BTW, where do I find the installing instructions?

what I did was uploading the files to my vb folder like: whatever inside upload folder uploaded to my vb folder. And then the addon folder to the vb root folder where it appears in the main folders' tree... is that correct?

OK after installing all versions one by one, the mod works great. Thanks a lot.

hi..

i hope in the next release, you put "Expired Time" list inside the banner list menu.

right now banner list menu already have "ID, Name, Position, Impressions, Clicks"

the purpose is, we dont need to open one by one just to check when the banner time expired.

thanks alot for this great addon

I have recently installed Google AdSense. I notice that the impressions displayed in my AdSense account are significantly less (10 TIMES LESS!!!!) than the impressions the RBS is reporting.

In short, AdSense tells me I've only served a total of 128,000 ad impressions, but RBS tells me that I've delivered way over ONE MILLION ad impressions in total.

What's going on here, and how do I fix it??? Is RBS counting bots or something?

The addon is an addon which contains special (and unsupported features) files normally not needed and thus not installed :)

The installation instructions are contained in the PDF file, which also informs about the features of this product.

There is no need to fix it. The Google AdSense counts are at most approximate, and will not consider some devices. Please make sure you understand what Google AdSense does and what not. It does not do quite a lot :)

RBS counts also half viewed pages where people are in too much hurry to wait and counts also all visits from spiders which eventually show banners. Google does exclude its own visits. So if your site is visited from more spiders than real visitors, the counts may seem exaggerated, but in fact, they are precise as a swiss clock.

This makes sense, buy my server hosts both the MySQL and the forum. I mean, it's the same server, same user. I have a dedicated server for the forum and database.

Do I need to change the timezone in vBulletin itself, or in the MySQL server itself? Or in Apache? Or do I have to change settings in all of them to the same setting?

Thanks!

It needs the MySQL Server and the server itself to run on the same timezone. Normally, this is automatic. If you have problems with DST or if the visitor time differs from your personal settings, you need to set the timezone of vbulletin, until these times match. If you have server access, the visitor time should match the date/time of the server's date command of the user who runs Apache.

Personally, I leave the DST settings of vbulletin alone (disabled), but change twice a year its timezone. Noticeably, the times in the MySQL records differ from the times I see in the Banner's ACP, but the banners show and hide correctly, and don't shift while saving.

Thanks for this mod!

I have VB 4.2 with VBSEO.

When I put @vbbanners:0@ in my template, my test banner shows perfectly.

When I put @vbbanners:%d@ in my template, I see no banner, only the text is shown back to me: @vbbanners:%d@

Do you have advice to make %d work?

You have to use @vbbanners:0@ ... @vbbanners:9@ in your templates. %d is the number (0-9) in the placeholder (options).