Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

Check the FAQ before requesting support!

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.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[chiwexa]

very nice, it works fine! installed :up:

[PDM]

hello

THIS hack ads show ONLY for Admin site????? no show for other usergroup

[RedTyger]

You need to change your usergroup settings in vB Ad Management General Settings. It is set to display to admins only by default.

[dssart]

Great add-on to VBulletin, but I'm unsure on what is permissible according to Google's TOS regarding ad placement on pages with no content. I have the header ad placement enabled, and the header ad shows up everywhere including the following:

User Control Panel
FAQ (header)
Members List
Calendar
New Posts
Advanced Search
Quick Links -> Today's Posts
Settings & Options -> Edit Signature
Settings & Options -> Edit Profile
Settings & Options -> Edit Options
Settings & Options -> Edit Avatar
Settings & Options -> Edit Profile Picture
Private Messages -> List Messages
Private Messages -> Send New Message
Private Messages -> Track Messages
Private Messages -> Edit Folders
Subscribed Threads -> List Subscriptions
Subscribed Threads -> Edit Folders
Moderation -> Deleted Threads
Moderation -> Deleted Posts
Moderation -> Moderated Threads
Moderation -> Moderated Posts
Miscellaneous -> Event Reminders
Miscellaneous -> Paid Subscriptions
Miscellaneous -> Buddy/Ignore Lists
Miscellaneous -> Attachments

I know in the vB Ad Management Global Settings there is a section "Do NOT display advertisements for scripts". Just for everyone to see without having to go find this and look for it:

"This allows you to exclude pages based on the type of content they are displaying. Enter the names of the scripts which you don't want to display advertisements, separated by your delimiter. (i.e. register#private#index)

Some advertiser's TOS requires you to exclude pages without content, such as registration pages. Ask in the vBulletin forums if you need help identifying the correct scriptnames, or you can find them yourself in the code files as described here."

My question is, what does everyone else disallow? Unless someone renames the scripts, shouldn't we all basically have the same scripts disallowed? Finally, can someone give me a list that I can copy and paste into this section of the script names that are known to be Google No-No's?

Thanks!

[0tolerance]

Excellent mod, i installed it
works good except for a couple things.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by 0tolerance

Excellent mod, i installed it
works good except for a couple things.

Such as...?

[smith2007]

Originally Posted by tekguru

I only use the right colum and for me it works well. The only isue I still can't get to work no matter what I do is to get the damned thing to take on the skin used on the rest of the site.

That's interesting. I still have trouble with left, right or both Columns with Firefox. Does your forum work OK in firefox with VB Ad Management installed? If I click some (not all) of my main forum headings, the main table resizes, but the content is the same (i.e. main forum headings). I have to click the forum heading a second time to actually go into a forum.

I do not expericence this with IE7.

More or less most of my VB settings are default. I have tried changing main table % and to PX instead, but am no further forward.

I am not really worried about the difference in gap re the left and right columns to the main table (as mentioned in the mod description), but the 'double click resize issue' may present a difficulty for my potential forum users.

My forum is not off the ground yet. VB Admanagement seems a wonderful Mod and ideal for me apart from the issue mentioned above.

I guess I will have to go with Header/Footer ads (which work perfectly), but would be very interested if a user with VB Admanagement could enable left and right col ads and try with Firefox? - just to see if you experience the same thing? As a newcomer to VB I have been convinced it must be something I am doing wrong, but I am running out of experiments to try

[RedTyger]

I experience it myself you are not making any mistake. I simply used vBulletin's own suggested code. It sounds likely that this is a Firefox problem, but I'd certainly make the appropriate changes if anyone can provide alternative code.

[Censtudios]

* Upload the product using the Product Manager.
* Upload the folder in the includes folder of the zip file you downloaded to the includes folder of your vBulletin installation.
* Go to Style Manager > Edit Templates and...
* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

and what? where do I need to go? omg.....

[RedTyger]

Well it says below that. Read the line below the one you highlighted, go to postbit template and paste in what it says, where it says.