Central Ads block for Mambo or Joomla

December 25, 2005 · Filed Under Adsense and YPN, Joomla and Mambo 

Central AdSense or YPN Block for Mambo and Joomla

Google heat map for ad placement gives highest weight to the ads placed in the center of page. Ads placed at center location on screen generates maximum CTR thus increasing the revenues.

A sample of application of such ads at the central location can be seen at www.healthdebitcard.com and www.skincarediary.com

Below is step by step instructions to create a new module position for ads placement at the center of screen.

  • First of all you need to create a new module position for central location on your page. To do this go to Site > Template Manager > Module Position and add a new position. Name it ‘central’ or whatever you like.
  • Now you need to edit the html of your page and load this module at this position. To do this go to Site > Template Manager > Site Templates. Select the template you want and then ‘edit html’ for it. Now you need to find the right place to position this new module at the center of your template. Use this to load central module at your desired location in template.
    < ?php mosLoadModules ( 'central' ); ?>
  • Check if central module is appearing at the desired location by using the inline preview tool (site > preview).

Once this is done, now you need to create banners to appear in this new module position. For this I used the existing banner component

  • Create a new client for banner and then create a desired banner for this client
  • Now you need to create the module to show this new banner at the central location. For this go to Modules > Site Modules. Use the existing banner module and copy it. Edit the copied module specifying the banner client id you just created (in the previous step). Change the rest of module properties as per your needs
  • Publish the module and that’s it you will be seeing ads appearing at the new module position you created.

This process is actually generic way to create new modules/content block, here we use it for creating central ads block.

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