View Full Version : Integration with vBulletin - Google Admanager Integration
ThorstenA
11-01-2008, 10:00 PM
Notice: This mod uses Re-usable Code, so please feel free to port it to vbulletin 4 under your username. Thanks.
Google Admanager Integration
This product targets ads to usergroup, script, forum. That way you can
address ads to these targets.
Example: Target all users except moderators in your favorite forums on index and forumdisplay directly in Google Admanager (http://www.google.com/admanager)! (see 88883)
Adsense Advanced Statistics. Have a detailed view which usergroups, scripts, forums bring best adsense results. You have a detailed view about all targeting values.
Example: You see that your announcement forum has a CTR of 8% and an eCPM of 25 $. Unregistered users bring an eCPM of 15 $ while registered users only have an eCPM of 3 $.
By the way a maximum of 6 adsense ads are allowed (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Ad+Manager/thread?tid=58b62eea3448d7eb&hl=en), when using Google Adsense in combination with Google Admanager.
1. Install product
If you upgrade: Allow Overwrite: Yes
2. Change template headinclude
If you upgrade please also do this. Add to end of this template:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_service.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
GS_googleAddAdSenseService("YOUR CA-PUB");
GS_googleEnableAllServices();
</script>
<script language="JavaScript">
GA_googleAddAttr("usergroup", "$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]");
GA_googleAddAttr("script", "<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='index'">index</if><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='forumdisplay'">forumdisplay</if><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='showthread'">showthread</if>");
$admanagerforums
</script>
YOUR ADDSLOTS
<script type="text/javascript">
GA_googleFetchAds();
</script>
3. Google Admanager Configuration
Configure Admanager like I write in #2 post in this topic (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658050&postcount=2).
Version History
9.11.2008 1.2 Solved a bug for forum targeting
8.11.2008 1.1 Improved forum targeting. Forums are shown with real names. Unlimited forum levels supported.
1.11.2008 1.0 Forums are targeted by using forumids. 3 forum levels supported.
Works with vbulletin 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8. This product works perfectly with vbSEO. This product doesn't make the vBulletin 3.8 implementation of Adsense work with admanager.
ThorstenA
11-02-2008, 07:09 PM
Google Admanager > Inventory > Targeting (https://www.google.com/admanager/editTargetingCriteria)
Targeting Key: usergroup
Copy & paste:
1
2
3
4
5
6
Targeting Key: script
Copy & paste:
index
showthread
forumdisplay
Targeting Key: forum
Copy & paste only this forum structure you get here:
www.yourforum.com/misc.php?do=admanager Login as administrator
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ThorstenA
11-03-2008, 11:11 AM
How to
Target Custom Primary Usergroups. To target custom primary usergroups, add their ids on Google Admanager > Inventory > Targeting > Target Key: usergroups.
Integration Tips. Place following ad slots and target thousands of forums, usergroups, script combinations
ad slot named superbanner on ad_header
ad slot named rectangle on ad_navbar
ad slot skyscraper on ad_footer
FAQ
I know it might be a tad off topic....I'm able to get all image ads served from GAM to show up inside actual forum posts. My issue is with text ads. Anybody have any tips or a way to serve them inside posts please ?
For text ads, go to Upload Creatives for and then choose: Creative Type: Rich Media. Then you can enter any html code you want, including text of course. Great to know is, that in "Rich Media" you can also enter another Google Admanager Placement code! That way you can put Google Admanager Adsense Placements in your Creative Types that are trackable within Google Admanager including all its analytic skills!
glorify
11-03-2008, 11:58 PM
Great work!
ThorstenA
11-04-2008, 03:18 PM
Great work!
Great work! :up:
Thanks, I am really happy about feedback and will improve this product the more feedback I get. Please click "Install" if you use this product. Thank you https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/01/19.gif
abrecher
11-05-2008, 05:27 PM
Great mod! It would be really nice if we could manage more ad locations as well as control forums from the admin cp.
ThorstenA
11-05-2008, 06:06 PM
Great mod! It would be really nice if we could manage more ad locations as well as control forums from the admin cp.
What ad locations do you want to control more? Do you mean by that more scripts? Now we only have index, forumdisplay, showthread. Do you want to control more scripts?
What do you mean by control forums from admincp?
I like feedback and build more options into this mod if I find more ideas :)
ThorstenA
11-08-2008, 10:46 AM
Update :)
8.11.2008 1.1 Improves forum targeting. Forums are now shown in their real names within admanager. It's also taken care of converting forum names to names consisting of characters google allowes.
When upgrading please also change headinclude template. Replace old f1, f2, f3 attribute codes with this code. And please update Google Admanager Targeting Key : forum!
<script language="JavaScript">
GA_googleAddAttr("forum", $admanagerforums);
</script>
diretur
11-09-2008, 09:29 AM
great hack, thanks
diretur
11-09-2008, 01:46 PM
thorsten, I have a problem.
Let's say I have 1 ad slot, the same one in all my forums.
In the forum B I'd like to have the specific banner 1 all the time.
I targeted banner 2, 3 and 4 putting "forums not equal to B". Still they do appear in forum B and banner 1 doesn't. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
EDIT: Actually no part of the targeting is working, usergroups & script either :-(
EDIT2: I have > 100 forums and the names are sometims too long
ThorstenA
11-09-2008, 07:00 PM
I have updated this product:
9.11.2008 1.2 Solved a bug for forum targeting. If you upgrade, install product (overwrite: yes) and update headinclude template. Thanks.
I hope this helps adressing forum targeting error. Long forum names are no problem as long as there are no two forum names that have same name after normalization. Google Admanager allows you to have up to 200 values per targeting criteria. You can just put the forums within admanager you like to track.
Targeting usergroup and script works fine for me. Please note, that it takes up some really long time for admanager to adjusts custom targeting criterias.
rob30UK
11-10-2008, 08:21 AM
How exactly is the adcode injected? I have a heavily modified forum - how does your script know where to place ads?
ThorstenA
11-10-2008, 08:38 AM
How exactly is the adcode injected? I have a heavily modified forum - how does your script know where to place ads?
Google Admanager knows about targeting criterias from your modified headinclude template (step 2 of product installation).
Usergroups are fetched by $bbuserinfo[usergroup]
Script name is fetched by THIS_SCRIPT
forum names are fetched by product which fetches actual forum title and all parentforum titles via $foruminfo[parentlist]. It also normalizes all titles to match google target value criterias.
rob30UK
11-10-2008, 10:20 AM
Hi Thorsten, this wasnt really my question but thanks al the same.
I know how the adcode is targetted, but how does the script know WHERE in the page to place the ads.
Parts of my header are not definined in the header tempate. Parts of my navigation system are not defined in navbar template.... do you see what I am getting at here?
Surely there needs to be some token or script in the exact place where you want the ads to appear??
Maybe I am missing something here, who knows.
ThorstenA
11-10-2008, 10:41 AM
Hi Thorsten, this wasnt really my question but thanks al the same.
I know how the adcode is targetted, but how does the script know WHERE in the page to place the ads.
Parts of my header are not definined in the header tempate. Parts of my navigation system are not defined in navbar template.... do you see what I am getting at here?
Surely there needs to be some token or script in the exact place where you want the ads to appear??
Maybe I am missing something here, who knows.
#1 You must put your adslots in template headinclude.
#2 You must put admanagers adcode in your page where it should appear.
Please note that you must do #1 and #2 to display ads for admanager. Regardeless if you use my mod or not.
My mod only takes care of targeting criterias. As these criterias are displayed on headinclude, and headinclude is always fetched within header, all sites that are delivered from vbulletin have this mods targeting criteria included.
Usergroup and Script are global values, so its no problem to put them in headinclude. Names of forums are not standard and therefore I have written this mod, which fetches them each time a site is presented. Hope I could answer your questions, if you have more questions, please ask!
ThorstenA
11-13-2008, 01:53 PM
I targeted banner 2, 3 and 4 putting "forums not equal to B". Still they do appear in forum B and banner 1 doesn't. What am I doing wrong?
Update. After waiting some time forum targeting finally works. Google Admanager takes really long time for custom targeting. After waiting for some days I can check my inventory with custom forum targeting.
Rik Brown
11-14-2008, 09:41 PM
Thank you for this mod. I've just installed it and am wondering if anything needs adjusting for those of us running vbSEO?
For example, vbSEO rewrites forum names to this format...
http://[my domain].com/cars-automobiles-forum/
... where words are separated by a dash rather than an underscore.
I assume that you are doing your magic before vbSEO rewrites the URL (I haven't noticed any changes yet, but I've just installed). Or, should I rewrite the forum names using dashes before entering them into Google Admanager?
Please advise.
Thanks again. -- Rik
ThorstenA
11-15-2008, 06:57 AM
Thank you for this mod. I've just installed it and am wondering if anything needs adjusting for those of us running vbSEO?
This mod works perfectly with vbSEO on my own forums. This mod takes original forum names for its own from vbulletin and changes its names to apply with google name rules. (Google only allowes for example a maximum of 40 characters which are only allowed to be alphanumerical).
Or, should I rewrite the forum names using dashes before entering them into Google Admanager?
As these normalized google admanager targeting forum names are of course different from original forum names I have programmed a small script (see post #2 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658050&postcount=2)) that gives you this normalized list which you just have to copy&paste to admanager.
It is very important to only import this normalized list of forum names!
Rik Brown
11-15-2008, 04:18 PM
Thank you for your reply. I'm glad no adjustments must be made for vbSEO.
I'm looking forward to seeing targeting results.
Thank again. -- Rik
djwins
11-19-2008, 01:04 AM
Has anyone tried this on 3.7?
ThorstenA
11-19-2008, 01:19 AM
Has anyone tried this on 3.7?
Should work perfectly with 3.7!
djwins
11-19-2008, 03:50 AM
Here's a stupid question...am I supposed to list the numbers of all the usergroups I have in Targeting Key: usergroup
I'm guessing...yes.
ThorstenA
11-19-2008, 04:25 AM
Here's a stupid question...am I supposed to list the numbers of all the usergroups I have in Targeting Key: usergroup
I'm guessing...yes.
You just have to import 6 standard vbulletin usergroups:
1
2
3
4
5
6
Unfortunately it is impossible for me to automate Google Admanager Settings as they are not within vbulletin. But I hope it is as easy as it could be. If you have suggestions to make installation process more easy, you're most welcome!
djwins
11-19-2008, 04:37 AM
If I have other usergroups (and I do), I can enter them in too? Will it work?
ThorstenA
11-19-2008, 04:43 AM
If I have other usergroups (and I do), I can enter them in too? Will it work?
IDs from primary usergroups are sent to Google Admanager automatically. If you have more primary usergroups, they are sent to Admanager. To track additional primary usergroups, you can of course put their IDs in Admanager.
I added your question to FAQ (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658490&postcount=3).
roddy
12-18-2008, 04:02 AM
I'm not currently using this mod and this is more out of curiosity than anything else, but would it be possible to allow ad targeting by thread tags - ie an advertiser could target all threads tagged with 'automobile repair' or 'french literature' or . . . anything. Seems to me that could be pretty valuable.
ThorstenA
12-20-2008, 07:12 AM
I'm not currently using this mod and this is more out of curiosity than anything else, but would it be possible to allow ad targeting by thread tags - ie an advertiser could target all threads tagged with 'automobile repair' or 'french literature' or . . . anything. Seems to me that could be pretty valuable.
Yes, that would be easy to integrate.
ziggylol
01-06-2009, 02:54 AM
Um this doesent work with 3.8?
ThorstenA
01-06-2009, 06:50 AM
Um this doesent work with 3.8?
This product was designed for 3.8.x and is working fine on my vbulletin 3.8 rc2 forum. Do you have any problems?
ThorstenA
01-15-2009, 05:59 PM
I want to include "how many posts has user" in targeting. I need your suggestions for upcoming version 1.3. Google Admanager only has string targeting values, so it does not know that targeting value 5 is less than targeting value 20. So it is not possible to say Google Admanager: Target from 5 to 20 posts. Instead you can only click on "posts: 5,6,7,8,9,10, ..., 20".
What values do you think should we put in this new targeting criteria posts?
0
less than 10
less than 50
less than 100
less than 250
less than 1000
no posts
less than 10 posts
less than 100 posts
less than 1000 posts
more than 1000 posts
Foxtrotelite
02-11-2009, 10:55 AM
Okay, this may be a dumb post but here is my situation. I am running google adsens ads right now on my website. Basically I would like all usergroups excluding people who donate and are senior forum members to have the ads. Is this the mod for me? Will it let me speficify which groups will see ads and which will not?
ThorstenA
02-11-2009, 11:36 AM
Okay, this may be a dumb post but here is my situation. I am running google adsens ads right now on my website. Basically I would like all usergroups excluding people who donate and are senior forum members to have the ads. Is this the mod for me? Will it let me speficify which groups will see ads and which will not?
With this product you can target ads for primary usergroups. Custom private groups are also supported (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658490&postcount=3). Are your donators in a custom primary usergroup?
Anyway, this product may be a bit "overkill" for just target ads to usergroups. You can do that with conditionals.
Foxtrotelite
02-11-2009, 01:17 PM
Yes the donators are added as additional users to another custom usergroup
ThorstenA
02-11-2009, 01:36 PM
Yes the donators are added as additional users to another custom usergroup
There are Primary custom usergroups and Secundary custom usergroups. Be sure they are in primary custom usergroup (so they are not in usergroup 2: registered users any more). You can also target secondary usergroups with this modification, it is a matter of five minutes.
Foxtrotelite
02-11-2009, 02:29 PM
Thanks for the answers and quick replies
abrecher
02-13-2009, 04:18 AM
I know it might be a tad off topic....I'm able to get all image ads served from GAM to show up inside actual forum posts. My issue is with text ads. Anybody have any tips or a way to serve them inside posts please ?
ThorstenA
02-13-2009, 05:47 AM
I know it might be a tad off topic....I'm able to get all image ads served from GAM to show up inside actual forum posts. My issue is with text ads. Anybody have any tips or a way to serve them inside posts please ?
For text ads, go to Upload Creatives for and then choose: Creative Type: Rich Media. Then you can enter any html code you want, including text of course. Great to know is, that in "Rich Media" you can also enter another Google Admanager Placement code! That way you can put Google Admanager Adsense Placements in your Creative Types that are trackable within Google Admanager including all its analytic skills!
(added to FAQ (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658490&postcount=3))
abrecher
02-13-2009, 05:55 AM
For text ads, go to Upload Creatives for and then choose: Creative Type: Rich Media. Then you can enter any html code you want, including text of course. Great to know is, that in "Rich Media" you can also enter another Google Admanager Placement code! That way you can put Google Admanager Adsense Placements in your Creative Types that are trackable within Google Admanager including all its analytic skills!
(added to FAQ (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658490&postcount=3))
Thanks, I know how to create text ads in GAM ;-)
When I use the html output from GAM to show all the ads, only the image ads work within the posts an NOT the text ads ?
ThorstenA
02-13-2009, 06:02 AM
When I use the html output from GAM to show all the ads, only the image ads work within the posts an NOT the text ads ?
Every ad types show up whereever you put them on vbulletin.
abrecher
02-13-2009, 06:14 AM
I have all the ads displaying perfectly when using them within the VB templates. My issue is when I try to include them in a post or announcement. Give it a shot...try posting a standard post and you'll see what I'm saying.
ThorstenA
03-11-2009, 01:49 AM
Re-Use: This code may be used in other modifications as long as the original author is credited.
mrtroybaker
03-12-2009, 08:01 PM
Hello,
First let me say I love the idea of this mod. Im am using 3.8.1
when I use the hack it shows up under the "New Post" and "whos online" tab but not on the home page. I ahve changed settings back and forth with no results. I can put the code in my header and it shows on the homepage. When I click eith link that works, mine is there and the one from the hack shows up too.
Note: It works great on my test forum. I am running the default skin. The main board in a custom skin. (maybe thats the problem)
Any suggestions?
ThorstenA
03-13-2009, 10:57 AM
when I use the hack it shows up under the "New Post" and "whos online" tab but not on the home page.
You can only target special vbulletins sites with custom Targeting key:Script which you can set to index, forumdisplay, showthread. Try to use this custom targeting and report if it works.
KrisP
08-13-2009, 01:13 AM
Is it only possible to target criteria for a pageview as a whole, or would it in any way be possible to track the number of the post the ad is shown: $post['postcount'] (if shown inside a post)?
(Works perfectly for 3.7.4)
ThorstenA
08-14-2009, 12:42 PM
There's only one way I know to have different targetings on one webpage with Admanager.
Example:
On the webpage is one ad slot
You can run a line item on this ad slot. The tag of this line item is another adslot. In this tag you can also include additional targeting values.
Make sure that all data for the adslot are fetched in headinclude.
If you like this mod and use it,click Install :)
KrisP
08-15-2009, 04:14 AM
Installed!
For now I am afraid I have some troubles grasping the fundamentals.
Lets say I upload an adslot to my forum, and create a placement in ADM only containing that adslot, then the Targeting Report will automatically show data for all the criterias for that placement? (browsertype, OS, forum, script, ... , etc.) Or is there anything else that needs to be done?
ThorstenA
08-15-2009, 09:16 AM
For now I am afraid I have some troubles grasping the fundamentals.
Lets say I upload an adslot to my forum, and create a placement in ADM only containing that adslot, then the Targeting Report will automatically show data for all the criterias for that placement? (browsertype, OS, forum, script, ... , etc.) Or is there anything else that needs to be done?
Your webpage looks always like this:
<html>
<head>
<!-- PUT THIS TAG IN THE head SECTION -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_service.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
GS_googleAddAdSenseService("ca-pub-1234");
GS_googleEnableAllServices();
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-1234", "adslot_RECTANGLE");
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
GA_googleFetchAds();
</script>
<!-- END OF TAG FOR head SECTION -->
</head>
<body>
<p>Sample Text before slot targeting_b_index
</p>
<!-- PUT THIS TAG IN DESIRED LOCATION OF SLOT targeting_b_index
-->
<script type="text/javascript">
GA_googleFillSlot("adslot_RECTANGLE");
</script>
<!-- END OF TAG FOR SLOT targeting_b_index
-->
</body>
</html>
Now you run a line item "adslot_RECTANGLE_ADSENSE" which is enabled for Adsense on your adslot_RECTANGLE placement. You can even define a Frequency Capping (fc) for your line items, so this would be a solution to show adsense with a fc. You also give an additional targeting out "Adsense_active_on_this_page". Why that? You can tell all your other line items to only be shown on pages where's no adsense page yet. You do that by setting the targeting criteria for the other line items to "Adsense_active_on_this_page != active". That way you accomplished this:
Show Adsense on your page by Admanager. So you can track browser type and all other additional build in targeting criterias for your Adsense statistics.
You show this Adsense with a Frequency Capping - you can also display Adsense Ads with additional targeting criterias (in the night, to people from New York ...)
Everytime the Adsense is shown, all other campaigns are not shown - all other campaigns have the "do not show on pages where adsense is already shown" targeting criteria.
Insert the targeting criteria "Adsense_active_on_this_page" with the value "active" in Admanager > Inventory > Targeting and make the tag of your new line item look like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
GA_googleAddAttr("Adsense_active_on_this_page", "active");
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-1234", "adslot_RECTANGLE_ADSENSE");
</script>
and change the header of these pages to include additionally this:
<script type="text/javascript">
GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-1234", "adslot_RECTANGLE_ADSENSE");
</script>
That would be the way to include a target criteria directly with the additional adslot. There are situations where this is very needed.
Another solution: Say you want to place your Ad after the last post on SHOWTHREAD and you want to check, how the ad is performing when SHOWTHREAD consists of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ... 30 posts on a page.
Then I would write a small plugin that checks how much posts are displayed on showthread.
The result number is given Admanager in the <head></head> section as a targeting criteria:
<script type="text/javascript">
GA_googleAddAttr("thispagecontainsthatmuchposts", "12posts");
</script>
That way you can measure the ctr of your line item for the targeting "thispagecontaintsthatmuchposts" and can see, if the ctr is higher on larger pages or not.
You could also write a plugin that places the ad on one random posts within SHOWTHREAD and each time give the postnumber and number of all posts to admaanger by both targeting criterias: "thispagecontainsthatmuchposts" and "the_actual_ad_is_on_this_post".
KrisP
08-16-2009, 02:55 AM
Wow, great post!
I was wondering, what if you create a .html page with header and each ad slot code together and then show each in an iframe. Wouldnt then each slot then be considered like a page in itself, then you could collect slot specific attributes? I am not sure you could then collect slot specific vbulletin attributes - perhaps if done in a special vbtemplate with the same conditionals as the script - but at least you could collect AdSense specific attributes like fx. colors.
If you try out different color schemes but with all ads in the same color is it then possible to collect these on page level? If you want to try out 30 color schemes, its a little easier to collect automatically.
ThorstenA
08-16-2009, 08:59 AM
I was wondering, what if you create a .html page with header and each ad slot code together and then show each in an iframe. Wouldn’t then each slot then be considered like a page in itself, then you could collect slot specific attributes? I am not sure you could then collect slot specific vbulletin attributes - perhaps if done in a special vbtemplate with the same conditionals as the script - but at least you could collect AdSense specific attributes like fx. colors.
If you try out different color schemes but with all ads in the same color is it then possible to collect these on page level? If you want to try out 30 color schemes, its a little easier to collect automatically.
I am not sure about iframe. I just would take the normal way:
Create 30 Adsense enabled adslots ADSLOT_RECTANGLE_ADSENSE_COLOR_BLUE (RED)(YELLOW) ...:
each with different colors
each with a different placement
Create 1 line item:
placement: Your normal RECTANGLE placement
creative rotation: even
tags: put each of your 30 created adsense enable adslots as one tag. Then you have 30 tags.
Remember to have changed the <head></head> to include all 30 adsense ADSLOT_RECTANGLE_ADSENSE_COLOR_X adslots and the one normal RECTANGLE adslots.
That's all. The easy thing is here, that the adsense enabled adslots themself are running adsense. If you instead of adsense want do show 30 different colors of a third party banner, you would take another step
Create 1 line item
placement: all 30 created adslots - NOT the normal rectangle
creative rotation: even
change each adslots that it has in addition a different width and size: from 1-1 (height - width) to 1-30.
you make 30 tags each from 1-1 to 1-30 so that they are targeted to 1-created adslot
That's advanced admanager :D That way ou can also do a true 5 lifetime frequency capping on different placements with different tags.
KrisP
09-05-2009, 09:20 PM
Nice!
Here are a few extra conditions ...
GA_googleAddAttr("forumdisplay_id", "<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='forumdisplay'">$GLOBALS[forumid]</if>");
GA_googleAddAttr("totalposts", "<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='showthread'">$totalposts</if>");
GA_googleAddAttr("pagnumber", "<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='showthread'">$pagenumber</if>");
Forumdisplay: To see how forumdisplay converts in the different subforums.
Totalposts: Number of posts in the thread viewed. CTR seems not to be corellated with number of posts in thread.
Pagenumber: The number of the page of a thread is viewed. So far it seems CTR on page 2 is half the CTR on page one. Dont know if the guests clicking those ads came from page 1 and therefore where affected from viewing ads on page 1 or if they came directly from google.
Lastely if you rename forums underway its nice to have forumid (unchanged) for "unbroken stats":
GA_googleAddAttr("forumid", "<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='showthread'">$GLOBALS[forumid]</if>");
duditas
09-06-2009, 09:40 AM
Does it work with Vidvertiser too? Thanks
ThorstenA
09-06-2009, 09:55 AM
It works with any tags. You can put any tag (html code) in Google Admanager Line Item Tags.
positiverep
09-17-2009, 06:59 PM
Can you use it along with ad manager by redtyger?
KrisP
09-17-2009, 07:03 PM
Can you use it along with ad manager by redtyger?
Yes!
mangandini
10-02-2009, 06:19 PM
Hi, this is a great plugin and Im using it, but I have a problem :(
My forum is in Spanish so when I created the Targeting key forum i got things like
_Grfico insted _Gr?fico
__Administracin instead __Administraci?n or Administracion
So GAM is not running properly when I choose _Grfico it seems like doesnt recognize that forum and is not targeting ads.
Coud you help me please ? :)
ThorstenA
10-21-2009, 12:01 PM
I tried to delete all characters that are not a-z A-Z 0-9, as it seems it does not work as I wanted it to work. The forum title is cleaned this way:
$adtitle = $prependchars . "$forum[title_clean]"; // $prependchars are the spaces
$adtitle = str_replace(" ","_",$adtitle); // spaces " "are rewritten as "_"
$adtitle = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9\\-\\_]/i", "", $adtitle); // everything is deleted instead of a-z / A-Z characters and numbers.
$adtitle = substr($adtitle,0,40); // limit title length to a maximum of 40.
The red line is the regexp (regular expression) code which fails in your situation. Unfortunately I am no regexp expert and it would take hours if not days to work out your bug. Maybe some more experienced programmer could take a short look into that situation? I'd then take the new regular expression and publish an updated version of this product here.
ThorstenA
11-16-2009, 09:09 PM
Some good news:
I am going to release the Admanager vb 4 version after vbulletin 4 goes gold (maybe even before that). It definitely will have the forum targeting feature. I am unsure about the misc.php view that you have to copy to Google Admanager in the targeting section as it is of most importance for new installing of this mod. For upgraders that is of minor importance.
ThorstenA
11-16-2009, 09:34 PM
I am sorry, could you translate your post into english? I then may help you.
ThorstenA
11-17-2009, 10:38 PM
Notice: This mod uses Re-usable Code, so please feel free to port it to vbulletin 4 under your username. Thanks.
Paul M
11-17-2009, 10:45 PM
Ellerine sağlık ileride lazım olabilir...
Please post in English, otherwise you posts are liable to be deleted.
RobFerrari
04-23-2010, 12:31 AM
I installed Google Admanager to 3.8.5. I'm not seeing any Admin CP area for it after install. I confirmed it installed in Manage Products.
I guess Google just switched over from Admanager to Double Click, everything should work the same in Double Click?
Thank you,
rob
ThorstenA
04-23-2010, 07:41 AM
I installed Google Admanager to 3.8.5. I'm not seeing any Admin CP area for it after install. I confirmed it installed in Manage Products.
I guess Google just switched over from Admanager to Double Click, everything should work the same in Double Click?
Yes, everything works the same on Doubleclick now.
There's no admincp area for this product, a how to install is here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658050&postcount=2
RobFerrari
04-23-2010, 03:51 PM
Yes, everything works the same on Doubleclick now.
There's no admincp area for this product, a how to install is here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658050&postcount=2
so all that targeting key stuff is on the Google side? thanks, I'm looking forward to using this, but having problems with Double Click still.
ThorstenA
04-23-2010, 04:06 PM
It's both.
The vbulletin forum says "This page is the [forum]='announcement forum' page. Doubleclick for publishers needs to have this pre-entered into their user area. You need to ask Google how to set this up. I wrote a small how to in this post:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1658050&postcount=2
losasso
10-21-2010, 02:57 PM
ThorstenA:
We used you plugin for some time and it was working great until Tuesday morning.
We use Ad Manager and Ad Froum form RedTyger and your plugin to integrate Google AdSence...
No changes on the forum or on any of the plugis and the forum targeting stopped 2 days ago... Are you aware of some changes or anything that can affect that? The forum page is:
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/
Thank you very much for you help!
ThorstenA
10-21-2010, 03:20 PM
I use the admanager for vbulletin 4 product and did not notice any changes on tuesday. It works great on my site.
I think if you did not change vbulletin or my product, maybe there are changes in your dfp account in the targeting section?
But I can not help you there, sorry!
losasso
10-25-2010, 07:53 PM
We did change (Add reverse DNS) record on the server that Tuesday. Do you think that can affect the system? and the targeting from Double Click side?
I read somewhere that changes in DNS can change targeting...
Thanks
ThorstenA
10-26-2010, 02:06 PM
Sorry, I do not know about this.
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