SEO

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:

http://joomla.medspan.info/forum/index.php/topic,57.0.html

Create a HTML file with this code and save it as collapsible_ad.html:
Upload this file to your web server. (http://www.yourwebsite.com/collapsible_ad.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:
Add below:
Results:





(for the ad unit)

Find:
Add below:
Results:




Save.



Open your FORUMDISPLAY template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Forum Display Templates > FORUMDISPLAY

(First thread)

Find:
Add below:
(Last thread)

Find:
Add below:
Results:




Save.

Adsense below the last thread - vBulletin.org Forum


Open your search_results template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Search Templates > search_results

(First result)

Find:
Add below:
(Last result)

Find:
Add below:
Results:




Save.


Open your postbit(legacy) template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Postbit Templates > postbit(legacy)

(First post and last shown post)

Find:
Add below:
Save.
vBulletin.org Forum - View Single Post - Adsense after first post

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vBulletin Google Adsense Deep Integration Tutorial by NeutralizeR @ www.MsXLabs.org
Original Thread: vBulletin Google Adsense Deep Integration Tutorial - vBulletin.org Forum

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Open your FORUMHOME template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Forum Home Templates > FORUMHOME

Find:
Add above:
Save.

Open your MEMBERINFO template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Member Info Templates > MEMBERINFO

Find: Add above: Save.

If you have vBadvanced installed:

Open your adv_portal template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > vBadvanced CMPS Templates > adv_portal

Find:Add above:Save...

If you allow search engines to spider the single versions of your posts (This post, for example... showpost.php), you may want to use adsense ads on this template, too. I think you don't want to miss any possible renevue...

Open your SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST template: vBulletin AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Show Thread Templates > SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST

Find:

Add above:
(Or just the <script> section if you don't want the table.)

You can also add this code after $postbits if you want a second ad unit.

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Wow - very detailed. Great tutorial.

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It was so good, he had to tell you twice, LOL

I integrated most of this a week ago on my ATV forum. The only thing I didn't use was the adsense withing the post itself. I didn't feel right about that. I have a leaderboard right below the last post though, so that is good enough for me.

I like the adlinks in the navbar. Provides another source of revenue and doesnt look intrusive. I also like the adsense as the first thread. I am doing better with that than I was with the leaderboard below the navbar, and it makes the forum look cleaner in my opninion.

If conversions continue on this forum, I will begin using this on my other forums.

Thanks for posting this here!

90% of my earnings comes from the navbar ads so i'd suggest you to focus on your navbar template. You'd better move them in a table matching your skin's colors instead of publishing them like they are just 'the advertisements'

Wish my main website was in English :(

Hi all,

Excellent tutorial.

I have just add all exemples except the adsense in the first post.

I will see if results are good in next days...

Thanks

David

I have been back and forth with that one and have never gotten an improvement by integrating that one into the skin.

This deserves to be stuck...















in every monetizer's website

*made sticky*

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Thank you

I hope it helps people who're running vBulletin with adsense, at least to the newbies.

I'll update the codes if needed. (works for vb 3.5 and vb 3.6 versions at the moment)

Hey man! Great tutorial! I was wondering something tho...I think this would be an AWESOME way to generate more revenue!

View the pic below. Where the red is, could we integrate the 1 line text ads? I'm thinking it will make it look like subforums so people might click them more...your thoughts? It would be nice to only show them on a few forums if possible.

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Thank you. 1 line text ads? You mean the link units? You can only publish 1 link unit on a page and yes, it's possible to display it on anywhere you want using the if conditionals.

great post but fyi.
<if condition="$show['threads']"> is not working as described in image, I had to move the code above $threadbits and now it works fine.

also i have post icons disabled on some of my forums, how do i fix the code to display ads properly in forumdisplays ?

It should. Make sure you have enough threads in that forum or try viewing other forums. You may not be able to see the google ads without enough content.