Get better CTR with VBulletin Forums

Here is some code that you can put in your POSTBIT or POSTBIT LEGACY template (whichever you use) that will display ad's after the 1st post and then after every 5th post..
This code works great for VBulletin forums

Just go to posbit or postbit_legacy template and at the very bottom add the following code. Then insert your adsense code in area reserved for the code..
save and thats it.. Your CTR should get alot better.

<if condition="$post[postcount] % 6 == 0">

$spacer_open
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="thead" align="left">AD'S BY GOOGLE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt1" align="center">
		PLACE ADSENSE CODE HERE

	</td>
</tr>
</table>

</div>
$spacer_close

</if>



<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1">

$spacer_open
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="thead" align="left">AD'S BY GOOGLE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt1" align="center">
		PLACE ADSENSE CODE HERE
	</td>
</tr>
</table>

</div>
$spacer_close

</if>

Code (markup):

here is a example thread from my site using this code
http://www.secfanatics.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1609

 

If you use this code then share your experience.. would like to know how it does for other people. I know my clicks more than doubled when i added this code to my forum

 

And what happens if you have 20 posts per page? You end up breaking the rules of three ads per page! And users can select how many posts show up per page.

More like every nine posts, and with no only an ad in the header and not the footer.

 

Google won't show more than 3 ads even if you put the code.

Subhendu

 

thanks for that code i will be using it one my next forum

 

true since i have adsense in my header i do only 10 posts per page so that doesnt happen..
you can edit the code as well and change it to every how many posts that you want

 

to change to every 9 posts just change this

<if condition="$post[postcount] % 6 == 0">



to this

<if condition="$post[postcount] % 9 == 0">

 

AdSense after the first post works pretty well. One thing I've noticed on my golf forum is only the ad after the first post works well. If you have another ad on the thread, it won't perform well at all.

If you want to know where the real money is to be made from AdSense for forums, it's in the archive.

 

What would be the comparable "add-in" for phpBB?

 

Archive?

I tried adsense on a phpBB forum with lots of users, they weren't very on topic and the CTR was not worth speaking of.

 

Well, my ads are pretty targeted. Usually golf related.

I've found that visitors to my archive usually come from search engines since my members probably wouldn't browse the archive. Since I'm not really conscious about upsetting non-registered users, I have ad placements in prominent locations in the archive.

I have AdSense and forum registration messages located in prominent areas of the archive to make the chances of a visitor clicking on either of those as high as possible. You'd be surprised at the click through rate you can get in the archive.

 

I think this should be a good solution:
Inline Banner Ad - http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=306680

 

Thats a very good idea

 

I'm still completely lost as to what the archive is, is that some vbulletin specific feature?

Sorry for my stupidness, I blame it on language barriers

 

Great new Mod...Took just a few seconds to install

I like the Admin of that. I'm not sure if vB is the same way but not only can you choose whether Guests/Members see the ads but you can base them on post count.

After 10 posts, for example, you can have the ads disappear.

Thanks for pointing out the link!

 

Looks like a good mod to phpbb.. I have considered it, but I don't want to annoy my users..

 

Do you think it would hurt you if it was displaying to Guests only?

 

Yes, I believe the "archive" is vBulletin specific.

 

actually Invision Powerboard has a archive as well

 

Thanks for the mini-review - I'll give it a go later today...