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2:32 pm
August 31, 2009 |
schleuss
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| | We're trying to figure out the best way to incorporate rotating ads on uatrav.com. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've got one ad manager to set up and I don't want to get her doing something only to change soon. Also, coding and server concepts are low, so recommend what's easiest. Thanks! |
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2:50 pm
August 31, 2009 |
Chris Ullyott
| | Fullerton, CA | | | Member | posts 66 |
| | Google ad manager is helpful but it's got a learning curve of sorts. It also goes through a few issues every now and then and your ads won't show up even after using its debug feature. Overall, it has been working well for us, but we are moving to OpenX eventually. | |
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8:23 pm
August 31, 2009 |
schleuss
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| | That's one of our problems. Our ad manager can't really bother herself with learning and re-learning a difficult system. I had a hard enough time learning it and I'm a Web guy. Sadly, I can't be around to help out 24/7. When do you plan to move to OpenX? |
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9:49 pm
August 31, 2009 |
avera813
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| | The plug-in I use for our newspaper's site is called Kadom Ads. It lets you create ad campaigns with rotating ads based on either ad impressions, clicks or schedule time to appear. So far, it's the best I've seen. You can also add as many as you want to your widget sidebar. -Alex Vera The Minaret Online http://www.theminaretonline.com |
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1:39 pm
September 2, 2009 |
Chris Ullyott
| | Fullerton, CA | | | Member | posts 66 |
| | We're going with an advertising service called OnCampus, and they are planning to release their modified version of the OpenX software in the next couple weeks. I used OpenX initially myself and I think it's much more intuitive than google. | |
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1:54 pm
September 2, 2009 |
Chris Ullyott
| | Fullerton, CA | | | Member | posts 66 |
| | Here's a question for you guys: can you think of a way to automatically insert ad code into the body of a story… like right in the middle? Maybe there is a PHP code that can divide the number of words in the post by 2, and then insert the ad code after that paragraph so it's right in the middle of a story. That would beat having to manually insert the code in every story. Thanks for your thoughts! | |
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2:38 pm
September 2, 2009 |
Daniel Bachhuber
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| | @Chris That would be pretty simple, you could write a plugin for it. I'm not sure that I would do it by dividing the number of words in the post, but rather maybe counting the number of paragraphs and, if there are more than five paragraphs, insert it after the second. Doing this through a plugin would allow you to update the functionality, swap out the ad code, etc. without having to edit all of your body content time and time again. | |
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5:11 pm
September 10, 2009 |
Chris Ullyott
| | Fullerton, CA | | | Member | posts 66 |
| | Yeah…. I'm not sure I can code a plugin myself right now but I'll look into it. | |
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6:07 pm
September 12, 2009 |
Daniel Bachhuber
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| | @Chris – Cool, let me know where you get. If you'd like, it's something that we could work on together. I don't think it'd be all that complex of a project, and I'd be happy to walk you through some of the specifics of building a plugin for WordPress. The best way to get started would be to write out really specifically what you'd like from the plugin, and whether it should stand alone or whether we should try and incorporate it into an existing project. | |
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1:22 pm
September 23, 2009 |
Chelsea
| | Reno, NV | | | New Member | posts 1 |
| | I use a WordPress plugin called Ad-minister. It has a lot of settings and is really easy to use and customizable, if anyone's look for a WP based solution :] You can weight ads to show up more/less and put in beginning/ending dates, etc. It also tracks clicks and impressions |
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1:05 pm
September 25, 2009 |
laurenmichell
| | San Luis Obispo, Calif. | | | Member | posts 21 |
| | I use ad minister too. It's great. It takes care of rotating, clicks, and impressions. However, the numbers are not accurate for impressions because it includes spiders. | |
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1:41 am
October 2, 2009 |
William P. Davis
| | Veazie, Maine | | | Admin | posts 65 |
| | Chris – How do you guys like OnCampus? They won't leave us alone, and I'm hesitant to sign with such a new company. Also, CampusAve has this thing with Monster where you can set up a job widget and Monster pays you $4 per person that completes an application. I heard colleges are making a bundle off it, and we're going to sign with them soon. | |
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8:55 pm
October 7, 2009 |
AramZS
| | Fairfax, VA | | | Member | posts 4 |
| | Hey all. At George Mason University we wanted to use one ad server to run our ads on multiple sites, including static websites, a Drupal site, and a WPMU system. We're using OpenX. We're still using their last version, so I can't speak to any new redesigns or features on their part, but the OpenX Ad Server that we run works really well. So far it looks like tracking is accurate, you can drop it into any website using a number of options, including iFrame and javascript, and it tracks and allows you to control all the professional level web-ad variables. We haven't tried it yet, but the system is even supposed to be set up so your advertisers can get their own login and drop the ad in themselves, saving you the time of an upload. It defines areas that can be put on different sites and you can then just drop in that code and it will rotate the ads for you based on the defined location on the site and, if you want, the site that it's on. We're only just trying out the really heavy usage for OpenX, but it seems to be working great thus far, anyone else tried it and can speak on how well it will work for what we're talking about here? | |
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1:45 pm
October 14, 2009 |
Chris Ullyott
| | Fullerton, CA | | | Member | posts 66 |
| | Will, actually we have been sticking with Google AdManager because our university won't let us sign with OnCampus yet. Maybe next semester. Google works well but does take a while to learn. The best thing about it is its forecasting feature, which averages your traffic and predicts when your ads impressions will complete. It's extremely helpful for planning. | |
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