What are some resources in use for marketing downloadable desktop software online? AdWords, certainly, and "organic" search engine results but is anyone having any luck making sales through sites like Tucows and/or Download.com anymorE? ...
Folks, I'm working on a little piece of rich client software that I'd like to distribute for free. That is, I'd still like to make money on it, but I'd like the revenue to come from advertising. Do you know of an advertising platform that works well for client apps? I'd like the ads to be completely unobtrusive (like Google AdSense is...
Since content of web applications is dynamically generated it would appear that AdSense is not going to produce relevant ads. Is there a way to increase relevancy of the AdSense ads for the web application? Is it possible to achieve Gmail-like ad functionality at all for third-party applications? Is there a better ad provider for web ...
Hi, I would like to know if a postback (asp.net) is considered as a pageview by google ads or CPM ads or it is ignored. How does google ads differentiate between a postback and a pageview? Any inputs will be highly appreciated. Thanks ...
Duplicate of: What's the best online advertising Network and Deciding on a Revenue Model for a Web Application I have a site I'm currently building and I want to make it free, but support it with advertisements. I see a lot of sites using Google's Adsense program and others using Ebay & Amazon. But I noticed with StackOverflow, it looks...
Is there a way to include a javascript-loaded advertisement last on the page, but have it positioned in the content? The primary purpose is to keep the javascript ad from slowing down the page load, so if there are other methods to achieve this please do share. ...
I am looking for some information about Advertisement servers. Implementation details tracking code generation user data collection serving the ad in response to a click-through Applicable standards Reference material (Please provide links or search teams to search) books white papers Implementations in .NET (Open Source) ...
Does anyone know of any open source projects with some of the same features as FeedBurner, including support for: Aggregation Advertising Feed stats Preferably in .NET / C#, but not strictly required. ...
I have a client looking to deploy advertising to the websites of their subsidiaries. Some research and a demo install later showed OpenX http://www.openx.org/ to be the clear leader for open source solutions using javascript. Then they threw in the wrench that some of their subsidiaries use Myspace for their primary web presence, so t...
How would you implement a rotating ad-block with each page refresh, similar to what SO does, using ASP.NET MVC? Do you think they have a session variable with what ad index we are currently viewing and cycle it each request or something else? ...
As the question states, I'm trying to figure out how google tracks clicks on search results. When you view the source, you find the following: <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/" class=l onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG7Ba-stir4109vlLygPQX7QGf8bg','&sig2=Vx5PLxf04C-yJYZTZfvk8w')"><em>Yahoo</em>!</a> The function ...
A client I'm creating a site for wants a custom advertising "engine". The plan is to have a few ads on the site and fill the rest with Google Adsense until all the spots are full. My problem is how to determine which ad to dipslay. (Assume for now that I only have 1 ad placement.) My thinking was I'd have a table with: year month impr...
I'm looking for a flash ad network which serves preloader ads for my flash application, just like MochiAds, except that my flash apps are, strictly speaking, not games, and therefore are not eligible for sign-up at MochiAds. Is there a similar network which offers me such a service? ...
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way I can prevent ad networks from creating pop-ups in my site. I'm using OpenX to manage my ads. Although I explicitly told the networks not to show any pop-ups they still do. As I have many ad networks I can't be sure which one is invoking the pop-ups. Any ideas? Thanks, Roy. ...
Does anyone have any recommendations for good book(s) or online resources that explain how different types of websites make money? Bonus points for a good resource that explains how Ad Networks play a role in the process. I'm thinking of building a website that would be free to use and would generate revenue through add banners, but I ...
Hi All, How does a third-party ad provider decide what ad to deliver to a web-page when it's loaded in a browser? And in what format is this data delivered? Let's say my web-page contains no ad-relevant or differentiating content, but I do know lots about my user: demographic profile, interests, browsing history etc. So the ad I want l...
I'm using some external jQuery with $(document).ready() to insert adverts after the document ready event has fired, something like: $(document).ready($('#leaderboard').html("<strong>ad code</strong>"); This is to prevent the UI being blocked by the slow loading of the adverts. So far it's been working well. Now I need to insert some ...
Several recent applications (e.g. Shazam) have text and image ads which are handled by Google. I can't seem to find how they did this. Is there some new API that you can use to display ads given some key, similar to how the maps API works? Or is this something that developers individually negotiate? Specifically I'm interested in Goog...
I am looking out for an ad management software that will help me host ads on my website. I have checked out BanManPro but its way too costly. Google Ad manager has issues and the support system is not very active at the moment. Has anyone create an ad management software open source that can be used on ASP.NET sites. I am ready to pur...
The Google Adsense Terms of Service explicitly forbids exposing Adsense links from desktop applications: (vi) directly or indirectly access, launch, and/or activate Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons through or from, or otherwise incorporate the Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons in, any software application...