Hi, i think im going to try to make a forum, but i want to know what options i will have for placing adsense / ypn /other banner adnetworks on the forum? What I would like to use is vbulletin but cannot afford it. Anyone have a smf made forum that I can check out? can I place banners at the top, left, right, bottom and after posts? can i also run different campaigns (1 for yahoo 1 for tribal fusion etc). and also, is it possible if I have different categories in the forum (say baseball, football, basketball etc), can I set it so the ads change when a users goes to a new section? thanks for your help
Based on my understanding of forum advertising, you probably won't have any issues with the forum - but you may have issues with the advertising companies. This will depend on which advertising companies you choose, and their respective ToS. Here are two of the most commonly-used strategies: 1. Display ads from only one company on each page, and vary the companies on a page-by-page basis 2. Develop a script that serves ads from one company on all pages on one day, then rotates to another company the next, etc. You could also accomplish this in one of two ways: either by selecting targeted ads for each category, or by using contextual advertising, which will read your content and serve targeted ads based on that content. HTH, Sam