Banner rotator

[amber438]

Damn nit..
I was gonna install the new version of phpads new this weekend..and emulate the way you did your set up Cleo..but the thread got lost in the wind with the crash..

Oh well..

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[Cleo]

This is what I have,

For each niche I have two Ad Campaigns, one for the top spot and one for the side spot.

Then I have two Linked Zones that I use for my non niche specific ad spots, one for the top spot and one for the side spot. I pull in from my Ad Campaigns for this.

I also have separate Advertisers for surfers and webmasters.

[amber438]

Thank you..I totally forgot to copy and paste the important stuff in the thread!!

[Sumrpal]

Amber, here are Cleo's notes on phpads

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Cleo
Omnipotent ruler of perversion
GreenGuy & Jim
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Posts: 2470

I have a whole lot of niches so it would a little different then how a niche specific list like your might do it. Also I have one horizontal banner spot and two vertical spots per page.

I add one or two banners per niche per sponsor. I just keep on adding them in as I join new sponsors. Once in awhile I'll go in and start pulling sponsor's banners if I don't them pulling in sales, but I'l leave them in there for a very long time before pulling something. Mostly I try to have a lot of variety on banners with different sale approaches per niche. I do often do an ad for the horizontal spot and then using that banner as my template I make up a vertical ad for the same site.

I have folder on my server that I make up one page per sponsor and on that page I put all of that sponsor's ads that I will add into the banner rotator. It makes for an easy copy and paste of code. Like on this page http://cleos-porn-links.com/a/wepayyou/

I made up one Campaign per niche per horizontal or vertical placement so I have two Campaigns per niche.

I also made up two Zones, one horizontal and one vertical, that I use for my main pages and any page that isn't niche specific. I can then add in ads from the Campaign as I feel appropriate, usually more mainstream porn for the horizontal spot and just about everything in the vertical spots.

About the only thing I don't like about my system is that if I get a banner that is appropriate for more then one niche I have to duplicate it and move it into that niche. Not a big deal, but more work later on if I decide to edit or pull that ad since there will be more then one copy.

It's nice being able to go to my Inventor screen as see exactly what ads are where per niche, this is absolutely fucking fantastic!!! Also viewing by Banner overview screen is great for a fast visual of what ads are showing where and in what niche.

I also made up a few different Advertisers so I have one for surfer ads, one for webmaster ads, etc. In my last banner rotator I mixed all the ads together and it became overwhelming have so many different ads geared to different audiences all mixed together.

Once I have enough ads in my database I may start using the feature that allows me to show different ads to different surfers based on what country they are coming from. From what I can tell this is a $150 per year fee to be hooked into the database. Imagine serving up the correct banners in the correct language that offered the correct type of program for that surfer. I'm going to need a whole lot more ads in my database to do this.
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[amber438]

OMG..
Smurpal..
Thank you!!

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