I have installed the code on some pages . It servers up adds no problem . Now what I don't understand is the terms Base : Consolidation : First when I logged in ,setup 2 ads then put in my google api key I could see base 566 then I clicked validate/calc weight it told me there were no ads on a certain page . So I put the code there then it told me another page etc etc . It was happy then and showed a base of 1560 or so . Now it says weight 566 . Can some one explain how this works ? are my ads being served up ? Google spidered me at 04 am which was after I put teh code on but it doesnt show in the google cache .
If your base URL is a folder, then only in that folder... Basically, ads MUST be on ALL pages 'to the right' of the base URL. www.domain.com = base: all pages need ads. www.domain.com/folder/ = base: only pages in here and deeper need ads.
Not if your site is .php or .shtml or .asp just add it in a footer/header then if you have one. If it's html you can use the HTML htaccess trick to put in on each ad without copying pasting a billion times. Search the forum for tips...
Nice coincidence, I was about to open a thread about this exact topic, when I found this reply. I wonder, how does the coop network know if the ads are actually on every page? Does it crawl every single page of my site looking for ads? I added the code to all my pages except for one (by mistake, to be honest), and I got a report that "Ads appear to be live" as if nothing was wrong. I added the missing one later. But the point is, if I left it as it was, I wouldn't have got any errors.
Just curious - what's the reasoning behind requiring the ads to run throughout a directory? If the ads don't have to run on the entire site, then why must they run on an entire directory? (unless I'm not understanding this correctly and they do have to be run of site)
My guess is ithat it defines your site by the top-level diretory you enter. That way a geocities site (for example) would be correctly dealt with. If you have a normal site with your own domain name, the root level is the whole site. Obviously this makes for some flexibility if, for example, you want to just run ads in one part of your site. An Invision 2.0 solution would help me to increase the runs... How do you know how many of YOUR ad impressions were served? I have a nice weight but haven't seen any new referrals.
Terms of the ad network- The ads need to be on all pages of your site whether its asdf.com or asdf.com/nothing/
You all see the little drop-down menu under "Weight"? Well is 5 to put ALL your weight on that one ad and 1 to put just a little or the other way around? I'm a little confused by how that part works. If anyone can explain it would be great. Regards, J Fontestad
So if you have two ads, and leave them both "1", your weight will be shared equal between two ads? Maybe it will sound stupid but, we don't have to make them both "5" right?
exactly. When I said relative, i meant to the other weights of your ads in the control panel. So, if you set all of your ads to the same number, they will have your weight distributed evenly across them. Here are some words from the Master of the Universe...http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=4793
Why's that? If you are using the ad network I assume you are using PHP somewhere? Start using includes. Makes life much simpler adding new code site wide later..