Google ads

registered · New Member Joined: Apr 26, 2004 Posts: 9

Hi!

I noticed that a lot of Nuke sites including this have Google ads as a banner. What is the benefit of doing this?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Every time anyone clicks through the ads, CACHUNG goes cash into your account! Come on folks start clicking!

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:42 pm

Jigsatics,

Google Adsense is a way to make more income from your website.

More infomation can be found here

Hope this helped explain it some

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:12 pm

How do you add the banner on the site? I already have an account but it asks me to cut and paste a code. I cannot cut and paste a code because the banner option in nuke asks for a URL.

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:41 pm

Code:

<?


/


$content = <<<_JS_


<!-- Begin Google code. -->


***Enter Google code they give you here***


<!-- end of Google -->


_JS_;


?>

Save it as block_google.php upload it to your site and create block

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:42 pm

You can also just add the code to your theme this works nice when you want to load it above the nuke header as you'll see on many sites.

Client Joined: Apr 10, 2004 Posts: 649 Location: UK

2 questions:

1. Do you get much cash from this because I've found in the past banner ads either on click or commission don't pay much if anything.

2. Does it slow the site down at all?

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:54 pm

1. Google Ads vary in click pay outs anywhere from $0.03 and up.
They do not pay you until you've reached $100.00.

2. NO! Wink

I've been running google ads for about two months, I think I've reached about 60 bucks..... Laughing

but it better than 0.... Wink

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:57 pm

Well I've applied, but the tax thing is confusing. I'm not a business so not sure what happens there. I'll wait and see what they say about my application.

If they only pay out when you reach $100 I'd be waiting years on my site for any money Shocked

I have an Ebay affiliate box, but never had anything from that one lol

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:31 am

Sentinel won't let me do this type of block. It gives me a scripting ban.

Involved Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 252 Location: OKC, OK

You can turn off script blocking or just comment out sentinel make your change then go with back and turn it back on

Or activate a dummy block activate it, then edit it and past in the code outside of nuke.

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:47 pm

lol took me ages to suss it out, and ended up switching off the script blocking in sentinel.

The only thing with my googleads is, I seem to get more service ads than normal ads, and the ads I do get are mostly nothing to do with autos which is what the main content of my site is.

But I guess it depends on how many car companies etc advertise through Google.

I've added Googleads Search now too, which seems more promising.

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:43 pm

I'm getting parse error on line 2 using the code now.

Code:
<?
/
$content = <<<_JS_

***Enter Google code they give you here***

_JS_;
?>

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:50 pm

Remove the single slash on line 2 its doing nothing there but causing the error.

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:23 pm

still the parse problem.

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:33 pm

Email me the file and I'll see if I can sort it out quick.
webmaster//**//netflake.com

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:55 am

I'm going to try and get both the googleads and googleads search into one center block today. Both the ads and the ads search look good as centre blocks, but I think if they were both in the same block it would look neater.

Do I just add the googleads code then the br br then the googleads search code into the section where you put your code? But thats html code lol

Or do you use something else in php to break the two codes, or do you just bung one in after the other one with all their opening/closing tags as in each individual code?

Sorry just want to get this right as I'm only learning Shocked

registered · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:27 am

There are a bunch of downloads for the GoogleAds already made into nuke blocks. I think I write some a while ago too. PM me and I can send them to you. I think this is the link to the one I wrote a while back: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:09 pm

I have pre-formatted Google blocks available in my Downloads area if you want them. They are used by hundreds of sites.

Hope they are what you are looking for.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:44 pm

Dacubz wrote:

Sentinel won't let me do this type of block. It gives me a scripting ban.

Sentinel (and vanilla nuke btw) will only trap this if you are trying to use an html block. If you create a block and store it in the blocks folder, neither will ban you.

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:30 am

Thanks, it's running now. But now some of our membership is whining about ads on the site...grrrrr!

Client Joined: Jul 18, 2003 Posts: 977

Dacubz wrote:

Thanks, it's running now. But now some of our membership is whining about ads on the site...grrrrr!

I found that by changing the colors of the ads and making them blend perfectly people don't mind so much...

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:42 am

Well I've had this running a few days now and so far I've collected .60 pence (GBP)

Which means it'll take me 7 years to earn $100 rofl (I get about 100,000 hits a month as well) I gotta train my members to click click click lol

64bitguy I'll pop over and look at your adsense blocks today. Thanks!

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:19 pm

What files would you add it to if you wanted to add it to the themes.

I have tried adding it to my header but have not had any luck with that.

It works fine as a block.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:30 pm

In your theme.php theme_header function find

Code:

    echo "<body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" text=\"#606EC5\" link=\"#606EC5\" vlink=\"#606EC5\" alink=\"#4E5483\" leftmargin=\"1\" topmargin=\"1\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"1\"><br>\n\n\n";

Now yours will look a bit different, but it's still the body tag. Right after that code add you google code

Code:




echo <<<_GOOGLE_


<center>


<!--PLACE YOUR GOOGLE CODE HERE-->


</center>


<br />


_GOOGLE_;