Things were going really well - the forum continued to get sign-ups daily & more content was added by its members. Even if I didn't do any promotion, I was still get traffic from Google, meaning my forum was growing on it's own now!
Until I read, on Digital Point, that it was against the tos for me to have adsense ads on login & profile pages. At this time, my Ads were inserted into the overall_header.tpl & overall_footer.tpl templates files - meaning they showed up on every page of the forum!
I had to find out which of the .tpl files to add adsense to without it violating the tos. At the same time, i wanted to monetise my forum further, so I looked into integrating the ads into forum posts. At this time, I still didn't know an awful lot about forum management, but I attempted to make these updates - without researching the topic in full!
After uploading the new files, I began to get major SQL errors - still don't know how or why. Stupidly, I had never backed up the database, the forum, the files or anything! Yahoo! customer care said they do not offer support for third party software, so I had no option to start the forum from scratch.
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