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Accepting and running ads
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Go to web.blogads.com
and log in with your e-mail address and password. Click on "Adstrips" in the left navigation bar. Click on the number (probably 1- if it's only one new ad submitted) appearing under the "new ads" column. Now you'll see the heading: "Ads waiting for approval." Under this heading you can preview the ad creative by clicking the name of the ad, and you're able to approve or reject the new ad by changing the ad's status in the "Action" column and saving. You can also select the "Position" of the ads here. Save your changes toward the bottom of the page. When you approve or reject an ad, the page will reload with the status of the ad displayed as "processing." Once your request is processed you will see your selected ad state the next time you reload the page. The ad will appear in your adstrip, and on your blog, within a few minutes.
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These ads will rotate within your adstrip: each time a user loads the page, the ads will be generated in random order.
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You have until the start of next day after submission of an ad to approve or reject the ad. The day after an ad is submitted, the system automatically approves the ad. The rationale for this is that our automatic notification emails often get stuck in bloggers' spam filters or are mistakenly deleted. Ads for which the advertiser has specified a "run after" date do not get activated until that date even if they are approved.
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Have them use your offer
code. After they
have uploaded their ad, they will need to click on the
"Advanced
details" button at the bottom of the page. They will be able
to
insert the offer code on the next page. If the offer code is correct,
they will see $0 as the price of the ad on the checkout page.
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Log in to your Blogads account, then click on the "Adstrip" link in the left navigation bar. To the right of your adstrip is a link named "customize adstrip". Click on it. Here you will be able to see the code-word you chose under the "Offer code" heading.
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Write to the advertiser and ask him/her to change the ad. If they refuse or do not respond, get in touch with us and we'll manually revert the ad to its original state. In the meantime, change the ad's status to "defer." This will remove the ad from the adstrip.
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We're balancing a number of interests. First, we assume there's some level of trust established between the blogger and the advertiser. Second, a smart advertiser will want to experiment and update the ad a lot; complicating this process would be annoying to both parties. So this trust-but-verify scheme is the most efficient solution we've been able to cook up. If an advertiser does something that annoys you, "defer" his/her ad and drop him/her a line politely requesting a correction.
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We had included your blog in a proposal sent to an advertiser before you updated your prices. Proposals are valid for a month, and the proposal has just gotten approved. This explains why the old price is in the system. You can, of course, choose to accept or reject this ad.
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If you want to run the ad when space frees up, accept it and defer it immediately. This signals to the advertiser that you do want to run the ad. When space frees up un-defer the ad. Note that you will only get paid for this ad once it has been un-deferred. If you get more ads than you have room for, you should also raise prices.
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If this is a finite adstrip, even an approved ad will not run until space frees up. In a non-exclusive adstrip, simply defer the ad and when space frees up in your adstrip, un-defer it. Note that you will only get paid for this ad once it has been un-deferred. If you get more ads than you have room for, you should also raise prices.
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Please refresh your browser cache. If you still see the old ad it's likely that the ad cache for your blog is still not refreshing. We apologize for this problem. You can manually expire the Blogads cache by making any change to your adstrip: changing the status/position of a running ad, accepting a new ad or pressing the "proceed" button on both pages of the relevant "customize adstrip" sequence will do the trick.
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It can take 10-20 minutes for the ad to appear on your blog. If you still cannot see the ad then this could be due to your browser's cache. To refresh your browser's cache in Internet Explorer hold down your 'Ctrl' key and click the 'refresh' button with your mouse. In Firefox hold down the 'Shift' key and click the refresh button with your mouse. You should be able to see the ad on the blog once the page reloads.
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