Forum intergration tip (HOT!)

[MentaL]

See picture .. How i did it?

1. Downloaded page html.
2. Edited html to show the table for the catagory only.
3. Place the html code above $forumbits in the FORUMHOME template.

My code (Wont work unless you use satallite)

 <!-- Advert -->
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'newthread' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'newreply' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'editpost' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'search' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'register' and $vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid] != '7' and  $vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid] != '6' and $vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid] != '5' and  
$vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid] != '31' and  $vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid] != '22' and  $vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid] != '25' and 
$vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid] != '32' and 
$vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid] != '29' ">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="tcat" colspan="5"> <a style="float:right" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_75')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_75" src="images/satellite/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> 
                    Website Sponsors</td> </tr> </tbody> <tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_75" style=""> <tr align="center"> <td class="thead">&nbsp;</td> <td class="thead" width="100%" align="left">
                        Forum</td> <td class="thead" width="225" style="white-space:nowrap">
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;Last Post&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> <td class="thead">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Threads&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> <td class="thead">
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Posts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td class="alt2" width="35"><img src="images/satellite/statusicon/forum_old.gif" alt="" border="0" /></td> <td class="alt1Active" align="left" id="f71" style="cursor:hand;" onmouseover="this.className='alt2Active';" onmouseout="this.className='alt1Active';" onclick="window.location.href='forumdisplay.php?f=71';"> 

<!--ADSENSE GOES HERE-->

</td> <td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap" width="225"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="225"><tr align="right"> <td> <div class="smallfont" align="left"> <div style="clear:both"> 
                                <a title="Latest MMORPG files released" href="http://forum.website.com/updates-news/forum-rules-101410.html"><strong>
                                Latest MMORPG server files -...</strong> </a> </div> <div>
        by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://forum.website.com/members/mental/">MentaL</a> </div> <div align="right">
        Today 21:34 PM 
        <a href="http://forum.website.com/updates-news/forum-rules-101410.html"><img class="inlineimg" src="images/satellite/buttons/lastpost.gif" alt="Go to last post" border="0" /></a> </div> </div> </td> </tr></table></td> <td class="alt1" width="80">
                            3,470</td> <td class="alt2" width="80">57,454</td> </tr> <tr><td class="tfoot" style="line-height: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" colspan="5"><img src="http://forum.website.com/clear.gif" alt="" width="1" height="8" /></td></tr> </tbody> </table>

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</if>
<!-- End advert -->

[Joe Ward]

Very interesting.

[briansol]

i recently removed all my in-topic and in-list ads. They simply weren't performaing (1-2 clicks a day). Let us know how yours perform.

[MentaL]

Extra 200 clicks a day for me.

[TundraSoul]

Did you drop AdSense or lose it during the recent upgrade?

Extra 200 clicks a day for me.

[mattyk72]

Is this a TOS violation?

[reefland]

I thought that making it look like a forum or post was a violation?

[briansol]

Like all rules, email google. They let it go on some sites, others they say no.

I ran an ad there for about a month... and it just didn't produce a damn thing, so i took it off.

[TundraSoul]

It is, the ads should not cause any confusion among your web visitors. I think briansol is right. On higher producing sites with good content, they may ignore it. However if you're a nickel and dime publisher, they'll bounce you out.

I thought that making it look like a forum or post was a violation?

[Future]

Is this a TOS violation?

nope it is not tos violation.

[MentaL]

Did you drop AdSense or lose it during the recent upgrade?

Been readded due to upgrade, and yes its legal, as its states its an advertisement

[pspcrazy]

Sheesh that is mad awesome lol. I wish i could do it but my members would shoot me lol.

[huntz]

I had something similar and google asked me to remove it.

[michael_s]

There is a mod over at vbulletin.org that does pretty much the same thing, but it randomly moves the ad through the forum display on page refresh, based on the range you set it to.

[Mike]

I used this along with the rest of the deep adsense integration (which is posted here). Did pretty decent with it, but haven't tried integrating into my new skin yet.