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Setting up and customizing the adstrip
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Sometimes it takes a few minutes before a new adstrip goes live. Wait
an hour and then refresh your blog's page. If your adstrip is still
not showing, please drop us a note via http://web.blogads.com/ba_contact_us
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Please refer to the following HELP
GUIDE about adding the Blogads adstrip code into your Typepad
account.
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Prime the pump. Put up an ad for friends or products you admire. Give visitors a reason to pay attention. To do this, log into your account, click on the "Adstrips" link in the left navigation bar, and then click on the "Create ad with offer code" link to the right of your adstrip. Upload your ad's contents and click the "Advanced details" button at the bottom of the Create Ad page (do not click "Proceed" yet). On the Advanced Details page, enter your offer code in the offer code box and hit "Proceed". Then you will successfully be able to check out with your free ad. (To find your offer code, click on the Adstrips link in the left navigation bar and then click the link named "customize adstrip" to the right of your adstrip. The offer code is listed in the text box named "Offer Code" - please note that offer codes are case sensitive.)
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Finite adstrips can contain only a predefined number of ads. You can set the capacity of your finite adstrip during the adstrip creation process or on the Customize Adstrip page. When the adstrip is full, any ads that you accept are queued and will run automatically when space frees up. The Blogads system automatically calculates the "full until" date of finite adstrips and displays it to advertisers. When you accept a fixed date ad it will take up a slot in the adstrip until the expiry date of the ad. In other words, no ads can be accepted into the same slot in front of this ad. For example, if you have an empty adstrip with a limit of 3 ads, and on Jan. 15 an advertiser submits a two-week ad with a start date of Feb. 1, you will have only two slots left in the adstrip until Feb. 14. You could use a finite adstrip on top of your side bar, within your postings, or - if you set capacity to 1 - it will even fit into your masthead.
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You cannot. You need to create a new adstrip and then, once it no longer has ads in it, take down the one you originally wanted to change.
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In the past we had no such limit, and
several bloggers added themselves into categories that were only very
distantly related to the real focus of their blogs. This made
filtering by category meaningless for advertisers. Please select the categories that best describe your
blog's focus and your audience's interest. Note that you can join an
unlimited number of blog hives - as long as the respective
hive
managers decide you fit their requirements. A lot of our sales occur
via hives, so be sure that you apply to join all the relevant ones.
For more info, see this FAQ
item.
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Price hi-rise at 4 times your standard prices and minis at half your standard. Price classifieds at 10% of your standard prices. Alternately, price hi-rise at $4 per thousand impressions, standard at $.80 per CPM, mini at $.40 cent CPM and classifieds at $.10 CPMs.
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The order page cache is refreshed every 6 hours. If you made changes and have waited 6 hours since then, refresh your cache for the order page and see if your information has updated accordingly. If not please drop us a note at "blog-tech AT blogads.com"
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To make the adstrip "private" so that it doesn't appear on the order page or the hive order page, please go to your Adstrips page and click on the "customize adstrip" link to the right of your adstrip. You will see a checkbox called "Public," which is ticked by default. Untick this checkbox and save your changes at the bottom of the page. The javascript code will remain active on your site and your readers will continue to be able to submit ads via the "Advertise here..." link at the bottom of the adstrip directly on your site.
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Only Blogads employees can delete
adstrips. (This is to prevent the accidental deletion of adstrips
with paid ads running in them.) Please be sure that the adstrip
has no running ads and that you have at least one other adstrip under
the same "blog" within your account. Contact us via
http://web.blogads.com/ba_contact_us.
Before contacting Blogads please rename the adstrip
you want to delete to "DELETE." To rename your adstrip, log into your Adstrips page and click on "customize adstrip" to the right of the adstrip you want to rename - be sure to save your changes.
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After your javascript has been running on your site for at least 2 days and your adstrip's javascript has exceeded 3,000 page impressions. Your adstrip will show up on the order page as long as the javascript is called more than 3,000 times per week.
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Insert the javascript unbracketed into the template. Take out all bracketed information that may get generated by Blogger as default around the code.
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Click on the "Adstrips" link in the left navigation bar. Click on the "Customize adstrip" link to the right of your adstrip. Enter a new offer code into the "Offer Code" text box and save.
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Click on the "Adstrips" link in your left navigation bar and then click the "Create ad with offer code" link in the row of the adstrip you want to submit the ad to. After uploading your ad on the Create Ad page, you will need to enter that adstrip's offer code. To do so, click on the "Advanced details" button at the bottom of the page. Enter your offer code in the Offer Code text box on the Advanced Details page, and then hit Proceed. On the Checkout page, you will see that the price is $0.
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Yes, you can. In order to include characters such as &,@,© etc, please use the HTML code of the character.
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Click on the "Adstrips" link on the left nav bar. Then click on the link called "Blog description" to the right of your blog's name. Now you can enter your blog's pitch in the "Order page summary" text box. Don't forget to save your changes.
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Log in to your Blogads account, then click on the "Adstrips" link on the left. To the right of your adstrip there is a link named "customize adstrip". Click on it. You will be able to edit your prices here. Note that the minimum price for any time period or ad format is $10. Be sure to save your changes.
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Click on "Adstrips" in the
left navigation bar. Click on the "Create Adstrip" link to the right of
the blog's name. You can specify the location or type of the adstrip
(e.g. "Top right"), select ad formats and set prices. (See [ this]
FAQ
item for tips on pricing.) If you are creating a finite
adstrip, select it under "Adstrip type." If you want the
adstrip to display its name on the blog
then please fill in the "Header text" box. If you have more than two
adstrips posted in your blog's HTML, the quantity of adstrips should
be noted in the description for each adstrip you provide for the
Blogads order page; something like "the first of three adstrips"
or "third of five adstrips" or "middle left of six
adstrips" or "one of many." (From Blogads' perspective,
two or three adstrips per blog are the easiest to understand and
sell.) Labels like "Premium" should be used sparingly,
either denoting exclusivity and/or for adstrips priced at some
multiple to the normal adstrip on the same blog.
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Yes, as long as that second blog is also yours. Click on "Adstrips" in the left navigation bar. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the "Set up ad space for another blog" button. Follow the steps on the screen.
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If the "accept flash multiplier" box is checked, you'll be able to receive ads that include flash files. If an advertiser submits a flash ad, your normal price for the size and duration will be multiplied by the price multiplier to calculate the final cost of the ad. The default multiplier is 1.2; this can be set higher if necessary or as low as 1.001.
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On your "Adstrips" page click on the "customize adstrip" link to the right of the adstrip's name. Under the "Ad format" heading you will see your adstrip pricing structure. At the end of each of these ad formats there is a column called "accept flash price multiplier." Un-check that box if you do not want to run flash ads. To save your changes click on the "Proceed" button on both the current and the next page, until you get back to your main adstrips page.
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The "full until" dates are now automatically calculated for finite adstrips. When you accept a one-month ad into an empty adstrip, for instance, the ad will immediately appear on your blog. The next advertiser will see the automatic "full until" date. If another ad is submitted, you can accept it immediately: the ad will be queued until the previous ad expires. When you accept this second ad, the "full until" date will be immediately recalculated to take into consideration the queued ad.
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Mozilla/Netscape 7 and above have a bug that is related to javascript
serving on pages with certain HTML. This problem is not specific to
Blogads: bugzilla.mozilla.org
The problem occurs only once on a browser: if the user hits the back
button or goes back to your page, everything will display normally.
Not all users are affected, but we have not been able to identify what
exactly determines this.
A Blogads user suggested that by moving all .css style sheets into the
Head part of the .html, the problem disappears.
Another Blogads user suggested that you insert the Blogads javascript
into your HTML the following way:
<div class="side">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="PUT_YOUR_BLOGADS_CSS_URL_HERE" />
<script language="javascript"
src="PUT_YOUR_BLOGADS_JAVASCRIPT_URL_HERE"></script>
<script language="javascript">var juryrig =
'hopethisfixesit';</script>
</div>
If you encounter this problem yourself on another blog, you should just
set the style in your Firefox browser (view/style) to "no style".
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This is caused by the interaction between your
CSS and that
of Blogads. You need to insert the following tag into your CSS (for a
more detailed explanation please see the 4th box on http://web.blogads.com/Documents/blogger_css_explain)
div.adspot * ul {
list-style: none;
width: 150px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div.adspot * li {
border: thin solid black;
background-image: url(semi.gif);
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
cursor: pointer;
overflow: hidden;
display: block;
}
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