white color and practically
the ads were in the place, but probably they were replaced with
blank (white) color and that's why I haven't seen them.
Now everything is OK!

Thank you once again!

[glen]

No worries. You might notice some weirdness if you have subforums. The ad (at the top of the page) will appear below the subforum link when in the "forum view" and it looks a bit "stretched out".

the problem is due to the ad code placed in end_all_cats -

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Board Index / end_all_cats

This ad not only gets added onto the bottom of the "Board view". It also gets added beneath the sub-forum links in "Forum View".

[Artvision]

glen, on Jun 30 2005, 01:05 PM, said:

No worries. You might notice some weirdness if you have subforums. The ad (at the top of the page) will appear below the subforum link when in the "forum view" and it looks a bit "stretched out".

the problem is due to the ad code placed in end_all_cats -

ACP Home / Skin Manager Home / Board Index / end_all_cats

This ad not only gets added onto the bottom of the "Board view". It also gets added beneath the sub-forum links in "Forum View".

Yes, I see it now. I also have tried the "Image ads only", but it seems
google hasn't got too many image ads yet.

[glen]

the availability of image ads will vary depending on your topic of your website and how many advertisers for that topic are actually running image ads.

as i view this page at the moment I am seeing some image ads from visibone stylesheets

cheers, glen (in australia)

[lytrix]

Hey Glen,

Good info, although it'll be really nice if you could include screenshots of each ad position

[glen]

good point lytrix. the problem is that i have moved my ads around since putting up this information so my current site no longer reflects all of the code above. it used to provide a perfect example!

if i get a chance i will wind things back to how they were and make some screen shots.

cheers, glen

[Mido]

hi

check my forums

http://www.shbabonli...dex.php?act=idx

i put to ads on (global_board_header)
so you can see at the top of the page

also i put the on skyskaper at the left
this is 3 for now but i put the hack the makes first reply with google ads so these are four ads and u know the i only must put 3 per page so where to put on of the top ads to show it at the all pages of forums except the topic page to make my hack show the ad on the topic and dont make anything with TOS

[grillz]

hey there glen and fellow "forum friends",

i was just wondering if it is possible to put ads between the first and second post of each topic...?

THANKS!
-Jordan!

[glen]

grillz, on Oct 22 2005, 03:42 PM, said:

hey there glen and fellow "forum friends",

i was just wondering if it is possible to put ads between the first and second post of each topic...?

THANKS!
-Jordan!

that is easy enough. there is a mod on invisionize specifically to do that.

its called "D2 - Advertisements"

http://mods.invision...ndex.php/f/4313 (this is NOT for 2.1)

i guess it will be upgraded in due course

[glen]

Here is an easy way to place adsense below the first post (or any other designated post that you choose).

Make the following edits at the bottom of the RenderRow template bit (under "Topic View") in your skin:

<if="post['post_count'] % ipb.vars['display_max_posts'] == 1">
<center>ADSENSE CODE HERE
</center></if>

This will place the adsense ad under the first post only. If you want to place the adsense after the second post then simply change the number from 1 to 2. Or if you want the ad to appear twice (e.g. after 1st post and 2nd post), then the easiest way is to paste the code twice as follows (notice the different numbering):

<if="post['post_count'] % ipb.vars['display_max_posts'] == 1">
 <center>ADSENSE CODE HERE
 </center></if>
<if="post['post_count'] % ipb.vars['display_max_posts'] == 15">
 <center>ADSENSE CODE HERE
 </center></if>

There might be a more efficient way of displaying the ad twice and I hope someone else can offer a solution. I just placed 2 embedded ads on this site (one after post 1 and another ad after post 15).

cheers, glen

[glen]

NOTE: The above HTML Logic no longer works since the format for HTML Logic has changed.

I found this sample that seems to work OK:

<if="$post['post_count'] == 1">
<table class='ipbtable' cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td style="background:#EEF2F7" align="center">
Ad code goes here!
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="catend" colspan="2">
	<!-- no content -->
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
</if>

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