I signed up yesterday for DP ads and have installed the product xml, uploaded the verification file to the server and added the authentication key to the field in the vb acp. I also gave permissions for google analytics, for demographic purposes. Paypal is setup also. I did a test to account and for some reason I can select my site to advertise on and goto create add, but it only shows fields to enter a text ad. No image upload fields or demographic targeting settings, which I need to be there. I also entered the bids for everything, as requested. I'm sure its a really simply thing I overlooked...
Did you place the banner JavaScript somewhere on your site/in templates? The system won't offer banner advertising until you place at least one banner placement on your site.
Thanks for the reply. Yep, the java code is in multiple places, showing adsense ads through it now, so it appears to be working correctly, just won't allow advertisers to select an ad image. Strange...
It should be working now. Internally the system is logging impressions (obviously), but it has to do it slightly differently when someone is not running banner ads. I reset that counter on your site (you can do it too with the "reset" link on your site list page). And that seemed to fix it. The only thing I can think of is maybe you had the system installed and live before you placed any banner ads (normally people place banner ads first, then install the advanced mode stuff for secondary ad types).
Oh, on a side note... one thing I would definitely suggest (if you want to get a bunch of advertisers) would be to let them know they can advertise on your site. For our site, we made it so if the user is not logged into an account (guest basically), we will show them a slider once a week. You can see it in the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:forums.digitalpoint.com You may get some advertisers just by being IN Digital Point Ads, but Digital Point Ads is a marketplace to allow your advertisers to bid for ad space more than anything. You probably will find that the ones that want to advertise on your site the most are the ones visiting your site. The more of your users that know they can buy ad space direct, the better. For this site we have had over 2,000 ads created by 525+ *paying* advertisers (ones that actually funded their account) so far, and most of them were normal site users (more than one have funded more than $30,000 in advertising since we started a couple months ago... and a bunch over $10,000). You would be surprised what your users are willing to spend for advertising when they can make money from it.
Great, yes it seems to be working fine now. Another quick one. I wonder if it's possible to run ads solely on the homepage? We run vbcmps, with vb, so I'm sure the ad would show up with running it everywhere, but not sure as to how to single out the vbcmps driven homepage. As far as marketing, yes I intend on really pushing it on the site. We have a LOT of members who sell in the classifieds, which pretty much have small businesses selling car audio. Them and small shop/site owners would love to advertise on the site. Also intend on offering premium memberships to cater to members who sell on the site. I noticed, you can target by country, also by state? Being able for small shop owners to target down to the state/region would be great, if that's also a possibility. Looks like you have a great ad system going here, will be nice to have something to supplement Adsense!
Currently you can target by country but not yet by region (state). We are looking at possibility letting people drill down to an exact city if they want, but I'm not sure how far off that is yet to be honest. There's a few other things to do first. Are you a programmer type at all? You *can* modify the mechanism that builds the list of "areas" (basically forums) banners can target. Hhere, we changed it a bit so people can target by sub-domain if they want (like just ads to tools.digitalpoint.com for example). It basically just means you need to internally assign a numeric value to an area and add it to the available areas array, and then call out that section on the pages it's targeting.
Do you mean by modifying the dp ads xml script? It doesn't sound like it would be that difficult, but I'm no expert...