ad delivery system

Samuel,

Any plans to inlcude an ad delivery system into the forums - would like an easy-to-use system that delivers 728x90's, and 160x600 skyscraper type ads. I would also like to run Google AdSense in a way that the Googlebot can target specific forum post content.

If adsense/ad rotation is not a current function, how much time do you think it would take my developer to implement top, side, and bottom includes to deliver contextually targeted ads?

thanks in advance

Hi,

We don't have plan to include a banner rotator. Banner systems can easily be integrated into the software using javascript, as most banner systems support such configuration. What you will need to do is that you can add the banner javascript code using the dynamic header/footer function in the admin control panel. It is the same with the Google's ad system. You can see this forum as an example: http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/

Samuel, thanks for the quick response. I'm not a developer, but I checked out frontpagewebmaster, and the adsense is serving in te left nav. Can you config the left nav for ad delivery by using the dynamicheader/footer function? If so, this seems fairly simple, as opposed to coding a left/right top/bottom nav.

Thanks,
Rob

Hi Rob,

The following are taken directly from AdSense website:

1. How to get the AdSense code from your account.

• Log in to your AdSense account at https://www.google.com/adsense/.
  
• Select the Settings tab. This page allows you to choose the ad layout and AdSense color palettes. At the bottom of this page, under Copy-and-Paste, exists the default ad code for this account. The default ad code when placed on a web page will show a 468x60 Banner size with blue trim and white background.
  
• Once you have chosen your own color palette and an ad layout that works best for your web page, or if you feel the 'default' ad works best for your site, highlight and copy the entire ad code from the Copy-and-Paste box. The code displayed in the box will look similar to the code below (your code may vary):
  <script type="text/javascript">
  <!--
  google_ad_client = "pub-0000000000000000";
  google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.mydomain.com/my_banner.html";
  google_ad_width = 468;
  google_ad_height = 60;
  google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
  google_color_border = "B4D0DC";
  google_color_bg = "ECF8FF";
  google_color_link = "0000CC";
  google_color_url = "008000";
  google_color_text = "6F6F6F";
  //--></script>
  <script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
  </script>
  

https://www.google.com/adsense/faq-tech

As you can see, the adSense is just javascript code, and therefore, you can simply paste it into the header/footer system of the admin control panel. You do not need to write any ASP code as far as I know for incorporating any kind of ads with any type of banner system. Most banner systems are javascript based and because of that, you can use the dynamic header/footer system to incorporate them.

Samuel,

Thanks again for the reponse. Did frontpagewebmaster create a left side include for ad delivery, or can I config the header/footer to deliver the code?

Rob

This I don't know. But left side column can be created using an HTML table like this (a very simple example)

<!-- beginning of header -->
<table>
<tr>
<td>
insert adsense javascript here
</td>
<td>
<!-- end of header -->

<!-- beginning of footer-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- end of footer -->

Using the above HTML based header and footer, the forum will go between header and footer and there will be a left column just for adsense. Of course, you will have to adjust the table's attributes (width, height, align,etc.) to match the design of your site. I am just giving you an idea how this can be done with pure HTML code with no server-side includes.

You are very helpful -thanks

Rob