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.

[MnTom]

Originally Posted by MnTom

I am new at this stuff. I read almost every post and tried to search, but i could not find the answer I need. I can't seem to figure out how to have a link associated with an ad so that if a person clicks on the ad it will take them to another page or site. Where is that and how do I do it?
Tom

No one has any idea?

[axg]

I am running VBA, and VB, and i went ahead and added this mod, and took the advice of the manual to delete any custom ad stuff. So i did it, and now my VBA does not work or come up. any idea on how to fix this?

[MnTom]

I left all my custom stuff on and it everything works fine. I just don't know how to make an ad a clickable link. I really need to find out how.

[axg]

Uninstalled it and had to re-install VBA CMPS and it all came back. Now i have to re-configure it all back to how it was.

[zeus_r6]

Originally Posted by MnTom

I left all my custom stuff on and it everything works fine. I just don't know how to make an ad a clickable link. I really need to find out how.

Couldn't you just use the "<a href" html coding?

[MnTom]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Couldn't you just use the "<a href" html coding?

Therein lies the problem. I don't even know what that is.

[zeus_r6]

This is how an image link works (the a href= part is the site you are linking to when the banner is clicked):

<a href="http://www.website.com" target="_blank" ><img src="http://www.website.com/Banner%201.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="60" alt="a website"></a> | <a href="http://www.website.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.website.com/forums/images/misc/HighQual_blueHue.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="60" alt="another website"></a> | <a href="http://www.website.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.website.com/images/banner1.gif" alt="third website" width="468" height="60" border="0"></a>

Mine still doesn't autorefresh btw

[MnTom]

Thanks Zeus........... I gave up on this and am trying another. I have the other installed, but now can't get an image to show............

[zeus_r6]

Fortunately I'm pretty handy with flash, so I'm just going to create one banner via flash that will randomly rotate the image banners.

It just sucks that there are no mods here that receive continued support from their authors which can rotate a banner automatically without a browser refresh.

[nfn]

Hi,

How to use the ad sharing and ad revenue sharing with the new google_ad_slot instead google_ad_channel?