This was helpful. Thanks for making the effort.

I have finally managed to get a placeholder up but by the time the page is fully loaded, the placeholder is then covered by other elements on the site.
I put width and height dimensions in but still lose the placeholder.

This is a known issue with some flash banners which haven't the transparent attribute set. It is necessary to tweak the banner to make it work properly. For a few banners also the flash wrapper may work.

If your database server has a different date or time zone than the web server, there may be timing problems, such as shifting date and time while saving and not getting the desired results. There is nothing we can do about it.

In the included help there is a one shot tutorial to get it work. Also, there is a movie in the very first post. And, eventually, it will help to reinstall the plugin and just try it without first tweaking the settings. :)

Yeah I know. I am myself most grateful for this modification every time :D

Hey there,

Is a way, I can change the image to % rather than pixel. I have a script from a third party for a 3rd banner and is 728 x 90. This size is fine, but it looks out of place depending if you use a laptop or a full size monitor.

Note: it's a script with an image and not image, which would be easier.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http:/xwy.com/s4ANLZJZyLMWqcfzuvZcQGNd7ZgqdRLk&amp;media=13&amp; campaign=1&amp;type=10"></script>

I've tried adding width="30%"

Thanks in advance!

Google analytics shows about 1/10 the number of pageviews compared to impressions, but I don't think google is counting all my pages. But I wouldn't think there would be that big of a disparity.

We're really just now getting started with advertising so I only have a couple up from people who own the site, but if I were to charge real clients what the stats say, I'm afraid they'd question the reliability of the stats, especially if I gave them a google analytics printout. I don't know enough about any of this to make an argument either way about what stats are more accurate.

One of the ads is actually one of mine for another company I have, and I wouldn't pay as much as the impressions say I would owe, so this has us questioning our entire pricing policy.

This would concern me also. I've found that if Google Analytics code is setup correctly on a vBulletin site that it is quite accurate.

I would work on this first, then once that is fixed you'll have a good baseline of pageloads to compare to, then you can work on the ad impression disparity.

As for Google Analytics here are a couple things to check on:

• 1) Where is your code being implemented (directly in a template, within a mod)? If you are using a mod I would try going directly within a template (preferably header or footer for best results).
• 2) Are you using the new Universal Analytics code? I've found this to be even more accurate.

Google Analytics isn't accurate on sites with more than 1000 page hits per hour. Also, it will miss all devices which have no Javascript enabled.

I inserted the google code directly into the head include template. After looking, though, I just discovered that I had not included it in another skin that I'm working on, but that skin is not used much right now.

As for all the pages not being indexed, a few months back we were getting slammed by spam bots and I'm not sure what else. Our server loads were running real high at times and at some points got so high that it shut the site down. I was looking here at vb.org for any kind of answer as well as getting our tech guy to pore over the server looking for anything that we could do to fix it. I added a couple of mods to block the spam bots and also modified my robots.txt file as someone here had recommended. After looking at the robots.txt file it's not blocking as many pages as I thought it might be so the analytics stats wasn't missing that much.

At this point I really don't know what to think. I do think that it's highly unlikely that 2 ads together are getting 1 million impressions a month on our site. Because of this we decided to offer ads on a monthly rate instead of by impressions. We were going to offer them at $1.50/thousand then changed it to $1.00 but at that rate my ad would cost me $500/month with the number of impressions it's gotten. There's no way I can justify that.