Discussion Forum Thread: Banner Advertising

If you are trying to put ads on your site, to monetize your site, Gutensite allows you to add "modules" throughout the site. So you could add banner ad code to a Promo Module, and specify that it should appear in the sidebar of your page (or specific pages or sections only). You could create a Google AdSense account (or whatever ad system you prefer) and they'll give you simple code to place into your site. Just put that code into the HTML mode of a "Featured Content" Promo Module (and click "Allow Raw HTML"). Then specify where that Promo Module should show up on your site.

That will get the Ads onto the site. And then the Ad System itself should allow you to export stats.

If you are trying to control the ads that appear on your site, like you are going to go out and try to find advertisers directly yourself and then have the advertisers pay you directly, etc. That is a more complicated Ad management system, which we do not have at this time and don't have any plans to develop on our own (unless a client needs it and then we can develop it for them). There are so many good platforms out there already though, it doesn't make much sense to duplicate the work. For example, one client that runs a magazine recently used an account with Beacon Ads (a Christian Ad Network) to do this, and they were able to use their infrastructure to manage the ads and control the ads that appear on the site.

So in summary, Gutensite will allow you to place the ads directly on your site, in the sidebar, in home page modules, or anywhere else you want us to help you setup a module area for ads. And then you can use a third party ad management system to manage the ads, and you just put the code into a promo module on your site and the two will work together nicely.

Hope that helps. Let us know how it works.

Nov 04, 2010 10:02 AM

Chadwick Meyer Administrator Director at Gutensite Located in Walnut Creek, CA Member Since 07/08 11 posts		Re: Banner Advertising in response to: WAHM If you are trying to put ads on your site, to monetize your site, Gutensite allows you to add "modules" throughout the site. So you could add banner ad code to a Promo Module, and specify that it should appear in the sidebar of your page (or specific pages or sections only). You could create a Google AdSense account (or whatever ad system you prefer) and they'll give you simple code to place into your site. Just put that code into the HTML mode of a "Featured Content" Promo Module (and click "Allow Raw HTML"). Then specify where that Promo Module should show up on your site. That will get the Ads onto the site. And then the Ad System itself should allow you to export stats. If you are trying to control the ads that appear on your site, like you are going to go out and try to find advertisers directly yourself and then have the advertisers pay you directly, etc. That is a more complicated Ad management system, which we do not have at this time and don't have any plans to develop on our own (unless a client needs it and then we can develop it for them). There are so many good platforms out there already though, it doesn't make much sense to duplicate the work. For example, one client that runs a magazine recently used an account with Beacon Ads (a Christian Ad Network) to do this, and they were able to use their infrastructure to manage the ads and control the ads that appear on the site. So in summary, Gutensite will allow you to place the ads directly on your site, in the sidebar, in home page modules, or anywhere else you want us to help you setup a module area for ads. And then you can use a third party ad management system to manage the ads, and you just put the code into a promo module on your site and the two will work together nicely. Hope that helps. Let us know how it works.

Mar 12, 2011 03:27 AM

WAHM WAHM at Work At Home Mums Located in Newcastle, NSW, Australia Member Since 11/10 2 posts		Re: Banner Advertising Thanks for the reply. I was lucky enough as one of your winners in the recent contest and have just started having a play with building a new site and liasing with Steven on a few things. Pretty awesome so far. Just hoping it will work for my vision. OK, can you take a look and see what I have done here with relation to your suggesstions below. I could only get the script to work and to appear in the sidebar and it appears to the left and looks out of whack. I would really like to centre it and make it appear under the sub menu titles. How could I do that? Also how many of these promo modules could appear on the one page? Ideally I would like 4 on each page. Thanks in advance

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