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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:

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• 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.

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• 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