Free Coop Advertising Network

I agree, just needed to hear it from someone else to re-assure myself . BTW - the free ad network is an awesome idea, thanks for bringing it to the community!

 

What if I wanted to display more than one link? I of course realize that I could just call the php script say 5 times, but I'd like them to be all different?

 

You could show three different ads right now couldn't you? A text only, a text banner and a full banner. Just modify the "http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?type=link" string by changing the type=.

 

Go to http://www.compar.com/infopool/articles/news2vs10.html. Look on the bottom of the page. There are some text links which include one of the network's and then below it is a banner ad. I didn't try and load the SSI a third time, bu I don't see why it wouldn't work???????

Check out the source code.

 

Of course I'm calling it twice. That what I meant when I said you could load it three time with a different "?type=" string in each call. How is that different than the question about running multiple ads on a single page?

BTW what is your connection with Western Union. I just had a bit of a bad experience with them.

 

Wow! We seem to be way off understanding each other on this issue. I don't want to run multiple ads.

You said in response to someone else's question that it could not be done. He talked about 5 different ads and I agree it can't be done under the present setup. But my point was that you can in fact run more than one ad now by calling the script more than once and modifying the "?type=" parameter.

I simply experiemented with it on one page to make sure I was correct. So:

1. I don't want to run multiple ads.

2. I never suggested it could be done with a single call of the script.

3. I showed that it could be done in exactly the way I asked you about in my first post on the issue. The one to which you reply "no it can't be done".

Hope that clears up the issue.

BTW I had a look at your Western Union Page. I have one suggestion. Why don't you center that page? It looks strange all over on the left hand side of a browser on a high resolution monitor.

 

When I checked my account this morning I noticed that someone who had signed up using my affiliate ID was no longer listed in my account & I'm not rceiving a weight bonus for them. I checked their forum and the ads are still in place and being displayed.

Any ideas?

 

He indicated he didn't change anything, guess I'll just keep an eye on it.

 

Just to ditto Shawn's comments, it all depends what is there when googlebot shows up and spiders the page. And while you might "miss" one time, the law of averages says you will get "some" hits ... and an interesting theory might be if googlebot sees a link, say 10 times in a 30-day period (assume daily crawls), does it "assume" that is really is there for purposes of back link/SERP calculations - if so, maybe triple back links!

As I've mentioned in private Shawn, this whole idea/concept is brilliant, and even though I don't run a blog/forum/PHP, I'm still considering using it via server-side-includes.

alek

 

This looks fairly simple for "other" sites - as implied in Shawn's notes, it's simply a matter of using a Server Side Includes - for those that are interested - take a look at:
http://www.komar.org/dptest/
which describes what is on the page (since with SSI's, you never see the "behind the scenes magic" - only the resulting HTML - try doing a view source!)

I haven't quite decided how I want to use these, but I'm unclear how I can "validate" across all sub-URL's of www.komar.org (not sure I want to display the top page) ... and I might be interested in running on another site - do I have to seperately validate each sub-URL and each domain ... and ideally, I'd like to have ALL impressions contribute to my "score" ... ala Adsense.

I suspect Shawn is tracking by domain (since I can't figure out how else he would be doing it) so my guess is no on the multiple domains, but maybe he can "bless" anything that shows up under www.komar.org and then I can just go to town on that - plus it looks like you have to manually activiate/validate my account anyway.

Thanx,
alek


P.S. I'm a little confused about setting the background color - you said in post #41 that you can set the background color, but you then say the site displaying the ads sets it. On the setup page, it shows me the HTML, but I can't seem to modify the color from #000000 (?)

 

But is it available for text banners?

 

There's just something I would like to clarify...

If a site owner displays the banner ad then he has more "weight" than someone who displays the text link and description ad and they have more weight than someone who only displays the text link ad, am I correct?

If so, good stuff and excellent program.

And now going slightly off topic, are you a professional php coder, I cant tell because you only refer to "coder".

Good stuff