How to run ads on my site

[Dikran Gullekian]

I have a few companies who want to advertise on my site; how can I run their ads on my site, on the right side......

I don't want to add Google adsense, I only want to run my own ads different companies where the ads change with every click of the page.

Can anyone help me on how to do it??

Thanks

[Digital Janitor]

You can put text boxes anywhere you want almost. Any text box will work for ads from what I have seen so far but I still have a lot to do in my network.

Also you can put boxes anywhere you want, even on a specific members page. Read this post and it gives some great tips from both Jen and TJ. I suggest using both of their sites if you need help with code...
http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/add-simple-text-box-to-profil...

Now with this information, though I have not implemented this yet, you should be able to do just what both you (Dede) and Faiz are looking for from what I understand.


Oh almost forgot. If you have some place you can run server side scripting you can collect all the data you want but that is another discussion all together.

[Faiz]

I was just checking if there is any feature expected from ning to run ads on our site.

[TJ @ jQueryHelp]

Great job with that random image script, Digital Janitor! I put a basic version of a random image display script on my site a while back but I like yours very much too!

http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/forum/topics/tons-of-javascript-and-jquery
http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/forum/topics/image-at-random-on-each-page

Injecting divs (text boxes) can be done just about anywhere on any Ning page. Its fairly easy to do if the div you're injecting just has HTML in it but its harder if you want to inject javascript code (like Google AdSense ads). But it can be done.

[Dede]

I don't want a text box but to put adsense for example on the Members page..not the individual members but where it shows all the members. I was told it is not possible anymore:)

[TJ @ jQueryHelp]

It's possible. The general procedure is to add a div to your Custom Code box with the google adsense code inside it, and make the id of the div something like Google_Adsense_ad.

Then you have to find a div on the page you want the ads to appear that is above or below where you want the ads to be. Use Firebug in Firefox to find that div.

Then you use javascript to "appendChild" and "insertBefore" to get the Ads to move to their proper location.

You also have to check to see what page the user is on, and hide the div with the ads on all pages except the ones where you want them to be on, otherwise they end up at the bottom of the page.

If you know javascript, my outline might help you code this for yourself. If you need more info, message me...

[SweetPotato]

Hi
Would it e possible to use this method to get ad space at the top of a page derived from blog tags?
Thanks
Mark

[TJ @ jQueryHelp]

Hi Mark,

If you want ads only on blogs tagged with 'Twitter' for example, you could add some javascript similar to this:

 

if (window.location == 'http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Twitter') {

// code to move the ad to where you want it on this particular page

} else {

// code to do whatever you want with the ad on other pages

}

 

For more info on moving ads anywhere you want them to be, see this:

http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/forum/topics/google-ads-inside-content-like

 

 

[SweetPotato]

Hey TJ, thanks this is great. Trouble is I know nothing about JavaScript. I tried adapting your code from another of your posts where you place a message before the status box on a profile page based on but div classes it didn't work. I also saw your post on the link you've given above but that seemed to put the ad in the blog, but I'll have amongst look. Cheers!

[Curtis]

Dikran, you might want to try Jisbar www.jisbar.com Its a free app that you can add to your site in just a minute.
The part of Jisbar you will use is the ad rotator in the "jisits" section. It will rotate your ads at whatever time interval you want and it will place the ads anywhere on the site you want.

That's just 1 of many many uses for the Jisbar. The free version has most of the functions of the paid version. I have been using it since it was in beta and find it something I couldn't do without.

Hope this helps
Curtis

[Faiz]

check this sites which helps to make banner with different images

http://www.htmlbasix.com/banner.shtml
http://slideful.com
http://www.adbutler.com/

[kopper]

I use OpenX... it works great!

http://www.openx.org/

It's not an app, but I installed it on my domain and just paste the code for the ads into a text box in the sidebar of my Ning network.

[Jeff]

Dikran, have you had a look at Google AdManager or OpenX. These are free ad servers that will serve any type of ad you like in a professional way, with stats etc.

OpenX has a hosted solution that you can sign up quickly, no installing anything. Same with AdManager.