Google Adsense revenue sharing
denel003 - December 21, 2005 - 07:03
I've seen some other threads about AdSense revenue sharing, but seems there's no modules that do this yet. I have a website and I want the users to be able to enter their AdSense publisher ID so that on their blog pages a % of the time the Ads will be under their ID. I don't know PHP much, just enough to get by on tweaking things, but I'm not sure how this would be done.
I know there's hacks out there to do this in vBulletin and such. Can anyone help me out?
Profile field for AdSense publisher ID and some template hacking
Quick and Dirty Solution:
Depending on your needs you can make the custom profile field mandatory (so that every author has to fill in something) or default to your own publisher ID (so that if an author does not want revenue from her posts the revenue comes to you) or not show an add at all (Authors who do not want to earn do not have ads with their posts).
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Yeah, this I can do, but
Yeah, this I can do, but it's just so... dirty! I guess nobody has done this and wants to show how? :P
Isn't all that dirty
Read this post titled HOW TO: Create Intelligent Blog Ads at Performancing.com. Scroll down to the middle of the page and read the section titled "Set the channel".
The author uses the post author's name as the channel for an ad. This is basically a variation off what I suggested (Each menthod has a few advantages and disadvantages).
Also consider that retrieving the value for a specific profile field is easy. Just use
$author->profile_fieldname. Of course you will have to populate$authorbeforehand and also take care of special conditions (mentioned in my earlier post).You will have to stick in the AdSense snippet somewhere. It will be either in the templates or as a block in the sidebar. Dynamically adding in an identifier either in the channel or Publisher ID does not add much to task.
Please note that I don't know anything about the Google AdSense module works... maybe it allows more options or better ways of doing all the stuff outlined above. Do let us know how you eventually managed what you are trying to do.
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The google adsense module
The google adsense module has adsense tags which your users can use.
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My bad. I was thinking of
My bad. I was thinking of channels (as used in the tags) not unique publisher ID's. Sorry.
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Adsense module
I have been asked to incorporate this in my adsense module more than once.
I raised questions on this, but did not get a satisfying answer:
1. Is it allowed by Google terms of service?
2. Is it worth risking your account being terminated?
See here for details http://drupal.org/node/30875
If Google allows it, we can discuss how to best implement it in a automated way (e.g. profile field with Google client ID on your nodes, ...etc.), but not before that ...
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Not against TOS
According to Google, this is not against their TOS. There is a website that already does something like this and a handful of people have emailed Google, their response has been that it is fine. The only problem would be that you cannot have more than one Publisher ID on any given page, so if you had more than one AdSense block per page, you would need them to all be from the same user.
So for now, this is in accordance to the TOS. I would love it if you would implement this into your Adsense module, since I am using that now. If I can help in any way...
We need an official reference to this Google's OK.
We need an official reference to this Google's OK.
The problem is not just with the hosting site that swaps AdSense IDs. The users who submit their IDs may have revenue at stake elsewhere and need to be re-assured.
Progress
It seems I have a sponsor who is willing to fund this for inclusion in the Adsense module.
Will know for sure in the next few days.
Stay tuned.
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This is now a feature
This is now a standard feature for Adsense on 4.6.
Enjoy ...
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AdSense Account Challenges
This additional feature has definitely got me thinking about the potential of sharing revenue with active members who frequently contribute.
Some additional questions arise however...