What software do you use for banner managment on your sites?

[teomax]

Hi
I have adcycle, which is by default banner managment for links sql, but its a bit slow program. i would rather use something better.
What software do you use for banner managment on your sites?

[Vendzilla]

phpadnews is free and works really good

[ponyman]

What is this banner management? Does it rotate banners based on number of clicks or what?

[Jel]

I use phpadsnew also. Very powerful tool :) Don't know that it does that ponyman, but you do get stats showing ctr and can 'weight' a particular banner so it shows more than others, as well as a big bunch of other stuff that I haven't gotten into. It takes a little getting used to first off, took me a coupla days of real tearing hair out, but when you get the hang of it - wow!

http://phpadsnew.com/two/

[Vendzilla]

plus it shows ad views and clicks

[oast]

I'm using:
PHPAdsNew for graphic banners as it is, IMO, the most complete free ad manager available.
A self re-written version of the old 'txtads' script for my textbox ads.

[furrygirl]

I also tip my hat to phpAdsNew.

[Cliff]

phpadsnew is the BEST!

[JohnH]

phpadnews is the only way to go |pink

[stuveltje]

oke dont laugh here, i have used phpadsnew, i find out that time finally how it worked (thanks to cfnmparty) but i like the good old fashioned taking hours of work putting up the banners with handcoding:D and sometimes i use an easy bannerrotating script. just say i like to do it the hard way:D

[ronnie]

Another vote for phpads, been using it for years, the best around. I really dont know why every one would not use some kind of ad script. The goal is to get as many clicks to the sponsor, why would'nt you want to know you ad stats? Could be losing clicks and sales.

ronnie

[Vendzilla]

knowing page views and clicks helps

[pcum]

I never use such software, but now
I am gonna try it...thanks for the tip

[twthumb]

Hey, thanks for the phpAdsNew tip.

I still do everything by hand and a little script which tracks the clicks. But phpAdsNew seems quite usefull.

[Jim]

We use phpadsnew on both ggandj and Javes.

[mudsnake]

Use it here ..great for places that don't have a lot of space to.

[ponyman]

OK I'm convinced! I'm going to try PHPAdsnew! I've been using SSI for most of my ads, and I thought that was a miracle when I found out about it.

[ronnie]

OK I'm convinced! I'm going to try PHPAdsnew! I've been using SSI for most of my ads, and I thought that was a miracle when I found out about it.

The new version has a learning curve, but once you start using it, you'll be glad you did.

ronnie

[RawAlex]

I wrote my own, but phpAdsnew appears also to be quite good.

[ArtWilliams]

phpadnews is free and works really good

Complicated to master but IMHO the best

[ponyman]

OK! I've got phpadsnew all installed on my server. I have a question, though!

What does it mean to add a new advertiser? Should each of my sponsors be considered a new advertiser or what?

It seems this program is designed for mainstream use and I'm just curious as to what the basic alyout should be for adult webmasters when using phpadsnew.

Thanks for the help!

[Vendzilla]

depends on weither your selling ad space or just rotating your own banners

[Lemmy]

Inspired by this thread I decided to give phpAdsNew another shot. I still don't know my campaigns from my advertisers and publishers, but at least I got it working and it serves ads like a champ. It seems like very powerful software, but a little confusing.

[ponyman]

I found a helpful post by security man in which he described how he uses advertisers, campaigns etc.

advertisers are each sponsor, then within each advertiser are campaigns which are the niches or sites for that sponsor

publishers are your websites or niches, and zones are specific places on a webpage where you want ads to appear.

This helped me tremendously, and now I'm beginning to wonder just how I operated and made sales without phpadsnew! This program is amazing! WOW!

[ponyman]

I'm using the javascript invocation code, as my pages are straight .html and not .php. This seems to be causing my pages to load much more slowly :(

Does anyone know a fix for this?

Here's a link to that awesome Security Man post: http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/showpost.php?p=140189&postcount=16

[ronnie]

I'm using the javascript invocation code, as my pages are straight .html and not .php. This seems to be causing my pages to load much more slowly :(

Does anyone know a fix for this?
[/url]

Just run php on your html pages by adding this line to your htaccess file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Been using it for a long time. Put any php on your html pages and it runs fine.

ronnie

[ponyman]

No way! It's not that easy is it? There must be some catch to this technique :)

[ronnie]

No way! It's not that easy is it? There must be some catch to this technique :)

The catch is putting that line in your htaccess file, thats it. My main site, most all pages are html but I run a lot of php on them. So not only for phpadsnew, but for any php you want to run.

There have been people that say it can cause a slight load on the server, as it parses every html page for php before outputting, but I have not seen a problem myself. Nor have I heard any one else that has had a problem.

ronnie

[ponyman]

hmmm it's not working.

I put this in my .htaccess in the root and the folder, but it doesn't work. I see no phpadsnew calls on the page at all.

[mudsnake]

I put this in my .htaccess file
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
on a test page and had no problem. How did you upload the banners? local banner(Sql) is were I put mine unless its a text ad.
EDIT:
ronnie thankyou for the info great |rock|

[ponyman]

hmm I still can't get this to work.

I put that snippet in my .htaccess file and then use the local invocation codes... but nothing appears :(

Phpadsnew admin runs kinda slow it seems, too.

[Preacher]

Phpadsnew admin runs kinda slow it seems, too.

Same here, but if I recall didn't you recently move to WebAir? I'm hosted there as well and all my SQL based calls are slow. It's an issue I'm going to be bringing up to them shortly.

[Lemmy]

I'm also with Webair. Anything HTML is pretty fast, big movies load zippy, but if there's a database involved it's like watching paint dry (slowly). :(

[Preacher]

Whew. Glad to know it's not just me. :D

[ponyman]

Same here, but if I recall didn't you recently move to WebAir? I'm hosted there as well and all my SQL based calls are slow. It's an issue I'm going to be bringing up to them shortly.

I've been with webair for a few years now, yes. Ponygirl is the webmaster who just moved to webair.

[Halfdeck]

Same here...HTML pages load at lightening speeds but pages with PHP can take 30 seconds to load. I tried to sort this out but seems they can't find the solution.

Also, I have some files in /stats/ directory that are already indexed by google/yahoo, and webair has a quirky setup where any call to /stats/ directory on a domain redirects to the webair login page, which makes moving one of my main domains over to webair pretty much impossible.

I'm also with Webair. Anything HTML is pretty fast, big movies load zippy, but if there's a database involved it's like watching paint dry (slowly). :(

[Lemmy]

I tried to sort this out but seems they can't find the solution.Could over congestion on the SQL servers be the problem? :D Cheap price comes at a cost. I'm counting my pennies to see when I can afford a dedicated server.

[ronnie]

hmmm it's not working.

I put this in my .htaccess in the root and the folder, but it doesn't work. I see no phpadsnew calls on the page at all.

You could always put some php code on your html pages to make sure the htaccess line is working like,

<? echo "This is php working on a html page"; ?>

If that works, you've eliminated the htaccess code.

ronnie

[ponyman]

Maybe this will work faster if I store the banners in a folder in the domain instead of in mysql?

[ronnie]

I've always stored/pulled banners from my sites, never stored them in MYSQL. Not sure if there is a real benifit to storing them in the DB. My thought, the more you store in the db, the more info it has to go through to run. The bigger the DB, the more chance it will be slower.

ronnie

[Halfdeck]

I've tried storing images in MYSQL DB, but I don't know if they get stored in cache like regular images. Seemed like they get downloaded every time I refresh the page, i.e. a big waste in bandwidth. Also, I have heard people say storing images in MYSQL will bog down the server.

I suspect wherever you put the banners, your pages will still load slower since the host we're on doesn't seem to like php/mysql.

[Preacher]

I suspect wherever you put the banners, your pages will still load slower since the host we're on doesn't seem to like php/mysql.

Exactly true! Maybe if enough WebAir people suggest that they look into the SQL lag, maybe something will come of it. I know last night my pages were loading lightening fast and today they're slow again. :(

[ponyman]

I don't understand? If the banners are pulled from my site instead of the MYsql database, It should be faster, no?

[ronnie]

I don't understand? If the banners are pulled from my site instead of the MYsql database, It should be faster, no?

Yes, should be, less work for the Database.

ronnie

[Vendzilla]

My banners come pretty quick, depends on your database I guess

[Preacher]

Maybe this will work faster if I store the banners in a folder in the domain instead of in mysql?

Yes it should work faster but that's not the crux of the problem. The problem appears to be in the shared SQL connections. Put it this way, if your site takes 16seconds to load with the banners stored in the database or 15 seconds to load with the banners hosted on the domain, it doesn't really matter. It's the other 14 seconds we need to be concerned with. :)

I have a support ticket in about this, we'll see what they say.

Preacher

[Vendzilla]

dedicated mysql databases in your dedicated host, plus they have to set the MySql to unlimited...Then you won't have any problems

[Lemmy]

Yes it should work faster but that's not the crux of the problem. The problem appears to be in the shared SQL connections. Put it this way, if your site takes 16seconds to load with the banners stored in the database or 15 seconds to load with the banners hosted on the domain, it doesn't really matter. It's the other 14 seconds we need to be concerned with. :)

I have a support ticket in about this, we'll see what they say.

PreacherI was just in touch with Webair yesterday. They said their SQL servers were "experiencing DNS problems". They moved me to an unaffected cluster and things improved greatly right away. Lets hope it lasts.

[ponyman]

I was just in touch with Webair yesterday. They said their SQL servers were "experiencing DNS problems". They moved me to an unaffected cluster and things improved greatly right away. Lets hope it lasts.

Cool, I'm going to try this right now :)

[ponyman]

well, webair just said they restarted sql5, which supposedly will make it run faster. We'll see.

[Preacher]

well, webair just said they restarted sql5, which supposedly will make it run faster. We'll see.
Have I mentioned before how much I love this board? |love|

Well no direct response to the trouble ticket but my site is running 10 times faster then it was earlier this morning. I'm hoping it holds. |thumb

edit: Oh and back to the point of the topic, I love phpadsnew!