vB Ad Management 4
 

What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

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Wow Sweet..... Now the $100,000,000 ? with this work with vb 3.5.x ???

Displays ads with thread posts, single posts, announcements or private messages.


I haven't tested it on 3.5, but it should work fine. Only one way to find out. :) Let me know if it does work and I'll post it in the 3.5 section too.

Looks nice. I'll check it out now.

Edit: Seems to work fine. Tested with 3.6.3.

Only downsides I see are 1) it doesn't use ajax so when quick replying the user will have to hit refresh to see the advertisement and 2) You can only add one advert.

It would be nice to be able to chose from different advertisements or simply have an x number of adverts you can add, say 10, and then have it chose a random advertisement to insert.

Overall it looks great and has a lot of options :)

Thanks for this, very interesting.

1) That hadn't occurred to me, I'll look into fixing that as soon as I work out how. Having said that, aside from not feeling "quite right" there's no pressing reason why an ad needs to be AJAXed with QR so I might leave it as it is.
2) It was really geared around something like Adsense where rotation is handled remotely but I'm open to allowing more in the future.

Perfect !!! :D

But can we have a Function in the next Update please that let us choose how many different Banners will appear in a Rotation ?

See this : vbBannerRotator

Thank you worked out really good with 3.6.3 :)

Thank you.

Perfect . thanks a lot :)

Suggestion : Rotation Function would be a great option in next update ;)

thank you works with 3.6.0

Fantastic .. thanks :)

Yes, I'm seeing a pattern emerging here!

My intention is to expand the existing functionality to other areas of the forum outside the postbit in the next version - navbar, footer, threadbit, forumbit - plus a couple of minor extra features.

Then in the version after that I will have a look at rotations. :)

Not sure if it's something you'll agree too, but if you could expand that list to include some of the more used hacks like vBa, vBgallery and LDM that would be cool :)

(I know that navbar and footer might well cover them, its more a case of just checking that they work with them :))

Just for people's notice, it's against google's policy to have adsense look like a post.

On the first screen shot, is it a actual account?

Wow, looks awesome! This should help a lot of people since there are many people wondering how to get ads btwn posts, in posts, etc. Good work.

Flagged for later install. Thanks! Very interesting hack :cool:

What would be nice is to implement a side banner too for skyscraper style, using an extra column or something !

I got google up and running on with ur add on :)

Thanks !

+1 For the random adverts. I would LOVE to be able to set certain ads for certain forums. Ill just have to tinker with the code to see if I can do it. Nice mod and looking forward to more enhancements.

Fantastic mod, easy to use, lots of options, thank you very much!

Awesome!. Flagged for later install.
Same comments as everyone else. rotating ads would be awesome and forum sensitive ads.

Thanks for taking the time to create this!

Thx !!! :D

Navbar ! ;)

That has been debated elsewhere here if you search and some people have gotten written permission from Google to do that. Whether or not they had the Premium Adsense account I don't know.

Google's TOS states you shouldn't disguise your advertisements as content, which is not the same as giving them the same appearance as a post. They're very clearly labelled as advertisments in the code and not at all disguised as content, just stylised. Besides which I deliberately left out all the other paraphenalia (fake IP icon, report post, date/time etc) to remove ambiguity.

At any rate, just as it says when you're configuring that option in the mod you shouldn't enable that option unless you're sure it doesn't break TOS. It's up to the individual to ensure it doesn't, especially since it may be used for programmes other than Adsense.

No, just styled. You enter an optional avatar via the Ad Management CP and the "username" is just the title of your board.

Thanks!

Great hack. I had another version of this but it stopped the Multi Quote from working when using Adsense ads. This works fine with the adsense and Multiquote :).

[high]* Matt_270581 installs.[/high]

Works great, also in vb 3.6.3! Thanks!

Kris

ahhh nice one :)

*installed ;).

thanks for sharing..

This is a great little hack! Thanks!

You are not violating Google Adsense rules for making it look like a post (unless you select that option), but you may get introuble for having "Sponsored Links" in the title. This is from the Google FAQ:

And this is directly from the rules:

I would suggest allowing people to type in their own words or leave it blank from the ACP. Just my thoughts!

From Google Adsense Program Policies (https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...=link&hl=en_US)

Thanks a million, RedTyger, for putting in the time to set this one up. Great hack! Been waiting for something like this for ages, being one who has considerable difficulty with coding and where/how to insert ads in vB.

I can think of a number of great uses other than for Adsense and the like and will be setting it up on our sites today.

Cheers! :cool:

COOL AWESOME hack, but when I put my html code in it. the ad shows the html code? what did I do wrong?
thanks
example;
and it shows this code instead of just a hyper link.:surprised:

That's not HTML code, that's BBCode which is restricted to forum posts only. You must use proper (X)HTML code.

For what you wanted above, use:

To have the link open in a new window, use:

Oh...thank you much so!!!

With this hack can you display a different banner per forum? Example is if I have 10 sponsors I only want specific banners to show within certain sponsors forums so that sponsor A does not see sponsors B's banner Ads?

That's not a feature of this mod at the moment. There are a few other mods out that might do what you want though. Search for banners.

This is really only meant to deal with Adsense-style advertiements at the moment.

I changed my mind, random banner rotation will be in the next version, arriving soon.

If anyone has any feature requests, now is the time.

thnx this is an excelent mod

i just have one request you did mention this earleir i want to be able to place these ads in the navbar and oth places like the footer any chance that will be in next release

Yes, and you will be able to use different code for each location.