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How to make those fancy flash banners that expand beyond their box

Hi All, I am building a flash banner, which needs at one stage to expand beyond its 728x90 box. Something similar to the Corei7 ad currently on wired.com but not as drastic. I know ads like that are annoying, but getting evicted in winter is not an option. Viewing source on pages are difficult since they are almost always wrapped up in ...

Best way of generating revenue from a flex application?

Hi all, I'm currently in the planning stages of an app which I'm leaning towards Flex to build. I've looked at the market for the software, and am fairly convinced that in its niche, it should do well (potentially large market, and nothing really of note that compares with what I have planned). rWhat I'd like to know, as this would ...

is there any solution for calculation inches high of an advertisement inside HTML?

Hi , I'm developing an advertisement portal for a newspaper and I want to add an astonishing feature to my website. here is my idea : I want to add a capability to let user to write his own advertisement's text withing an area then let him to tailor it as the way he/she wants it then at the end , the program calculate the inches high o...

Best way to handle advertising that expands on mouse over.

I have recently seen a number of web sites where you want to click a link in content on the page, but as your mouse moves across an advertisement (ad) to get to the link, the ad expands to cover the content link, and I accidently click the ad often leading me someplace as a user where I DID NOT choose to go. I find this beyond annoying ...

Why do ads stop rendering on my dev box?

I have ad tags (i.e. JavaScript) from several popular ad networks (AdSense, AdBrite, etc.) and I like to test them (basically make sure they render correctly) before adding them to my websites. I add the tag to a page, and end up loading the page several times on my dev box. I noticed that after several refreshes on my dev box, the ads ...

Ban of the location based ads for iPhone

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/news/archives/2010/february/#corelocation Can anyone tell me what is the exact description of an ad and just a hint for a user? We are developing a library that shows small banners depending on user's location. E.g. we are passing a cafe - we have a banner about this cafe, we are passing a church - we ...

Add a UIView after a UITableView but before a UITabBar?

I'm trying to add a UIView, in particular a UIImageVIew, after (that is, below, but not in a z-index sense) a UITableView but before (that is, above) a UITabBar. You know, the typical "banner/adv space" that you can see everywhere. My main problem btw is that i don't know exactly where to put it, as a subview of wich view specifically;...

Using an IFRAME for a simple advertisment. Is it bad for SEO?

If you look here you will see an ad that is intended to be embedded in another site as an advertisement. Here is an example of where it is embedded. The code responsible for displaying the ad in the web site is this: <iframe src="http://ads.lockedonmedia.com/zones/204" frameBorder="0" scrolling="no" style="width: 160px; height: 600px;"...

Detect Click into Iframe using JavaScript

I understand that it is not possible to tell what the user is doing inside an iframe if it is cross domain. What I would like to do is track if the user clicked at all in the iframe. I imagine a scenario where there is an invisible div on top of the iframe and the the div will just then pass the click event to the iframe. Is somethi...

Smart algorithms for showing ads.

I would really like to know how web sites decide what ad to show to a user and how many times. I think there must be a table Ads (id, url, ...) which is linked to a table Users by many to many relationship via table Ads2Users (ad_id, user_id, shown_count, clicked_count). So that each time a user is served a particular ad we find (or c...

iPhone sdk can't get Mobclix to work

I followed the guide here, and when I build my application the ad (or anything for that matter) doesn't show up. Nothing, nada. I followed the guide very carefully. I know that it is trying to retrieve an ad (thanks to little snitch), but it doesn't display. Has anybody experienced this and do you know of a fix? ...

Advertising API for Java ME applications?

Hello, I know AdMob is not for Java ME. Do you know any other advertising API or services that can be used in Java ME application? It might be really good if I can earn some money with my free Java ME applications. ...

How to add ads to the end of RSS on wordpress?

I have added a function to functions.php on my theme. function insertAds($content) { $content = $content.' add goes here'; return $content;} add_filter('the_content_feed', 'insertAds'); add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'insertAds'); The problem is that I'm having the add displayed under each content, and not at the end of the rss page...

Does AdSense send a page's HTML to Google for analysis? If not, how?

I'm thinking about making an ad network as an experiment and for learning a new server language. I can't understand how Google AdSense knows what HTML is on a page. The request to googlesyndication.com appears to send them the current page's URL, but no HTML. How, then, do they know what is on the page?! Pages will look different for di...

passing in javascript values into iframe tag

What's the best way to pass in the value held in a javascript variable into an iframe call on the same html page? I'm trying to improve my site's page response times by moving ad serving javascript code (the typical document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="..") into a separate iframe. (Based on this posting) The request to ...

iframe for ad loading good or bad?

According to Yahoo's "Best Practices for Speeding Up your Site", the pros for using iframes: Helps with slow third-party content like badges and ads Download scripts in parallel but the cons are: Costly even if blank Blocks page onload I want to use an iframe to load ads using the technique mentioned on this site: http://meande...

Clickable Background/Wallpeper For Advertising Purposes

I am in the middle of finished up a website and I am adding some features to it right now. One of the features I wanted to add was the ability to have a click-able background to display full page ads and promotions. This is what I have set up so far: #siteWrapper{ width:954px; margin:0 auto; top:0px; } This siteWrapper obv...

How to monitor an advertisement?

Google Adwords lets you(a business owner), advertise with Google, your ads are served via google's partnered website! and you can actively monitor your ads! but what if we want a company (lets call it company X) to advertise on our website, how can we serve company's X ads on our website and let company X monitor their advertisements cl...

banner rotator advertising with probability

I have banners advertising with number of views, like CPM system. And for example : i have 3 banner: banner1 with 20.000 nr of views banner2 with 10.000 nr of views banner3 with 5.000 nr of views and on my website the banner must to appear in this position (when the page is reloaded) : banner1 banner2 banner1 banner2 banner3 if th...

How do I prove to a client/advertiser that my site's analytics numbers are what I say they are?

I have been asked to provide recommendations on "Verified Analytics" for the next iteration of my company's site. Verified to mean that when we sell ad space, it's based on a number of page-views, and the people who buy that space want a way to verify that the numbers we give them are the actual numbers we're delivering. I have turned t...