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.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by admin0

Is it possible to rotate without a refresh ?

Possible, yes. I'm not going to do it though, since I don't want to reply on javascript.

Originally Posted by manuelsechi

i installed (vB 3.6.4) and it work fine but...
it display ads ONLY to registered users... any suggestion?


brgds
Manuel

Go through your Usergroup settings again.

[manuelsechi]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Possible, yes. I'm not going to do it though, since I don't want to reply on javascript.



Go through your Usergroup settings again.

mmm

where exactly please?

[RedTyger]

Global settings. Make sure that 2 is in the option where you choose which Usergroups the advertisements should display to.

[manuelsechi]

perfect!
thanx a lot

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by manuelsechi

perfect!
thanx a lot

Not quite, I just realised I read your question wrong. Sorry. You must already have 2 there, you need to add the Usergroup ID number for every other Usergroup you want to see adverts.

[John W Smith]

Do NOT display advertisements for scripts:
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 commas. (i.e. register,private,index)

What would I have to enter in the CP to ensure I comply with Adsense TOS?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by John W Smith

What would I have to enter in the CP to ensure I comply with Adsense TOS?

That I couldn't tell you, I don't actually use advertisements myself so I'm not au fait with Adsense's TOS. But I believe roughly speaking they require original "content" on a page displayed with advertisements. So search results, registration pages, redirection pages and so on where there is none would be a no-go.

Don't take my word for it though, be sure to look it up yourself.

[RedTyger]

Whose TOS? That's what the THIS_SCRIPT setting is for, so you can avoid violating advertisement provider's TOS by excluding certain page types. If there are other things you need to do to avoid violating a TOS that's up to you.

[Ronak]

How to rotate the banners ?? i am not able to rotate banners

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by Ronak

How to rotate the banners ?? i am not able to rotate banners

What items are you trying to rotate?