Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

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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.

[intellipay]

I apologize in advance if these are stupid newbie type questions....

My plan with this is to utilize Google Adsense in the header, forum, and 1 spot in a thread. I don't think I want to use Ad Sharing? Anyway...

1.) For the header/footer advertisement, do I simply go to vB Options > vB Ad Managment (Header and Footer) and then copy my Adsense code into the static box?

2.) Since Google "feeds" the advertisements based upon content, is there a need to copy any other code elsewhere?

3.) Is Google Analytics code different than the Adsense code and, if so, what does it do?

4.) Can I copy the exact same Adsense code into the same sections for my forum and thread settings in the forumbit and threadbit sections to get it to work properly?

5.) Do I have to complete the “How to add your own custom adcode blocks in 3 minutes” instructions for static Google Adsense code or is this for something else?

Thanks very much for any help!!

[StarSoheil]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

You're also missing the "" around the href="link" part. That could be it? There should be no reason why that code will not work, perhaps the image you are using to is blocked from linking to?

Moreover my code, I use from adbrite and bidvertiser code and this codes don't show too. I think that this hack have some problem. because i test this hack on two forums and unfortunately your hack don't show anything.

Regards

[class101]

Originally Posted by intellipay

I apologize in advance if these are stupid newbie type questions....

My plan with this is to utilize Google Adsense in the header, forum, and 1 spot in a thread. I don't think I want to use Ad Sharing? Anyway...

1.) For the header/footer advertisement, do I simply go to vB Options > vB Ad Managment (Header and Footer) and then copy my Adsense code into the static box?

2.) Since Google "feeds" the advertisements based upon content, is there a need to copy any other code elsewhere?

3.) Is Google Analytics code different than the Adsense code and, if so, what does it do?

4.) Can I copy the exact same Adsense code into the same sections for my forum and thread settings in the forumbit and threadbit sections to get it to work properly?

5.) Do I have to complete the ?How to add your own custom adcode blocks in 3 minutes? instructions for static Google Adsense code or is this for something else?

Thanks very much for any help!!

1) yes right, I use random in the footer to alternate between text and image ads, I fint it alternate better that way text/images then adsense itself

2) you may use the tags <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> provided by google to have ads with the higher relevance on words between these 2 tags, but on forums that's not simple to do that's why there is vbseo wich does this automatically

3) Yes its totally different, Ganalytics provides only stats from visitors on your website so you must add the correct code, in the footer or header must be enough

4) yep any code, didnt have any conflict with this

5) something else you dont need this

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by StarSoheil

Moreover my code, I use from adbrite and bidvertiser code and this codes don't show too. I think that this hack have some problem. because i test this hack on two forums and unfortunately your hack don't show anything.

Regards

I don't know what to tell you, nobody else has reported this problem. I would assume its something to do with your settings, in that case.

Originally Posted by class101

there is vbseo wich does this automatically

Ah, well answered! What does vbseo do? If it's useful I'll add it as well.

[class101]

What does vbseo do in general ? or about the <!-- google_ad_section_start --> you mean ?
That's not the main feature of vbseo, just one of the large options available in the vbseo product but about this adsense code, vbseo automatically enclose

<!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- google_ad_section_end -->

in front of relevant text of the forum and threads, for example, titles, message body, Relevant Replacements (vbseo feature to add relevant text to each thread/forums), all what is relevant to the page to have different ads matching the thread and forum subjects. The cool features is it adds also

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><!-- google_ad_section_end -->

wich is the code used by adsense to ignore part of the page, I see on the source it adds this on the member's username & signatures, to not have the members title and signatures altering the ads content, very excellent feature you could add yeah , could feat very well with vb ads heheh and no copyrights on this heheh

Let me know if you wanna much informations, I can work to see where it adds exactly theses codes and you could reproduce the same. Or if you wanna work on yours own RedTyger that's not so hard you can see the instruction directly from Google here.

[intellipay]

I want to thank you for this hack. I am new to this and have just started my first board that can accomodate advertising.

I was scared I would screw something up but I followed your instructions and it works! Even the code modifications were easy once I figured out how to get to the right spot to make them.

Thank you for your efforts and for the assistance I received when asking questions. Donation forthcoming...

[class101]

Originally Posted by class101

AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > Add New Plugin

Product: vB Ad Management
Hook Location: search_results_threadbit
Title: vB Ad Management - Ads in Searchbits
Execution Order: 6
Plugin PHP Code:

if ($GLOBALS['do_ads'] && $vbulletin->options['adintegrate_threadbit_onoff'])
{
	include(DIR . '/includes/vb_ad_management/threadbit_display.php');
}

Plugin is Active: Yes
enjoy miss Leigh robinson you must load your vb_ad_management_314.xml , looks like you didnt imported the product

bumping this tip cos it should be a default one, at least enabling/disabling ads in new post & today post must be available in the options in the futur versions I hope since it's the most visited link of any forum

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by class101

What does vbseo do in general ? or about the <!-- google_ad_section_start --> you mean ?
That's not the main feature of vbseo, just one of the large options available in the vbseo product but about this adsense code, vbseo automatically enclose

<!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- google_ad_section_end -->

in front of relevant text of the forum and threads, for example, titles, message body, Relevant Replacements (vbseo feature to add relevant text to each thread/forums), all what is relevant to the page to have different ads matching the thread and forum subjects. The cool features is it adds also

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><!-- google_ad_section_end -->

wich is the code used by adsense to ignore part of the page, I see on the source it adds this on the member's username & signatures, to not have the members title and signatures altering the ads content, very excellent feature you could add yeah , could feat very well with vb ads heheh and no copyrights on this heheh

Let me know if you wanna much informations, I can work to see where it adds exactly theses codes and you could reproduce the same. Or if you wanna work on yours own RedTyger that's not so hard you can see the instruction directly from Google here.

Interesting, looks well worth doing! But that should be done by editing the templates manually, the places the comments need to go are very unlikely to change and the comments themselves are not dynamic. It would be not be resource-efficient to do this automatically.

Originally Posted by intellipay

I want to thank you for this hack. I am new to this and have just started my first board that can accomodate advertising.

I was scared I would screw something up but I followed your instructions and it works! Even the code modifications were easy once I figured out how to get to the right spot to make them.

Thank you for your efforts and for the assistance I received when asking questions. Donation forthcoming...

Duly received, thank you very much indeed!

Originally Posted by class101

bumping this tip cos it should be a default one, at least enabling/disabling ads in new post & today post must be available in the options in the futur versions I hope since it's the most visited link of any forum

Good idea, I forgot about that.

[class101]

yes totally correct this can be done easly, about the resource eating I dunno really cos I don't even know how vbseo is working deeply, is it automatic or not, to say true I'm maybe wrong saying it's automatic , I just mean you don't have to care about because the tool does the job but I don't think this option is eating lots of resource

[class101]

Who has an idea to fix this problem (and btw maybe enhancement suggestion), width altering the look of the forum:

I like vbulletin.com and vbulletin.org styles, with a fixed table width 760px, small width forums are cools for hi-res computers, but using adsense banners 468x49 in the forumdisplay (not the biggest one but probably the most used) the banner width expand the forums table , so the main site table stay to 760px but forum are expanding around 900px so I see a portion of the forum table outside the main table. I know I can't resize adsense image but if anyone know a tip to use theses larges width banners without breaking the layout thanks a lot. I know I can simply put my forum to a 900px but I'd like to find a solution while keeping it to 760pxand not altering the layout, the banners layyout I do not really care , a possible solution would to cut it just before the "Last Post" column for example but don't have a clue how to do.