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yoman - 07 May 2008 16:54 GMT

I checked the Developer Exchange (and searched on Google) for a CF banner ad
system, but it the people who developed these seem to have gone out of
business or moved on to other things. Does anyone know of a relatively
sophisticated system (counts impressions and allows campaigns) at a reasonable
price?

The closest so far was CF_Banner by Oleani, but the Oleani web site hasn't
been updated in two years, emails to "support" go unanswered, and the phone
number on the web site actually is for the company that hosts the web site. I
didn't feel like sending $200 into cyberspace based on that.

I also saw one for $1,000, but I might be able to write one myself in a week.
If I had a week.

Any feedback will be appreciated.

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Ken Ford - 07 May 2008 17:06 GMT

http://harlan.riaforge.org/

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>I checked the Developer Exchange (and searched on Google) for a CF banner ad
> system, but it the people who developed these seem to have gone out of
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yoman - 07 May 2008 18:42 GMT

I looked at Raymond Camden's program, but it comes up short for me in a couple
key areas.

With the Harlan ad server, you're supposed to paste the code for an ad
campaign into each page. My site has a couple hundreds of pages so I want a
single piece of code that can be administered from the backend. I want to be
able to assign ads to a particular set of pages rather than run them
everywhere. And I want to let advertisers buy a set number of impressions, as
opposed to just counting them. The defunct Oleani application might have done
this.

I could try to adapt Camden's ad server, but his coding is so much more
sophisticated than my own I might be wasting my time.

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CF_output - 09 May 2008 21:05 GMT

What are you trying to accomplish? I've wrote a similar application that was
primarily made as a web-stat counter.

The way it worked, was that the site you want to display the banner/stat
counter would insert an image tag <img..> and the src would be pointing to a cf
page with an id. When the img was called, the stats are recorded based on the
id and the image is displayed.

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cf@work - 13 May 2008 02:21 GMT

It should be very simple to create. The system should depend primarily on the
directory structure set-up, to decrease the processing/load times. For example
http://www.mysite.com/news/home.html should refrence
http://ads.mysite.com/news/home/@adposition. Using the suggestion from
cf_output, you can use a cfc to adjust your frequency and weights for the
campaigns or creatives. Click throughs and impressions would be tracked by your
web server log.

I don't know any cheap ad hosting services (bandwidth is not cheap), but I
just wanted to chime in!! Good Luck

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Dave Morris - 24 May 2008 17:05 GMT

I wrote one of these for my own web site. Runs with SQL Server.

Yeah, probably a week. Mine lets you determine whether the ad is rotating or
fixed, bottom of the page or on the left column. You can order the ad to run
for either a predetermined time period or for a predetermined number of
impressions. At the end of the run, it sends an email to the advertiser and
reminds them to restart the ad by paying another payment using PayPal. The
advertiser has a console where they can look at the impressions,
click-throughs, percentages, and make another payment to run the ad again. You
can determine whether they are allowed to re-run the ad at the same price or
not.

If you don't have the week it takes to write something like that, I might be
willing to sell you some of my code or do the whole thing on a turn-key
consulting basis.

Dave Morris
BigD@DaveMorris.com

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yoman - 24 May 2008 17:51 GMT

I'll keep that in mind. There's also a fairly sophisticated one available, http://www.clickfix.com/, but customer support or even communication isn't one of the company's priorities.

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