Customize Google Adsense Ads in Vbulletin 4

[MikeLac]

Hi Dave! I finally got around to registering like I said I would.

In your post from your Twilight theme over at Vbulletin.org, you had mentioned that I should customize my Adsense Ads on my site to match the Theme. I had no clue where to look for the places to change the code. But I knew that I would find out how to do it. It was pretty easy to do. I just did a Search for "Google" in the Style Templates and it came up with the ones that I needed to change.

So, I will share with everyone which templates you need to edit.

Go into your Admin Control Panel.

Styles & Templates ==> Style Manager

Select Edit Templates from the menu.

The Templates that you need to edit are under "Ad Location Templates".

There are 3 Templates that you need to replace the Google Adsense code with your Customized Adsense code. I am assuming that you already know how to make Customized Adsense Ads within Google Adsense.

Here are the Template names:

ad_footer_start
ad_navbar_below
ad_showthread_firstpost_start

The ad_showthread_firstpost_start template uses the 300x250 Google Ad format. The other 2 uses the 728x90 format.

Just replace the Google Adsense code in those 3 Templates with your customized code.

I was fairly busy yesterday customizing the Google Ads in all 12 styles on my site. I also have a Google Search bar on my site just below the header. So, I had to edit 4 Templates Per style. It took awhile. But it was worth it!

Check out my site in my Sig. Have a look at the Google Ads. Go through the different Styles and see how I customized the Ads for each Style. Even try typing in some text in the Google Search bars to see the colors that I used for that as well.

Let me know your thoughts!

I only have one problem that I am trying to figure out. I have a Google Adsense Widget that I created which I use in the different Sections from the Sections menu on the Home page. I want to customize that with each style but now sure how. I have created a Custom Template for each Style. The template contains the Google Adsense Code. I named the Template "Google_Ad_Widget". I want to create a Widget which runs the Html code from that template and displays the Adsense Ads. Not sure how. But once again, I will figure it out. But if somebody could save me some time and tell me how to do it, that would be appreciated.

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[daveaite]

Great post!! Thanks for explaining this to people. Sometimes I assume too much, without explaining anything. Sorry about that.

You can add different adsense codes per theme by applying it from the adsense templates in admincp

style and templates > edit templates > ad location templates > Pick the right template you want.

Do this for each theme. Should work.