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Quick question, can anyone help me get the banner statistics page for customers to work inside a custom vbulletin page as shown by lynne here? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228112

I'd like to put that banner stats page on a forum page. Basically I followed the instructions in that thread and pasted the content of the rbs_stats.php file into the new template but for some reason it breaks the code and won't work.

If anyone could get this to work, probably going to require fanangaling some code around but I'd appreciate it if someone could help me figure it out!

I will gladly pay someone to help me get this mod working. It's precisely what I need, but I can't seem to get my Image ads to appear (or any others).

Got it working! Just awesome stuff. My sponsors are going to love it.

Ok, it's working perfectly fine, but I'm not so confident in the statistics for each banner. I think the impressions are accurate, but the "clicks" are not. I know this because I've clicked a few myself in testing. I have that option enabled. Also, on the rbs_stats.php, the impressions vary slightly from what I see in "Banner List" for one ad. Not a big deal, but accurate reporting would be helpful to be able to show my sponsors.

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Originally Posted by LuDawgs (Post 2322883)

... accurate reporting would be helpful to be able to show my sponsors.

Only if they're naive enough to believe it means anything.

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Originally Posted by Videx (Post 2322942)

Only if they're naive enough to believe it means anything.

Not sure I follow. Accurate impressions and clicks are of great interest to our sponsors - and in the business I run, that's very important. I'm not running Google Adsense ads...I have targeted sponsors and have ongoing communication and dialogue with the owners of those companies. I can provide them with Google Analytics stats for pageviews/etc....but being able to show them how many times their banners were displayed and also clicked would both be valuable metrics.

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Originally Posted by addamroy (Post 2322398)

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

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hp#post2202969

Here is the last post of a series which is showing how to achieve click tracking with text banners :)

And thanks for your post about page ranks. Although I know very well how it works, your information added some aspects explained much better than I ever could do :)

Anf yes, you may rename the rbs_banner.php file and the call, but then you must remember at every upgrade to make these changes.

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Originally Posted by LuDawgs (Post 2322883)

The statistics are only reliable in the moment you are taking the snapshot. On busy sites all the counting can advance very fast. Also, some data may arrive later due to the nature of queries pushed into the shutdown queue of queries, and some may never arrive if a service doesn't reply in time.

In the end however, the statistics are very reliable, just try it on a test board and watch what it does. At the backend you may monitor the rbs_* tables, too. Under normal circumstances, every click is traced.

y2k, wanna let me know what the chances are of you looking into this for us?? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1852

I think you missed it :)

I've installed the most recent release. I noticed that if I input a destination URL (for an image), then input the image HTML in the text area, my banners are not clickable. I have to actually input the <a href=" in the text area to have my banners linked. Is that by design? What is the destination URL form used for?

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