HOWto Mod Your PHPbb Forum with Adsense Rev Share

I've often wondered why DIGGers spend hours a day voting (worse yet submitting stories) on sites and products they have no vested interest in. If they vote, they can maybe see their favorite political agenda get some DIGG Promotion love. But aside from that why spend time and energy on a website that ain't gunna help you pay the rent?

As a Forum or Blog owner all you'd have to do is invite members to post stories and let them alternate Google Adsense Adwords Banners with you. Then everybody gets paid fairly based on the popularity of their story and volume of submissions - all directly from GOOGLE.

All you have to do is keep marketing your Forum or Blog. You'd better believe that your community members are gunna do the same too.

KernelTrap.com is a perfect example of a forum that already does this. Members post HOWto's and Suggestions and even questions that feature their own unique Google Adsense Adwords account. The author gets paid. The forum owner gets paid. You see how this could work?



OK, so how do you make your own forum do this? here's the MOD: Enjoy!

tech details:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=139055

Oh, if you dont have a forum and wanna start one, see phpbb.org

HOWto Convert Forums into RSS

HOWto Convert Forums into RSS with Filtering
Most forums don't have RSS feeds streaming out of them. This fact forces you to have to annoyingly browse back to the url and see IF there has been any updates. Or, you have to check your email for threads you've subscribed to. This means that all new posts with potentially relevant matter sits stale till you jump in.

Converting a Forum into RSS solves all these issues. You will get updates in your RSS reader like Netvibes or Pageflakes as soon as there is a new topic of interest. Further, you can specifically ask for only the topics that match a keyword filter of your choice to push into your rss reader.

To Convert Forums into RSS, use http://Znitch.com. Znitch simply asks for the html page url, a optional keyword filter and an email address if you want an alert. Then, just click on the RSS logo to the left of your ZNITCH readout and VOILA!, you've got the xml rss feed url.

The Ubuntu forum already has a rss feed so it's not the perfect example BUT even in this case, you can extent and add filtering to the rss. In most forums, rss is not available so http://znitch.com is a clean solution for adding custom length filterable rss feeds.