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This is how to add a Google Adsense skyscraper down the left-hand side of your board.

Due to Google’s conditions, you don’t want ads appearing on every page, such as log-in pages, member-lists and search-results pages.

Apart from anything else, you would not get good results here because there is insufficient content to deliver meaningful ads.

The best place to put them is on the index page, the forum page, and the topic page.
examples of how your ads will look:
INDEX
FORUM PAGE
TOPIC PAGE

The layout of these pages is controlled by (.tpl) template files.

index_body.tpl - For the index page.
viewforum_body.tpl - For the forum page.
viewtopic_body.tpl - For the topic page.

So you need to add your Google code into each of these files.

You will find these files in your forum webspace in this directory:

templates/subSilver

These are just text files. Open them in a text editor, make the changes, then save them. If you downloaded them to edit them, you will need to upload the finished versions to the same templates/subSilver directory.

Basically, what we are going to do is add a table with two cells to each page. The left cell will contain your Google ads. The right cell will contain the forum information.

##########
index_body.tpl
##########

Open this file in your text editor.

Locate these lines in the file (may be lines 12, 13, 14):

<a href=”{U_SEARCH_UNANSWERED}” class=”gensmall”>{L_SEARCH_UNANSWERED}</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

BELOW these lines, include this code:

<table width=”100%” border=”0”><tr><td valign=”top”>
google code
</td>
<td width=”100%” valign=”top”>

This section of code should now look like this:

<a href=”{U_SEARCH_UNANSWERED}” class=”gensmall”>{L_SEARCH_UNANSWERED}</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width=”100%” border=”0”><tr><td valign=”top”>
google code
</td>
<td width=”100%” valign=”top”>

Replace the words “google code” with your actual Google code.

Here is an example of this section of code including my own Google code:

<a href=”{U_SEARCH_UNANSWERED}” class=”gensmall”>{L_SEARCH_UNANSWERED}</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width=”100%” border=”0”><tr><td valign=”top”>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-2034038845161531”;
google_ad_width = 160;
google_ad_height = 600;
google_ad_format = “160×600_as”;
google_ad_channel =”2542645218”;
google_color_border = “006699”;
google_color_bg = “EFEFEF”;
google_color_link = “006699”;
google_color_url = “006699”;
google_color_text = “000000”;
//–></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>
</td>
<td width=”100%” valign=”top”>

Locate these lines (near the bottom):

<table cellspacing=”3” border=”0” align=”center” cellpadding=”0”>
<tr>
<td width=”20” align=”center”><img src=”templates/subSilver/images/folder_new_big.gif” alt=”{L_NEW_POSTS}”/></td>

ABOVE these lines, include this code:

</td>
</tr></table>

This section of code should now look like this:

</td>
</tr></table>
<table cellspacing=”3” border=”0” align=”center” cellpadding=”0”>
<tr>
<td width=”20” align=”center”><img src=”templates/subSilver/images/folder_new_big.gif” alt=”{L_NEW_POSTS}”/></td>

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