If you use phpadsnew

[natalie]

In the spirit of our community I have something I may be able to share. At last Punaniman has helped me finish the script I have been planning for a couple of months...
I use phpadsnew for almost all of my banners in free sites and linklists etc. When I start a new site to promote it takes ages to make all the banners and put them into the system. I would usually make html pages of ads split into groups:
-softcore horizontal banners with a line of text
-hardcore horizontal banners with a line of text
-just two lines of text
-hardcore large odd banners
-softcore large odd banners
and so on (hardcore also means it has enter text on the banner and therefore can't go on the warning page)
After a couple of hours making these I would then add them one at a time into phpadsnew as html banners in a campaign for that paysite. Another hour or so...

Now with our new script I make a folder for the paysite (say ftg) and then a folder in there for each type of banner...
ftg/schor/
ftg/hchor/ etc
And I have two text files, one has one line text for under the banners and the other has 2 line text ads for use on their own.

I upload these to the server and go to php form and fill in some details like the dir name, alt text, mouseover url, sponsor url, keywords, campaign id and press a button....
like magic all my ads are inserted into phpadsnew
Now I want to know if this process could be used by others? I could put the code etc up for gg&j members to use. Unless we make a config file etc you would need to know a little about php and adsnew to configure it to work on your system.
Anyone interested?

[cd34]

Sounds like a really useful tool. Combined with Cleo's Manual, that would be quite a useful reference and tool.

[natalie]

ooo whats Cleos manual?

[Cleo]

OMG, Cleo's manual. lol

I got tried of looking for my own post so I kept it as a text clipping. It is back from when I first starting using it and how I set it up. Nothing has changed in how I use it so here it is in its original text.
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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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[natalie]

Thats an awesome read