[ThorstenA]

Google Admanager > Inventory > Targeting

Targeting Key: usergroup
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Targeting Key: script
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Targeting Key: forum
Copy & paste only this forum structure you get here:
www.yourforum.com/misc.php?do=admanager Login as administrator

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[ThorstenA]

How to

• Target Custom Primary Usergroups. To target custom primary usergroups, add their ids on Google Admanager > Inventory > Targeting > Target Key: usergroups.
  
• Integration Tips. Place following ad slots and target thousands of forums, usergroups, script combinations
  • ad slot named superbanner on ad_header
  • ad slot named rectangle on ad_navbar
  • ad slot skyscraper on ad_footer

FAQ

Originally Posted by abrecher

I know it might be a tad off topic....I'm able to get all image ads served from GAM to show up inside actual forum posts. My issue is with text ads. Anybody have any tips or a way to serve them inside posts please ?

For text ads, go to Upload Creatives for and then choose: Creative Type: Rich Media. Then you can enter any html code you want, including text of course. Great to know is, that in "Rich Media" you can also enter another Google Admanager Placement code! That way you can put Google Admanager Adsense Placements in your Creative Types that are trackable within Google Admanager including all its analytic skills!

[glorify]

Great work!

[narhot]

Great work!

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by glorify

Great work!

Originally Posted by narhot

Great work!

Thanks, I am really happy about feedback and will improve this product the more feedback I get. Please click "Install" if you use this product. Thank you

[abrecher]

Great mod! It would be really nice if we could manage more ad locations as well as control forums from the admin cp.

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by abrecher

Great mod! It would be really nice if we could manage more ad locations as well as control forums from the admin cp.

What ad locations do you want to control more? Do you mean by that more scripts? Now we only have index, forumdisplay, showthread. Do you want to control more scripts?

What do you mean by control forums from admincp?

I like feedback and build more options into this mod if I find more ideas

[ThorstenA]

Update

8.11.2008 1.1 Improves forum targeting. Forums are now shown in their real names within admanager. It's also taken care of converting forum names to names consisting of characters google allowes.

When upgrading please also change headinclude template. Replace old f1, f2, f3 attribute codes with this code. And please update Google Admanager Targeting Key : forum!

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[diretur]

great hack, thanks

[diretur]

thorsten, I have a problem.

Let's say I have 1 ad slot, the same one in all my forums.
In the forum B I'd like to have the specific banner 1 all the time.

I targeted banner 2, 3 and 4 putting "forums not equal to B". Still they do appear in forum B and banner 1 doesn't. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

EDIT: Actually no part of the targeting is working, usergroups & script either :-(
EDIT2: I have > 100 forums and the names are sometims too long

[ThorstenA]

I have updated this product:

9.11.2008 1.2 Solved a bug for forum targeting. If you upgrade, install product (overwrite: yes) and update headinclude template. Thanks.

I hope this helps adressing forum targeting error. Long forum names are no problem as long as there are no two forum names that have same name after normalization. Google Admanager allows you to have up to 200 values per targeting criteria. You can just put the forums within admanager you like to track.

Targeting usergroup and script works fine for me. Please note, that it takes up some really long time for admanager to adjusts custom targeting criterias.

[rob30UK]

How exactly is the adcode injected? I have a heavily modified forum - how does your script know where to place ads?

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by rob30UK

How exactly is the adcode injected? I have a heavily modified forum - how does your script know where to place ads?

Google Admanager knows about targeting criterias from your modified headinclude template (step 2 of product installation).

• Usergroups are fetched by $bbuserinfo[usergroup]
• Script name is fetched by THIS_SCRIPT
• forum names are fetched by product which fetches actual forum title and all parentforum titles via $foruminfo[parentlist]. It also normalizes all titles to match google target value criterias.

[rob30UK]

Hi Thorsten, this wasnt really my question but thanks al the same.

I know how the adcode is targetted, but how does the script know WHERE in the page to place the ads.

Parts of my header are not definined in the header tempate. Parts of my navigation system are not defined in navbar template.... do you see what I am getting at here?

Surely there needs to be some token or script in the exact place where you want the ads to appear??

Maybe I am missing something here, who knows.