Topic in Shoutbox - ads system

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I noticed that you were discussing your ad sysetm and IPB wanting to implement their own ad sysetm as a default for IPB 3.1

 

I would say to stay ahead of the game.

 

If IPB implements their sysetm like vBulletin did theirs it will be limited in scale plus I got more without their sysetm than I did once it was implemented on some forums. With the sysetm for Vbulletin it was aimed at a wide range of forums and was meant for a wide audience. your attention to listening to your customers is in my opinion your greatest asset. While you can code for your customers, IPB must code for all customers that purchase IPB as a whole.

 

I Noticed you had widgetbucks and YPN networks as well as google ads. May I also recomend implementing ebay?

 

I have not owned your sysetm for long. I like the layout and the feature set you have included thus far and look forward to what you plan for the future.

 

I have not looked at widget in a long time. I will take a look at what they have to offer us.

[[R] NuclearGeneral]

Hello,

 

Thanks for the positive reply! :) As for the EBay part, I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. As for the WidgetBucks, I've looked into that one, and also have mt own account with them, but it is impossible to set that up like I have the Google Ads because it runs off a single JavaScript file that calls to their API. Unlike them, Google allows much more configuration on a user-side basis. Which is what Yahoo! does as well, but I have to figure out what theirs is, but I know it is somewhat similar to Google's.

 

As for staying ahead of the competition, I do plan on that and to try and improve mine as much as possible. I also plan on getting the third party apps coded sometime soon.

 

Regards,

Donald

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Ebay can produce banner ads like google but you will not have some of the luxeries like you do the google ads. You will get the pre-defined sizes but you will maybe have to just define a template or something for us to just insert our codes would help?

 

Another option is if we belong to more than one ad network would be to rotate the ads between the options. Google, YPN and ebay all use the standard banner sizes. Can you rotate what ads are placed so they are not all google, YPN or Ebay ads but a mixture of each on pages? We could then see what ads produce the best results and then target the ads in a particular spot to produce the best revenue from the selected ad network in a later revision or something. Ebay produces better results in my Tech forums for people looking for parts and supplies while on the forum as a whole, generic google ads produce the best results for people looking for new printers and copy machines.

 

I understand these are not options you can code overnight but rather an idea to stay ahead and as you look for revisions and additions to options these would provide an incentive to purchase your sysetm over a standard IPB solution of targeting only one network or only one pre-defined banner size in a particular area of the forum.

[[R] NuclearGeneral]

Hmm... Sounds like an interesting idea. I'll look into that man. I'll see what I can do to make them rotate between ad platforms and adding in the EBay as well.