Free Joomla Module – Adsense Revenue Sharing
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After some deliberation, I've decided to release my revenue sharing Joomla module for Google Adsense as Open Source. So yes, you can download it and use it for free on your website. Revenue sharing is a great way to drive fresh content creation for your website, by offering authors the opportunity to receive Adsense impressions on their content.
I extended the popular Adsense Clicksafe module, to enable revenue sharing. By installing this module, you'll get the following features:
- Specify defaul Adsense ID
- Specify default channel ID
- Specify ad impression sharing percentage (50%, 33%, 25%, 20%, 10%)
- Block ads for up to 5 IP addresses
- Specify alternate code for bloacked ads
- Choose ad alignment
- Choose ad type
- Choose ad layout
- Specify framed pages
- Specify alternate ad URL
- Specify alternate ad color
- Specify up to 4 border colors
- Specify up to 4 background colors
- Specify up to 4 link colors
- Specify up to 4 URL colors
- Specify up to 4 Text colors
Tracking the Adsense/channel ID of each author is incredibly simple. Just create a contact linked to their user ID, and put the following anywhere in the Miscellaneous field:
[adsenseid]pub-################[/adsenseid]
[channelid]##########[/channelid]
Here's the link to download: Adsense Revenue Sharing Module for Joomla with ClickSafe IP Blocking
Let me know of any concerns or questions in the reply field below!
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on April 4th, 2006 at 5:21 am
Thank you very much for this excellent additional feature that you have added to our popular Google AdSense Module. To enable the Joomla Community to get all the versions and editions of this module in one central place, we have added this to our download center also at http://www.joomlaspan.com. You can see the details here: http://www.joomlaspan.com/news/latest/google-adsense-revenue-sharing-module-for-joomla.html.
We have also ensured that you get due credit for having developed this module. Your name and website are credited to in the readme.txt file, as well as in many other places prominently.
We welcome more Joomla community members to develop this module further,
Thank you
Yours ever
Joomlaspan (http://www.joomlaspan.com)
on April 19th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
I'm using Community Builder and would like each user to be able to enter their pubID into a field in their profile and it would automatically be linked, rather than the admin having to manually create a new contact for each user and manually entering in the pubID. Is this possible?
on April 19th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Yes, all you would need to do is change the SQL statement in the code to retrieve the adsense ID from the respective table. Then just change the start and end markers to parse the id
on April 28th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Awesome module, I love the idea of content based revenue sharing.
I have modified the module to integrate with Community Builder.
You can find it here under Revenue Sharing related downloads.
http://userwrittenresources.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=7
on May 22nd, 2006 at 6:41 pm
We're about to go live with an all new website in a few days… I am setting up this same module for our new site and was wondering if I edit the xml file to say:
100% of impressions
50% of impressions
33% of impressions
25% of impressions
20% of impressions
10% of impressions
if selecting 100% from the drop down menu that it lists will really give the users 100% of the impressions? I want my writers who write the reviews on our site to get them all, I dont' want any of the impressions myself.
Thanks!
on May 22nd, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Doh, it doesn't let me paste XML code, it took out the changes i made…
Anyways, is there a way to make it do 100% by editing the XML file? if so, can you please email it to me? Thanks man.
Brad
on May 25th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
How is the revenue shared if three authors have intros to their articles on the frontpage?
on July 21st, 2006 at 1:49 pm
# cMoo92 Says:
April 19th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
I'm using Community Builder and would like each user to be able to enter their pubID into a field in their profile and it would automatically be linked, rather than the admin having to manually create a new contact for each user and manually entering in the pubID. Is this possible?
# Justin Cook Says:
April 19th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Yes, all you would need to do is change the SQL statement in the code to retrieve the adsense ID from the respective table. Then just change the start and end markers to parse the id
Can you be more specific on how to do this with an example? Thanks.
on August 31st, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Nice site… Cool guestbook…
on September 18th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
How does this work? Is the adsense shared for the author's own work on their pages or is it divided amonsgst all authors across the site? The former seems to be most fair and likely but I have to make sure since the method doesn't go into detail.
on September 18th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
The adsense is shared for the author's own work alone
on September 21st, 2006 at 10:15 am
How does this work? Is the adsense shared for the author's own work on their pages or is it divided amonsgst all authors across the site? The former seems to be most fair and likely but I have to make sure since the method doesn't go into detail.
on September 26th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Wow, I come back to this site to ask another question to see that someone copied my question before likely just to spam your site…
Anyway, I have another question. IS there a way to alter the script so that a greater percentage is given to the content contributor? maybe 60% or more?
on September 26th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
you just need to edit the XML file, and add a 60% option
on November 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Hi there,
Really excited about deploying this module on my site and sharing some of the revenue with our authors. Thanks for making this available.
Just wanted to clarify; if the module is copied to two or three locations on a page, will the ads appearing in each location only be for the author for, say, the specified rate of 33% of the time, or could one module show ads for the author, and the other locations show my ads at the same time? Just worried this could put me in violation of Google's terms of use.
on November 8th, 2006 at 8:09 am
No, that shouldn't be a problem. The percentage is based on the number of hits the Joomla content has received, so all module copies would use the same math, and therefore display it at the same time.
on November 8th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Thanks Justin, good to know. And thanks again for the great work on the module.
on November 21st, 2006 at 10:14 am
Hi,
Thanks for the great module.
However, I cannot make more copies of this module. When I publish two instances of this, I get error in the second position:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_string_between() (previously declared in /home/account/public_html/modules/mod_revshare.php:88) in /home/account/public_html/modules/mod_revshare.php on line 95
Any reasons/ workarounds for this?
Thanks in advance
Winston Tan
on November 21st, 2006 at 10:18 am
Hmm, hadn't thought of that. The only workaround would be to move the object into a common include file, so it doesn't get re-declared
on November 21st, 2006 at 10:43 am
Thank u for the immediate response.
Please tell me how to do that? I am a PHP illiterate person!
What changes to do in the mod_revshare.php file?
on December 9th, 2006 at 4:25 am
> Hmm, hadn't thought of that. The only workaround would be to move the
> object into a common include file, so it doesn't get re-declared
Or just att a if function/class exists-statement.
Looking forwrad to try this compoonent out!
on December 31st, 2006 at 5:19 pm
I'm encountering the same problem…can only place one add on my page or I get "Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_string_between() (previously declared in /blah/blah/mod_revshare.php:88".
Seems like a great module but unfortunately is useless to many if we can't add more than one ad block.
on January 17th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Hiya! Not much activity on here in a while but I was just wondering if antthing has been done (or planned to be)to this potentially awesome module regarding it only being able to appear once on a page, and to integrate it with CB as previously dicussed by making it look at CB fields for the adsense+channel Id?
I hope so as this has so much potential adn have no coding skills whatsoever!
on January 17th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Hi there, I've figured out an easy fix, you just need to add these two lines of code to mod_revshare.php:
On line #87 add:
if(!function_exists('get_string_between')) {
And then change line #95 from } to }}
on January 18th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Thanks Justin works like a charm!!! Thats step 1, now all I have to do is to work out how to make it use the asense Id numbers from the Community builder fields…
on January 18th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
For the fix, is this something that can be fixed and the the module can be rereleased?
As for the Community Builder questions, there is one out there but honestly I have never been able to get it to work. I have tried so many times. I would be great to see one that work.
I'll try to work on it this weekend.
on January 18th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Yes, it could fixed and re-released. But that would take a little bit of time, and I'm busy with paid projects right now. They take priority of course.
on January 18th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
It was quick and fixed. I can send it to you if you want. I will try to get the CB version down this weekend. If you ever have time for some small Joomla projects let me know.
on January 18th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Excellent. I may have some time starting mid February for small projects.
on January 18th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
false alarm.
thought i had it working with the fix above but after logging in as a new user i get the following error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_string_between() in /home/username/public_html/sitename/modules/mod_revshare.php on line 50
on January 19th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Are you sure you copied it correctly? There's no reason why it shouldn't work
on January 19th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
I am sure. The get_string_between() appears in several other locations. It is hard for me to test but it only seems to occur on a site that i was a new user on. it only happened when i initially logged in. After I logged in and surfed around it was ok. But on initial login I got error above. I will try again. Almost done with the CB stuff. If you want, email me and I can email you the site but the error shows my folders etc
on January 20th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
OK did some testing today.
The fix above allows numberous adsense revenue modules to be shown on the page. Works great.
I have found the following error. I appears to occur randomly. After login, the following error sometimes appears.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_string_between() in /home/username/public_html/sitename/modules/mod_revshare.php on line 50
It error will block the loading of the rest of the page. If you use our back button or click on a menu link the site will funtion normally and the rev share multi module will work normally.
I have tested it with both CB login and regular login. Sometimes I can log in 5 times in a row with out the error and sometimes i get the error a few times in a row with either log in. It seems to occur more frequently with the CB login module.
It is a dangerous error even if it occurs 1 out of 100 times as it give your server username and filename.
on January 20th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Is anyone else experiencing this?
on January 20th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Justin, is there a way to contact you?
on January 20th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
my email address should be listed in the module, but it's justincook [ @ ] gmail [ . ] com
on January 21st, 2007 at 4:15 am
I made it work with Community Builder in multiple positions!!!!! You can see it demonstrated at http://www.simplyjoomla.com (dont worry I am not spamming , it is just a test site) It is 4am so I will post it somewhere tomorrow with instructions!!! I will send Justin a copy to post also.
on January 21st, 2007 at 9:02 pm
OK you can download the CB Integrated version at http://www.simplyjoomla.com.
on January 22nd, 2007 at 7:03 am
Butler, thats excellent news
Working till 4am, thats dedication to the cause lol! I will test it and let you know if I can see any problems but initially it looks spot on, well done!
on January 24th, 2007 at 3:50 am
It doesn't works on my website. It is always the ads with my adsenseID who are displayed, and not the adsenseid of my authors. I use the CB revenue sharing.
Someone could explain me how to do with this module?
I have created the adsense cb fields, i choosed 50%, i display the ads in a sidebar in each article. The displaying is ok, but only with my adsenseid.
on January 25th, 2007 at 8:32 am
syl20, I have spoken with you and will post the fix. Please note the instructions are different than Joomlaspans. My fields are named differently.
Justin, sy120 had a good question. if you are using the caching is here a way to still make the module rotate?
on January 26th, 2007 at 10:29 am
If you are using caching, then I believe all output would be cached, including modules. This would place a damper on the rotation. Of course, the only way to verify that would be to test it!
on January 26th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
yeah that is what syl90 said. that is too bad with some joomla sites that need caching. But I am not sure how caching and original hits work. Dorry I haven't hit you back yet. Just been really busy.
on February 27th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
i will put this one the test now.. hope this one use full for my Seo tools site
and i realy love if this have feature of decrease share revenue depend on time ..
eg: the author will have 100% share in fist week then 70% one next .. go on ..
just the idea.. for help making money with poster
on March 13th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Hiya
gread module, but I do not understadn how do users add their adsense code, I am running joomla 1.0.12 nor how to rotate adsense codes.
thanks for clues
on March 13th, 2007 at 9:49 am
As explained in the instructions:
Just create a contact linked to their user ID, and put the following anywhere in the Miscellaneous field:
[adsenseid]pub-################[/adsenseid]
[channelid]##########[/channelid]
on March 13th, 2007 at 9:52 am
hello thanks for fast answering
Could users enter their own adsense code at registration time ?
on March 13th, 2007 at 9:55 am
I don't believe so, they'll need to contact you. The community builder version may allow that.
on March 13th, 2007 at 11:03 am
OK, and for future versions maybe ?
on March 13th, 2007 at 11:15 am
That's not really in the scope of this component, that's a feature of Joomla – to allow your users to edit their own misc. field
on March 14th, 2007 at 4:17 am
Hello
Thanks for your infos. I have installed your module, with adsense code in contact datas, now understood. If you peek an eye on my website, you will see that it is joomla with phpbb equipped forum (phpbb bridge from http://www.mehdiplugins.com/misc/phpbbjoom.htm )
My question : what will happen in that case, how will be chosen the adsense code to be displayed within the forum ?
And will the shared users see their adsense code displayed when visitors visit the forum and not only the joomla part of the site ??
thanks for info
CM
on March 14th, 2007 at 6:44 am
I haven't configured the module for any forum software. You'd have to find a separate phpBB revenue sharing module
on April 25th, 2007 at 5:11 am
can someone help me with codeing an adsense sharing for every autor? Someone links a page were i can find the changes. But i have no idea.
on April 29th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Hey Butler, I have downloaded the module from your site but I cant make it work.. it only display the ads with my adsense Id… is not picking the users adsense… how do u make it work?
on April 29th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Never Mind, my bad… was calling the wrong table… Im not using CB… Thanx…
on July 13th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I am also experiencing the error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_string_between() in /home/myhomepa/public_html/modules/mod_revshare.php on line 50
It also happens infrequently, in this case approximately 1 in 20 to 1 in 25 times. There are no authors setup at the moment, but when a test author wes setup… the error occured more frequently. The error also occurs when caching is turned on or off.
I also want to setup 100% share to the author, is it only the one entry in the xml file or is there a change in the database or another file?
on July 13th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Just the XML file, you'd have to add another option for 100%
on July 15th, 2007 at 9:46 am
I am absolutely new to joomla.
Can you plz explain how to create a contact linked to their user id..
Can the user do this on his own or should the admin do it..
And how to configure it if site has 1000 revenue sharing posters..
Please explain in detail as i am very new to this
on July 15th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Can you plz explain how to create contact linked to each user..Can the user do this or should the admin do it..And how to manage say 1000 adsense revenue sharing users using this..I am absolutely new here.. So plz explain in detail..
on July 16th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Sorry, you'll have to find a Joomla tutorial, or join the Joomla boards for the fundamental stuff
on July 18th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Thanks for the reply about the adding of the 100%, I also think I have the value right as a divisable number of 100. 100% would have a value of 1.
Thanks
on July 18th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Any idea on this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_string_between() in /home/myhomepa/public_html/modules/mod_revshare.php on line 50
Thanks
on July 18th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
No sure. Just make sure you've kept the function in place!
on July 18th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Hi Justin,
Nice plug-in. Could you elaborate more on the tracking? We can add it to the miscellaneous field, but then what?
Is it tracked by Google? If not, what are the steps to take to see how much the author has earned?
Thanks.
on July 18th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Hi Justin,
Here is what is happenning.
The error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_string_between() in /home/myhomepa/public_html/modules/mod_revshare.php on line 50
disappeara when the fix you provided above that added:
if(!function_exists('get_string_between')) {
to line 87
and:
}}
on line 95 is removed.
Some observations when the line 87 fix is included:
The error only appears on pages with one adsense ad, all pages that have more than one adsense ad never display the error.
It only seems to occur on pages with single ads and only when it is the authors revshare ad display… the default ad seems to always display ok.
on July 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
That is very strange behaviour. Perhaps the get_string_between function may have to be changed for regular expression matching
on July 19th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
To Ms. Latina -
You don't see how much the author has earned, the earnings are tracked in each author's own adsense account
on July 19th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Hi Justin,
I am not sure how to make the change from get_string_between function to the regular expression matching that you mentioned. I was hoping that you would know how since I am sure others may encounter the same problem in the future.
Thanks for your help.
on July 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 am
Try this, replace lines 50-55 with this, let me know if it works:
$do = preg_match("/[adsenseid](.*)[/adsenseid]/", $gid, $matches);
if($do) {
$newAds = $matches['0'];
$do2 = preg_match("/[channelid](.*)[/channelid]/", $gid, $matches2);
if($do2) $chl = $matches2['0'];
$altAd = true;
}
on August 21st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Sorry Justin, I tried your suggestion and it didn't work.
I have to give up on this for now and wait until maybe an update in the future or someone else can figure it out.
Thanks though.
on August 21st, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I should let you know.
After applying the fix, both ads did show… but an error appeared above each ad unit, here is the error.
Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 'a' in /home/myhomepa/public_html/modules/mod_revshare.php on line 50
Todd
on August 28th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Hi,
I would like to organize the Adsnse revenue sharing just between to accounts, independently who is the author of a the article. It should like sharing between to default accounts. Is it possible to do that with this module?
The site is here.
on August 30th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Justin,
I'd like to change the revenue share to be even higher (70%), where in you file can I look to change that? thanks…
on September 4th, 2007 at 9:15 am
No, but I'm sure you can adapt the code.
on September 4th, 2007 at 9:16 am
@mojave – Check in the XML file, you'll see the options for the dropdown to list the different sharing percentages.
on September 5th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
I'm using the community builder version
getting this error when its the author's turn to have his pub ID displayed:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in …/public_html/components/com_content/content.php on line 2898
on September 5th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I should note that im using the version at SimplyJoomla.com
on September 5th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Justin, sorry to be dense, but do I have to change the code as well?
on September 6th, 2007 at 6:43 am
@Laban – this component isn't designed for community builder, but I believe in the list of comments someone has modified it for that
@Mojave – no, you only need to modify the XML file.
on October 20th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
can anyone tell me how do i install this module i did download it but i dont know how to install it
on October 26th, 2007 at 12:17 am
I would like to know if this is a component, module or plugin
on October 26th, 2007 at 7:24 am
I'll give you a hint – the title of this post is "Free Joomla Module…"
on December 11th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Wow!!!! You wouldn't believe how long I have hunted for something just like this that actually works properly on any CMS. All I have to say is THANK YOU! I did have one quick question, which is can I have this automatically insert between intro text and article body?
Thanks again for a wonderful contribution!
on December 12th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Hi Kelby,
thanks for the compliment. However, to do that, I think you'd need to create a mambot.
on January 28th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Justin,
Thanks for the great module. One question: How do I know it's working? I mean, I can see the ads on my content, and I'm earning money from adsense, but how do I know my authors' ads are rotating? Is there any way to test this?
on January 28th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
One more question: Could you post an example of how the publisher's ID should be entered?
e.g., pub-123456789 or ca-pub-123456789 or 123456789
I would like to let my authors know, so that they don't make a mistake.
Thanks!
on February 13th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
How do you create a contact linked to their user ID?
on December 10th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Hi all–
I know I come late to this conversation but I've just installed this mod on my new site tallesttales.com. I tried the CB version first but I couldn't get it to work for some reason or another. This version is working though and I had just a few questions. Will the mod send the clicks to the author as well as the page impressions? And does it work on all their content items? Thanks for putting the work into this. I run a few different writing sites and this really takes the rev share concept to a new level– my users don't have to place their trust in me (someone they don't know) to insure they are paid appropriately for their content. There is a certain security in placing their trust in the Google program– a name they know.
Thanks again!!
on February 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 am
Does this work with joomla 1.5?
on February 19th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Hi All,
I do have same question..Will this amazing module will work with Joomla 1.5????
Please let me know. I am hang up coz of this.
Thanks in advance
on February 23rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
im relly so confused,
im poor in english
please help me
i installed adsense revenue sharing.
what i want to put in "Client ID"
if want copy module for each author of site..??
how this module identifies author with the adsense publisher id. linkin pub id & channel in contact (miscellonous field) is only for tracking or else it used for identifying the author for their pub id.
please give guidance…
on May 14th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Hi.
Seems like i'm also getting the mod_revshare/mod_revshare.php on line 50 error. Looks like it shows every time the ad should show the writers ad ID.
on August 25th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Hey Justin I have a question, when I install this module, in the Cleint ID I put my adsense id right? But where do I put the author Adsense ID? I mean there is only one Client ID table, if I choose 50% where does the other 50% go? How can I make it go to the author Adsense?
Sorry for my bad english :X