Hi

Is there anyway to display all the banners on one page? So say 10 banners list down a page with a space inbetween for example?

For example

Banner 1

Bannner2

Banner3

Banner4

Any ideas if this is possible with a tweek maybe?

Thanks

Stu

A while back, in the context of counting impressions and clicks, I reminded everyone that banner ads are practically useless to sponsors. While most of us old timers know this and understand it, I saw a very interesting article today that reinforces the concept of "banner blindness". Ignore this and keep counting at your peril.

http://www.businessinsider.com/eye-t...ps-2012-5?op=1
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html

anyone test "Rotating Banner System" in vbulletin 4.2 ?

It is working fine.

Working fine on mine...

Hi,
My site is here

I have added a banner today. It's the 2nd from the top to the left.
If i click on it after the movie is over (it's without loop), it opens the landing pgae.
If i click on it before the movie is over , it opens the landing page + the swf itself!!
why ??

The wrapper does nothing to the banner, it just loads and shows it in a private container. It has proven to work with a large number of banners, but not literally all. There are always masters who break any best rule :p

Yes, with N placeholders one below another such as:
Where N is the number of the banners you want to show at once. Of course, you need that number of banners on that location, too :)

The more banners you have for your pages, the more they are split. Say you have 1 page and 100 banners, so each banner will randomly show about every 100th page view and thus count each 1 for 100 page views.

With 10 banners and 1 page each banner will randomly show about every 10th page view and thus count each 10 for 100 page views.

With 1 banner and 1 page the banner will randomly show every page view and thus count each 100 for 100 page views.

Now: with 50 banners and 2.000 pages, how many impressions will each banner have for 1.000.000 page views? :D (sorry, I made it a little more challenging)

didn't quite get the answer. What are you saying? that there is no solution for this problem? my users will have to get the landing AND the enlarge banner when they click on the SWF through 'Rotation banner system'?

soo... what do suggest doing?

This product is about rotating banners and problems about banners itself are out of scope.

I was trying to help you anyways, suggesting there is something wrong with your flash banner, not with the wrapper, else there would have been hundreds of complaints the past years and I would have removed it probably at all.

Since flash can override anything about browsers, it is also capable to override the wrapper function, in order to do whatever it was designed for. If the flash banner has a weird design and you are unhappy with the wrapper, you still can include the banner without wrapper by simply coding the HTML yourself and setting as if it was a text/script banner.

I had this plugin installed and working but an admin uninstalled it. Then I installed it again but the banners are not shown.

Could you please tell my why this? I can give you admin details in order to access and help to show them.

Thank you, I appreciate your support :)

Maybe there were style changes which have deleted the placeholders.

Is the banner loaded locally or from a remote site? Does the banner load or access external data? If you use a simple image banner, it still slows down?

could it be, that this plugin is slowing down my whole vBulletin site?

no.

But it could be very well, you have banners which pull in external data and slow to load. One example could be Google Adsense, which is sometimes less performant on sites with 1000+ unique IP accesses per hour. Another typical example is simply.com, which is de facto very slow even on small sites.

Thanks for your swift reply. I will start also updating because my version is still. 2.3.2 Are there any consequences / concerns or is an upgrade a piece of cake?

No. Not changed, they are still there. We tried unninstalling and installing it again and not results.

Any idea?

All banners are housed in locally, but I think I've managed to solve it was a banner in flash and always carried with it rbs_wrapper.swf, changed and apparently decided ... Let's see the behavior from now on ...

Anyway, congratulations to the author of this Mod...

I am getting no where with this

if someone can install for me thagt be great

gaz

Marked as installed.

Documentation is better than a lot of others but had to do trial and error for some things to figure them out.

Thanks for the mod.

have the banners expired?

please send me via PM the credentials for and admin account and eventually an FTP account, if you haven't uploaded the files yet (I prefer not to do this part)

You may contribute by telling us what you had to try and how you solved it. :)

I've installed vB at localhost and I can see all banners.
vB: 4.2.0
PHP: 5.3.8
without vBSEO

The liveforum does not display a banner.
vB 4.2.0
PHP: 5.3.13
with vBSEO

The templatecode:

The HTML-Code from localhost:

and the HTML-Code from my liveforum:

What's the problem?

Is there a user with installed vbseo and can confirm the error?
Or is the PHP version the problem?
I don't no ...

The deactivated Plug-in- / Hook-System show me no result.


Regards
Samsine

As told in the help file, if you have vbSEO active and its HTML optimisation, you will have to change the placeholder in the options. Since vbSEO may remove HTML comments, it also will remove the banner placeholders.

Hello,

I've read the help file, but it does not work ;)
Do you have any idea how the problem can be solved?


The templatecode

Rotating Banner System Options

The HTML-Code from my liveforum

Regards
Samsine

ok, the banner will run.
The date and time were not saved as I had set it.

Regards
Samsine

Nop, no of them are expired.

Right. This is one of the most frequent problems, glad you worked it out :)

please send me via PM the credentials for an admin account (+ url) in order to look into the problem. I'm pretty much sure something insignificant was just overseen :)

I'm totally exhausted trying to fix this...

My ads won't show at all, even though they work fine with VB adverts feature.

Can someone run over what exact code should be inserted into the ad_navbar_below

For example this is my banner options.
If I place the above code into it, it won't work.

If I place any of the above variations it also won't work. (I've read back about 20 pages now)

FYI - I'm in the middle of an argument here with GF over why my hair has been torn out over our bed sheets.... im serious too.

The tutorials are all very nice looking, and time has been put into them, but at the end of the day I've watched and read everything and man I am clueless as to what is going wrong.

I'm on 4.2.0 by the way. And thanks for any replies to my question... now back to arguing with my gf.

This could be something very simple you overlooked. But, on the other hand, it could be very complex why it doesn't work. Just saying that it don't work couldn't give any clue.

You should say what you did, from installing this mod, settings you used, code you used for your banner etc. You mention that you placed banner code that will be replaced with actual banner. Well, this is just one step in successfully using this mod and one that is at the very end of installation process.

My best bet is that you go from the beginning, upload all files, install product, check all settings etc.

Hi :)

I have tried many different ways.. here is one example of using HTML with images from an external site -

It's not a case of what have I not done, it's more a case of what I haven't.

I'm focusing on this side of the problem, but I have tried them all (my site caches fine BTW)

You could watch the movie (very first post), or the quick starter help (included PDF), to exhaust less :)

1. make sure you have a banner. if you deleted the default banners, reinstall the product and keep them; after testing, disable them
2. don't change options unless you have to
3. use <!--@vbbanners:0@--> in your templates unless you have banners at other locations and unless you haven't changed the options
4. use the placeholder in a template where you can see it at once, decide later where to put it definitively
5. change banners after you have made sure they actually do show up
6. verify changes
7. please think simple ;) ... most of the fuzz arises when hurry comes in and no reading of the included help and believing everything must work in a way you already know ...

It won't, you need to replace %d with a banner location (0 - 9)

e.g. you replace the %d with 0 and place that code in an ad position (either in Options:>manage ads or in an ad position template)

Then you go the RBS control panel in the Admin options menu, click on manage banners and create a banner (New).

Choose position 0
In the text box you put either Google adsense code, an html link top your banner, or just plain text if that's what you want to appear

Do the same for any of the other possible positions (1 - 9)

Hey guys, thanks a million for your tips, I wish I had all that info ages ago.

I un-installed it, and used this one here instead - VSA flash image banner

When I setup the new one just today, I spotted what I did wrong. It was SO stupid, but the hurry really ruined my head....

OK here is the embarrassing thing I did. When setting usergroups for the adverts to show, I viewed all my usergroups. Seen "admin" was #1 and set it that only #1 can see it. Looking back, admin is actually #6, and instead I was showing adverts to users who were not logged in.

I seen #1, but it really meant that was that amount of users who were admins. Feeling damn stupid now, I'm usually good with these things! I was so sure of myself too.

Thanks very much for clearing this up for me and others Salvador21 and Y2ksw :)

No problem, I felt you were in kind of a hurry :)