0plus1 Blog » Communities http://0plus1.com/blog Code snippets and programming resources Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:09:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 How to allow ad-sense bot to crawl phpbb3 private forums http://0plus1.com/blog/2009/05/how-to-allow-ad-sense-bot-to-crawl-phpbb3-private-forums/ http://0plus1.com/blog/2009/05/how-to-allow-ad-sense-bot-to-crawl-phpbb3-private-forums/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 10:04:25 +0000 admin http://0plus1.com/blog/?p=26 If you operate a forum with private sections and public section, you’ll find that the ads that ad-sense pushes on your website are created based solely on the public content. If you want more accurate result you may want to look into the ad-sense’ s “Site Authentication” feature. Here’s a small how-to on how to achieve this:

phpbb3

  • Create a user in the acp (for this example sake let’s use: adsense as username and adsense as password).
  • Give him permission based on your forum structure, we advise to give him read-only access on the whole forum.

ad-sense

  • go to the AdSense Setup tab, then click on the Site Authentication section.
  • click on the add a login link
  • Set it like this:
    • Restricted Directory or URL: the forum url (example: http://www.example.com/forum)
    • Authentication URL: the path to the ucp.php?mode=login file (example: http://www.example.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login)
    • Authentication method: POST
    • Parameters: (you have to add them manually)
      • Attribute: login – Value: Login
      • Attribute: password – Value: userpassword (example: adsense)
      • Attribute: username – Value: username (example: adsense)
  • Now click on: Test My Authentication URL to check if everything went ok

      • Hope this will help you

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