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]

1) No, that's prevented from happening now. It was added on the page before this one.

2) Yes, it can in just the same way as global usergroup settings are done. If a usergroup is not added to Ad sharing usergroups they will see the Admin's default adcode instead.

[EricPSF]

Hi,

Pls help, I am a dumber in coding.

1) I am stuck with this. May I know how to modify the below $footer_advertisement placement so that the footer ad is not too close to the bottom menu? See attachement.

$footer_advertisement
<br />
<div class="smallfont" align="center">$vbphrase[all_times_are_gmt_x_time_now_is_y]</div>
<br/>

2) May I know what happened to my left column ads. There is a big gap when I maximize the window. How to re-adjust it back? This only happened in one of the catergory. See attachment.

3) How to center those ads in the left column

[EmraHELL]

very nice... thxxx

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by EricPSF

Hi,

Pls help, I am a dumber in coding.

1) I am stuck with this. May I know how to modify the below $footer_advertisement placement so that the footer ad is not too close to the bottom menu? See attachement.

$footer_advertisement
<br />
<div class="smallfont" align="center">$vbphrase[all_times_are_gmt_x_time_now_is_y]</div>
<br/>

2) May I know what happened to my left column ads. There is a big gap when I maximize the window. How to re-adjust it back? This only happened in one of the catergory. See attachment.

3) How to center those ads in the left column

1) Add a <br /> to the top of your footer Adcode.

2) The columns are buggy and unreliable, I'm using Jelsoft's suggested method of adding them and I couldn't improve it myself so that's as good as it gets I'm afraid.

3) Surround your left column Adcode with <span style="text-align:center;">ADCODE</span>.

[EricPSF]

Thanks Redtyger for the fast reply!

[rnmcd]

Here's a history of my questions/replies about adding a different banner ad for different forums/subforums:

Originally Posted by rnmcd

I apologize if this has been asked and replied to before but I couldn't seem to find the answer in the 8 or 9 pages I read.

Are we able to have different ads for each forum/sub-forum?

Thank you redtyger.

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Yes, but you have to add all but one set of ad code to the (whatever)_advertisement template.

<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]" == '1'>
Ad code for forum ID 1
</if>
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]" == '2'>
$header(or whatever)_adcode
</if>
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]" == '3'>
Ad code for forum ID 3
</if>

And so on.

Originally Posted by wowway1

Please please please - allow specific ads for a particular forum! This would solve my problem if I could great individual forum sponsors (different static ad at the top of individual forums). Is there a way to do this? It looks like the same ad has to be displayed on the forums you choose. I need a different ad for each forum.

Originally Posted by madkeen

Is it possible to nominate different ads for each category of your forum?

I would like to run certain ads in certain categories so that I can use ads that are targeted for that category. This way I can target specific advertisers for each category. Advertisers would much rather have their ad targeted at a more defined group of people. The more you can assure your advertisers that their ad is being displayed at their target demographic the more they are willing to pay.

If it will be possible that would be fantastic.

Thanks

Originally Posted by rnmcd

Aren't these people asking to do the same thing?

I asked RedTyger if this was possible (in an earlier thread) and RedTyger said it was possible.

Is it possible?

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Not in the sense that it's asked for, no. Any other method may be vaguely possible but you may as well just stick to template edits than use this modification.

I just want to make sure I understand correctly and that I have explained what I am trying to do (have different banner ads on various forums/subforums within the same vB message board).

So would template edits be the best way to do this or would the method that redtyger mentioned above (see the quoted post in dark green font) be the better method?

Thank you.

[RedTyger]

It's up to you. The reason I said what I did second time around is because what's in green essentially is just template edits. The Ad Management modification as a whole will ONLY deal with the $whatever_advertisement code, the rest will have to be done with template conditionals for usergroups, scripts etc separately in the template.

So while it is possible, if you need all of the above I'd suggest doing it manually or using a different modification, since only one of your forum ads will benefit from the settings and features it provides. If you use the Ad-Sharing version it's essentially impossible.

[sandrodz]

so basically I need quick help... I'm using vb ad manager, and I have several other mods installed on the forum... I'm also using google analysis with vbadmanager. I'm wondering if google analysis script run via vbadmanager placed on all modified vb pages? I've like tags script, is it being tracked now? I don't see any stats in my google account, that's why I'm wondering... any help appreciated

[RedTyger]

I don't follow sorry. But the easy way to test if the Analytics code is being included is to just view the source code of any page. It'll be right at the very end.

[BigJimTheLug]

Wow, this is great. Thank you.