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| How does this work? |
| What we have done is setup a system so the ad revenue can be shared between all active members of this forum.
This forum displays one advertisement in the upper right area as well is inline when viewing a thread. We use Google AdSense to automatically serve relevant ads for the content on the page. Google pays AdSense publishers on a per click basis as well as per impression.
If a user has an AdSense account, they have the ability to credit their account with the ads served on threads they start or participate in.
If you have any questions about it, please visit this thread. |
| Why are you doing this? |
| A forum is nothing without the users. So I figure why not let the users make a little money on threads they participate in.
It was also an interesting coding exercise for me. I was able to do it without any changes to the source of vBulletin. Which means I don't need to redo anything during an upgrade. It really is amazing how flexible the backend of vBulletin is. |
| What are the restrictions? |
- You must have an AdSense account through Google.
- You must have at least 50 total posts within the forum to participate (once you reach that level, the ads displayed from that point forward are retroactively applied to all the threads you started or participated in).
- For threads you start, your AdSense client ID will be used 50% of the time when the thread is viewed as a thread.
- Your AdSense client ID will be used 50% of the time when the thread is viewed by post (and you made the post).
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| Is this allowed by Google? |
| I have gone over the AdSense terms and conditions a few times (both the Overview and the legal version), and I'm not able to find anything to suggest that it's not allowed. But if you know (or believe) otherwise, I would like to hear from you. |
| How do I set it up? |
| You will need to go to the Edit Options area of your user control panel. Within there, you will find an option to enter your AdSense client ID (this starts with pub- and is within the HTML Google generates for you in your account). You can optionally specify a Channel if you wish as well.
Once you have a Google AdSense client ID on your account and you have made more than 50 posts to the forum, any thread you participate in has a chance to show ads that credit your AdSense account. |
| I'm worried about you having my AdSense Client ID. |
| The only info we need for it is info that is publicly available if you look at the source of any page that has your AdSense ads.
If you are still worried about it then the best thing to do is not participate. |
| How long will you be doing this? |
| While I can't guarantee it will run forever, there are no plans to stop it at any point.
But we do retain the right to halt the program or make adjustments to it as necessary if it's not working out in it's current form for whatever reason.
Revenue sharing has been suspended on this forum for the time being. Please visit this thread for more info. |
| I look at the HTML source on posts I've made and I never see my AdSense Client ID. |
| The system will never display your own AdSense Client ID to you (as long as you are logged in).
This is to prevent people from unknowingly violating the Adsense terms and conditions (specifically the part about clicking your own ads). |
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