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I honestly hope this site could be somewhat of a help…
I found this blog and video about optimizing vbulletin for google adsense, only problem… can’t see a damn thing he’s doing when he’s editing code.
Take a look, I’m sure you’ve seen it before: (Resource no longer exists)
I was hoping this site could have a nice vbulletin guide that was actually visible instead of the blurry one on duoblogger.
I want to generate relevant ads on my site, and it seems like the video had the right idea.
Anyone help?
Section targeting are Suggestions to AdSense which part of the content you say is the most relevant for AdSense.
So I would wrap it around the Thread Title and the Posts in a thread.
You can do that in the postbit or postbit_legacy template.
If you want you can (Resource no longer exists) they implement section targeting with their software all around the forum. It is the most easiest way.
I am using it on all of my forums.
If you want you can find a long term case study of one of my forums using vBSEO here: (Resource no longer exists)
However I don't say that it will work miracles on your traffic, but personally I like it and use it on all of my forums.
I just started this one here and use vBSEO on it ;)
It has so many nice little things like the Section targeting that you don't have to take care of any more then ;)
Or simply ask the author of the video for the original file or a better resolution file, perhaps he won't mind sending it to you.
But you can also set large portions of text to be ignored by using: which you could wrap around the footer, the navbar, the username, etc.
oh, and where can I find the thread title?
Do you know where exactly I should put any type of section targeting code to get the ads to show up better...
ps - starting to love you guys for all the help
Also in the postbit you should wrap it around the post message only and not the whole postbit template.
But correct me if I'm wrong... Is this the code in the postbit that I need to wrap the section targeting around?
<div class="postbody"> {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_messagearea_start} <div class="postrow"> <vb:if condition="$post['title'] OR $show['messageicon']"> <h2 class="posttitle icon"> <vb:if condition="$show['messageicon']"><img src="{vb:raw post.iconpath}" alt="{vb:raw post.icontitle}" /> </vb:if>{vb:raw post.title} </h2> </vb:if> <vb:if condition="$post['isfirstshown']"> {vb:raw ad_location.ad_showthread_firstpost_start} {vb:raw ad_location.thread_first_post_content} </vb:if> <vb:if condition="$post['islastshown']"> {vb:raw ad_location.thread_last_post_content} </vb:if> <div class="content<vb:if condition="$show['first_ad'] OR $show['last_ad']"> hasad</vb:if>"> <div id="post_message_{vb:raw post.postid}"> <blockquote class="postcontent restore"> {vb:raw post.message} </blockquote> </div> <vb:if condition="$show['attachments']"> <div class="attachments"> <vb:if condition="$show['thumbnailattachment']"> <fieldset class="postcontent"> <legend><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/paperclip.png" class="inlineimg" alt="{vb:rawphrase attached_thumbnails}" /> {vb:rawphrase attached_thumbnails}</legend> {vb:raw post.thumbnailattachments} </fieldset> </vb:if> <vb:if condition="$show['imageattachment']"> <fieldset class="postcontent"> <legend><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/paperclip.png" class="inlineimg" /> {vb:rawphrase attached_images}</legend> {vb:raw post.imageattachments} </fieldset> </vb:if> <vb:if condition="$show['imageattachmentlink']"> <fieldset class="postcontent"> <legend><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/paperclip.png" class="inlineimg" /> {vb:rawphrase attached_images}</legend> <ul> {vb:raw post.imageattachmentlinks} </ul> </fieldset> </vb:if> <vb:if condition="$show['otherattachment']"> <fieldset class="postcontent"> <legend><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/paperclip.png" class="inlineimg" /> {vb:rawphrase attached_files}</legend> <ul> {vb:raw post.otherattachments} </ul> </fieldset> </vb:if> <vb:if condition="$show['moderatedattachment']"> <fieldset class="postcontent"> <legend><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/paperclip.png" class="inlineimg" /> {vb:rawphrase attachments_pending_approval}</legend> <ul> {vb:raw post.moderatedattachments} </ul> </fieldset> </vb:if> </div> <!-- / attachments --> </vb:if> </div>{vb:raw post.message}The code isn't that hard to read.
{vb:raw post.title}would be the post title.This way you can see where something has to go and if you made a mistake.
You can hardly do anything wrong here. In the worst case just revert the template to its original state and start over. It's basic HTML that any webmaster should know or at least start to learn.