Best Xenforo Ad Manager

[billybatz9]

Hey guys,

I was just wondering what the best ad manager for Xenforo was?


What I am wanting to do is.... get some ad zones up (that I can sell to people)

 

[Walter]

Having looked through all the current options available, I have a feeling I may need to sit down with a good reliable developer and explain what pbulishers want and need to produce one of good enough quality, but without overloading it with loads of bloat.

We're planning on moving to a self-run publishing house upon converting a VB3 site to XF 1.2.x --- Developing a 3rd party Add-on for a advertising management suite is something that we are willing to throw serious money at. I've only put together a draft of functions that would be required, but it's a fairly large laundry list of functions that I'm sure will take some time to polish off into a working product.

Seriously interested if the system caters not only to single forums but to owners with multiple forums (but maybe that meets your definition of bloat? ). Keep me updated.

 

[Slavik]

Seriously interested if the system caters not only to single forums but to owners with multiple forums (but maybe that meets your definition of bloat? ). Keep me updated.

Interesting idea, not sure how that would be implemented if you wanted to manage ads on multiple forums... would you basically want a central advertising panel to handle all the forums at once?

We're planning on moving to a self-run publishing house upon converting a VB3 site to XF 1.2.x --- Developing a 3rd party Add-on for a advertising management suite is something that we are willing to throw serious money at. I've only put together a draft of functions that would be required, but it's a fairly large laundry list of functions that I'm sure will take some time to polish off into a working product.

I suck at making mock-ups, but I can certainly write a mean technical specification document.

Send me a list through...

 

[Walter]

Interesting idea, not sure how that would be implemented if you wanted to manage ads on multiple forums... would you basically want a central advertising panel to handle all the forums at once?

Yes.
What I really want is a replacement for OpenX, but I probably won't find anyone to write such a beast for a reasonable price.

 

[billybatz9]

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/bd-rotating-ads.292/ - perhaps?

Thats really nice... Ill have to give it a see...

I found this site that can automatically do it for you.... (no need for mods/addons) Just coding
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/free_banner_rotator_code.php

I made some bs ads and links to see how it works, and the result was this code which is exactly what I wanted, but only have one problem.... The banners show randomly... Not one after the other. I need to somehow fix this in the coding (to show one after the other)
Right now: 1342837433288
What I want: 1234567812345678

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
/*
Copyright 2013 The PCman Website Rotating Banner Code
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com
This code is free to use provided this notice is not removed.
Create your own custom banner code with banners
*/
mybanners=
[
"<a href=\"http://mcdonalds.com/\"><img src=\"http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profile...3807295/824cb16aeae0e30e67882a688d7849f4.gif\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" alt=\"mcdonalds\" border=\"0\"></a>",
"<a href=\"http://freelancer.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.abeconsultancy.co.uk/sit...tures/freelancer_co_uk-banner-300x250-01.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Freelancer\" border=\"0\"></a>",
"<a href=\"http://bodybuilding.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.dreamdzines.com/images/banner14.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" alt=\"BodyBuilder\" border=\"0\"></a>"
]
randomNumber = Math.random()
var show_mybanners = mybanners[Math.floor(randomNumber * mybanners.length)]
document.write(show_mybanners);
// --></script>
<noscript>
<a href=\"http://bodybuilding.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.dreamdzines.com/images/banner14.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" alt=\"BodyBuilder\" border=\"0\"></a>
</noscript>

If anyone knows how to fix the coding to show in order.... that would be great

 

[billybatz9]

If you want to see it in action... click on the demo link here and click on (main forum).. http://demo.xenforo.com/?d=b7c07c26a83927ab

 

[ENF]

Interesting idea, not sure how that would be implemented if you wanted to manage ads on multiple forums... would you basically want a central advertising panel to handle all the forums at once?





Send me a list through...

Sure, I'll send you the basic functionality list that we came up with in the next few days via PC. For a short summary, we need to handle various sizes of ads and be able to track statistics of clicks, impressions and what not. For our purposes, we plan on billing a flat amount per month instead of PPC or CPI. (Advertising customers will want reports of those stats...) Other people may want that functionality of managing ads based a preset budget of PPC/CPI. I wouldn't mind funding both types since we could expand to other services. Lastly, for us, it's just one site and it's very specific to our region (Asia Pacific). We could expand... it just depends on what happens after the convert to XF.

In the end, I simply prefer a solution that will work seamlessly within XenForo instead of managing another 3rd party product.

 

[Slavik]

Sure, I'll send you the basic functionality list that we came up with in the next few days via PC. For a short summary, we need to handle various sizes of ads and be able to track statistics of clicks, impressions and what not. For our purposes, we plan on billing a flat amount per month instead of PPC or CPI. (Advertising customers will want reports of those stats...) Other people may want that functionality of managing ads based a preset budget of PPC/CPI. I wouldn't mind funding both types since we could expand to other services. Lastly, for us, it's just one site and it's very specific to our region (Asia Pacific). We could expand... it just depends on what happens after the convert to XF.

In the end, I simply prefer a solution that will work seamlessly within XenForo instead of managing another 3rd party product.

I doubt it would ever be that complex in terms of managing PPC/PPI and statistic tracking... would be looking at some serious wedge to get that coded up...

 

[ENF]

I doubt it would ever be that complex in terms of managing PPC/PPI and statistic tracking... would be looking at some serious wedge to get that coded up...

That's kind of why we haven't ventured out just yet to find the right avenues to complete this project. It's something that we will get done, it's just a matter of who, when and how much. I'll still send you or baseline and keep you posted on what progress is made once we start seriously procuring talent to built this product.

Sort of OT, but related, I had put ads out for local developers here in Tokyo but the respondent pool has been dismal. When I say dismal, the required skill set and knowledge of most all that responded was extremely weak. I keep hearing about developers out of work around here, but these must be the guys that can't hold a job due to a lack of skill.