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Hi woccax – thanks for your comments and ideas.

Ad Injection is starting to get a bit complicated and I would like to make it simpler. It will however probably get more options though before that happens!

At some point in the future I will probably add an option that allows you to specify the gap between random ads. This may allow you to achieve what you want by setting the gap to your desired page length, and then putting the paginate tag into the random ad box.

The last link you posted was a WordPress plugin for doing this. Does it now work? Or does it not do the job as well as you’d like?

Hi chintu74, Positioning ads in the post using shortcodes is something that I am intending to add later in the year. I would estimate in the next three months. For now you can position using top, random, bottom, footer positions, or directly in your template using the PHP tags.
Hope this helps.

Hi mitchellk – glad you like my plugin! And thanks for the recommendation ??

Hi trxerz – you can already block by country using a few different methods.

1. In dynamic insertion mode you can use Ad Injection with another plugin such as Country Filter to set up restrictions. See the FAQ for details: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/ad-injection/faq/

I’ve only tested the Country Filter plugin but I’m sure you could do something similar with other GeoIP services such as Maxmind as well.

2. You could use a service such as Google Ad Manager or OpenX Ad Server with Ad Injection to set up the restrictions.

Hope this helps. Thanks.

Hi gffb – thanks for spotting this ?? What that first sentence should say is:

Add (copy and paste) <!–NoAds–> into the content of the post/page with the contact form.

I forgot to escape the HTML comment in the readme.txt so it got stripped out of the version on www.ads-software.com.

So for pages you have the options of:

1. Putting the <!–NoAds–> tag into the page source.
2. Setting the disable_adverts custom field to 1 – if you can’t see the custom fields click on ‘Screen Options’ at the top right on the post/page editing screen, and tick ‘Custom Fields.
3. Or if you upgrade to 0.9.7.11 which has just been released today there are new options to allow you to exclude ads from posts and pages by the id number of the page.

I’ll be improving the FAQ for this in the next release.

Hope this helps – if you have any further Qs then reply to this comment.

Hi Kurdi, Thanks for your message. Are you doing a direct comparison by using the same adverts across both plugins?

Ad Injection doesn’t do anything that would delay the loading of the ads (I think!). The ads are inserted into the page as it loads.

Are you using the option to only show ads to search engines (or selected referrers)? This does add some JS to the page, but that does not control the ad loading, it just sets a cookie if the user comes from a search engine. Maybe this could be slowing things down?

Hi acidhedz, I can’t see many adverts myself – do you have to be logged in to see adverts in the member posting stats for example?

What do the adverts look like? Is it the text such as ‘Anti Guru Online Marketing Manual Kindle Edition’?

Perhaps you can describe where you want the ads to appear, and where they are actually appearing with links to the specific affected pages?

Maybe it would be helpful if you turned debug mode?

Hi acidhedz – can you repost the link to your site. It doesn’t seem to have made it into your message.
Thanks.

Glad it worked ??

And yes – I’ll add some more information to the FAQ for the next release.

Cheers.

Hi Andrew, the top, random and bottom ads can be placed into the category pages. Category pages are a type of archive.

On the main settings page for Ad Injection just enter the number of adverts you want on these page types using the Archives column in the ‘Ad placement settings’ section.

Ads will only appear on archives/category pages if you are showing the full post contents on these pages. They won’t work if you are showing excerpts.

If you are still stuck give me some more details.

Hi hayesgb. You could do this if you put the alignment code into the ad pool boxes, rather than using Ad Injections alignment options. i.e. set the alignment options to disabled, and then surround the ads with the alignment code in the ad boxes.

e.g. Put the left aligned ad in the first ad slot, and the right aligned ad in the second ad slot.

If you aren’t sure how to write the HTML/CSS for the alignment you could always turn the alignment option on in Ad Injection, copy the code from the HTML and then turn off the alignment options.

This should work I think!

Hi jamestouleron, As alchymyth said a link to your site would be useful. But I’ll take a completely blind guess as to the problem.

I’m guessing you already have at least three AdSense ad units on the page which load before the sidebar. That is the maximum that Google allow (check their policies for full details). Therefore Google have stopped serving adverts to your page by the time the sidebar loads.

There is a bit more detail in one of the FAQ questions on my plugin page.

If my blind guess is correct you will need to think of how many adverts you want in each area so that you comply with Google’s rules. You can for example use AdSense link units as well as the ad units.

Hi HotJoint, I can see that for your case it would be very useful. It sounds like you won’t be able to use Ad Injection for what you want unless you use some other method of click tracking.

Ad Injection is probably more for people who are using 3rd party ads (e.g. AdSense) rather than publishers who are directly selling ads.

Perhaps you can track clicks by directing the outgoing requests to another script?

Hi HotJoint,

Ad Injection does not collect stats for your ads. Almost all ad providers (AdSense, ClickBank, CJ, TradeDoubler, etc) will provide statistics from within their own ad interfaces.

The ad provider is in a much better position to collect accurate ad impression/click statistics than the Ad Injection plugin is.

I see the role of Ad Injection as being to insert the adverts, not to track the adverts, so ad tracking is not something that I am likely to add to the plugin.

Hope this helps.

Hi labubble – I’m curious as to what the problem was.

If I know I might be able to improve Ad Injection so it doesn’t happen for other people. Thanks.