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Section Targetting & forums

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by thebassman, Aug 26, 2005.

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  1. #1
    Has anyone tried to impliement section targetting on their forums? phpbb forums specifically tend to bring up phpbb-related ads, and section targetting might help reduce this. Has anyone placed around with it and seen good results?
     
    thebassman, Aug 26, 2005 IP
  2. aeiouy

    aeiouy Peon

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    Yes.

    I exclude the overallheader.tpl all the way from where it starts <body> until the end.

    I exclude the entire overallfooter.tpl

    Then I include just the postrow section for the text in viewtopic.tpl

    Seems to work pretty well. I can get targetted ads that are way off topic for my site just from the post text.
     
    aeiouy, Aug 26, 2005 IP
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    programmer Guest

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    #3
    hum.... then it seems its useful :)
     
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  4. thebassman

    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    #4
    So you just include the post comments basically, then, eh?
     
    thebassman, Aug 26, 2005 IP
  5. aeiouy

    aeiouy Peon

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    yup. I just tested it for fun. I have a link unit on the top of each topic.. By the time the message refreshed after I posted it I had targeted ads. It is instant for me.

    I have seen a few cases where ads have gone off target and then gone back and not sure why.. but it seems to work well for me.
     
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  7. thebassman

    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    #7
    Is there a phpbb walk-through on where to change this...?
     
    thebassman, Aug 27, 2005 IP
  8. aeiouy

    aeiouy Peon

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    Let me see if I can put something together tomorrow.. I am a bit delirious from lack of sleep right now to do it justice... And I need to check because the site I did it on was fairly modified so I don't want to make it too confusing.
     
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  9. aeiouy

    aeiouy Peon

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    #9
    I will give it a try now... might not be pretty.. but I will do it on a clean 2.017 install:


    open templates/subsilver/overall_header.tpl

    find:
    </head>
    Code (markup):
    add after:
    <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
    Code (markup):
    find:
    td height="25" align="center" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span class="mainmenu">&nbsp;<a href="{U_PROFILE}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_profile.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_PROFILE}" hspace="3" />{L_PROFILE}</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="{U_PRIVATEMSGS}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_message.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{PRIVATE_MESSAGE_INFO}" hspace="3" />{PRIVATE_MESSAGE_INFO}</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="{U_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_login.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" hspace="3" />{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}</a>&nbsp;</span></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>

<br />
    Code (markup):
    add after:
    <!-- google_ad_section_end -->
    Code (markup):


    open templates/subsilver/overall_footer.tpl

    find:
    <div align="center"><span class="copyright"><br />{ADMIN_LINK}<br />
    Code (markup):
    add before:
    <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
    Code (markup):

    find:
    </body>
    Code (markup):
    add before:
    <!-- google_ad_section_end -->
    Code (markup):

    open template/subsilver/viewtopic_body.tpl


    find:
    <!-- BEGIN postrow -->
    Code (markup):
    add after:
    <!-- google_ad_section_start -->
    Code (markup):

    find:
    <!-- END postrow -->
    Code (markup):
    add before:
    <!-- google_ad_section_end -->
    Code (markup):
    That should work for focusing the forum text for ads on the forum pages.

    If you have any problems let me know... I know it is not in standard mod form, but it will have to do for now. :)
     
    aeiouy, Aug 27, 2005 IP
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    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    #10
    Sweet! Thanks! :D
     
    thebassman, Aug 28, 2005 IP
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    #11
    Joeychgo was part of a beta test/experiment run bu Google to look at click-through rates for ads positioned in diffferent parts of forum pages. See his thread at http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/ -- it's for vBulletin but the results should apply to any forum.
     
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    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    Good info... :)
     
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    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    Thanks, bassman... laundry day here and I was too lazy to go look :eek:
     
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    #15
    Anyone seeing some better results? I have made the change this week and since I have made the change I got a feeling my ECPM went down half. Is anyone else experiencing this? I know it will take about two weeks to serve the right ads. It looks as soon you make a change it has a effect on your ECPM.
     
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    You made which change exactly? :confused:
     
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    I have implemented the section targeting coding in my phpbb templates and since then I have noticed that my ECPM went down. I was just wondering whether this would be a coincident?
     
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  18. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    #18
    I don't know about your forum specifically but I can give you some personal feedback: I think having Google ads in more than one location, or moving around, or in the middle of the page/thread is annoying... and when I'm annoyed by ads I don't click on them and may even block them.

    My advice is to put them in the page header or footer and leave them there.
     
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    Well my ctr averages about 5 to 6 procent so Im quit pleased with Im just a bit more concerned about my ECPM going down after adding the adsense targeting coding. Nevertheless Im just going to give it a bit more time to see the final result. Maybe the ECPM went down half because its the end of the month.
     
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    Did I not already .. post a thread about this.
     
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