happy b'day Carte Blanche!!

Gizmo, which of your sites are you referring to? I had a quick browse, but didn't register or log in, and I didn't see any ads.

And thanks Sirdude.

It's not a style that has ad's, it's the forum; and there are adsense ad's all over the forums on UGN (check my sig)

Ok, now, what's the sql command where I can set all the forum permissions view ad island to 1 for all my forums across all my groups. It's too much of a pain in the ass to try and do it individually for every forum for every group. There needs to be some select all options.

Also, how can I get the adsense stuff to adopt my wrappers so that it'll blend in regardless of what stylesheet my users are using.

Finally, because the ads are mostly going into boxes, are they picking up the context of the pages being displayed? Seems Google is phasing out the ads where you can select categories in August, but my new ads don't really seem to have any relevance to the the things on my pages.

Yep, I R n00B

Ok, maybe that wasn't finally. I see there's the bit where you can give adsense your authentication url....

let me step back, I created a new user, gave him the access that I wanted adsense to have so it could crawl hidden content to better target advertising.

So, I've told adsense this is the auth url..

http://www.theancientorder.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=login

What should I put as the restricted url? Also, for the parameters are we talking simple username and password as the names? Is it a POST method?

Bleh, It's 2:50 am here, I"m bleary eyed and tired so pardon my lack of clear thinking, I'm just too much a dabbler in all this instead of establishing any proficiency.

I'll answer what I can...

Adsense has a bot, it will troll your site; it should target ads according to content it finds.

As for blending options; the adsense ad's don't use CSS, they just drop the color codes in the ad's (actually, i think the latest rendition actually saves the ad colors on their servers) so theres not much to do in reguards to "matching".

Yah, I figured out the last bit. I think the way to address that might be to in essence create several ads and tweak the palette for the ads to the most common stylesheets in use on the site. Then again, I'm not sure I want to go through that much hassle either.

I figured that they had to be able to troll my site, but a lot of my content is "hidden" due login related levels.

So, while I gave the url to the login part, I just need to make sure that I'm giving them the right parameters for the dummy account I set up that should give them the requisite level of access to allow a proper content search.

Anyone got that handly sql statement I asked for?

Thanks for the assistance Giz.

I didn't know the bot could login... Do you have any documentation on this?