I am looking for an AdSense sharing CMS, something that is pretty easy to set up and modify. Anyone got some ideas? I'm looking to change a few of my article websites into AdSense sharing sites, something similar to Squidoo or Hubpages but just let my users get their ads shown in their articles 100% of the time. Needs to have a nice dashboard where people can see their page views and some sort of community feature like messaging or forums.
Drupal + Adsense module is the simplest, but I don't like it, really too simple, I prefer my own code, much more flexible.
In wordpress or drupal or whatever CMS you are using, just enable wysiswg Editor. Once you have done that, you can simply copy paste the code in the editor and the ads will be shown, wherever you want. You can just visit second site of my signature link and can see that. It is very flexible. The adcode stays with the article.
Yes, but allowing users to paste a javascript code or even html is not recommended. That's why, just having their adsense publisher id is enough, then you construct the code yourself (use old adsense code format so you can control size and colors)
Yes Of Course James. User needs to give the publisher and the AdId and the article. owner of the site can then embed that into the post. Generating the adsense code is not that tough! But quite useful information you have shared, which I forgot to nail down!
WordPress is the best solution as adsense engine, you can develop your own code and install it in your theme, it;s work, and many top earning website / blog using wordpress as their CMS
The webmaster doing it by hand for each post is not convenient at all. The goal is to improve the money/worktime ratio.. ideally you would set up everything automatically, hire someone to take care of administrative tasks and then do nothing at all, 0 hours and still earn money, that would be totally free money. EDIT: oh, I see you talk about AdId, I thought about that, because the new adsense code has adsense publisher id and ad id, but the problem is that the user can then control the size and colors of the ad.. It's opening the door to abuse, 100% sure.. You would have to check constantly for those who put 160x600 size and ban them for doing so.. That's why I'm still using old adsense code. But in reality I never tried to see if we can still (with the new code) control the size and color at the html code level or not. If we can overwrite user's own size/colors by adding some variables at the html level, then yes the new code could work for adsense sharing while still keeping things in order on the site. If you have only a small team of people writing on your blog and you're sharing adsense with them, then that's fine, it's easy.. But if you let the site user registration open for people you don't know to sign up, then you need to assume someone is going to try all sorts of things to abuse your site, that's 100% sure, so don't let any weak point in your setup.
I guess just using wordpress and modify that to fit my needs is probably the best option, I don't really like drupal even though I don't have a lot of experience with it, pretty much all my sites are in wordpress. I agree that doing it by hand as a webmaster is not convenient and that's why I'm looking for a CMS that can do it for me easily, modifying wordpress is quite a bit of work so I hoped someone knew of some good CMS system that is set up for this that I can buy or is open source. Some kind of Squidoo or Hubpages clone should work as well, but I have not found anything I can use so far. That best-reviewer site is pretty cool, it's something like that is what I'm talking about. I'm all about making things efficient and not requiring a lot of modifying and administration.
Actually I think http://buddypress.org/ with some modifications might work great for something like this, just letting people add their AdSense IDs somehow and implementing them using the old AdSense code should work well.
James there are some sites like ezinearticles who gives you dofollow links but after they review your article. A site by name indiblogger.in allows your site's RSS to be submitted directly, they take a day's time and approve the RSS. But nobody can ensure that the contents of the site from evaluation and post evaluation will be consistent. Therefore there are always risk of notorious guys abusing your site. Hence if a site has to allow any sort of sharing, be it adsense or rss or whatever, it needs to be well moderated. In a sharing scenario, I believe that Ad size must be specified by the owner. The contributor creates the ad of the same size and delivers you the publisher's ID and AdId. simple php or plugin can generate the whole code, not a tough task. That can be put in the post of the publisher's posts. If he plays around with his ad size of the same adid, it is him who will violate the TOS of changing the adcode and not the site owner. So he is safe. But yes, with new adsense code, maintaining such a site is tough and really demands extra manpower!