yes. time permitted

Hello, I have integrated questions2answers with vBulletin at http://www.noblood.org/answers/.

Although I realize Rotating Banner System is designed to run with vB, I am thinking that I can possibly call this mod from q2a. I have already implemented common user login with vB.

I can fish through the RBS code see how/where to wire it up with q2a.

Anyone else gone down this road?

Thank you :)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...08#post2125608

Somewhere near to this post this argument was discussed extensively :)

2.4.0 update installed with thanks.... :)

Regards,
Doug

Sorry it took so long, but getting a new Google Publisher ID was much more time consuming than expected, and after that I had no time ;)

I went back 5 pages and couldn't find any instructions on how to do this, not looking forward to going through all 100+ of them.

Maybe add a note in the instructions or in the thread somewhere ;) ?

I did try using just the standard URL with the bannerid in the ad and not the userid and it didn't result in any clicks being tracked. id forumname.com/rbs_banners.php?id=11 will redirect to the proper URL but no clicks are tracked.

Edit - I just found out that clicks don't track if you go straight to the URL in your browser, you have to physically click the link shown via rbs :) lol, thanks. I was testing it by just pasting the URL with the banner ID into my browser and no clicks were showing :/

So will this still work if we change the name of the rbs_banner.php file? Just so I can have a pretty URL at the bottom.

So the links might show something like myforum.com/goodstuff.php?id=26 as the URL instead of myforum.com/rbs_banner.php

Ciao y2ksw,

Grazzie Mille for your very kind answers to djbaxter's post and mines. I highly appreciate your feedback and stand corrected.

I can't thank you enough for this great add-on. I believe vbulletin should pay you and adopt it in their core code.

Just to clarify, you guys are all wrong about the pagerank thing.

If you understood what pagerank actually 'is', you'd have a better understanding of how to properly use nofollow.

Page rank is by definition, simply put, a calculation of the likelihood that a person entering the internet randomly clicking on links will land on any particular site.

The higher the chances of a person entering the internet randomly clicking links will land on your site, the higher your page rank. Go read up on it, go to wikipedia first, if you're unsure of my validity.

Think about it like this, facebook.

The chances of a person entering the internet randomly clicking links landing on facebook is extremly high if not almost guaranteed, which is why facebook has a pagerank of 9 or 10. Same with wikipedia, amazon, ebay, twitter, etc.

A link from pages with high page rank on these sites increases your pagerank because, again simply put, the chances of a person landing on the page your link is on is pretty high, thus making the chances of a user landing on your site higher, thus increasing your page rank.

This is why blasting out hundreds or thousands of those crap forum profile links does not mean you'll necessarily get ANY page rank, because chances are slim to none a person entering the internet randomly clicking links will ever land on your forum profile, therefore passing virtually ZERO pagerank.

So, understanding what pagerank IS... you will not LOSE pagerank by placing external links on your site (this does not decrease the chances of a person landing on your site), however you will PASS pagerank via the links on your site.

Pagerank is distributed EVENLY throughout all DOFOLLOW links on a page, once again simply put, all nofollow does is disallow the passage of pagerank to that site. NOFOLLOW tags eliminate that link from Google's 'graph of the web' thus eliminating it from their calculations when determining the 'chances a user entering the internet randomly clicking on links' will land on your site.

If you put nofollow tags on all the external RBS links, the only upside for YOU is you're distributing a little more pagerank throughout your own site from the page the link is on.

In my opinion, depending on how many external links you have in the first place, I honestly wouldn't worry about it.

thank you addamroy,
exactly, I don't want to distribute / pass my pagerank throughout my site to my advertisers.

Excellent post and very well written. :up:

I agree, page rank in a way isn't important, it is important that we create good content, page rank comes after that. Of course, vBSEO helps a lot, but the most important thing is content, we need to have content that people want and that gives us good PR. PR is measure of success we already achieved, not the measure of success we will achieve in distant (or not so distant) future.