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.

[onehost]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Sounds like you haven't uploaded the languages/vb_ad_management_english.xml file.

I uploaded what was in /uploads directory, maybe you should
move lang to /uploads, where do i upload this, root forum?

Never mind, i found it, i did not know it was xml.

Thanks

[onehost]

I have a question, I get about 25k hits a month on my site, I am setting up VB forum to compliment the site, how can i use this ad management for paid advertisements,
im not charity to run ad-sharing, there is no money in sharing ads.

Thanks

[eJM]

Don't upload vb_ad_management_english.xml file, import it just as you do other .XML files. You will find it in the languages folder.

You can use this add-on for anything you like and you don't have to use the ad-sharing part if you don't want. Sell your ads any way you want and put the ad code in the appropriate section.

Jim

[onehost]

Originally Posted by eJM

Don't upload vb_ad_management_english.xml file, import it just as you do other .XML files. You will find it in the languages folder.

You can use this add-on for anything you like and you don't have to use the ad-sharing part if you don't want. Sell your ads any way you want and put the ad code in the appropriate section.

Jim

Thank-You

this may work out just fine then

[onehost]

Originally Posted by onehost

Thank-You

this may work out just fine then

can a few of you post your forum that are
running this script, I would like to see it
in action.

Thanks

[RedTyger]

Some sizable forums use it.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum
http://www.mambers.com/index.html
http://forums.majorgeeks.com

But there's not really anything to see, if it weren't for the link added to the footer you wouldn't even know they were using it. You can actually use it to manage advertisements outside your forum as well, all it needs is the basic vBulletin engine added to the page.

[onehost]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Some sizable forums use it.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum
http://www.mambers.com/index.html
http://forums.majorgeeks.com

But there's not really anything to see, if it weren't for the link added to the footer you wouldn't even know they were using it. You can actually use it to manage advertisements outside your forum as well, all it needs is the basic vBulletin engine added to the page.

I have a couple questions...

how can i edit/change the Remove Advert's link?

with beta 4, do i still need to make the google changes
that are located at the top of this page?

im a little confused about the forum options, which section
do i enter/change to allow ads to show like every 10 posts?

is there a bug with the sponsor? my footer link is showing,
and sponsors are turned on, and nothing is showing.

there is a ; at the top right of my screen, I dont think
i saw it there before i installed your script, could your
script be placing it there?

postbit places a sponsor link under every single
post, no matter what the settings are, now
i get an error msg with postbit is on, and it works
fine when i turn it off, tried it in IE and Firefox.

Forumbit does not seem to work and threadbit is shown on
like every other thread when enabled...

Left/Right colums seems to show two boxes
on each side...is that right? doesnt look right...


Thanks

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by onehost

how can i edit/change the Remove Advert's link?

Both that and Sponsored Links are a phrase. You can either edit the phrase to change it across all templates, or edit it in each template individually.

Originally Posted by onehost

with beta 4, do i still need to make the google changes
that are located at the top of this page?

I see no mention of any Google changes, what do you mean? There's information about this version in the manual: http://redtyger.co.uk/manual.php?pro...sion=4.00+Beta

Originally Posted by onehost

im a little confused about the forum options, which section
do i enter/change to allow ads to show like every 10 posts?

Postbit.

Originally Posted by onehost

is there a bug with the sponsor? my footer link is showing,
and sponsors are turned on, and nothing is showing.

Possibly, it is a beta. What adcode are you using?

Originally Posted by onehost

there is a ; at the top right of my screen, I dont think
i saw it there before i installed your script, could your
script be placing it there?

Possibly, but its more likely a template edit. Several people have done that before when editing &nbsp; because they don't see the ; at the end. Check the appropriate template.

Originally Posted by onehost

postbit places a sponsor link under every single
post, no matter what the settings are, now
i get an error msg with postbit is on, and it works
fine when i turn it off, tried it in IE and Firefox.

...

Forumbit does not seem to work and threadbit is shown on
like every other thread when enabled...

...

Left/Right colums seems to show two boxes
on each side...is that right? doesnt look right...

Can you PM me a login for your admincp, this sounds like it needs looking at. It's difficult to tell from here what's going wrong where.

[onehost]

RedTyler,

Both that and Sponsored Links are a phrase. You can either edit the phrase to change it across all templates, or edit it in each template individually.

this is a little vague to me, exactly which files are you refering to edit?

I also see that you did get the sponsor section working, what did you do? or
did i do something wrong? I also noticed you turned postbit on also, did you
notice it was posting a banner after every single post...im not sure if you checked
everything else or not...I also noticed no ads in private msgs when i sent
myself a msg, although, i do not remember seeing anything specific in admin
relating to private msg adcode setup.

Thanks

[iogames]

Just a suggestion Ok?
Why we don't wait for the v4.0, let him breath a little and then we start all over with the new version's bugs.